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Thoughts and Thinking
I am an artist researcher whose work is underpinned by an emotional response to life experiences and paths explored.
Here I share with you things I have read and seen, along with short pieces of writing.
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The quiet disruption of the stitch.
This is the writing that accompanies this body of work. The Quiet Disruption of the Stitch … I thought this was about something different...
Hannah Turlington
Jan 16, 20244 min read
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Protecting the self
As I grow into the artist I aim to be, I excavate the life I have had so far to learn and reflect. Writing is integral to my creative...
Hannah Turlington
Jan 16, 20242 min read
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Letters to my teenage son
As an artist working in an auto ethnographic way, I use the stories of my life and the emotion I experience within my work. In each piece...
Hannah Turlington
Jan 16, 20243 min read
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The Gift of Lichen...
The gift of lichen... ‘ Our deadliest susceptibility is conformity and our deadliest virtue is putting up with things as they are.’...
Hannah Turlington
Jun 19, 20233 min read
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No Fxxking Apologies!
No more apologies for the actions of others. No more apologies for things I haven’t done. No more apologies for my writing. No more...
Hannah Turlington
Jun 12, 20235 min read
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Wakening by Hannah Turlington
The sun has a certain quality in the early morning – it caresses everything it touches with a softness that envelops it. The stillness of...
Hannah Turlington
Jun 8, 20231 min read
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The Light of the Fractured - May 2023
by Hannah Turlington As I search for me, I have to hold my space...the space I hold prevents the interruptions- the advice – the warnings...
Hannah Turlington
May 16, 20231 min read
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My Barren Womb Does Not define Me...
The phrase came to me during one of my studio days. I had wandered off down a rabbit hole of thinking of phrases and words that defined...
Hannah Turlington
May 5, 20223 min read
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Looking for those signs of hope...
Hope means different things to different people and during turbulent times in our lives we cling onto those signs and that word Hope. A...
Hannah Turlington
Jan 7, 20212 min read
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Plan for what you can control...
Sitting here by the log burner and a Columbo film on the television my mind is wandering towards the uncertainty of the new year. At this...
Hannah Turlington
Jan 2, 20212 min read
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Learn to Love Lino Printing
‘Learn to love lino printing’: Creative packs with online tuition by Hannah Turlington ‘Everyone loves an apron...’ is what I say when...
Hannah Turlington
Nov 14, 20202 min read
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Hold on...
The photographs that we take and the things that we collect tell the stories of our lives. Sometimes we have to hold onto the things that...
Hannah Turlington
Nov 6, 20202 min read
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Workshops for November & December 2020
As we approach the end of 2020 a lot of us are searching to regain some definition to finish the year. The days are shorter and we have...
Hannah Turlington
Oct 26, 20202 min read
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2021 is on its way...
‘Connections’ a hand printed linocut calendar for 2021 by Hannah Turlington There are 16 million mass produced calendar’s sold every...
Hannah Turlington
Oct 24, 20202 min read
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The first rule of Print Club...
We all those ideas that sit with us for a while until we are ready to do something with them. Then we think that the ideas are ready and...
Hannah Turlington
Aug 24, 20202 min read
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How I create my designs...
Finding inspiration for drawing and carving and printing is easy however it is deciding what not to do that is hard. I have for a number...
Hannah Turlington
Jun 13, 20202 min read
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What is your story?
"I am a story teller and I use my work to tell those stories. Sometimes they belong to me. Sometimes they belong to others but usually...
Hannah Turlington
May 28, 20202 min read
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Loosening Up!!
The need to control has always unpinned everything that I have done in life and the amount of mistakes and fun I have had. I have always...
Hannah Turlington
May 28, 20204 min read
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The Art of Procrastination
What is it about being busy that makes us feel that we are achieving and that we have a definite purpose? I am possibly the queen of...
Hannah Turlington
May 28, 20202 min read
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Working towards adopting the 'Multi-Hyphen' life.
We are always evolving because we have to respond / adapt, sometimes immediately, to challenges that life throw at us. Usually these...
Hannah Turlington
May 28, 20203 min read
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