Hannah Ward is a New York based prosthetics technician and multimedia artist working primarily with coloured pencil and watercolour. Her works depict fragmented animal and human forms that raise questions about culture and spirituality.
Using often diseased woodland animals from her local area as subjects, she explores the raw sensations of grief, intimacy, and sacrifice. She aims to convey a world where the grotesque becomes the enticing, where the otherwise morbid becomes the attractive.
Her paintings are equally inspired by dream imagery, childhood memories, and taxidermy practices. Ward wishes for the viewer to draw parallels between her paintings and the human condition, suggest the vulnerability of the body and the ease with which it can be overwhelmed or transformed. Her recent bodies of work contain loosely narrative, ceremonial images that explore intimacy, mortality, and the process of healing.
Hannah Ward received her MFA in Drawing and Painting at the State University of New York at New Paltz.