Hannah Wallis is a multi-media artist, organiser and researcher based in the Midlands. Hannah’s work, spearheaded by her self-proclaimed fascination of the boundaries between construction, performance, locality, curating and disability rights, consists mostly of three disciplines, outlined in her discussion with us. The concern of visual and performative knowledge production, and how it can inform and be informed by collectivisation, collaboration, and both long and short-term research cycles.
After completing a monumental, curator-in-residence position at Wysing Arts Centre as part of Future Curators Network; a programme supporting the career development of D/deaf and Disabled Curators, in partnership with DASH, Hannah now works full time within the Wysing team.
Hannah spoke most fondly of Dyad Creative, the two-person collective she shares with artist Théodora Lecrinier since 2014, and is supported by organisations including a-n, East Street Arts, National Centre for Writing, Kettle’s Yard, and Arts Council England, Hannah has led self-curated residency programmes and learning projects, developed interactive commissions and curatorial research, as well as managing several temporary artist-led project/art spaces.
Wallis is a strong voice for both disabled rights and workers rights as a whole, with some of her work demonstrating such ideologies. Hannah used this time with us partly, to represent her views on the difference between able-bodied and disabled artists’ struggles. “The world is sort of built and made a certain way… it’s made, it’s made for the able bodied.”