Hannah Rowan
Artist Profile
Hannah Rowan is a British multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the movement and transformation of matter across deep geological time and contemporary technological acceleration. Working across sculpture, installation and moving image, Rowan builds materially driven environments in which substances such as water, ice, salt and metal interact — melting, compressing and reforming.
Her practice is informed by field research in remote environments, including the Arctic Circle and the Atacama Desert, where she has documented elemental processes firsthand. These experiences underpin a body of work concerned with cycles of formation and dissolution, and with the tension between natural systems and human intervention.
Rowan studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (BA, 2012) and Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (MA, 2018). She has presented significant solo exhibitions including Triple Point at Belo Campo, Lisbon; Chrysalis at Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva; and Tides in the Body at C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Milan. Her early solo Bodies of Water: Age of Fluidity at White Crypt, London established her materially immersive approach.
Her research-led practice has been supported by residencies and expeditions in the Arctic, as well as grants from Arts Council England and the Gilbert Bayes Trust.
Across media, Hannah Rowan constructs systems in which fluidity and solidity coexist, offering work that feels both elemental and urgent.
