When Hannah Corridor’s latest artworks, the phrases ‘experimental’ don’t come to thoughts. Managed and thought of, this rising artist’s textile items are wrapped, pleated, and tucked expertly, carrying hidden tales and elusive meanings. Winner of Artichoke’s 2024 Craft Recent! Award, the younger, Melbourne-based maker’s work occupies an area someplace between expanded portray observe and textile investigation.
With a deep-rooted curiosity in artwork since her teenage years, Corridor’s formal research by means of her Bachelor of Effective Artwork at RMIT have been closely geared in direction of exploring the various avenues inside portray. Nevertheless, it was solely by means of finishing her honours that Corridor’s experiments with textiles started to emerge, evolving into her most up-to-date 2023 assortment. “The sort of work I’m doing now simply began to seem out of nowhere,” Corridor explains, sharing how she “fell into it and it simply felt proper.” Starting with sticking items of fabric onto her canvas, Corridor notes 2023 was “a turning level,” evolving her artwork from portray in direction of the extra textile-driven assortment she offered at Craft Recent! in Melbourne.
Largely self-taught in textile strategies, Corridor remembers fond recollections of her relations and their connections to cloth. “My mum used to stitch on a regular basis, and my aunty makes quilts,” she shares, noting how the household’s proclivity for stitching appears to have reached her solely in the previous few years. “I actually benefit from the unpredictability of material; it’s this type of materials that isn’t all the time capable of be utterly managed,” Corridor says. “It’s so current in our on a regular basis lives, and it connects bits of us – from the form of our our bodies to our senses, to bodily stains and to recollections.”
Throughout Hannah Corridor’s artworks, reminiscence is a robust driving issue, balanced fastidiously with ambiguity and curiosity. Titled Sleepover, her 2023 piece exhibited within the ‘Recent! 2024’ present was created from mattress sheets gifted by her grandmother. “One of many recollections I’ve of visiting my grandma’s home was that we have been all the time having sleepovers. It was a very nice time in my childhood,” displays Corridor. Whereas the ensuing art work alludes to this reminiscence, Corridor intentionally refrains from attaching literal messaging to her items. “I like to depart a way of thriller so that individuals can get the essence of some individual or place, however they wouldn’t know the specifics.” Corridor’s items are an invite for viewers to forge distinctive connections to the artworks and the materials that kind them, projecting their very own recollections, ideas and emotions onto them.
Equally, the art work titled Battered and Bruised is a small piece crafted from her good friend’s chef whites. “As a result of you may see it’s a chef’s coat, individuals get an essence of an imaginary character, however are usually not positive who the character is,” explains Corridor, noting how viewers could “really feel a presence of an individual, but in addition an absence of them.” Describing this art work as “a form of portrait, however not in a literal sense,” Battered and Bruised embodies an elusive appeal that’s distinguished throughout a lot of Corridor’s artworks.
Cautious to craft solely with materials that resonate along with her, Corridor salvages supplies which can be texturally fascinating and totally different to ones she has beforehand labored with. Sourcing the vast majority of her supplies from native op retailers, her alternatives are knowledgeable by an environmental standpoint as nicely. “I prefer to reuse and recycle issues that exist already fairly than contributing to consumption. You will discover actually fascinating issues in op retailers that you could be not in any other case attain for in a cloth retailer and it contributes in direction of the possibility ingredient of not understanding what you’re going to seek out,” which in the end helps to gas “the artistic cycle by means of not understanding what it’s a must to work with,” she shares. Embracing spontaneity, Corridor’s observe is grounded within the thought of ‘working within the second’, counting on the artist’s means to really feel a reference to the supplies earlier than her and to craft them into one thing memorable.