About

Hannah Foley (b. 1992) is an artist, curator and researcher based in Nipaluna / Hobart. Her research-led and process-driven practice considers the political, phenomenological, and conceptual body as a means to explore existing and speculative ways to be with/in the world. Acknowledging the meshwork of intra-connections that exist between human and more-than-human worlds, Foley’s work is interested in the spaces ‘between’ – seeking and responding to 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 and temporalities that shape our shared environments. Her interdisciplinary projects span performance, installation, text, sound and web-based scoring; each work beginning with the body and unfolding through processes of gestural and lived investigation.

Hannah Foley has shown extensively within Lutruwita / Tasmania, and has shown work 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.

Foley is a Graduate Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania, where her research focuses on the ‘hydropoetics’ of affective encounter - exploring translation and collaboration with more-than-human bodies of water. She is also Co-Chair of constance ARI and curator of 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 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, and acknowledges the Tasmanian Aboriginal community’s ongoing care and conservation of the ecologies she moves with/in.