Amy Hannah

Amy Hannah is a Sheffield based artist specialising in painting and sculptural practices. Hannah’s work focuses on the studies of the human form, most frequently the female form.

Working in a more contemporary style than her usual painting, she was inspired by cubist art, as well as textile weaving techniques through the intertwining of four independent poses into one final complete image.

Her recent studies delve deeper into a more personal take on her figure work. The current equinox exhibition displays the fragmented and distorted self portrait “changing”. This is a representation of the artists view of her physical and mental changes felt over time. Depictions of appearance from contrasting poses, highlighting curves, folds and bone structures illustrate physical changes of size and shape of the body through leaning over and twisted positions. The woven figures, all individual, portraying the mental changes of working out how various versions of oneself can become one.