Hannah Ireland
Hannah Ireland’s gestural and expressionist paintings hint at personhood and individual character. Figures don devilish smirks, exaggerated black eyelashes, or smushed-to-the-photocopier type noses.
Hannah Ireland (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) is a contemporary artist, born in 1995 and lives in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland
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.
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A Place We Can Go, 2024View more details
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Back To Sea, 2024View more details
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Birds Flying Low, 2024View more details
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Coloured Lines, 2024View more details
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Float Here for a While, 2024View more details
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Furiously Skimming, 2024View more details
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Hearts on Tables, 2024View more details
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Magic Markers, 2024View more details
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Somewhere New, Somewhere Old : Can You Hear Me Calling, 2024View more details
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The Sun as It’s Supposed To Be, 2024View more details
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Up on the Mountain, 2024View more details
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(All Those) Tears Into Solid Gold, 2023View more details
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(You) My Willing Accomplice, 2023View more details
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A New Line Half Way Through, 2023View more details
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Anymore, Any More, anymore, 2023View more details
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Apart, 2023View more details
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Can’t Find Words Like You, 2023View more details
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Chocolate Covered Hills, 2023View more details
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Clock Work, 2023View more details
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Concrete Coloured Skies, 2023View more details
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Crossed My Heart as You Crossed the Line, 2023View more details
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Don’t Really Know, 2023View more details
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Fingers Bleed in Sodden Ground, 2023View more details
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Heated : Hall : Ways, 2023View more details
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Hung a Cigarette Between Your Purple Lips : Vanishing Humour, 2023View more details
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Impartial Summer, 2023View more details
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Insecure Rhinestones, 2023View more details
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Maybe You’re Lonely, Maybe It’s True, 2023View more details
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No Face, No Case, 2023View more details
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Offer My Chin, Blossoms Akin, 2023View more details
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Or Just Less Found, 2023View more details
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Plex: Recall Hour, 2023View more details
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Somebody Else, 2023View more details
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Something Inbetween Those Dilated Eyes, 2023View more details
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Spinal Tap, 2023View more details
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Squashed Corridors and Pick up Sticks, 2023View more details
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Stab in the Dark, 2023View more details
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Stuck In A Pattern, 2023View more details
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Thistle Blur, 2023View more details
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Three Carriage Train, 2023View more details
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Waving at Taxis with Their Lights Off, 2023View more details
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We Got Carried Away, 2023View more details
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Where Ever You’re Going, I’m Going That Way Too, 2023View more details
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Where The Water Bends, 2023View more details
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Who Wants to Be Just an Idea?, 2023View more details
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At the Risk of Being Crude, 2022View more details
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Do I Repulse You With My Queasy Smile, 2022View more details
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Drawn Curtains, 2022View more details
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Habit To Intrude, 2022View more details
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Hiding Out Beneath the Table, 2022View more details
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I Don't Wanna Talk I'm Dancing, 2022View more details
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I've Been Waiting For You, 2022View more details
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If Threes a Crowd, One Slipped Away, 2022View more details
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Pardon My Manners, 2022View more details
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Public Parking, 2022View more details
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Send My Love, 2022View more details
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Traveling Cars, 2022View more details
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We All Fall Down, 2022View more details
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You Don't Know My Name, 2022View more details
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Airport Kindness, 2021View more details
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Every Body, 2021View more details
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Falling Water, 2021View more details
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Gave Me No Flowers, 2021View more details
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Hannah Ireland, Tell me about it, 2021View more details
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Hoping the reflection will tell me something, 2021View more details
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I don’t believe I know you, 2021View more details
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If only, 2021View more details
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In a thread of bubbles, 2021View more details
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Left me low in the car park with my high heels, 2021View more details
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More Space to Ourselves, 2021View more details
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Mum said I was supposed to be born a boy, named Aaron, I think about him sometimes and how life would be, 2021View more details
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Platter Plate (print), 2021View more details
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Pretend it makes sense, 2021View more details
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Refused a Head, 2021View more details
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Something about the way I felt when I woke up, 2021View more details
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Spliced Silence, 2021View more details
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Supposedly I’m unhappy now, 2021View more details
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Terrible timing, 2021View more details
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Wasting Time, Just a Little Bit, 2021View more details
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Cheeky Kiwifruit, 2020View more details
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Cry Me a River, 2020View more details
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The Concrete is Melting, 2020View more details
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You Choose, 2020View more details
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Editions
9 May - 1 Jun 2024Jhana Millers is pleased to present their first print exhibition featuring a group of represented artists.Read more -
Hannah Ireland, Tossing & Turning, Aotearoa Art Fair
18 - 21 Apr 2024Jhana Millers is please to present a solo body of works by Hannah Ireland (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) at the Aotearoa Art fair 2024.Read more -
Hannah Ireland, Running with Scissors
Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery 12 Aug - 12 Nov 2023Hannah Ireland, Running with Scissors at Te uru, Waitakere Contemporary GalleryRead more -
FIVE
7 - 29 Jul 2023Jhana Millers is pleased to present a group exhibition of work by the gallery's represented artists to celebrate the gallery's 5th anniversaryRead more -
Hannah Ireland, Wet Stairs
13 Apr - 6 May 2023Jhana Millers presents Wet Stairs by Hannah Ireland, a new body of paintings on translucent silk made with fabric dye.Read more -
Summer Selection
25 Jan - 11 Feb 2023Jhana Millers reopens for 2023 with a selection of works by gallery artists.Read more -
Hannah Ireland, It feels so good to be alive
26 May - 18 Jun 2022Jhana Millers Gallery is pleased to present It feels so good to be alive by Hannah IrelandRead more -
Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE
9 - 31 Jul 2021Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Hannah Ireland, Stuck in the mud
13 May - 5 Jun 2021Hannah Ireland, Stuck in the mud. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more
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Meet Hannah Ireland
The Artpaper, August 2, 2024 -
Portraits in Hamilton
Peter Dornauf, EyeContact, February 15, 2022 -
Hannah Ireland, Stuck In The Mud: Making Faces
Lachlan Taylor, Exhibition essay, May 13, 2021 -
Award winners announced for Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing 2021
The Big Idea, February 15, 2021 -
Award Winners - Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Painting and Drawing 2021
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Cheap wine
Window Gallery, June 1, 2020