Visionaries

HANNAH GASON
Originally from Victoria, Hannah Gason moved to Canberra to work as a cartographer.
After an introduction to glass through a number of workshops, Hannah enrolled at the
ANU School of Art and in 2015 graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours
and was awarded a University Medal. Reflecting her interest in mapping, Hannah’s glass
works explore depth, light and perspective and suggest imagined landscapes. Through
the use of kiln forming processes, Hannah creates complex combinations of fragments of
colour, shape and gestural markings resulting in loosely-structured fields.
Hannah has been an artist in residence at the Bullseye Glass Company, a visiting artist at
Berlin Glas, a teaching assistant at the Corning Museum of Glass and participant at North
Lands Creative Glass in Scotland. Working from her studio at the Canberra Glassworks,
Hannah has exhibited nationally and internationally, with work housed in the Australian
Parliament House Art Collection, the Australian National Art Glass Collection and the
ANU Art Collection.
“As I move through the soft evening light, a mess of entangled marks start to dis-perse.
In this space, complexity starts to feel very far away. As the air touches my cheek,
my focus turns to the rhythm of repetition, shifting colour and fading noise. Clusters
of jarring, jumbled marks held tight, slowly become unstuck as they em-brace their
surrounds of colour and light.”
Hannah Gason, Untitled (prototype), 2019, kiln
formed glass, 380 x 770 x 15mm.
Photo: Greg Piper
NFS