photo Roelant Meijer (for Joya: AiR)
“My time at Joya: AiR was part of a larger review of my creative practice with the aim of experimenting within the landscape: making shorter walking journeys; creating and documenting ephemeral artworks; using natural materials, artefacts, and the landscape itself; and to consider the relationships between lifestyle and the warming European environment.
I arrived equipped with field recording equipment to learn more about how to capture sounds and images and quickly realised the challenge I had within such a quiet landscape. But with this came a slowing down, listening, observing and connecting. Walking each day, I let things unfold naturally recording birdsong, insects, wind, bells, rockfall, water, and footsteps, whilst also using what I found around me to create a record of each walk as lines and forms on the ground.
Thanks so much to Simon and Donna who have made Joya: AiR such an incredible place. I loved having the space and time to be able to explore working in this way; being alone; and also, in amazing company with them and the other artists and writers in residence.
Hannah is a graduate of Central Saint Martins MA Art and Science 2017 and BA Arts and Design 2000, and Middlesex University MSc Multimedia Application Design 2003; a member of the Wilderness Art Collective; a MullenLowe NOVA award winner; and an alumna of The Arctic Circle artist residency. Her work is grounded on scientific research and she has worked with climate and environmental scientists, and other professionals, to accurately inform her research. Key collaborations include a project about waste with the UK Government Office for Science; and a project about microplastics with Kings College London MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health. Recent works include: ‘270 Single Uses’, an installation highlighting the relationship between marine plastic litter from Britain and Arctic sea ice; ‘All At Sea’, a collaborative installation about the sea with artist Maria Macc; ‘All This Stuff Is Killing Me’, an installation reflecting on mass-consumption at the Royal Geographical Society, featured on BBC Radio 4’s ‘All In The Mind’, longlisted for the 2021 Aesthetica Art Prize; ‘To The Ends Of The Earth’, a film about the sea projected onto a shipping container in the central Australian desert. She worked for BBC News until 2018 when she left her job to pursue her career as an artist full time.