Hannah Lamb West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Hannah Lamb is artist, lecturer and author with a focus on fine art textiles. She works from her home studio near the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Hannah gained a BA (Hons.) Embroidery (2001) and MA Textiles (2010) from Manchester Metropolitan University. She has lectured in textiles at Bradford School of Art (Bradford College) since 2004, where she is currently Programme Leader for Textiles.
She works with a range of textile processes, including machine and hand stitch, cyanotype, screen printing and fabric manipulation. Her artworks range from an intimate scale to larger installation and performance works.
Her fascination with textile archives, collections and industrial heritage has led to several recent projects using historical subjects to explore attitudes and ideas in our own times. Lamb has a strong interest in creating works in and for heritage settings and has a love of the industrial mill buildings found all around the Bradford district.
Lamb exhibits widely in the UK and has been an exhibiting member of the 62 Group of Textile Artists since 2013.
Hannah Lamb's first solo book, Poetic Cloth; Creating Meaning in Textile Art, was published by Batsford in 2019. Her second book Unfolding Cloth: Inspiration from Historical Textiles, is due for release September 2025.
Artwork
Deconstructed Shirt, Vintage cotton shirt, silk organza, silk thread. Machine stitch and devoré print., 2023
Dressing Up, Cyanotype on silk, metal mannequin., 2023
Inheritance, Cyanotype on vintage patchwork and cotton., 2024
Incomplete Histories, Cyanotype, digital print, devoré & machine stitch on cotton, silk & mixed fibre textile., 2021
The Sampling Project, Silk, cotton and mixed fibre textiles. Plant dye, print, devoré and stitch., 2018, NFS
[De]Constructed Cloth, Mixed-fibre textile, mirror, bobbin. Cyanotype, print, dye and hand stitch., 2019, NFS
In Search of Green, Cyanotype, hand stitch, applique, natural dye, vintage garment pieces, silk, cotton, linen. Installation work; dimensions vary., 2013, NFS
Baptism, Cyanotype on silk, with hand stitch and appliqué, 2014, NFS
Draft, Hand stitch on tracing paper & cyanotype on silk, 2015, NFS
Projects and exhibitions
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Lasting Impressions: Cloth Taxonomies27/05/2017 — 29/05/2017 For Saltaire Arts Trail 2017 the artists created 'Lasting Impressions: Cloth Taxonomies' as a means to archive the responses from 2016. Again participants were invited to become a part of the performance, taking one of the numbered labels from 2016 and matching it to the corresponding fired porcelain tile. People were invited to select a length... [Read more] |
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Lasting Impressions28/05/2016 — 30/05/2016 In May 2016 Hannah Lamb and Claire Wellesley-Smith created a performative and participatory work called Lasting Impressions in the vast space of the spinning room at Salts Mill, West Yorkshire. During the three days of Saltaire Arts Trail they invited visitors to take part in the work by contributing an impression of an item of clothing they... [Read more] |
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