Hannah Maurice is an artist based on Aotea (Great Barrier Island) whose work navigates the natural world and the richness of folk, fable, and myth through a feminist lens. From her early solo debut at George Fraser Gallery to her recognition as a 2025 National Contemporary Art Award Finalist, her practice is a layering of narrative, symbolic imagery and an animist offering to the "blood-beat" connection she feels with nature, facilitated by the various landscapes she has inhabited. With seventeen years in rural France and five years on the sea, now she calls the remote bush home. Her work is an embodiment of “dances within dances", the magical alchemy found in daily chores like building a fire or the automatic reflex of sensing or “feeling out” for the shifting pressures of the land, sky and sea.

Acting as a "bossy and exacting conductor", she channels ideas and experiences, both personal and antique. Whilst maintaining a fierce autonomy, Hannah draws on a magpie palette of story and image to create her highly personal yet universally evocative visual language. Whether through solo surveys like Wallflower or collaborative installations, she celebrates the rawness and the intricacy of the human experience as part of nature.

"My practice is a way to tune into our animal nature and the energies that inform our existence. I see the artist as the force, but not the spectacle, a channel for energies that require risk and intuitive glee to translate. My work is like a votive offering,, and also an ongoing attempt to crystallise the terrible beauty of being alive."

– Hannah Maurice