Hannah Ireland
Hannah Ireland (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi, b.1995) is a contemporary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.
Her practice is rooted in psychological observation, relational experience, and the subtle intricacies of everyday life. Working primarily through painting and drawing, Ireland creates expressionistic portraits and abstracted forms that engage with whakapapa, cultural memory, and the emotional landscapes of lived experience. These elements often emerge as intuitive impressions reflecting the harmonies and frictions of being in relation: to people, place, time, and history.
At the heart of her work is a negotiation between visibility and concealment, control and instinct. Figures develop through layering, reworking, and disruption, resulting in images that feel both intentional and provisional. Some are boldly reductive, others barely there; some solitary, others leaning toward each other in quiet, tender ways.
Ireland works across a wide variety of surfaces and mediums, embracing improvisation and material responsiveness. This approach allows for distortion, fragmentation, and uncertainty, producing figures that hover between clarity and ambiguity—half-formed, smudged, and suggestive. Ambiguity remains central to her work, inviting viewers to interpret, project, and reassemble meaning within the layered, tactile space of her paintings.
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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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Hannah Ireland
It feels so good to be alive
Jhana Millers Gallery
2022
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Plus 1
15 May - 7 Jun 2025Jhana Millers presents Plus 1, a group exhibition where a selection of gallery artists each invite a creative companion to exhibit alongside them.Read more -
Summer Selection – Portraits
29 Jan - 15 Feb 2025Read more -
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 -
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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Hannah Ireland: In the studio — An interview with Homestyle Magazine
Alice Lines, Homestyle Magazine, April 1, 2025 -
Meet Hannah Ireland
The Artpaper, August 2, 2024 -
Family Portraits
Ruth Minh, July 6, 2024 -
Tossing and Turning, Hannah Ireland
Zoe Black, Jhana Millers Gallery Aotearoa Art Fair, April 18, 2024 -
Hannah Ireland, Wet Stairs, A response
Delilah Te Aōrere Pārore-Southon, Jhana Millers Gallery, April 13, 2023 -
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
Molly Morpeth Canaday Award, February 14, 2021 -
Cheap wine
Window Gallery, June 1, 2020
