Hannah Davey

Hannah Davey is an artist, activist, writer, realising special projects that activate and challenge public, corporate and political spaces – usually without permission. Her work is often playful and participatory at the intersection of the arts and activism.

In 2024 she was a British Council Circular Culture Artist Resident in Fortaleza, Brazil with Barulhinho Delas alongside artist-activist Beccy McCray. She co-ran a week-long art and activism residency exploring ecofeminism, the sertāo and the sea with a cohort of women artists from across the state of Ceará. 

In her role as arts/activism specialist at Greenpeace UK she has been collaborating with Harun Morrison, Mary Jane Edwards and Sandra Ata on Bad Taste, a two year project to commission three art-activism interventions. The project began with a call for artists and activists to devise creative actions that confront the role of the industrial food system in the climate crisis. In her 16 years at Greenpeace facilitating artists, activists, specialists and creative practitioners to devise art/activism has been a core part of her role. 

She’s also a core member of the art collective, Liberate Tate – making live art performances (art as activism) for six years across Tate spaces without their permission, to persuade them (as a critical friend) to drop funding from BP, which they finally did in 2016.

Hannah has lived off-grid for over a decade. Most days in a semi-ancient Sussex woodland with her partner and young son, and also on the River Lea in London aboard her narrowboat which she has owned since 2010. Her practice additionally explores regenerative systems, fungi, water, woodland, foraging, ritual and magic. This arboreally-engaged work is rooted in nourishing her wider socially-engaged art/activism. Hannah has an MA in Critical Theory and Creative Writing from Sussex University.

Hannah@DAI: 

2024-2025 COOP study group ~ Trespass, Loopholes, Action Design