Hannah McKellar

Hannah McKellar is a textile artist, living and working on Gadigal/Wangal land (Sydney, Australia). Predominantly producing hand-embroidered soft sculptures, McKellar uses the influence of cartography and mapping systems to drive her work. The process is often intuitive and immediate, with the action of making being much more important than the aesthetic outcome. Commonly unaware of what the final result will be, her artworks naturally tend to resemble topographic maps, landforms or bodies of water. 

McKellar graduated from the National Art School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking) in 2015. McKellar has been selected as a finalist in a range of Art Prizes including North Sydney Art Prize 2024; Wyndham Art Prize 2023; Brunswick Street Gallery’s Small Works Art Prize 2023 (Object Prize Winner); Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 2022; Environmental Art and Design Prize Northern Beaches 2022 and; Cooks River Small Sculpture Prize 2017 (Highly Commended). McKellar has participated in several local and interstate exhibitions including Petite Miniature Textiles, Wangaratta Art Gallery 2022; The Passion According to G.H, STACKS Projects 2019; Nothing is as Valuable as You, Peacock Gallery 2018; Art and Ecology Symposium, Bankstown Arts Centre, 2017 and; 50, Port Jackson Press 2015.

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.