About

Hannah Foley is an emerging artist and curator based in nipaluna/Hobart. Her research and process-driven practice considers the political, phenomenological and conceptual body, as a means to explore existing and speculative ways to be with/in the world. Acknowledging the meshwork of intra-connections that exist between all human and more-than-human beings, Foley’s work is interested in the spaces ‘between’ – seeking and responding to tensions, reciprocities and negotiations that are held there.

Often engaging with ideas through a range of processes, past projects have incorporated performance, installation, text and sound; each work beginning with the body through processes of gestural and lived investigation.

Hannah Foley has shown extensively within lutruwita / Tasmania, and has shown work in Australian and international group exhibitions. Her performance and installation project, Breathing Backwards, has been presented in multiple iterations responding to various exhibition sites, including traveling to Perth (WA) for the 2021 Hatched National Graduate Exhibition, where it received a special commendation for the Schenberg Art Fellowship. As a current PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania, Foley’s research focuses on the ‘hydropoetics’ of affective encounter, through translation and collaboration with more-than-human bodies of water.

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Hannah Foley lives and works on the lands and waters of the palawa/pakana peoples of lutruwita. She wishes to pay her respects to the muwinina people, the true custodians of nipaluna, and acknowledge their ongoing care and conservation of the ecologies we move with/in.