Hannah Leighton-Boyce

I work across a variety of sculpture formats including collage, drawing, sound, installation, performance duration. More recently I’ve been developing new work in writing and the voice around illness, disability, and care. My work often contemplates the built environment of the places where I exhibit through the relationship with my body, the viewing and felt experience. Within this my work considers material, environmental and sensory relations, and the politics of the body and labour, often through invisible processes such as energy transmission, the passage of time, cumulative and reductive forces. Liminality is central positions from which I seek a language and ways to express ideas of presence and absence, the material and immaterial. This state of in-between-ness is informed by my growing up and living with a chronic auto-immune condition where I need extended periods of time being away from, out of time, and suspended to rest my body, care, and recover.