Hannah Gartside

“She uses deadstock fabrics, clothes found in skips and op shops or given to her by friends, garments of dead relatives and fur from pets. For the artist, clothes are psychic objects that not only have history (a faded menstrual stain, the scent of a beloved) but presence; material has its own life… In this sense, the sculptures are about fabric itself, the singular way in which material is able to articulate the immaterial – a current of air, an undertow of desire. Fabric also has its own sound world and Gartside is listening to what it is saying, ‘pulsing, sighing, calling to us’.”

– Hannah Fink, Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art catalogue essay

Read: Hannah Gartside,  This Body Is Experiencing Pleasure Catalogue essay – Tiarney Miekus 2023

Read: Short story Frances, the moth – Hannah Gartside 2023

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Hannah Gartside ‘Sarah’ 2021. Found black silk satin mourning skirt with taffeta ribbon c.1890, found black silk satin dress c.1990s, found black silk mourning dress with beading c.1920s and satin-backed silk crêpe fabric c.1930 (gifts of Helen), silk tassles from found Liberty piano shawl c.1900s (gift of Judy and Sudhir), wool felt, thread, fusing, steel cable, oxidised silver-plated jewellery fixtures, aluminium, stainless steel, electromechanical components, microcontroller, acrylic. Installation view, Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney. Photography by Jacquie Manning.
Hannah Gartside ‘Lilith’ 2021. Found silk moiré dress c.1930, fusing, thread, weighted curtain cord, stainless steel, aluminium, electromechanical components, microcontroller, acrylic. Installation view, Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney. Photography by Jacquie Manning.
Hannah Gartside – ‘Loïe, Artemisia, Pixie, Sarah, Lilith’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists. Photography by Jacquie Manning
Hannah Gartside – ‘Loïe, Artemisia, Pixie, Sarah, Lilith’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists. Photography by Jacquie Manning.
Hannah Gartside ‘O’ 2021, 320cm H x 229cm W x 211cm D, found tulle, found 1930s dress and ribbon, silk fabrics, leather offcuts, thread, brass rod, timber dowel rod. Studio documentation.
Hannah Gartside ‘O’ 2021, 320 cm x 229 cm x 211 cm, found tulle, found 1930s dress and ribbon, silk fabrics, leather offcuts, thread, brass rod, timber dowel rod. Studio documentation.
Hannah Gartside ‘O’ 2021, 320 cm x 229 cm x 211 cm, found tulle, found 1930s dress and ribbon, silk fabrics, leather offcuts, thread, brass rod, timber dowel rod. Studio documentation.
Hannah Gartside installation view ‘Fantasies 2’, Ararat Gallery TAMA. Photograph by Louis Lim.
Hannah Gartside ‘The Sleepover’ 2019. Installation view ‘Fantasies 2’, Ararat Gallery TAMA. Photograph by Louis Lim.
Hannah Gartside ‘The Sleepover’ 2018-19, found nighties and slips, found synthetic fabric and cotton ribbon, milliner’s wire, thread (with assistance from Melanie Ward, Monika Holgar and Kate Woodcroft) 670 cm x 280 cm x 210 cm. From the exhibition ‘Fantasies 2’ at Ararat Gallery TAMA. Photograph by Louis Lim.