In the summer of 2021, Hannah was awarded a grant from Arts Council England to explore jacquard weaving via the Developing Your Creative Practice Fund.

She spent over a year on The Jacquard Project, an opportunity to give a new lease of life to a jacquard loom, an industrial weaving machine for creating complex graphic patterns.

The project involved servicing and fixing the jacquard machine at Bradford College, and learning to run it. Hannah explored how jacquard weaving could extend her practice and investigated models for sharing skills and resources with other practitioners. She collaborated with artists from varied disciplines to explore the potential of the machine for stimulating new creative exchanges. Working with Alice Chandler, Anna Ray, James Thompson and Jodie Posen, it was an opportunity to share and investigate colour, material and pattern. Each collaboration pulled the project in a uniquely exciting direction. Hannah invited each artist to join her using the jacquard technology, but left the limits of the project open. This approach resulted in experimental works bringing together surprise ideas and processes from each artist. Together, they have created intriguing and beautiful textiles.

In March 2023, Hannah presented this new body of work in the 1912 building at Sunny Bank Mills.

Press release available here.

Thank you to Lucy Forrester for the images.