Arts Thread

Hannah Henson is a Welsh artist who investigates sculpture, sound, performance, and documentation. Exploring materials and how they interact with concepts such as the edges between natural and unnatural, human presence and absence, active and passive, comfort and discomfort. Most recently the artist has made sculptures of cherry tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs, to re-enact fragments of memories. The deconstruction of a fake, ‘safe’ world performed for children. The sculptures are coloured variations of yellow to represent toxic positivity as a performative act, the fading of traits within a family lineage. The sculptures are cushioned by a layer of sand, shaped as miniature sand dunes. The sculptures personify rocks and shells washed up on a shore, forming a tideline. The artist depicts the erosion of rocks over time by altering how the jesmonite is poured into the moulds. A soft, warm, low light alters the perception of scale, producing a breadth of space, whilst simultaneously hinting at darkness. The artist has also worked on a series of personal archive photography, altered through collage and narrated as an investigation. The personally loaded visuals, physicalise the invisible links through chewing gum, words, cuttings and the alteration of images. Certain pieces are collated into a moving image sequence, returning to archive, titled ‘resentment’. Adjacent to her MA, she organised Linger, a storytelling event hosted by Theatreship. This was a part of the 2025 CAP Festival, a series of public facing exhibitions and events. She was responsible for communications, safety protocols, and installation.