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Hanna Tuulikki on Piero del Pollaiuolo's 'Apollo and Daphne'

Hanna shares some new and unconventional ways of looking at and interpreting the subject of this small but powerful painting.

There's more than one way to view Daphne's metamorphosis and Apollo's thwarted tackle. Explore the possibilities with Hanna.

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About the artist

Hanna Tuulikki is a British-Finnish artist, composer and performer based in Scotland. Her multi-disciplinary projects investigate the ways in which the body communicates beyond and before words, to tell stories through imitation, vocalisation and gesture.

With a largely place-responsive process, she considers how bodily relationships and folk histories are encoded within specific environments, ecologies and places.

In her work, she often draws on embodied vernacular knowledges, in particular, practices of vocal and gestural mimesis of the more-than-human, to offer alternative approaches to making kin, both with one other, and across multi-species entanglements.

Her most recent work engages with vital questions about what it means to live on a damaged planet, proposing contemporary, queer ritual, as a means to process the trauma that comes with ecological awareness.