HANNAH ROWAN

The Artist

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Hannah Rowan is an interdisciplinary artist based in London, UK.She received her Masters in Sculpture from the College of Art, London, and her BA (hons) Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London. She makes artworks that meditate on the relationship between the slow geological time of natural processes and the fast-paced, technology-driven, frenetic activity of humans.

She works across video, performance and installation to develop ephemeral, alchemical and transformative pieces. Her work often focuses on the element of water as a means for representing the interconnections of ecological systems, to chart the movement of water from deep geological time to the liveness of melting ice; from regional specificity to universal presence in biology and the cosmos; from technological control to unstructured runoff. Hannah’s work foregrounds conversations about how the material element of water - both abundant and constrained - operates as a technique of communication for ecological crisis within our contemporary environment that is as natural as it is technical.

She works with time-dependent materials: ice, salt, copper clay and organic matter, to draw attention to their individual physical properties and imbued material histories that work to reposition the anthropocentric binary between human and non-human. These sculptural installations could be understood as cumulative in a temporal and physical sense: instead of sediments, active layers such as the movement of melting ice; formation of salt crystals; and water piped from tank to tank, reflect an interest in visualising a continual state of becoming.

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Her work has been exhibited across the UK, Canada, USA and Switzerland. She has been awarded residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta; The Vermont Studio Centre, VT; The Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire; and the Wassaic Project, NY. She has been part of artist-led research expeditions with the Arctic Circle Residency, and La Wayaka Current in the Atacama Desert. She is a recipient of Arts Council England funding, the Gilbert Bayes Scholarship in Sculpture, and the Jim Dinning and Evelyn Main Scholarship at the Banff Centre. Her work and writing has been featured in the Guardian, DATEAGEL ART, Boundary - Online, Squeeze in Here, Apollo Magazine and print publication Perpetual Inventory Vol III, she is a contributing writer to The Earth Issue III.