Hannah McKellar

Hannah McKellar is a textile artist based on Gadigal/Wangal land (Sydney, Australia). McKellar's practice explores the intersections of embroidery, sculpture, and cartography, using hand-stitched techniques to reinterpret mapping systems. Her works often take the form of soft sculptural landscapes, resembling topographic maps, landforms, and bodies of water. Recently, McKellar has been critically examining mapping traditions through processes of deconstruction and ‘unmapping,’ challenging cartographic conventions through visual and material experimentation.

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 Deakin Small Sculpture Award 2024; 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.