Hannah Stewart is a visual artist based in the Eden Valley near the English Border city of Carlisle.

Hannah Stewart's work uses traditional techniques to explore the ideas of beauty, preservation and mortality. There are aspects of both tragedy and humour and the work often utilizes processes that are both alchemical and referential.
Primarily creating site specific installations or pieces, Hannah then extracts details of these larger works to become limited edition multiples or photographs.  

Stewarts Salt exhibits examine how certain elements of our cultural history have been preserved to become an anachronistic part of the present. From the set of flying ducks associated with British homes of the 1930s-50s to the laced corset and book on etiquette redolent of Victorian womanhood, the objects are colloquial, physical mementos of past tastes, value systems and physical ideals that permeate ideas of Englishness today. Salt is the significant material used in each of the three works recently featured in Sedition and previously was the conceptual and esthetic hook employed by collaborative work Fleur de sel. Salt is one of the few substances that endures, which remains in existence after exposure to heat, water, light and not least, time. One teaspoon of salt is what remains after the human body has completely decomposed; it is a feared substance, yet an essential nutrient; it aids hydration and absorption of necessary minerals but dehydrates and can be toxic; it was the key element in the domestication of animals, and therefore crucial to the start of homemaking.

Line is a series of works exploring indicative narratives, borders and transitions. These works reflect on how lines both define and describe peoples lives. Whether through a spinal column created out tea cups or series of butterflies which progressively decay, as if crushed by a thumbprint. Hannah Stewart's commission in 2010 by Carlisle City Council draws on these concepts. The work rendering some of the cities defining lines across a set of 3 triptycts (each one a set of three granite benches). For this piece Hannah worked with historic maps to highlight three specifics types of line which have influenced Carlisle. The lines of the river Eden, Hadrian's Wall, and the lines produced by industry, indicated by the railway lines.

Myth adds a layer of both fantasy and the ordinary respectively, ranging from the blunt statement of the piece ‘icarus was a cock’ in the typically aspirational setting of the Fine Art degree show Stewart reconsiders the failure of Icarus rendering him as a salt perserved, roadkill cockerel. The piece demonstrates how the although Icarus has been immortalised by the legend he has been preserved both in his foolishness, innocence and eventual failure.  Stewart's myth work creates stories and installation which are humorous, irreverent and magical, yet poignant in there exploration of the human condition.

Hannah Stewart studied at Cumbria Institute of the Arts and is Director of FreerangeArtists Ltd . The artist, in collaboration, exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and in 2007 she created sculptural interventions for Hot Springs National Park, Wyoming, USA. Her work has also featured in numerous art fairs. exhibitions and festivals.