Hannah Laycock
Through constructed self-portraiture and documenting her environment, Laycock explores the experience of living in a human body. The artist, who lives with Multiple Sclerosis, uses visual strategies to communicate where the limitations of language fail. Her tactile images reflect experiences of transition, loss and illness.
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Shell (spinal cord) from Perceiving Identity, 2014
Do You See Me from Perceiving Identity 2014
Untitled from The Vessel, 2018
Untitled, 2022
Untitled from All the Colours and Still I Feel Blue, 2019
Untitled from Bringing Peace, 2020
Untitled from The Vessel, 2018
Process image, 2018
Hannah Laycock (1982) was born and grew up in the northeast coast of Scotland. Between 2005–2015 she lived in Brighton and London during which time she cultivated her skills in fine-art and commercial photography.
Hannah studied photography at the University of Brighton. Her latest projects All the Colours and Still I Feel Blue, and The Vessel, document her diagnosis and subsequent experiences of living with multiple sclerosis.
Her work has been recognised in international competitions such as International Talent Support, Italy, and has appeared as the cover piece, including an extended essay written about her work, in the BMJ’s Medical Humanities journal in February 2017. More recently, in 2020, she featured in Pause the Plié a Radio 4 documentary exploring whether artists can find an equally satisfying creative outlet when the one they've dedicated their whole life to is suddenly ripped away.