Knowing Fabric: Performance Lecture
Hannah Gartside
In this performance lecture from the artist’s studio, Gartside will unpick the garments, fabrics and techniques she uses to assemble sculptures and installations that explore universal human experiences of connection, tenderness, loss, desire and pleasure.
Live streamed here Thursday 25 June, 6:30pm
In this live streamed performance lecture, artist Hannah Gartside will share her strategies for working with the physical qualities and emotional content of fabric.
Grounded in technical skills foundational to her previous career as a ballet and theatre costume-maker, Gartside’s artistic practice is invested in listening to found textiles (including worn clothing and fabrics) and responding to their histories and materialities to carefully and painstakingly construct objects and installations that draw our attention to the profound sensuality and subjectivity of our relationship to the physical world.
In this performance lecture from the artist’s studio, Gartside will unpick the garments, fabrics and techniques she uses to assemble sculptures and installations that explore universal human experiences of connection, tenderness, loss, desire and pleasure.
She will focus on working with worn clothing (including family fabrics of her deceased loved ones), animal fibres and synthetic fabrics, using techniques including: cutting, shredding, stuffing, wet-felting and hand-sewing.
Hannah Gartside (b.1987) completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Fashion Design) at Queensland University of Technology (2005-2007; Honours, 2010) followed by a BFA (Sculpture) at Victorian College of the Arts (2014-2016; Honours, 2019). She was awarded National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association prizes in 2016 and 2019. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally. Solo exhibitions include: Ararat Gallery TAMA, 2019; Metro Arts Gallery, 2018; and George Paton Gallery, 2016. Group exhibitions include: Ian Potter Museum, 2019; Artbank, 2019; Museum of Brisbane, 2018; QUT Art Museum, 2007, 2018; Blindside ARI, 2018; Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, 2018; Town Hall Gallery, 2018; The Johnston Collection, 2018; Kings ARI, 2017; Artisan Gallery, 2006. Her work is held in the Artbank and Wangaratta Art Gallery collections.
Hannah Gartside, Knowing Fabric: Performance Lecture, Live streamed 6:30pm Thursday 25 June, 2020.
A transcript of this performance will be available on request prior to the live streaming event.