Hannaa Hamdache

Hannaa Hamdache is an artist and curator of mixed English and Algerian heritage from Nottingham, UK. Based in Leeds, she holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Art History from Kingston University London and an MLitt in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) from the Glasgow School of Art.

She works to make the arts open for all through the use of humour and education. Her practice explores the idea of play: playing with context, the exhibition and the everyday. Currently, she is investigating her own personal context and heritage through family archival photographs, film and food.

Hannaa has been commissioned to create new works by different arts organisations including The World Reimagined, Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) and the Arts Council Collection as part of Lubaina Himid’s ‘Found Cities, Lost Objects’ at Leeds Art Gallery in 2024.

Recent exhibitions include: Leeds Artists Show 2023, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (2023); TWO QUEENS, TWO SCREENS, Two Queens, Leicester (2022); Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool (2022) and NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2022), where she won the Public Choice Prize. She is also a member of the Creative Thinktank at UK New Artists.

Instagram: @hannaahamdache

UKNA Projects:

New Artist Collective #3 - People, Place and Practice: Four Happenings