A series of Hannah Rowan’s Cyanotypes are now available via The Edit Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus.

During her time in Cyprus Rowan began developing a series of cyanotypes, an early form of camera-less photography, where light-sensitive chemicals are painted onto paper and exposed to the sunlight and rinsed with water. For ‘Tresses Vessels’ she positioned herself onto the painted vessels to capture the outline of her hair, flowing into the vessels, reminiscent of water, beams of light, or submerged root systems. For ‘Desert Vessels’, ‘Glacier Vessels’ and ‘Tidepool Vessels’ she combined cyanotype processes with large-scale transparent prints of her photographs from the Arctic, Atacama Desert and Cyprus. The material processes involved in making cyanotypes reflect Rowan’s ongoing interests in vessels, alchemy, ritual, and the animacy of matter.