Reflecting the festival’s theme of multiplicity, Dundee based designer Hannah Sabapathy will discuss the ongoing element of collage within her practice in this pop-up talk. From her furniture pieces to her recent DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residency, Hannah will outline the importance of collage. Her work has developed to use cuts and collage to investigate the relationship between nineteenth century British and South Asian textiles and colonial practices of copying and imitation.
You can view Hannah’s work at both HYPER-LOCAL and PROCESS in Hall 2 at Dundee Design Festival.
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Hannah Sabapathy is an artist and designer who creates patterns across a wide range of materials. She was selected by UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute as part of 20/20 project, which brings together twenty ethnically diverse artists with twenty UK cultural collections. Her residency with The Harris Museum in Preston, looked at the relationship between British and South Asian textiles focusing on copying and imitation within a colonial context. The work for this project will go on permanent display when the museum opens in 2025. She has undertaken residencies with DCA Print Studio x Jerwood, The University of Wales Trinity St David, Hospitalfield and Cove Park. Hannah continues to explore British copies of South Asian textiles during the nineteenth century and make work in response to this. She is based in Dundee.