Hannah Ireland Biography

Hannah Ireland (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) is a contemporary artist, born in 1995 and lives in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.

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Hannah is a portraitist in a very loose sense of the word. Her work bears the hallmarks of the genre in that they hint at personhood and individual character. The spacing of features such as eyes, lips, and nose are roughly around where they should be. Or just enough for them to be read as faces. Figures don devilish smirks, exaggerated black eyelashes or smushed-to-the-photocopier type noses. In this way, Hannah is simultaneously evasive and generous with the information she decides to dole out. It's evasive as you're not ever really afforded certainty at what you're looking at, but it's generous in that I don't think certainty is the point. The open-endedness of it all allows the viewer their own interpretation.

Part of the murkiness of Hannah's painterly information lies in the process itself. A key component of the artist's practice is a method of painting on glass, sometimes on found or abandoned windows. This format calls for a painting in reverse. Whereas building pigment up on canvas or some other opaque surface means the foreground is often painted last, painting on glass means the initial brush strokes appear first and the background is built up in layers behind it. With Hannah's work on canvas, she first uses her familiar glass painting technique to build up paint and composition which in turn is pressed or printed onto another surface. From there, she works and reworks into the image. This multi-step process allows the potential for abstraction, ambiguity and spontaneity with the resulting portraits embodying a vagueness that encourages speculative analysis.

Text courtesy Jhana Millers.

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PLATTER PLATE (PRINT) by Hannah Ireland contemporary artwork print
Hannah Ireland PLATTER PLATE (PRINT), 2021 Digital print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag
40 x 31.6 cm
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Birds Flying Low by Hannah Ireland contemporary artwork painting
Hannah Ireland Birds Flying Low, 2024 Flashe and acrylic on (stitched) canvas
162 x 110 cm
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Where The Water Bends by Hannah Ireland contemporary artwork painting
Hannah Ireland Where The Water Bends, 2023 Oil paint on (stitched) canvas
130 x 120 cm
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Back To Sea by Hannah Ireland contemporary artwork painting
Hannah Ireland Back To Sea, 2024 Flashe and acrylic on (stitched) canvas
140 x 130 cm
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Thistle Blur by Hannah Ireland contemporary artwork painting
Hannah Ireland Thistle Blur, 2023 Fabric dye on silk over painted frame
50.3 x 45.5 cm
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Who Wants To Be Just An Idea? by Hannah Ireland contemporary artwork painting
Hannah Ireland Who Wants To Be Just An Idea?, 2023 Fabric dye on silk over painted frame
50.3 x 45.5 cm
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Where Ever You're Going, I'm Going That Way Too by Hannah Ireland contemporary artwork painting
Hannah Ireland Where Ever You're Going, I'm Going That Way Too, 2023 Fabric dye on silk over painted frame
50.3 x 45.5 cm
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Concrete Coloured Skies by Hannah Ireland contemporary artwork painting
Hannah Ireland Concrete Coloured Skies, 2023 Fabric dye on silk over painted frame
50.3 x 45.5 cm
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