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Hannah Rowan is a British multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. 

She was born and raised in Brighton, a seaside town in the UK, and this proximity to and relationship with water has informed a lot of her art practice. Her work explores the slippery complexities of water that draws together a liquid relationship between the human body and geological and ecological systems. She works across sculpture, performance, video and sound to explore bodies of water, transformation and impermanence. She is informed by situated, embodied and submerged field research, from the Atacama Desert to the High Arctic, to learn from aquatic systems and with the animacy of the more-than-human world. Rowan is influenced by Hydrofeminist theory as a means for representing the interconnections of ecological systems. She combines a range of processes that includes glass blowing, life casting, ceramics, lost-wax cast metals and weaves together a diverse use of materials such as melting ice, oxidizing copper, volcanic lava, oyster shells and aquatic plants. Her work considers phases in matter to understand the fluidity and impermanence of materials. She works with materials and processes that embody the elements and transformation, often to present materials in a state of flux to trace the passage of time. Using lost-wax casting to create casts of her hands in cupped gestures, the position is ritualist and healing, evoking water deities, ritual and rebirth. Often these casts become carriers for other material forms, they hold glass blown vessels containing water and aquatic plants, glass orbs that suspend volcanic lava, chunks of melting ice or casts of organic or aquatic life forms such as oyster shells.

Hannah Rowan is represented by C+N Canepaneri Gallery in Italy and the Edit Gallery in Cyprus.