Link to MFA Thesis: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14XLS4t1xCn1q2Uvdze-b7Qm3CLdoW22euyrjhyyPUQs/edit?usp=sharing

Hannah Bull is a Houston-based interdisciplinary artist, muralist, feminist, and MFA candidate in the Interdisciplinary Practice & Emerging Forms (IPEF) program at the University of Houston, with an emphasis in Social Practice and Ecology. Her work is rooted in animacy—the belief that all matter is alive—and explores reciprocity, decomposition, and rewilding as ethical and aesthetic frameworks for living alongside the more-than-human world.

Bull’s practice spans large-scale public murals, immersive installations, ritual-based performances, and community-centered projects. She approaches walls not as inert surfaces but as porous, breathing entities that hold memory, ecology, and collective experience. Drawing from Indigenous cosmologies, new materialist philosophy, and ecological theory, her work seeks to de-hierarchize humans from animals, plants, and landscapes while challenging systems of patriarchy, human supremacy, and extractive capitalism. Recurring motifs—animals, bayous, fruit, fungal forms, and her signature “Floral Drip” and “Glitch” styles—serve as visual metaphors for interdependence and transformation.

Central to Bull’s practice are participatory rituals such as Road Kill Funeral, in which found animal remains are honored through altars, song, and communal gathering, reframing death as a site of gratitude, pedagogy, and ecological continuity rather than erasure. These works position care, mourning, and celebration as feminist acts of resistance.

Before focusing fully on her studio practice, Bull worked as a high school art teacher, event planner and producer, a background that continues to inform her socially engaged methodology. Her work activates public space as a site of ceremony, accessibility, and collective care. Bull considers herself a public servant, committed to art as a tool for healing, ecological stewardship, and collective imagination.