Hannah-Clare de Gordun is an Irish self-taught, multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work explores identity, place and inheritance. Working primarily with ink, paper and textiles, she is interested in how memory and history are carried through both material and landscape.
Her recent body of work, Lomairín, features ink paintings inspired by tree rings — natural records of growth and time. The series developed following a period of somatic healing, which led her to reflect on the body as a site of stored experience. The works are created in a focused, meditative process using handmade paper dyed with natural pigments.
Her work has been exhibited at the National Botanic Gardens, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Temple Bar Gallery, Pallas Projects, the Museum of Literature Ireland, and has been featured in Holy Show, Photo Ireland and Porridge Magazine.
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Exhibitions
Holy Show: Life, Literature & Mischief
Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin
Nov 2024 - June 2025
Poetics of Space
97 Charlotte Street, London
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Holy Show
Pallas Projects, Dublin
Sept 2023
Earth Rising
IMMA, Dublin
Sept 2023
Sculpture in Context
National Botanic Gardens, Dublin
Sept 2023
Artist Talk
First Fridays, Museum of Literature, April 2025
Residencies
Cill Rialaig, January 2023
Mud Island, Aug - Oct 2022
Publications
Poetics of Space, 2024
Holy Show, 2023
Porridge Magazine, 2022
Workshops
Delivered as part of the IMMA & Lexicon Gallery programmes:
Colour Theory Part 1
Colour Theory Part 2
Introduction to Gouache Painting
Lino Printing
Lino Printing
Marble Printing
Introduction to Embroidery