Bio & CV
Hannah McGrenera is a multidisciplinary artist born in Taiwan and living in Ireland since 1994. She graduated from Crawford College of Art & Design in 2005 with an honours degree in Fine Art Sculpture. Her degree show brought together 24 free-hand line drawings and 48 cement floor tiles cast from everyday objects, an early expression of her interest in the ordinary, the repeated and the overlooked.
Her practice has developed across sculpture, drawing, printmaking, Chinese ink painting and metalwork. In 2019, she began working professionally in sterling silver, creating jewellery and miniature sculptural works. Conceived as small-scale sculptures, these pieces continued her interest in form, material and making at a more intimate scale.
Alongside this, McGrenera has continued to develop her drawing and fine art practice. Her current work marks a renewed focus on paper-based processes, including Chinese ink, drawing and printmaking from metal plates, while exploring the connections between paper and metal. She is also returning to large-scale welded metalwork, experimenting with scale and making small, ordinary things larger than life.
Her work draws on her Taiwanese heritage and her lived experience in Ireland, with an interest in identity, belonging, domestic life and the everyday. As she explores different materials and processes, her practice has become increasingly self-reflective, considering the search for balance between her life as a mother, artist and carer. Repeated gestures, familiar environments and ordinary rituals become ways of looking inward, while also examining wider ideas of home, identity and belonging.
Education & Training
2026 Cork Printmakers Printmaking Year Long Course
2019-2020 St John’s Central College ETB, Cork Jewellery / Metalwork
2004-2005 Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. Higher Diploma in Research
2003-2004 CSN College of Further Education, Cork. Arts Administration
1999-2003 Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. BA Honours Degree in Fine Art Sculpture
Awards, Training & Membership
2026 – Memeber of The National Sculpture Factory & Backwater Artist Group
2026 – Winner of Future Makers Award with Design Council of Craft Ireland exhibition support
2026 - Member of Visual Artist Ireland; Irish Jewellers & Silversmith Guild & Cork Arts Society
2026 - Winner of Jewellery Category in Showcase Ireland
2025 – Finalist for Made in Ireland Award by Irish Country Magazine.
2024 - Shortlisted for Future Maker from Design & Craft Council of Ireland
2024 - Finalist for The Edit with Local Enterprise Office Award at Showcase RDS
2024 - Member of Council of Irish Fashion Designers
2020 - Winner of Emerge Award
2020 – Member of Design Craft Council of Ireland & Cork Craft and Design
Selected Exhibitons
October 2026 – 'Making Home' solo exhibition, Blackpool Library Cork
September 2026 – Cork City Council ‘Culture Night’– Blackpool Library Event
August 2026 – ‘Crafting Legacy’ Cork Craft and Design Member’s Exhibition for August Craft Month
July 2026 – Ironbridge Fine Art group exhibition and print competition finalist – United Kingdom June 2026 – Botanical & Floral Art Group Exhibition at Bloom Bord Bia Dublin, Ireland.
December 2025 – Group winter exhibition at the LHQ gallery by Cork County Council Arts Office
August – October 2024 ‘Past Present Future’ group exhibition at The National Design & Craft Centre Kilkenny
September 2024 - ‘Conversation with Jewellery’ group exhibition at The Hunt Museum Limerick
August 2024 - ‘Reverie’ group exhibition at The Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork
May 2024 - STAMP Arts Festival exhibition at The Triskel Arts Centre Cork
August 2023 - ‘Interwoven’ group exhibition at The Kinsale Library
May 2023 - STAMP Arts Festival exhibition at The Counting House, Cork
August 2020 - ‘Emerge’ exhibition at MTU Gallery 46 Cork
June 2004 - Graduation Exhibition at Crawford College of Art & Design Cork