b. 1991
Hannah Hirsch is an artist from Biddeford, Maine. In 2015 she received her bachelors degree in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. She loves living in coastal Maine with her husband and two cats.
“Hannah’s work often explores the environments in which she grew up in, namely specific sites ranging from Northern Maine to Midcoast Maine, where she spent the majority of her childhood and adult life. Her work examines the relationships people cultivate with their memories of place, and how our sensory experiences often shape our recollection of experiences in a multitude of ways. Hannah’s bold use of color and shape is her way of paying homage to the landscape in which she grew up, and her current relationship with her environment.”
Q. If you could offer your younger self any advice at the start of your artistic career, what would it be?”
A. “Don’t be afraid if it’s bad, because it will be, often. Keep pushing. When things feel the worst and stickiest it means that you’re on the edge of a breakthrough – it’s just hard to see through to the other side. Don’t be afraid – to try new things, new methods, to abandon old rules, to make up new ones. It’s ok to make a large variety of work where every piece looks radically different from each other – if you made it it’s still yours.”