Current Exhibition

Show me where it hurts | Hannah Doucet

Opening reception 6 – 9 pm, Thursday 9 April | All are welcome

Exhibition open to the public 10 April – 10 July 2026

Public workshop 11 am – 2 pm Friday 10 April in GBG

Click here for the exhibition essay.

The show is focused on the relationship between puppetry and spaces of pediatric illness. The installation brings together finger puppets, a larger-than-life children’s fold out puppet theater and a book of poetic scores for puppets plays, amongst other things…

–Hannah Doucet

In this vibrant installation of fabric flowers, fruits, and insect puppets, as well as a grand plush theatre, Hannah Doucet has taken the still life painting tradition as a starting point for thinking about self-awareness and agency in relation to illness and healthcare. Her creations have a bright simplicity and are funny and clever, their scale sometimes shrinking the viewer’s perspective to that of a kid’s, which is part of the point. Use of puppets in paediatric healthcare can help reduce anxiety and so make it easier for small patients to interact with their clinicians, a relationship Doucet is particularly interested in. With care and questioning, she highlights the inherent anarchy of illness and the dynamics that form around it.

W O R K S H O P

Finger Puppets to transport you to another world

Friday 10th April 11-2pm

Join Hannah Doucet to create finger puppets and paper collage backdrops that set the scene. Using sewn, iron-on applique and paper collage techniques we will create finger puppet characters and backdrops that transport the character out of the hospital and into another imaginative space. These can be used together to create short GIF-like videos which can be included into the exhibition at GBG. No sewing experience necessary. All are welcome!

*this promotional image is an image from Hannah Doucet’s exhibition of one of the included finger puppets sculptures, the finger puppets created within the workshop will be created out of fabric as well but will utilize different techniques.