Hannah McKellar

Hannah McKellar is a textile artist living and working on Gadigal Wangal land (Sydney, Australia). Her practice explores the intersections of embroidery, sculpture, and cartography, using hand-stitched techniques to reimagine mapping systems and our connection to place. Her soft sculptural forms often mirror topographic maps, landforms, and bodies of water. 

McKellar holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking) from the National Art School (2015). She has been a finalist in numerous prizes, including the Deakin Small Sculpture Award (2024), North Sydney Art Prize (2024), Wyndham Art Prize (2023), and Brunswick Street Gallery’s Small Works Art Prize (2023), where she received the Object Prize. Her work has featured in exhibitions across Australia, including Petite Miniature Textiles (Wangaratta Art Gallery, 2022), The Passion According to G.H. (STACKS Projects, 2019), and Nothing is as Valuable as You (Peacock Gallery, 2018).

The artist acknowledges and pays respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditional custodians of the land she lives and works, and extends that respect to Elders, past, present and emerging.