ABOUT / AMDANAF

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work is grounded in the practices of painting and drawing, touching on the themes of pictorial space, technological mediation, and observation. Photographs, surveillance camera images, touchscreen displays, and digital scans have each formed a starting point for artworks. Working with this material offers me a way to explore the visual qualities of familiar images and media, as well as their integration into everyday life. I paint and draw in a way that evokes aspects of other media. Choosing to depict natural and human forms, I am interested in the interplay between the natural world and technology; between direct and mediated experience, and between hand-making and mechanical production. The relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional form is a recurrent feature of my work, expressed as the illusion of depth depicted on a flat surface, and through paintings and drawings that are partly sculptural. Areas of blank canvas, the verso side of paper, and the space between an artwork and its viewer is given as much consideration as drawn or painted elements.

BIOGRAPHY

Hannah grew up in the village of Crai in Wales and studied at Swansea College of Art, choosing to specialise in painting and drawing. After graduating in 2008 she briefly worked as a painting studio assistant before returning to Swansea to live and work, later gaining MA and MPhil qualifications. Her artwork was awarded inaugural Beep Painting Prize in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2014. Recently, her work was included in the exhibitions John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing, Two Temple Place, London (2019), John Ruskin: Art & Wonder, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield (2019) and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2020; 2023).