Hana Alison
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Hana Alison is a recent graduate of Fine Art honours at RMIT and works within printmaking and sculpture. Through her work, Alison aims to understand the relationships between humans, nature, and species, seeking to draw out the complexities of our interconnected world to articulate possibilities for alternative futures.
Alison has often worked with organic matters, such as vegetables, fruit and grass to create organic materials to print and sculpt from. These works align themselves with ecofeminist care methods and seek to inspire an attunement to nature's self-sufficiency and to appreciate the beauty and care of the world around us. As she continues to refine her work, informed by research in post-humanistic theories, Alison investigates how an awareness of our social and political milieu can deepen our collective emotional intelligence in our increasingly interconnected world.
Attract the moths 1
2023, intaglio etching with carborundum on canson,
24.8 x 26.5 cm
$130
Attract the moths 3
2023, intaglio etching with carborundum on canson,
24.8 x 26.5 cm
$130
The small series of work Attract the moths shows an experimental approach to a printmaking reductive technique. By using a non-protected layered of carborundum large quantities of the original etched print is covered. However, with each edition more and more carborundum is lifted off the plate, letting the etching image below reveal itself. Each of the three prints show one to two different light sources. Each emitting a very low and inconsistent light. Slowly with each edition the lights get brighter and brighter, revealing the room beneath. This iteration of Attract the moths depicts the first stage, where little to no light is visible. Promoting the viewers to consider the darkness layered over the light, knowing there is an image beneath. Knowing that our real world, one filled with light, exists even in this invisible darkness.