Hannah Reede

Hannah Reede (1994) is a Dutch, Amsterdam-based visual artist. In 2015, she finished her study at the University of Applied Photography in Amsterdam. While studying photography, she did an internship at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. That resulted in an interest in 3D art and so, this year she finished her study, Fine Arts, at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

In 2018, she got an obsession with ceramics and that never left. She spends many, many hours behind the turning table and taught herself how to throw clay and made several works with the handmade turned objects. Clay is a material that has many different phases. It goes from soft to hard. From sandy to stone. From wet to dry. And from fragile to something that could exist for thousands of years.

Some of her works are mainly focusing on the material/the sculptural aspect of it. And in other, more conceptual works, she finds a way to express her interest in themes related to the manufacture of nature, hierarchies, power relations, and control; questioning the concept of what is known as the ‘natural’ in our common society.