Pieced Thoughts, Woven Together

Pieced Thoughts, Woven Together
Hanna Steenbergen-Cockerton
Opening 31.10 - 17:00-20:00
01.11 - 13:00-17:00
02.11 - 12:00-16:00

What does it mean to be an artist today? The title artist can feel like a paradox—at once a profession, a lifestyle, and a worldview, tangled into one often messy package. Pieced Thoughts, Woven Together brings these tensions to the surface, exposing the conundrums, insecurities, and absurdities that shape an artist’s daily life.
Building on her earlier series The Confessionals, Hanna gives form to these thoughts by putting ink to paper. This time, however, the work pushes beyond the frame. Using the piecing techniques of patchwork, the paintings expand outward, square by square, steadily claiming more space, reflection, and time. The introduction of weaving slows the process further, opening the picture plane to risk and transformation. Surfaces are deconstructed and reconstructed, allowing breath and movement to enter the work. Through this, Hanna explores the material possibilities of paper while reclaiming the element of time.
“I sit with the pieces now,” she reflects. “I get to know them.”

Artist bio:
My name is Hanna Steenbergen-Cockerton, I am a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersections of painting, theory, and textile craft. In my work I explore ways in which cloth related practices and the painted surface can stimulate visibility, generate awareness and grow solidarity around the issues of mental health and well-being. My artistic methodology involves using craft and painting not only as a tools for self-exploration but as acts of resilience, navigating between physical, psychological, and emotional ways of production and labour in order to create strength, solidarity and sustainability in individuals, communities and spaces.