Hannah Lees (National Parks x BMW Special Episode)
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this very special edition of Talk Art brought to you by "The Recharge in Nature Project", a three-year collaboration between National Parks UK and BMW. Our guest for today is the extremely talented Hannah Lees, a Margate-based artist whose art is deeply influenced by the beauty of nature, its landscapes, discarded treasures and sustainability.
Hannah's artistic vision aligns seamlessly with The Recharge in Nature Project's mission, which aims to promote nature restoration, biodiversity, wellbeing, and accessibility. This initiative seeks to improve the electric vehicle charging infrastructure in and around our National Parks, making it more convenient for visitors to use an electric car while exploring the great outdoors. In this episode we delve into Hannah's work, her personal background, and the inspiration behind her creations.
Hannah Lees’ work encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, textiles, ceramics, internet art, performance, writing, sound and video.
Lees investigates ideas of cycles: constancy and mortality; the sense that things come to an end and the potential for new beginnings.
This constancy, be it in religion, science, history or in organic matter, is visible in her practice through her attempts to make sense of and recognise traces of life.
Through appreciating this, her work is focused towards an understanding of the essential nature of the materials she uses.
Visit: https://www.hannahlees.com/
Follows @hannahjlees
Hannah Lees' solo show 'Not now not anymore' opens at Roland Ross, 11.03.23 - 29.05.23
Preview: 11.03.23 2-5pm Follow: @rolyross
To discover more about the Recharge in Nature Project, visit bmw.co.uk/NationalParks
"...Not really now, not anymore... For what does the phrase point to
if not a fatal temporality? No now, not any more, not really. Does this
mean that the present has eroded, disappeared - no now any more?
Are we in the time of the always-already, where the future has been
written; in which case it is not the future not really"
p91, Mark Fisher "The Weird And The Eerie" 2016 Pub. Repeater Books, London, UK
Please join us for the opening of Not Now Not Anymore at 174-176
Hither Green Lane where Hannah Lees will present a series of new
tablet works that combine beach combed objects with the elements of
mica dust and rust converted iron powder, to create a kind of alchemy,
embedded in plaster forms that are reminiscent of ancient artefacts.
The works alternate between exploring circularity and linearity,
at times following a process by which objects are permanently
transformed and reactivated as painterly abstractions.
Roland Ross | 174-176 Hither Green Lane, London SE13 6QB
By appointment only Fri-Sat 12-4pm
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon, good morning and evening. Wherever you are in the world, I am Russell Tovey. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Robert Diamond. And this is Talk Art. |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome to Talk Art. How are you today, Robert? |
| 0:15.0 | Today, Russell, I am feeling at one with nature. I am super relaxed and super inspired. |
| 0:22.8 | And today's episode is a very special one, and it's brought to you by The Recharge in Nature |
| 0:29.5 | which is a three-year partnership between BMW and National Parks UK. |
| 0:35.3 | And their shared aim is to enhance the electric car charging network and support locally delivered |
| 0:41.5 | conservation, biodiversity and nature restoration initiatives across all 15 national parks. |
| 0:48.3 | That's right, and we're going to be joined by an incredible guest today. We're not going to |
| 0:52.3 | say their name just yet, but we'll be exploring how nature, natural landscapes and sustainability |
| 0:57.7 | have informed this artist's work. And today's guest is a Margate resident as well. And I actually |
| 1:03.8 | met them when I first moved here and they've helped me realise that this is such a wonderful place |
| 1:09.6 | to slow down and get out of the city. And it's actually quite parallel to what's going on with |
| 1:14.1 | the National Parks because they are a great place to connect with nature. You know, here in Margate, |
| 1:19.1 | we've obviously got the sea and our guest makes work out of walks that they do and even like beach |
| 1:24.7 | combing, but on an emotional level and a spiritual kind of level, it's amazing to get back into nature. |
| 1:31.1 | And I'm looking forward to exploring the National Parks myself, actually. They sound like they're |
| 1:35.2 | the perfect place to recharge. So we would like to welcome to Talkart Hannah Lee's. |
| 1:44.8 | Hi Hannah. Hey, thank you. Feels weird to you guys saying my name in that way. |
| 1:50.3 | It's like a game show. It's like when I first heard French people go, uh, Annalise. And it was like, |
| 1:56.4 | oh, it was. Oh, really? They called you Annalise instead of Annalise? Yeah, Annalise. |
| 2:02.3 | Thank you both for you. Thank you for inviting me. Finally. Finally. |
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