Author: Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Hannah is a writer and the founding editor-in-chief of Lucy Writers. She edits all Arts sections (Art & Design, Books, Dance, and Creative Writing especially). She completed her BA in English Literature at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and has an MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies from King’s College, London. She is currently writing up her PhD in English Literature at UCL and teaches undergraduate students in the department. Her doctoral thesis explores the use and representation of the human body in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft and her circle. She regularly writes for online magazines and platforms such as The London Magazine, The Arts Desk, The White Review, Burlington Contemporary, Plinth UK, The Asymptote Journal, Club des Femmes, Women: A Cultural Review and many others. She was shortlisted and came second in the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalist of the Year Award 2018 (for criticism). She is passionate about using art and literature to encourage young women and marginalized groups to find their creative voice. Hannah has co-run a creative writing workshop for women for several years, as well as a feminist reading group. She writes about contemporary art & culture, in particular visual art, literature and dance. For more information, contact: hannah.hutchings-georgiou.16@ucl.ac.uk | tweet to @hhgsparkles | follow on Instagram via @hannahhg25

Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London

15th December 202220th December 2022 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Kirsten Glass’ enchanting paintings conjure alternate realms, invoke esoteric energies and summon nocturnal beings. In this creative essay, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou meditates on the “obverse” side of her mesmerising work and its magical channeling of all things dark.

An Interview with acclaimed author Savala Nolan: ‘Liminality gives me a sense of having multiple passports. It renders me a kind of polyglot and translator’

9th November 202210th November 2022 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Acclaimed author Savala Nolan talks to Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou about her latest collection of essays, Don’t Let It Get You Down (The Indigo Press), navigating interstitial spaces and identities, the ubiquity of violence to women, imagination as a vital tool to access African American history and life writing as a form of cartography for readers.

Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring at Sadler’s Wells

11th June 202213th June 2022 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In collaboration with École des Sables, Sadler’s Wells and Tanztheater Wuppertal, this new production of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring is brilliant, brutal and now more relevant than ever, writes Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou.

Body Politic’s THEM at the Omnibus Theatre

16th March 202217th March 2022 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Body Politic’s latest production, THEM, brilliantly foregrounds the stories of three sufferers of misogyny and sexual violence, and pushes us to confront our own cultural indifference towards such abuse.

Love is blood on the dance floor: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof at Sadler’s Wells

5th February 20225th February 2022 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Desires rage and sexual tensions are let loose in Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch’s sublimely smart and ever-relevant classic, Kontakthof, at Sadler’s Wells.

‘I dream of impossible objects’: Peter Wollen’s Friendship’s Death and the rise of the female android

6th July 20217th July 2021 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In this short essay, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou considers the politics of automata and gender in Peter Wollen’s re-released film, Friendship’s Death.

Drawn into Being: the drawings of Louise Bourgeois and Jean Frémon’s Nativity

22nd December 202023rd December 2020 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In this creative ‘Christmas’ essay, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou reflects on the power and therapeutic potential of drawing in her own life, the artistic practise of Louise Bourgeois, and Jean Frémon’s new text Nativity (Les Fugitives).

Ophelia Redux

10th November 202010th November 2020 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Millais’ painting, Ophelia, continues to inspire viewers and critics alike, but what if the heroine came back from the watery grave she was condemned to? Here, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou considers the return of Ophelia in the artwork of Jada Bruney and Rolake Osabia, and the music visuals of Christine and the Queens.

In conversation with award-winning author, Yvonne Battle-Felton: ‘Writing has made me a better, more empathetic person’

28th October 202020th December 2020 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Award-winning author, Yvonne Battle-Felton, talks to Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou about her exceptional debut, Remembered, her journey into academia and writing, her courageous women characters, and the inspiring maternal figures in her life.

Postcards in Isolation 18: Faith Ringgold, #19 US Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of Black Power, 1967

5th August 20205th August 2020 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Faith Ringgold’s striking painting, #19 US Postage Stamp, 1967, captures the complexities of the Black Power movement in 60s America and the white supremacist structures African Americans were subject to. But it serves as a metaphor for our times too, writes Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou.

Serendipity’s BHM Live at the Curve Leicester: powerful stories not just for Black History Month, but every month thereafter

7th November 201919th November 2019 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Serendipity’s BHM Live showcases work by some of the best choreographers from the dance world to date. But these breathtaking performances should be seen every day, all year round, not just during Black History Month, writes Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou.

Dada Masilo’s Giselle at Sadler’s Wells

9th October 201910th October 2019 Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Dada Masilo gives us a Giselle for the twenty-first century; a heroine we identify with and a phenomenal production that makes us feel, writes Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou.