Profile

Fascinated by textiles and the stories they can tell, Hannah Lamb’s practice is a personal dialogue with materials. Experimenting with layers of imagery and surface; print, stitch and construction techniques are carefully combined to create both sculptural installation works and smaller, more intimate pieces. She is known for her use of cyanotype printing to create shadow-like prints on textiles.

Her interest in archives, collections and the heritage of textile manufacturing in her local area of West Yorkshire has led to a number of collaborations and commissions, including Lasting Impressions (Salts Mill, 2016-17) and Draft. Recent work shown at Sunny Bank Mill (DeConstructed Cloth, 2020) and at the the Whitaker for the British Textile Biennial (Incomplete Histories, 2021) have also drawn on global and local narratives of textile production. A tiny scrap of cloth can open up a myriad of stories, from the personal to the political.

Alongside her work as an exhibiting artist, Lamb is a lecturer and author. She teaches across BA and other HE programmes at Bradford School of Art. She has also delivered talks, workshops and masterclasses for FibreArts Australia, Harewood House, Hope & Elvis, DeMontfort University and The 62 Group. Her first solo book Poetic Cloth: Creating Meaning in Textile Art was published by Batsford in 2019.