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Michelle Hannah

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Michelle Hannah

  • Lecturer Fine Art
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ORCID
ORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0009-0006-0377-8223
Job Title
Lecturer Fine Art
School or Academic Area
School of Fine Art
School or Academic Area Supervised for
School of Fine Art
Professional Address
Sculpture & Environmental Art, Stow Building 43 Shamrock Street Glasgow G4 9LD
Country
Scotland

Biography

Born and based in Glasgow, Michelle Hannah is an artist, writer and performer working across sound, expanded photography, speculative writing, moving image and vocal performance. Through processes of excavation and sampling, they assemble post-digital artefacts, fragments of popular culture and material remnants to explore queer dystopias, embodiment, memory and autofiction. Their work brings these elements into relation through atmospheres of ruin, decay and transformation.

They have exhibited and performed at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; HOME, Manchester; CGP London; ZKU, Berlin; Dundee Contemporary Arts; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; Tramway, Glasgow; Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai; Stills, Edinburgh; Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; Cooper Gallery, Dundee; Tate Liverpool; and the Royal College of Art, London. Their work has also been presented at Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, TULCA Festival, Dresden Film Festival, British Art Network and LUX Scotland.

Their curatorial work includes events for Glasgow Short Film Festival, Niteflights at CCA, ROST club, No Bounds and Montez Press Radio.

Research Interests

Autofiction, the cosmic uncanny, queerness, cultural memory, experimental sound, voice and singing, performance, moving image, expanded photography, found materials, post-digital, ruin and futurity.

Teaching

Lecturer and Year 3 lead in Sculpture and Environmental Art (SEA)

Latest Additions

  1. Hannah, Michelle (2026) JOSEPHINE. Performance Research, 28 (7). pp. 138-141. ISSN 1352-8165
  2. Hannah, Michelle (2025) Blue Spell.
  3. Hannah, Michelle, Jackson, Deborah and Dawson, Hayley Jane (2024) Moving Images Within Precarious Structures: Class Matters. Many Studios, Glasgow, 5th December 2024
  4. Jackson, Deborah, Hodson, Elizabeth, Robertson, Fiona, Topping, Jane, Hannah, Michelle and Figgis, Laurence (2024) Class Matters: Exhibition. Annex Gallery, Stow Building, Glasgow School of Art, 29 Apr-21 May 2024
  5. Hannah, Michelle (2023) 'Screentime'. In: Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice. Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.
  6. Coutts, Nicky, Rogers, Henry, Hannah, Michelle, Hodson, Elizabeth, Murray, Liz, Šik, Becky, Topping, Jane, McKee, Francis and McGilvary, Owain (2023) Queereal Secretions. Annex Gallery, Stow Building, The Glasgow School of Art, 13 November - 15 December 2023
  7. Hannah, Michelle (2023) Flaming Lily.
  8. Hannah, Michelle (2022) House of Embers. Gallery of Modern Art, 3 - 4 June 2022
  9. Hannah, Michelle (2021) The richest scene I've ever seen. In: The Moon and The Echo: responses to The Moon and The Melodies (1986) by Harold Budd and Cocteau Twins. Pilot Press London.
  10. Ahl, Louise, Hannah, Michelle and Goh, Angela (2019) HEVI METLE. Tramway, Glasgow / Baltic, Newcastle, 12th Oct 2019 / 12th Feb 2020