Up, 2021. Acrylic, PLA, Liquid Light

Hannah Jane Oliver is an artist from Toccoa, Georgia. She works within multiple disciplines and
aims to use these different types of media to communicate her message. Hannah Jane
graduated from Piedmont University in 2021 receiving a bachelor’s of art with concentrations in
photography and digital fabrication with a minor in English.
In April of 2021 Hannah Jane exhibited her solo installation “Devouring Time” which featured 8
crafted lamps paired with poems that played over a speaker in the gallery.
Hannah Jane enjoys hiking, fashion, and hot dogs.

Artist Statement

As an artist of both traditional and digital mediums I believe my art making should
involve the mixing of the two. Having enjoyed the use of emergent technologies in
my work, my main goal is to make art while combining machine and my own hand
crafted elements. With the quick expansion of these technologies and programs,
especially that in schools, their integration with art is inevitable. Giving myself an
early start in this field of art making allows me to become more innovative in the
contemporary art scene.

The media I am most comfortable with is that of photography and digital
fabrication, which were my concentrations while obtaining my undergraduate
degree. Even though I primarily work with photography and digital fabrication, I also
like to explore collage, illustration, printmaking, videography, and graphic design.
All of these different disciplines have unique characteristics that I can utilize to
make work that I find interesting.

Process is a large part of my work, planning out steps and working on projects in
iterations, noting that anything I make can always be built upon. Light is another
important element of my work, I aim to use light in almost every one of my pieces in
various ways. Light is a natural part of photography, painting with light, but I also
construct sculptures that use light to illuminate the piece or call attention to the
work’s larger meaning.

I also enjoy the idea of my work being a puzzle, having multiple elements that fit
together into one piece. This is especially prevalent in my sculptures and collages,
but works with the idea that much of my work is interdisciplinary and requires
multiple layers of processes and planning to achieve.