Hanna Cormick is a Finnish-Australian artist creating across fields of performance art, theatre, dance, curation and crip activism, with a creative ethos that prioritises anti-extractivism, climate justice and access rights. Cormick's current practice is a reclamation of body through radical visibility.
Cormick has worked as a physical artist for twenty years, performing in Australia, Europe and Asia, and is a graduate of Charles Sturt University (Wiradjuri country) and Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (Paris). Cormick's varied practice has also included previous work co-founding Australian interdisciplinary art-science group Last Man To Die, as one half of Parisian cirque-cabaret duo Les Douleurs Exquises, and as a mask artist in France (apprenticing under Stefano Perocco di Meduna) and Indonesia (mentored by Ida Bagus Anom).
Cormick's recent artworks have featured at Sydney Festival (The Mermaid, 2020), Climate Change Theatre Action (Dream/Remember, 2021; Canary, 2019), and co-curating virtual festivals (Platform LIVE, 2020; I-Dance, 2020/22). Cormick is also currently an artist facilitator for Arts House's Makeshift Publics, and an Accessible Arts Next Level mentee with Sydney Theatre Company.
Cormick lives and plays on unceded Ngunnawal country.
