Hannah Jane McGill - Songboxes

07/09/2025

Here are the songboxes, in no particular order...! Some of these I just made because I wanted to, some people commissioned. I am ENORMOUSLY BEYOND GRATEFUL to everyone who has bought these or brought them into being with me, because this world of tiny is my absolutely favourite place to spend time.

Christmas will be getting up in all our snouts soon, I am sorry but it will, so if you would like to give someone a totally unique one-off object paying tribute to their favourite song, this is the time to talk to me! Any song is eligible. I have also made boxes for people that are not exactly songs but more like private jokes, so I can do that for you too. All scaleable in terms of size and prices. Send a message if you would like to discuss a commission...

03/12/2024

I now have an Etsy shop where songboxes, postcards, creatures & baubles are available for sale. Gifts for everyone you know. As long as you don't know THAT many people & they all like zibbos.

The remaining songboxes are now discounted for the new year... and I am happily taking commissions including for Christmas.

Thank you for looking!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Songboxes?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0qbkfFwXb6qy611zqQrJm21kq5-tvBOLqDPeAhyyUuzy_CCDE3PW19RAc_aem_HBznFYXTHp-lOUXTcaxoOw

18/11/2024

A variation on a songbox... a phrase box. Phrasebook?? Anyway, lupus in fabula: the wolf in the story. A commission.

03/04/2024

Suzanne
mixed media 2024, £200

"Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her,
And you know that she's half crazy, but that's why you wanna to be there,
And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China,
And just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her,
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover..."

Leonard Cohen 1967

31/03/2024

24/03/2024

Straight to You

(mixed media 2024 £300)
..Gone are the days of rainbows
And gone are the nights of swinging from the stars
For the sea will swallow up the mountains
And the sky will throw thunder-bolts and sparks
Straight at you
But I'll come running
Straight to you
But I'll come running
One more time.

Heaven has denied us its kingdom,
The saints are drunk, and howling at the moon
The chariots of angels are colliding
Well, I'll run, babe - I'll come running
Straight to you
For I am captured
Straight to you
For I am captured
One more time.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, 1992

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mMWRdSaGz_E