Looking back in order to look forward, Hannah Gartside uses discarded, found and collected textiles to create installations, sculptures and costumes.

The works explore feminism and material culture, and present ways of experiencing the profound sensuality and subjectivity of our relationship to the physical world. Gartside uses dress-making processes as well as methods of patchwork quilting, wet-felting, and fabric dyeing. Through these labour intensive processes and treatment of materials, Gartside invests in the work a quality of concentration, devotion and care. 

Hannah Gartside holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture) from the Victorian College of the Arts, and a Bachelor of Fine Art with honours (Fashion Design) from Queensland University of Technology. She has held solo exhibitions at Ararat Gallery TAMA, Metro Arts Gallery and George Paton Gallery, and has participated in group exhibitions at the Ian Potter Museum, QUT Art Museum, Kings ARI, Blindside, Museum of Brisbane, The Johnston Collection, Town Hall Gallery and McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park among many others.