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Hannah Ireland, It feels so good to be alive

Past exhibition
26 May - 18 June 2022
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Hannah Ireland exhibition

Peering into the home of someone else, to find that you have the same shade of lilac on your bedroom curtains.

Hannah’s gestural and expressionist portraits 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 in what you’re looking at, but it’s generous in that certainty isn’t 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 her 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 new works 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 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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Hannah Ireland
It feels so good to be alive
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Works
  • Hannah Ireland, At the Risk of Being Crude, 2022
    Hannah Ireland, At the Risk of Being Crude, 2022
  • Hannah Ireland, Habit To Intrude, 2022
    Hannah Ireland, Habit To Intrude, 2022
  • Hannah Ireland, Pardon My Manners, 2022
    Hannah Ireland, Pardon My Manners, 2022
  • Hannah Ireland, Public Parking, 2022
    Hannah Ireland, Public Parking, 2022
  • Hannah Ireland, Send My Love, 2022
    Hannah Ireland, Send My Love, 2022
  • Hannah Ireland, We All Fall Down, 2022
    Hannah Ireland, We All Fall Down, 2022
  • Hannah Ireland, You Don't Know My Name, 2022
    Hannah Ireland, You Don't Know My Name, 2022
  • Hannah Ireland, I Don't Wanna Talk I'm Dancing, 2022
    Hannah Ireland, I Don't Wanna Talk I'm Dancing, 2022
  • Hannah Ireland, Hiding Out Beneath the Table, 2022
    Hannah Ireland, Hiding Out Beneath the Table, 2022
  • Hannah Ireland, Drawn Curtains, 2022
    Hannah Ireland, Drawn Curtains, 2022
  • Hannah Ireland, Do I Repulse You With My Queasy Smile, 2022
    Hannah Ireland, Do I Repulse You With My Queasy Smile, 2022
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