ABOUT HANS VAN HANS

I am a Magandjin/Brisbane-based sculptor and installation artist whose practice is shaped by my experience as a transgender person, using abstraction and participation to explore identity and embodiment. My work invites identity to be experienced not as fixed or immediately legible, but as something relational, unstable, and discovered through interaction. Rather than creating static objects to simply be viewed, I disrupt expectations by making responsive sculptures that encourage touch and playful exchange.

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Working with materials such as latex, fabric, foam, inflatables, and toys, I create forms that react, shift, soften, or resist. Through playful and sensory encounters, I am interested in how people relate to bodies and objects they do not immediately understand, and how humour, curiosity, and touch can transform discomfort into connection. Across my practice, the felt experience disrupts the image, behaviour reveals personal qualities, and meaning develops gradually through the relationship between participant and object rather than at first glance.

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I trained at RMIT University, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), and completed a Master of Visual Arts at Griffith University (QCAD).

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