Working through ceramics, sculpture and installation Camilla Hanney’s practice explores themes of time, sexuality, cultural identity and the corporeal, often referencing the body in both humorous and challenging ways.By subverting traditional, genteel crafts she attempts to transgress and contemplate conventional modes of femininity, deconstructing archaic identities and rebuilding new figures from the detritus of the past. By materializing the familiar in an unfamiliar context Camilla stimulates our ability to rethink our relationship towards objects, threatening the natural order and toying with the tensions that lie between beauty and repulsion, curiosity and discomfort, desire and disgust.
Working through ceramics, sculpture and installation Camilla Hanney’s practice explores themes of time, sexuality, cultural identity and the corporeal, often referencing the body in both humorous and challenging ways.By subverting traditional, genteel crafts she attempts to transgress and contemplate conventional modes of femininity, deconstructing archaic identities and rebuilding new figures from the detritus of the past. By materializing the familiar in an unfamiliar context Camilla stimulates our ability to rethink our relationship towards objects, threatening the natural order and toying with the tensions that lie between beauty and repulsion, curiosity and discomfort, desire and disgust.
Camilla Hanney, Lace Trace (2020), sifted sugar. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Camilla Hanney, Domestic Pleasure (2019), broomstick, hair. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Camilla Hanney, Burning Desire (2021), hand burned chiffon. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Camilla Hanney, Witches in Waiting (2022), kiln formed glass. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Camilla Hanney, A mind of its own (2022), kiln formed crystal glass. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Camilla Hanney, The Fragile Texture of our Desires (2019), sifted dirt, bone ash and dried animal blood. Image Courtesy of the artist.