Explore the playful side of painting and join artist Hannah Ireland for this experimental painting workshop. Using Perspex as your canvas, Hannah will guide you through making your own self-portrait, taking inspiration from her contemporary approach to painting which embraces gesture, humour and spontaneity.
Suitable for all ages, spaces are limited so registrations are required. All materials provided.
Registrations open 17 August.
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.
Image: Running with Scissors Public Programme, Te Uru, 2023, image courtesy of Te Uru.
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