Talking Points: Hannah Rae
How can materials changes over time?
Hannah Rae uses recycled fabrics to make layered textile artworks. She adds and removes pieces of fabric, allowing colours, patterns and textures to peep through. By experimenting with layers, materials and dyes, she creates surfaces that look worn over time. Through her careful use of these materials, she explores ideas about memory, repair, recovery and growing older.
Use the images and questions below to explore Hannah Rae’s work.
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Hannah Rae
Hannah Rae is a textile artist based in Cambridge. Her work is formed of embroidery and free motion embroidery.
The works are responses to the environment and the passage of time. The surface of Rae’s work are pieced together through stitch, rust and eco printing, dyeing, painting, and applique; faded and weathered by use and the elements, capturing fragments of past times.
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Questions to Ask Children
How does this image make you feel?
Describe the texture of this piece.
How do you think the artist made this work?
Questions to Ask Children
Draw the different marks that you can see.
How would you describe the colours?
If this was an aerial view of a scene, what might the scene be?
How does this piece differ from the first that you saw?
How does this work you feel?
Questions to Ask Children
What do these 3 pieces have in common?
What is different about the 3 pieces?
Which one is your favourite? Why?
This Talking Points Is Used In...
using sketchbooks to make visual notes
Show me what you see
