Hannah Jickling experiments with the possibilities of form, participation and meaning-making across disciplines and publics. Her projects often take shape as site-specific sculptures, public installations, events, exchanges, photographs, multiples, printed matter and other ephemera. Atypical forms of distribution, entrepreneurial scheming and audience-seeking are important strategies for supporting and disseminating her work.
Hannah frequently collaborates with her partner Helen Reed. In each of their projects, collaboration is a working process from which the artwork emerges. In a recent series of projects with children, the artists have been exploring the ‘contact high’ intrinsic to collaborative work. Big Rock Candy Mountain, their ongoing platform for research and production, has been established at Queen Alexandra Elementary School since 2015. They are the recipients of numerous grants and awards including the Ian Wallace Award for Teaching Excellence (2016), the Mayor’s Art Award for Emerging Public Art (2017), the Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award (2018) and the Sobey Art Award Longlist for BC and Yukon (2018). Their artists’ book cum exhibition catalogue, Multiple Elementary, published by YYZbooks (Toronto, CAN), was released in 2017.
