Hannah Sabapathy

Welcome to Episode Seven of PATTERN PORTRAITS!

Lauren Godfrey chats with artist and designer Hannah Sabapathy about patterns as a key to other histories, the jewel-like colours of her Grandma’s saris and collaging as a process of creating conversations.

Hannah Sabapathy is based in Dundee in Scotland and leads Studio Plica, a studio that explores colour, materials and the politics of pattern.

She makes beautiful things, tender, intricate, and precise, peppered with pattern and with a seductive tactility from jewellery to furniture and soon to be large scale enamel panels. All drawing from patterns and their rich and complex heritage.

Hannah is a currently part of the first cohort of 20/20, an initiative by University of the Arts London to support the careers of a new generation of diverse artists. Hannah is exploring the archive at The Harris Museum in Preston and looking at de-colonising and unpacking the patterned textiles in their collection.

Hannah has chosen a stunning selection of patterns some from her home and family and some from the collections she’s been exploring. Including a ‘Mushroo’ fabric from Hyderabad, a 1930’s quilt from her mum’s collection, one of her Grandma’s silk saris, Kolams drawn by her Grandma, an endpaper from a Mark Pawson book, a Japanese Lacquerware tray and a fan from 1885 in the Harris Collection. Images of all these patterns will be posted on @patternportraitspodcast instagram.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Hannah’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

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