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Hannah Ireland, Stuck in the mud

Past exhibition
13 May - 5 June 2021
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Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington, Hannah Ireland

Several of Hannah Ireland's faces rebel against their supports, some are quiet and content, a few peer longingly out from the closed windows. Some do, in fact, stare from real window frames, taken from their original context and made into art objects

Hannah Ireland makes faces. As children, we liked making faces too. Although we were told to be careful with the habit, because, if the wind changed, the face would stick! As a cultural value not pulling faces is pretty boring. It doesn’t seem to serve much of a purpose beyond encouraging decorum and conformity. What is interesting, however, is the idea that in transgressing this norm we risk invoking terrible consequences — that there’s a serious cost to letting a cool face slip. In the world of this idiom, Ireland is the wind. Her painting and sculpture freeze the faces that have let loose their tight compositions and become something else, if just for a moment.

Ireland works on glass. She makes faces that emerge from watercolour washes and impasto smudges and smears. They’re made to be viewed from the reverse — portraits declared in a half-turn. Several of the faces rebel against their supports, some are quiet and content, a few peer longingly out from the closed windows. Some do, in fact, stare from real window frames, taken from their original context and made into art objects.

Within her portraits are the exaggerated flourishes of an eyelash, glasses, lipstick, tinted brows, the beads of a necklace, the patterns of a shirt. They are emotive — sad, hurt and confused or confident, aloof, questioning. Ireland’s artworks consider how we construct, revise and reassemble our images to suit different needs, different contexts, different people.

Hannah Ireland is an emerging artist from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (NZ) and is of Māori and Pakeha descent. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland. Ireland recently won the Supreme award at the Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards in Whakatane and is a finalist in the inaugural King Tūheitia Portraiture Award at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery.

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Hannah Ireland
Stuck in the mud, 2021
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Works
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Hannah Ireland
    Hannah Ireland, Hannah Ireland, Tell me about it, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Hannah Ireland
    Hannah Ireland, Something about the way I felt when I woke up, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Hannah Ireland
    Hannah Ireland, Hoping the reflection will tell me something, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Hannah Ireland
    Hannah Ireland, If only, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Hannah Ireland
    Hannah Ireland, I don’t believe I know you, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Hannah Ireland
    Hannah Ireland, In a thread of bubbles, 2021
  • Hannah Ireland, Scratch bite, 2021
    Hannah Ireland, Scratch bite, 2021
  • Hannah Ireland, Sneak peek, 2021
    Hannah Ireland, Sneak peek, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Hannah Ireland
    Hannah Ireland, Left me low in the car park with my high heels, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Hannah Ireland
    Hannah Ireland, Pretend it makes sense, 2021
  • Hannah Ireland, Sad, 2021
    Hannah Ireland, Sad, 2021
  • Jhana Millers Art Gallery Wellington Hannah Ireland
    Hannah Ireland, Spliced Silence, 2021
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