“As a conceptual artist, Hannah Rollason creates large scale installations, to engage an audience physically and psychologically. Her work is of multimedia, including but not limited to drawing, photography, film, and ceramic. The aim of her work is to create an environment which immerses the audience taking them out of the everyday giving rise to new perceptions. Focusing on the current issue Climate Change her work explores the relationship between human and nature, drawing in subjects such as ecology and social politics to create an interdisciplinary practice.” 

Recently she began exploring the relationship between agriculture and urbanisation. Leading to the creation of ‘The Discourse of a Pumpkin’ an on-going project which currently includes two final pieces; ‘A Plant. A Crop. A Commodity.'  and ‘Blank Space.’  This project explores the pumpkin as a symbol in society from historical reference to contemporary. The main emphasis of this work is to raise questions surrounding consumerism, novelty, borders, agriculture and progression.

As the Pages of ‘A Plant. A Crop. A Commodity.’ unfold they reveal a spiralling consciousness made of images and words. Uncovering how embedded the pumpkin is in our history and contemporary society, indicating the movement of ideals, value and status through its transition of crop, myth, tradition, ornament to commodity. The humble pumpkin is anything but just an icon of Halloween, it is an indicator of social political change.

‘Blank Space’

The pumpkin becomes stripped of its organic matter, paused in its cycle becoming an alienation of what we know leaving a blank space. A question mark of sorts. As bearing witness to change, the pumpkin adapts in both its natural form and as a symbol, leading to question; where does this place the pumpkin post Anthropocene?