Manchester-based artist Hannah Roach is interested in people and buildings. Her work explores psychological space and its relationship to architecture. HR approaches the idea of shelter with an experimental view, often playing on ideas of escape using her signature visual language of ladders and utopian ideals.
HR's visual art practice explores the boundaries of physical and social spaces, and how dwelling spaces affect how a person is shaped, through mediums of drawing and interactive structures. Her sculptural works encourage the audience to actively engage and this sensual aspect is crucial as its function is to get the viewer emotionally involved by participating in the artwork.
Education
2017 University of Brighton
Ba (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture
Career
Applicant Experience Manager
Screen & Film School | February 2020 - Present
Events Account Manager
Primary Engineer | April 2019 - February 2020
CAD Design Technician
Arc Multi Metals | January - April 2019
Gallery Assistant
Onca Gallery | June 2018 -September 2018
Studio Assistant
The Open Studios | January - October 2018
Design and Marketing Assistant
P3 works | March 2018 - May 2018
Project Designer
Bruynzeel Storage Systems
September 2017 - March 2018
Widening Participation Ambassador
University of Brighton
June 2015 - August 2017
Brand Manager
The Fine Art Collective
May 2016 - May 2017
2020 Shelter Domestics, Gallery Lane Cove, Australia
Virtual Exhibition and Artist Interview
2017 Lunga Arts Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Artist Residency
2016 Serpentine Gallery Selgascano 15th Pavilion, London
Contemporary Dance Performance
Club Govan Throwers - Buzzcut Live Art Festival, Glasgow
Performance
2015 Laban School of Contemporary Dance, London
Sculptural Installation
2014 Cells, Brighton
Group Sculpture Exhibition
Play, Onca Gallery, Brighton
Residency and Exhibition
Play Harder, Piccadilly Place, Manchester
Residency and Exhibition
2013 Manchester School of Art
Alumni Prize
Drawing Prize
Achievements
Artist Interview, July 2020
Gallery Lane Cove, Australia
