Irene Hanenbergh was born in The Netherlands. Until 1998 she lived between The Netherlands, Athens and London where she completed a BA (Hons) in Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Minerva, The Netherlands, a BA (Hons) in Printmaking at the Athens School of Fine Art and a Post Graduate in Printmaking at The Royal College of Art, London.
She currently works in Melbourne and recently completed a Master of Fine Arts by research at the Victorian College of the Arts and Music. In 2008-2009 she spent considerable time on artist residencies in the USA (NYC) and in Europe.

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