This event is part of Art History Festival 2025 organised by the Association for Art History.
Hannah Maybank is a contemporary artist, from Walsall, now based in London, who has a close relationship with the Gallery's Garman Ryan Collection.
Born in 1974, two months after the Garman Ryan Collection first went on display in the old gallery above the library on Lichfield St, how apt that this collection would go on to have a pivotal influence on Hannah’s development as an artist. Alice Weldon’s drawing of Cyclamen inspired Hannah's A Level exam work, and now sits alongside her own artwork, Gathering, depicting Autumnal Chrysanthemums, created and gifted for The New Art Gallery’s 25th birthday year.
Not only does the medium of silver (leaf), which has become fundamental within the artist’s practice over the last decade, reflect the celebration of a quarter of a century, but their innovative use of material means the artwork will continue to develop and change over time, visually demonstrating the process of ageing; a ‘living still life’.
Hannah’s practice has always been rooted in the flowers and still life genre, using it to explore past, present and future.
The artist relishes all aspects of the creation process, and being at one with nature; growing flowers in their suburban London garden to draw again and again, in correspondence with the seasons, and experimenting in using raw materials to create dyes from which to develop beautiful watercolours.
As the artworks go out into the world their environment continues to inform, allowing them to develop in accordance with the surroundings, representing the fluidity of nature and humankind.
Join us for this online introduction to the Un-Still exhibition, as part of the Association for Art History Festival (for which this year's theme is Art and Nature.)
NB This event will be BSL accessible
For further information contact: julie.brown@walsall.gov.uk
