HATTY BUCHANAN

Fuelled by a love of fashion, form and material, Hatty creates meticulously handcrafted work from a wide range of made and found materials including cloth, plastic, plaster, pigment, faux fur and lace. Through personal narratives and memories, she examines the complex nature of individuality and the behaviours that mediate it, as well as the wider psychological implications of trauma and recovery... Hatty's practice draws inspiration from second wave feminist and queer explorations of materials and process as a way of unpacking gendered, political, and personal content through abstraction. She focuses on formal and material invention, rather than transparent visibility, as a means of visual and material resistance... London-born contemporary visual artist Hatty Buchanan draws on personal experience to explore the dynamics of relationships and nature of power struggles. Operating across a variety of media and employing materials resonant with individual narratives, her work adopts a..

Primary location: United Kingdom