About

Hannah Shillito is an interdisciplinary artist working across text, installation, image systems, performance, and immersive environments. Her practice explores glamour, emotional excess, instability, and performed identity through hyper-saturated surfaces, theatrical language, participation, and material transformation.

Originally working within editorial and image-based contexts, Shillito’s early practice developed through photography, fashion-adjacent commissions, immersive installation, and collaborative projects connected to contemporary visual culture. Her work has appeared in and alongside platforms including Vogue, GQ, PhotoVogue, Lomography, and international fashion and image publications, alongside collaborations and commissions with Mick Rock, Concept Hotels, Film Soho, and other public-facing cultural and hospitality contexts.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including projects connected to Le Louvre, Times Square, and large-scale immersive and commercial image environments. These experiences informed an ongoing interest in spectacle, visibility, projection, participation, and the emotional structures produced through surface and appearance.

Over time, this engagement shifted from producing images toward examining how identity, glamour, vulnerability, and value are performed and circulated culturally. Recent work moves increasingly toward text-based interventions, unstable materials, participatory environments, immersive installations, and emotionally charged surface strategies.

Working across lipstick pigment, synthetic materials, hand-painted typography, photographic error, residue, and audience interaction, Shillito treats surface not as decoration but as a site of pressure, projection, performance, and encounter.

Across the work, glamour, confession, humour, distortion, excess, and instability operate simultaneously — allowing sincerity and spectacle to coexist without resolution.

Her practice moves between exhibition-making, research-led experimentation, hospitality interventions, and public-facing image culture, allowing different forms of visibility and participation to collide.