Melbourne Art Fair 2025: Bunnies in Love, Lust and Longing

In this nest of bunnies fashioned from gloves, it’s as if Hannah Gartside has bundled the world’s most tender feelings and given them aesthetic form through droopy ears, leather pot bellies, sweetly curved behinds, comically suggestive poses. Through Bunnies in Love, Lust and Longing, Gartside has taken second-hand leather gloves from the 1950s and 60s, some as early as the 1910s, and curved these once-worn textiles over steel armature, bending animal pelt into warm, playful, living beings.
 
Tiarney Miekus, 2025