Name: Hannah Fitz
Nationality: IE
Place of Birth: Ireland
Year of Birth: 1989
Areas of Work: Sculpture
Website: www.hannahfitz.eu

Working predominantly in sculpture, Hannah Fitz makes works drawn from recognisable forms. She creates sculptures in series, layering a composite of materials to make a uniformity between the shapes and flatten out any ‘true’ material interactions. The sculptures are first representational, placing the sculpture into a cognitive chain of interactions with our visual ideas and presuppositions. Each sculpture is shaped into a self conscious performance of what it is to be seen as; a bowl, a lamp, or a stool. They are distorted by the physical effort to include their own image, their final physical form becoming sarcophagus like in charting an intention to prescribe image and idea.
Hannah Fitz has spent years in collaborative and experimental practice groups, since founding the artist lead project 'Basic Space' in 2009. For five years she was involved in running a number of large scale projects that brought the artistic practices of those involved into the process of exhibition making. She maintains a parallel practice of exposing her sculptural work to other systems of intention, exhibition, and materiality by consistently working with other artists. This element of practice is an ongoing effort of controlled analysis into the politics that surround the artwork as it is subsumed into systems outside of the studio.
Hannah Fitz works from Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (Dublin) where she was awarded the Graduate Studio Residency Award at 2015.