about
Hannah Lamb is a textile artist, lecturer and author, based at her home studio in Bingley, West Yorkshire. She works with a range of textile processes, including stitch, print and fabric manipulation, creating textile artworks from an intimate scale to larger installation works.
An interest in textile archives and local textile industry has led to recent research projects and exhibitions with Salts Mill, Bradford Textile Archive, Sunny Bank Mills, 509 Arts and The Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Hannah's first solo book, Poetic Cloth; Creating Meaning in Textile Art, was published by Batsford in 2019. In 2025 Hannah's second book will be released; Unfolding Cloth:Inspiration from historical Textiles.
Hannah Lamb gained a BA (Hons.) Embroidery (2001) and MA Textiles (2010) from Manchester Metropolitan University. She has lectured in textiles at Bradford School of Art (Bradford College) since 2004, where she is currently Programme Leader for Textiles. Hannah exhibits nationally and internationally and is an exhibiting member of the 62 Group of Textile Artists.
selected exhibitions
2025
Expanded Cyanotypes: New Directions in Cyanotype Making, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Massachusetts, USA [Online].
2024
Making as Learning, The 62 Group at Salts Mill, West Yorkshire.
Lost Mills & Ghost Mansions, Saltaire Arts Trail, Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
Tailored, The 62 Group of Textile Artists at HUB, Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
2023
Tailored, The 62 Group of Textile Artists at Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, West Yorkshire.
2022
Essence: the 62 Group at 60 at The Knitting & Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace and Harrogate Convention Centre.
Fragment of a Dress, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire.
2021
Connected Cloth: Exploring the Global Nature of Textiles, The 62 Group of Textile Artists for The British Textile Biennial at The Whitaker, Rossendale, Lancashire.
Home/Work at The Knitting & Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London and Harrogate Convention Centre.
2019
CONSTRUCT, The 62 Group of Textile Artists at Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, West Yorkshire.
2018 - 2020
CTRL/Shift, The 62 Group of Textile Artists at MAC, Birmingham; National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford; 20-21 Visual Arts Centre and Scunthorpe Central (touring).
Clocking Off, Sunny Bank Mills gallery, Farsley, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
2016-17
Making Space, The 62 Group of Textile Artists at The Silk Museum, Macclesfield; The Knitting & Stitching Show, London and Edinburgh (touring).
Made in the Middle ’30 (online) Craftspace. http://madeinthemiddle.org/30-years-30-makers-2/makers.html
2015
Material Evidence, Sunny Bank Mills gallery, Farsley, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
62 Group: NOW!, The 62 Group of Textile Artists at Upfront Gallery, Cumbria.
Pinpoint II, One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
Pick & Mix; Artists responding to the Bradford Textile Archive, The Dye House Gallery, Bradford.
2014
Ebb & Flow, The 62 Group of Textile Artists at The Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
Spectrum, Unit Twelve, Stafford.
2013
In Search of Green, The Bowery, Headingley, Leeds (solo exhibition).
Pinpoint, One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
awards
Arts Council England - Developing Your Creative Practice award, 2021.
Arts Council Yorkshire, - Grants for the Arts, 2004.
BBC Homes & Antiques - Talent Around Britain (shortlisted), 2004.
West Midlands Arts - Creative Ambitions Award, 2002.
Crafts Council - Next Move, 2002-2004.
commissions
A Cloth for the Lost Mills - 2024
Commissioned by 509 Arts as part of the Bradford-based Lost Mills & Ghost Mansions, arts and heritage project.
A Textile Portrait of Bradford - 2023
A seed commission from Bradford 2025, UK City of Culture.
Fragment of a Dress - 2022
An interactive textile artwork for Brontë Parsonage Museum, developed to coincide with costume exhibition 'Defying Expectations: Inside Charlotte Bronte's Wardrobe'.
Lasting Impressions - 2016 & 2017
A collaborative and publicly engaged site specific work with Claire Wellesley-Smith at Salts Mill, commissioned by Saltaire Inspired for Saltaire Arts Trail.
Linear Mapping - 2014-15
Installation work for ‘Pinpoint II’ exhibition. Commissioned by One Church Street Gallery, Buckinghamshire.
publications
Unfolding Cloth: Inspiration form Historical Textiles (Due to be published by Batsford 2025)
'Poetic Cloth: Creating Meaning in Textile Art' - Batsford, 2019.
'Lasting Impressions' with Claire Wellesley-Smith - Stitch, Print, Weave Press, 2018.
Work also in:
Textiles Transformed by Mandy Patullo. Batsford, 2020.
Ctrl/Shift: New Directions in Textile Art, Liz Cooper & Sue Stone (Eds.). England: The 62 Group of Textile Artists, 2019.
Textile Folk Art by Anne Kelly. Batsford, 2018.
Cyanotypes on Fabric by Ruth Brown. SC Publications, 2016.
Slow Stitch by Claire Wellesley-Smith. Batsford, 2015.
Natural Processes in Textile Art by Alice Fox. Batsford, 2015.
press
Embroidery 'Meet the 62 Group of Textile Artists' Jan/Feb 2024.
TextileArtist.org 'Hannah Lamb: Finding Meaning in Textile Art' by Anna Black, 2023.
Yorkshire Post 'Show Tailor-Made for Success', 22nd May 2023.
Selvedge blog Fragments of a Dress: Visitor Stories 22 April 2023.
Embroidery 'The Memory of Cloth', Sept/Oct 2022.
Selvedge blog Fragment of a Dress 16 Oct. 2022
Yorkshire Post 'Interview with textile artist Hannah Lamb about her Fragments of a Dress installation at Bronte Parsonage Museum', by Yvette Huddleston, 19th Sep 2022.
Embroidery 'Material Matters; Blue Dye Thinking' by June Hill. March/April 2022.
Yorkshire Post 'My Yorkshire' (weekend supplement) 30 Oct. 2021.
Embroidery 'Embroidery Loves' Nov/Dec 2021.
Hole & Corner blog British Textiles Biennial - a tour with Rue Pigalle Oct 2021.
Selvedge blog 'Poetic Cloth: Interview with Hannah Lamb' Oct 08, 2021.
Obscura Magazine 'The Poetic Cloth' by Toby Crispy. Sept. 2020.
Embroidery 'Construct' (exhibition review) by June Hill. Nov./Dec. 2019.
Embroidery 'Time & Place' by June Hill. Sept/Oct 2019.
Embroidery ‘Out of the Blue’ by June Hill. Nov/Dec 2015 (p.10 - 15).
TextileArtist.org (interview) ‘A kind of gentle presence’ by Sam Pitcher
