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 ‘Gorgeous’ installation view. Photo by Andrew Curtis.
Hannah Gartside ‘Gorgeous’ installation view. leather offcuts (factory remnants), cotton, silk and rayon velvet fabric scraps from 1930s-1960s dresses, dried lavender, embroidery and sewing thread, powder coated mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium 167 x 111 x 49.5 cm. Photo by Andrew Curtis.
Hannah Gartside ‘Wall Kisser’ 2022 detail. Leather offcuts (factory remnants), cotton, silk and rayon velvet fabric scraps from 1930s-1960s dresses, dried lavender, embroidery and sewing thread, powder coated mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium 167 x 111 x 49.5 cm. Photo by Andrew Curtis.
Hannah Gartside ‘Wall Kisser’ 2022 detail. Leather offcuts (factory remnants), cotton, silk and rayon velvet fabric scraps from 1930s-1960s dresses, dried lavender, embroidery and sewing thread, powder coated mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium 167 x 111 x 49.5 cm. Photo by Andrew Curtis.
Hannah Gartside ‘Sconce’ 2022 leather (factory off-cuts) worn silk and rayon velvet fabric dried lavender thread powder coated mild steel light fitting and globe installation view. Photo by Andrew Curtis.
Hannah Gartside ‘Sconce’ 2022 leather (factory off-cuts) worn silk and rayon velvet fabric dried lavender thread powder coated mild steel light fitting and globe installation view. Photo by Andrew Curtis.
Hannah Gartside ‘Name plate (Gorgeous) 2022 dead stock cotton fabric found upholstery foam thread millinery wire enamel paint powder coated mild steel installation view. Photo by Andrew Curtis.
Hannah Gartside ‘Name plate (Gorgeous) 2022 dead stock cotton fabric found upholstery foam thread millinery wire enamel paint powder coated mild steel installation view. Photo by Andrew Curtis.
Hannah Gartside ‘Name plate (Gorgeous) 2022 dead stock cotton fabric found upholstery foam thread millinery wire enamel paint powder coated mild steel installation view. Photo by Andrew Curtis.
Hannah Gartside ‘Pixie’ 2021 (detail). Silk dress (gift of Marita), found silk and synthetic dresses and fabrics, found synthetic curtains, found rayon bedspread, 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.