Hannah Brackston 

Board of Trustees

Hannah Brackston is an artist, maker and facilitator of collective action. Based in Glasgow where she graduated from Environmental Art in 2011. Her work invites public participation and interaction as a mechanism for promoting conversation and empowering communities to make new relationships with their environment and active contributions to environmental conflicts. Her artworks are developed through a playful, socially engaged and dialogical research methodology, directly informing the outcomes. In themselves these aim to function as catalysts for continued discussion and activity.

Hannah first worked with Art Gene in March 2015 as Artist in Residence on South Walney Nature Reserve, Barrow in Furness. Researching the reserve through practical experiments with materials and initiating slightly silly social events, such as a Sunday Cake Club. This residency period contributed ideas and input for Art Gene’s South Walney Hides design and the South Walney Masterplan.

In August 2015 Hannah began the role of Artist in Residence with a long term project – The Isle of Walney Community Growing Space : Allotment Soup. Established by Art Gene in August 2015, the project began through bringing together a muddy medley of local residents, families, artists, ecologists, children, archeologists, teachers, firemen and organisations. Vital contributors of the interests, experiences and skills they add to the pot. This is an on-going project. Hannah returned to Art Gene as a trustee in July 2024.