About

Hannah Foley (b. 1992) is an artist, curator and researcher based in Nipaluna / Hobart. Her research-led, process-driven practice listens to how bodies — human and more-than-human — register environmental change, exploring existing and speculative ways to be with/in the world. Foley’s work is drawn to the relational, to the spaces between — seeking and responding to the tensions, reciprocities and negotiations that are held there.

Through immersive and participatory experiences, she invites audiences to slow down, attune to place, and reflect on the entangled ecologies, temporalities and affective registers that shape our shared environments. Working across performance, installation, text, sound and web-based scoring, her projects begin with the body and unfold through fieldwork, gestural investigation, and lived encounter.

Hannah has presented widely within Lutruwita / Tasmania and in Australian and international group exhibitions. Recent works include Aeriform Archive, a community-generated digital archive of Hobart’s river-fog (Bridgewater Jerry), and Breathing Backwards, a performance and installation project presented across multiple national sites, including the Hatched National Graduate Exhibition (2021), where it received a special commendation for the Schenberg Art Fellowship.

She holds a PhD from the University of Tasmania, where her research examined place-based affective encounters with water — a hydropoetic inquiry that informs field-based methods attentive to scale, weather and care. Hannah teaches in Critical Practices at the UTAS School of Creative Arts and Media, serves as Co-Chair of offsite artist-run initiative Constance ARI, and curates Holding Space, a project space and artist residency developed in partnership with the UTAS School of Creative Arts and Media.

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Hannah Foley lives and works on, and with, the unceded lands and waters of Lutruwita. She acknowledges and pays respect to the Muwinina people, the traditional custodians of Nipaluna who did not survive the brutality of colonisation. She acknowledges the Tasmanian Aboriginal communities’ ongoing care and conservation of the ecologies she moves with/in.