“In her formidable repertoire of photographic project made over the past 10 years or so, Hackett, who had previously trained as a psychologist, has been consistently drawn to environments that are con­trived, or odd or uneasy, in ways revealing of human life and relations: artificially maintained lawns, embassies, the shifting ground of Southern California along the fault line, the law courts, a hotel that was also a film set, the sleeping city at night. It amounts to a rich, expansive body of work.”

— The Irish Times, 7th March 2017