Hannah Burdess / aka. Coconut Water
My name is Hannah but I often exhibit as Coconut Water. I am a Multidisciplinary Artist and Creative Director building immersive worlds on canvas and in person, from symbolism, Surrealism, and decolonial practice. Bold neons, metallics, and layered meaning - my work demands attention and holds space for everyone. I created events through Coconut Water to create my own opportunities to exhibit where I felt limited. This bold and intentional event-making supports my creative identity and business, organising community, open call style exhibitions and event pop-ups with bold community art.
My personal practice explores my inner world intersecting with the outer.
Both the book the piece takes it's title from and the opera at the base of the piece deal with a charming and manipulative devil. Ideas of greed, temptation, animal nature, all through the lense of the contemporary media. I rebuilt this idea with wristbands from a weekend in which I too felt swept up in all of the mess and magic.
