Hannah Collins

British artist Hannah Collins is known for her large unframed photographs that create immersive spatial experiences, and installations that involve film and sound. She gained international recognition in the 1980s. Her works reflect on the fleeting nature of the present and convey the emotional and psychological aspects of spaces steeped in cultural and social history.

From 2000, Hannah Collins began to introduce film and video often projected over multiple screens incorporating constructed musical soundtracks. She has maintained a performative element in her work and has expanded her interest in those people and places who inhabit the limit or margins of society and in the future of the human species. Her still images are often located between documentation and precise acted performance. Migration and modern attempts to improve our vision of the future have been subjects in recent works including The Fertile Forest (2015) a work made in the Colombian Amazon with a Cofan tribal group, A will make up a Song (2018) and The Earth Beneath My Feet (2022).