Hannah-Lee Jade Turner, born in Tāmaki Makaurau, is a textile artist and designer working across fashion, set design, and material innovation. She began her career in Aotearoa, founding a boutique that shaped her understanding of fashion systems and material cycles.

Turner later spent five years in Berlin, expanding her practice through international collaboration. She worked with Ottolinger for New York Fashion Week and contributed to projects at Tomás Saraceno’s studio, including Art Basel Miami and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. At the same time, she ran her own Berlin shop, designing garments for the dance and techno community from deadstock fabrics—her mesh tops becoming scene staples.

On returning to Aotearoa, Turner turned her focus to textile waste and innovation. With support from a master’s scholarship at AUT’s textile lab, she developed Slow Mesh: a merino knit structure reimagining Berlin’s synthetic mesh through natural fibres and knit technology. The result is a sustainable, breathable, and body-conscious garment system.

Her current work investigates post-consumer textiles as feedstock for fashion and installation, experimenting with fungi and microorganisms to form biomaterial-based sculptures, lamps, and interiors. Embracing wabi-sabi principles, Turner’s practice celebrates imperfection, resource connection, and nature’s balance.