Textiles are key to the work of Hatty Buchanan...dissolving boundaries between craft and fine art and between painting and sculpture. Linen rectangles are stitched together, fringed with tufts that play with the notion of banners, but the trailing threads suggest vulnerability and an unruly attitude towards seams. These works are packed with painterly and performative purpose, referencing formalist painting as strongly as the tradition of sewing as women's work with clever rebelliousness.
ART MONTHLY MAY 2022
Review by Cherry Smyth, The Comrades They Were Brave Exhibition
