Weaver • Artist

Working from her studio in Bundanoon NSW, Hannah Cooper uses traditional cloth-making techniques to produce domestic textiles, which she believes are deeply under-valued in our daily lives. Hannah sells her domestic textile work under the label Sunday Woven.

Production of “ordinary” domestic textiles has influenced Hannah’s artistic weaving, which plays with (and resists) the formal language of geometric abstraction and the structural and creative constraints of weaving. An over-under grid is the basis of all weaving - Hannah’s work is rooted in the ability to emphasise or distort that very simple structure: to stay firmly on the grid or move off it.

Hannah is a self-taught weaver, teaching herself basic techniques on a rigid heddle loom in 2017 and initially concentrating on simple plain weave blankets made from local superfine merino wool. She now weaves on a 12-shaft countermarch floor loom, utilising more complex structures but maintaining a focus on analogue weaving using ethically-sourced fibres.

Hannah naturally-dyes thread with plants and insects (leaves, barks, roots, flowers and insects) for use in her artworks and teaches natural dyeing through workshops and to school groups.

Hannah is represented in NSW by Jennings Kerr.

Artwork.

Textiles.