Biography
Hannah Gauntlett combines typical materials of the building industry (iron, steel, copper, aluminium) with disused fragments of everyday life (train and bus tickets and receipts) using the technique of collage.
The overlapping materials and photographic transfers are treated with acids, acrylics, varnishes and waxes to recreate those signs and traces present in the “other” dimension which surrounds us and creates “the urban silence”.
Hannah Gauntlett uses multiple supports and techniques, moving between photography, transfers, photographic transfers, oxidized metals and pictorial research. Photography has become her tool to investigate, discover, confront and ultimately portray the contemporary world. After some years of elaborating the technique, photographic transfer has become an integrated part of these works, it originates with the photographic shot, while the images are then applied by hand and fused with the various materials.
For some years now Gauntlett has been developing and focusing her own research on the theme of the urban landscape, constantly discussing the progression of the rapidly transforming landscape in terms of architecture, technology, politics and social change. For this purpose, the artist uses a wide range of mixed media techniques and various supports from canvas, to wood, to sheets of metal.
