by hannah mcgrenera BA
Hand-pulled screenprint on paper
h: 21 w: 30 d: 1 (cms).
While I explore the heart of the home and its kitchen and people that you are feeding on daily basis, I was particular drawn to the tea towel. Always within reach, it passes from hand to hand, thrown over the shoulder, used without thought. It holds the rhythm of daily life: drying, lifting, wiping, moving quietly through every task. Layered within the print are patterns of vintage, expensive china—the “good” china—now transferred onto the surface of the tea towel. What was once kept for best is brought into the everyday, softened, handled, and made useful. In this shift, the work reflects how value changes through use. The divide between the “good” room and the working kitchen begins to blur, where care and ritual are no longer reserved for special occasions, but live within the ordinary, repeated gestures of home.
£285 (As exhibited.)
£285
(Unframed print.)
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by hannah mcgrenera BA
Hand-pulled screenprint on paper
h: 30 w: 21 d: 1 (cms).
'Making Home' series began as a private act of coping and to ground an overwhelmed self. Originally from Taiwan and moved to Ireland in 1994, I was fascinated with the new environment around me, adapting the Irish way, phrases said and people’s habits. Over the years, I question what is the connection between the physical home, surrounding and human lives in it? What makes a home and exploring all domestic ritual that shapes a home. This piece rooted from holding space for a friendly neighbour to a cup of tea and chats and offering of the known ‘good biscuits’’. Connecting families during festive season - receiving one good tin of biscuit and ‘knowing the rule’ of you are not allowed to go down to second layer till the top one is gone, and all the commotion that surround a small tin of ‘gratitude’. Every family, every person has their story to their ‘good biscuit’ – this work is to encourage viewer to draw on their own experience and a trip down the memory lane. To be a child again an
£260 (As exhibited.)
£260
(Unframed print.)
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by hannah mcgrenera BA
Hand-pulled screenprint on paper
h: 21 w: 30 d: 1 (cms).
This work is part of my Making Home Series and exploring on the phrases I have learned moving to Ireland from Taiwan. A quiet play on the saying “the cat is out of the bag,” this work draws from a small moment with my own cat as a kitten—curious, half-hidden, and entirely absorbed in a Penney’s shopping bag. What began as an everyday domestic scene becomes a reflection on ritual, humour, and Irish slang woven into daily life. The bag becomes a stage, a container of movement and mischief, where secrecy is undone not dramatically, but gently—through play. In this moment, the ordinary turns symbolic: curiosity escapes its boundaries, and nothing remains quite contained.
£220 (As exhibited.)
£220
(Unframed print.)
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