Hannah Coleman is a contemporary artist born in South Africa, raised in South Australia on Kaurna Land. She focuses on experimentations of light and uses disco aesthetics as a vehicle to discuss identity, diaspora, familial culture and lineage. Her works are installation based and create studies of intercultural adaptation, assimilation, inheritance and tokenism. Her practice is centred around lived experience and intersectionality. The works are transmissions of celebration and frustration; reflections of an unwelcomed white Australian cultural diffusion and the reclamation of her Coloured South African identity.
EDUCATION
2021 - Bachelor of Contemporary Art, University of South Australia, Australia
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2023 - Disco's Child, Nexus Arts, Adelaide
2023 - Too Much, FELTspace, Adelaide
Group
(Upcoming) 2025 - Exhibition Name TBA, Mega Mega Mega, Sydney
(Upcoming) 2025 - Friendship, Sawtooth, Launceston
2024 - Gleam, Household, Adelaide
2023 - Halsningar, FELTspace, Adelaide
2023 - FELTspace at Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 - Gathered, Ngutunka, Adelaide
2022 - Embodiment, Carclew House, Adelaide
2022 - In Flux, Saubier House, Onkaparinga, Adelaide
2022 - The Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, Adelaide
2021 - RSASA, Institute Building, Adelaide
2021 - MMXXI, Graduate Contemporary Art Exhibition, UniSA City West, Adelaide
2019 - Resilience, Beyond All Disposition, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide
Curatorial
2023 - Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, ACE, Adelaide
RESIDENCIES AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2023 - Nexus Arts SALA Festival Studio Residency
2023 - Graduate Exhibition Project Curator, Helpmann Academy, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, Adelaide
2022 - Sharehouse Residency Program (Messy Space), Carclew House, Adelaide
