Hannah Chaney
10% More Comfortable, 2026.
34cm x 62.1cm x 103.5cm
Sheeted steel, mdf wood, plaster, spray paint, agar agar, beetroot powder, water, projected moving image with sound.

10% More Comfortable, 2026.
101cm x 20.7cm x 20.7cm
Sheeted steel, mdf wood, plaster, spray paint, agar agar, beetroot powder, water.

10% More Comfortable, 2026
60cm, 20.7cm x 20.7cm 
Sheeted steel, mdf wood, plaster, spray paint, agar agar, beetroot powder, water.

10% More Comfortable, explores the deep connection between body, material, environment and sound through sculpture and moving-image. In a series of experiments the artist attempts to embody a fictional jelly-like matter with the goal of transcending past the physical body. This results in a scenario where failure is a constant, pushing Chaney to exist within a cycle of unattainable desires and allowing her to explore to what extent this affects the body. 

Similarly to her previous work Haptic Borders, 2022, Chaney uses her own body as a research tool to gain knowledge that results in material play. The sculptural interventions alongside the moving-image operate within the tension between collapse and care; acting as a testing ground for new systems that question the need for permanence, the imposed status of matter and the uneasy aftertaste of comfort and surrender.

Hannah Chaney is an interdisciplinary sculptor whose practice explores process and materiality as a means of reframing play as a site of individual and collective repair.

A graduate of Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, Chaney treats material as both substance and system, embedded with memory, labour, and life. Her work is rooted in a sensitivity to proximity and care and investigates the inherent relationship between body, material, and environment.

Through sculptural systems that negotiate control and collapse, Chaney uses the social life of materials to extend her work into the public space, responding to the histories, textures and the communities that they move through to generate new forms of togetherness.