BIO

Hannah Clark is a multidisciplinary artist based in Monkton, Vermont. She studied sculpture at Massachusetts College Art and Design in Boston, MA in 2016, where her work focused on furniture, food access, and public service, blending together in a performance of nourishment. Upon leaving school, she started to pursue the crafts of farming and butchery.

Hannah has worked as a whole animal butcher and cook since 2018. Her creative work has combined with her daily work in recent years, most often expressed in the medium of paint and printmaking.

Her current body of work explores slaughter as an act of tenderness. She seeks to show the beauty of the process through color and form language, showing the craft of pasture-to-table butchery through a female lens.

She has been awarded various residencies in printmaking, most recently attending New Hampshire’s Directangle Press residency and the Vermont Studio Center’s “Vermont Week” in 2026. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

The act of bringing livestock from the pasture to the table is one of great importance. I have the privilege to be a part of a transformation that so few ever involve themselves in.

Over time, I have heard many narratives about butchery: that it is violent; inhumane; disgusting; masculine– but my experience could not be farther from those things. To me, it is tender; kind; loving; and entirely feminine.

There is a serious and moral responsibility to this act– taking an animal’s life is never casual or rushed. Cutting a carcass is never mindless or unskilled. Giving honor to the life you’ve taken involves the utmost care. Nothing is wasted; nothing is taken for granted. 

My work hopes to invite a conversation of the possibility for beauty in the grotesque: I have sought to bring form to the tucked away and oft-maligned practice of livestock slaughter and butchery through the lens with which I see it. 

With stacked layers of repetition, bold color, and clean containment, these pieces pay homage to the process which inspired them, and the true beauty and importance that such a process represents.