About Hannah Shillito

Art that refuses to behave.

Hannah Shillito is a British interdisciplinary artist creating gloriously excessive, emotionally charged worlds where glamour meets rebellion, humour collides with vulnerability, and nothing is quite what it seems.

Working across painting, photography, fashion, performance and immersive installation, her practice explores identity, femininity, desire and the extraordinary things we do to be seen, valued and understood.

Think disco balls, lipstick, theatrical declarations, shimmering surfaces and a healthy disregard for the ordinary.

From collaborations with legendary rock photographer Mick Rock and his New York estate to exhibitions in Ibiza, London, Los Angeles and Sydney, Hannah's work has travelled internationally. Her photography and artwork have featured in British Vogue, GQ, Glamour and PhotoVogue, with digital presentations at Le Louvre in Paris and on a Manhattan skyscraper.

But beneath the colour, humour and spectacle lies something more complicated.

Hannah is fascinated by the tension between appearance and reality: how we construct identities, perform confidence, conceal vulnerability and navigate a world obsessed with image and value.

Her work embraces the beautiful contradictions of being human. Glamour becomes both armour and exposure. Humour becomes a form of resistance. Shimmering surfaces reveal as much as they conceal.

Using everything from lipstick pigment and hand-painted text to synthetic fabrics, photography, movement and audience participation, she creates work that invites people to look closer, feel something and occasionally become part of the artwork themselves.

Her recent practice increasingly explores shimmer as a feminist methodology, investigating how instability, material transformation and embodied experience can challenge conventional ways of seeing and knowing.

Whether she's transforming a room into an immersive wonderland, painting an outrageous affirmation or creating a performance that questions what a woman is worth, Hannah's work is unapologetically expressive, experimental and alive.

Because art doesn't have to choose between being fabulous and having something important to say.