The Story of
Hannah Shillito Art

Hannah Shillito is an artist working across performance, material practice, image systems, and immersive media. Her work investigates surface as a communicative interface through which value, femininity, and embodiment are negotiated rather than fixed.

Her practice has developed through sustained engagement with visibility, colour, and culturally coded aesthetics. Over time, this engagement shifted from producing images toward examining the mechanisms that sustain them. Recent work moves from object-based outcomes toward participatory performance, abject material transformation, fragmented surfaces, and unstable image environments.

Shillito treats surface not as decoration but as a site of pressure, projection, and interaction. Working with synthetic materials, photographic error, participation, and residue, she foregrounds instability as a productive condition. Meaning emerges contingently through interaction, duration, and material behaviour rather than representation.

Her current research develops shimmer as a feminist methodology — not as an aesthetic effect, but as a condition of perceptual and material fluctuation through which value and meaning are produced.

Her practice operates across public-facing exhibition contexts and research-led experimentation.