Hannah Morgan
Hannah Morgan
Tracing Lazarus’s Stem, 2020
Digital C-print on matte photographic archive paper
Edition of 10 + 2 AP
51 x 68 cm
About this work
Tracing Lazarus’s Stem is part of a wider investigation into memory through plants, titled Aloe Vera 3.G, which consists of narrative-oriented work. The work captures the dismembered “body” of the Aloe plant, drawing together myth, vulnerability, and the state of being in-between.
About Hannah Morgan
Hannah Morgan is a multimedia installation artist living and working in London. She is currently undertaking an MA in Sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, where she received the Prankerd-Jones Memorial Prize for excellence in academic study. She has recently shown at Saatchi Gallery, London, and participates regularly in research symposiums. Morgan has a background in film, performance and archiving, and is a Visiting Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, UAL.
In her practice, Morgan considers intersecting narratives by creating new material assemblages across film, audio, sculpture and text. In particular, the artist focuses on notions, and stories, of transformation and loss. Through this, she addresses the precarity of selfhood, object, and the natural world. Morgan combines interdisciplinary research, including across biology and archaeology, in this investigation, using this to look at the material world as participatory: marked by how we engage with it. Underpinning her practice are investigations into contamination, collaboration, thresholds, unearthing, preservation, trace, and speculation. In looking at the aftermath of loss within these contexts – be that of death or land – she exposes the slippages between her disciplines, and posits novel, speculative propositions.
Education
2018 - MA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2010-12 MA Fashion, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2004-07 BA (Hons) Film and English Literature, University of Sussex, East Sussex, UK
Awards
2019 Prankerd Jones Memorial Prize, excellence in the study of Fine Art at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
Residencies
2020 Middle Midhouse Orkney Residency, writing residency in Orkney
2018 Intervention, sculptural residency, Gallery Iris, Athens, Greece
2017 Sculptural Unconcious, Residency with Robert Binet and dance company, wild space, Suffolk
Exhibitions
2020
London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
Misanthropocene: Museum of the Beyond, interdisciplinary online exhibition, Goldsmiths/AA/UCL/Slade
2019
MatterM8, group show as part of Slade School of Fine Art Interim
Sharing Boarders, exhibition as part of the Sharing Boarders Symposium, Slade School of Fine Art
Love Symposium and Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art
2018
Open Studio, Studio18
Intervention, sculptural response to photographs by Ellie Tsatsou, Gallery Iris, Athens
Impressions of a Stone Circle, live performance, Hackney and Cork
2017
Open Studio, Ridley Road Studios
Balance in a Carpark, Durational performance, West Sussex
Haptic Methodologies, solo show of sculpture and performance work, Second Six gallery, London
Dead Original, Performance, Five Years Gallery, London
2016
Conversations | As a Body, sculpture, process notes, Protein Studios
2013
LIONS, WORKS Collective, Sculpture, Christies London
WORKS Collective, Wooden Body Sculpture, Milan
WORKS Collective, Object Reasoning, mixed media instillation, Eindhoven
2012
Remix: A new way of making, video and sculpture, Frameless Gallery
Now is all there is, worn sculpture commissions for the Royal Ballet, Hospital Club