Hannah Fletcher
Hannah Fletcher is a London based artist, working with cameraless photographic processes and a Co-director of London Alternative Photography Collective.
Hannah Fletcher’s work intertwines organic matter such as soils, algae, mushrooms and roots into analogue photographic mediums and surfaces. Simultaneously, exploring environmentally and ecologically-focused issues. Working in an investigative, pseudo scientific and environmentally conscious manner, Hannah combines scientific techniques with photographic processes, creating a dialogue between the poetic and political.
Recently, she has initiated and is running The Sustainable Darkroom Project; an artist run research, training and mutual learning programme to equip cultural practitioners with new skills and knowledge to develop a more environmentally friendly analogue photographic practice.
Circles: A Record of Our Time
Circles: A Record Of Our Time is an ecology of image and sculpture that examines how man’s relationship with the environment can
be read from trees.
The tree acts as a recording device, a camera. As trees grow they form growth rings, each growth ring differs dependent on environmental fluctuations. In our current geological epoch, the Anthropocene, we, humans, are directly affecting the growth of these tree rings. During a conversation with Martin Bridge, lecturer of dendrochronology at UCL, he explained that since CO2 levels have been rising in the atmosphere, tree rings have been getting wider. This is explained by the tree absorbing more CO2, causing it to grow faster and resulting in the rings becoming further spaced apart.
Acting as a pseudo-scientist, I have been investigating the wood as a photographic material and device. Working directly with wood, allows the viewer to encounter these materials as tools: portholes through which one is able to consider the future of our environment and human placement within it.
UKYA PROJECTS:
UKYA City Takeover: Nottingham 2019
UKNA City Takeover: Leicester 2022
