Hannah Taggart

Currently creating a
stop motion ghost story 'Heirlooms'.


The voyeuristic aspect of my work
may stem from a childhood wish
to gain access to restricted spaces
(such as a hidden room
in a dollhouse).

My work involves the frustration of
being prevented from fulfilling
wishes, by only allowing glimpses
of these inaccessible worlds. By
creating intricate, small worlds I am
suggesting the desire to retreat
from something threatening like
society.

Yet I am also interested in the
contradictions and conflict this
inspires; it appears that by reducing
the world to a small and repetitious
environment you create a sense of
safety, but perhaps all you are doing
is internalising the initial threat.

Images such as rats eating from
dining room tables not only evoke
feelings of disgust but of childish
play. I am perhaps attempting to
control fragile memories and
perceptions of childhood built on
cardboard foundations.

The structures I create are
deliberately unsecure, unsound, in
order to summon up an atmosphere
of unease, this is a fragile world that
could topple down at any moment.
Cardboard is also interesting to work
with, as it is often viewed as a 'poor'
material, only salvaged by the
dispossessed.

The University of Gloucestershire,
UK.
BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture
2001-2004.

The University of Gloucestershire,
UK.
Diploma in Foundation Studies
(Art and Design)
2000-2001.

''Discardboard'
17th-27th January 2014
Forecentre-plus
3 Lady Lawson Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9DS

"Mysteryland"
Z-Arts, 335 Stretford Rd, Hulme,
Manchester,
M15 5ZA, UK.
8th - 22nd December 2012.

"Nakasungnak" created for
"The Travellers Box"
Online exhibition.
thetravellersbox.org
April 2011.

"The Gallery Behind the Pillar
Presents Hannah Taggart".
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Gloucester Road, Bristol.
October 2009.

"Magick".
Thelondonunderground,
Studios Cafe, Kentish Town,
46 Grafton Road
London NW5 3DU17.
Dec 2008.

"Post Cards From Darwin".
Exeter Phoenix
Bradnich Place, Gandy Street
Exeter EX4 3L5.
Nov-21 Dec 2007.

"Things That Go Bump in the Night'.
20-21 Visual Arts Centre.
St Johns Church, Church Square
Scunthorpe,
DN15 6TB.
Sep - 1 Dec 2007.

"Ghosts of Borley" (solo show)
The Here Gallery, Stokes Croft,
Bristol, UK.
6 - 27 March 2007.

"154 Autumn Exhibition"
Royal West of England Academy,
Queens Road, Clifton,
Bristol, UK.
5 Nov - 16 Dec 2006.

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Heirlooms & Other Ghost Stories"
written by James Stoorie.
Lethmachen Press. 2015

"In the Confidence of the Night"
written by James Scott.
Included in the an...