Summer Gathering opens July 25th and EU Presidency Launch

Our inaugural Summer Gathering Invited Artists Exhibition opens on July Saturday 25th 2025 at 3pm.

We are delighted that a long standing friend of the Gallery, Rhona McGrath, the current Arts Officer with Roscommon County Council will open the exhibition.

For over 13 years the Hamilton Gallery’s Winter Gathering season has been one of our programme highlights. Summer Gathering will build on the appeal of that seasonal invited artist format.

The exhibiting artists are Fiona Carswell, Orla de Brí, Seamus Gill, Jane Murtagh, and Sorca O’Farrell.

2026 Summer Gathering

Jane Murtagh - Ethereal (Moss)

Seamus Gill - Rocking Wave 1

Fiona Carswell-Sown

Orla de Brí - Supporting a Lemon Tree

Sorca O'Farrell - Seven Sisters

Carrying The Songs
Irish EU Presidency Launch | The Hague | July 7th 2026

Ireland's Ambassador to The Netherlands Dr Ann Derwin hosted the opening event of the Irish Presidency of The Council of the European Union at Pulchri Studio, The Hague.

The EU Presidency launch coincided with 'Carrying The Songs', an exhibition of 288 art works by Irish and Dutch artists, themed on the poetry of Moya Cannon, developed as a collaboration between the Embassy, Hamilton Gallery and Pulchri Studio. It followed the launch of the exhibition three days earlier on July 4th.

We’re delighted to include the photo essay by Studio Dijkgraaf of this very special day for over 200 artists who took part in this project.

PHOTOS: https://www.studiodijkgraaf.nl/

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Carrying The Songs Exhibition

Carrying The Songs PDF Catalogue

We are pleased to announce

Carrying the Songs

will open in Hamilton Gallery on Saturday October 3rd

Opening Reception at 3pm

Our guest speaker will be

Moya Cannon

author of Carrying The Songs

July 4th was...well...kinda busy.

Stick with us for the dates here….

On Saturday June 27th our gallery - together with Hyde Bridge Gallery - welcomed in all the art works selected for Cairde Visual 2026. The art arrived just as the curtain came down on Root Fall, a stunning first solo exhibition by Marita O’Hanlon. Marita was of course the winner of last years Cairde Visual - Hamilton Gallery award, so her solo exhibition was the perfect way to precede Cairde Visual 2026.

The Cairde Visual selection committee was on hand to accept deliveries and it has always been one of the most exciting and memorable days in our calendar each year, as artists arrive from all over Ireland with their work, and Cairde Visual gets unwrapped.

Cairde Visual | Hamilton Gallery Award Winner 2026

Our heartfelt congratulations to **Lorraine Lawlor** winner of the Cairde Visual | Hamilton Gallery award 2026.
The award was Presented by Mayor of Sligo Borough Cllr Gino O’Boyle
Our sincere thanks to the new manager of The Cat and The Moon, Katie Clinton, who represented Hamilton Gallery as Martina was at the launch of Carrying The Songs in the Hague

With the gallery closing at 5pm our team set about the initial placement and we then spent Sunday and Monday hanging the exhibition in full. A working weekend was necessary because on Tuesday morning we were in the Hague, setting out 288 paintings with the technical crew of Pulchri Studio for Carrying The Songs.

Sligo Artist Selected for Carrying the Songs Poster

We were delighted when the graphics team at Pulchri Studio picked an artwork by Sligo Artist Rachel Martin titled Dóibh Siúd Gan Spúnóg for their publicity profiling in The Hague, from among 288 original artworks.
Rachel had her first solo exhibition with us earlier this year following her graduation from TUS Limerick College of Art and Design last year which made it a double celebration.

Carrying the Songs is a partnership between Embassy of Ireland, The Netherlands, Hamilton Gallery and Pulchri Studio, The Hague.

In February we invited submissions for the exhibition of new paintings from artists, resident either on the island of Ireland or in The Netherlands. Submissions were to be themed on Carrying the Songs a poem by Irish poet Moya Cannon. The poem is a prescient meditation on how music and song can be one of very few things people bring with them when forced from their homes, or to abandon their native country.

As events would have it both Cairde Visual and Carrying the Songs opened opened simultaneously on July 4th.

Cairde Visual Opens, Sligo City Hall July 4th

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So…you could say it’s been a busy busy time.

It was certainly a momentous day and we’d like to acknowledge how privileged we feel for the Gallery to have been involved with so many artists here in Ireland and in The Netherlands on these wonderful projects.

Our gratitude goes out to ALL artists who have appeared in both these exhibitions, for your patience, positivity and partnership. A truly special thanks to 64 Irish artists, their relatives and friends who travelled to The Hague for the opening of Carrying the Songs, to Ambassador Ann Derwin and her absolutely amazing team at Embassy of Ireland The Hague, to poet Moya Cannon for agreeing to allow her poem to be the inspiration for that event, to equally amazing committee working on Cairde Visual 2026, and to our friends and colleagues at Pulchri Studio.

Carrying the Songs Opens, Pulchri Studio The Hague

Root Fall. Marita O'Hanlon opening at Hamilton Gallery

On June 6th we were particularly delighted to open Root Fall the first solo exhibition by Sligo Artist Marita O’Hanlon. The exhibion follows on from Martia receiving the Cairde Visual - Hamilton Gallery Award last year.

Opened by artist Emma Stroude, Root Fall presents a series of oil paintings that explore landscape as a living surface shaped by movement, boundary, and transformation. Working from time spent exploring the landscape, painting is approached as a process of mapping, piecing together fragments of terrain, movement, and lived experience into layered compositions that balance fluidity with tension.

The exhibition draws viewers into densely layered visual fields and closely observed environments where patterns, textures, and shifting structures unfold across the painted surface. Shorelines, tangled undergrowth, rock formations, and unstable ground become sites of both tension and comfort, slowing the viewer’s gaze and encouraging sustained attention.

These landscapes are not presented as distant views, but as intimate encounters with environments shaped through proximity and duration. Through layered compositions and intricate surfaces, Root Fall reflects on the trans-formative and restorative potential found in natural spaces, where erosion, growth, and memory are connected.

The Sea, The Sea. Rachel Martin opening at Hamilton Gallery

Proud Moment. Artist Rachel Martin with her mother Alaine Murray at the opening of The Sea, The Sea on Saturday Feb7th.

It was a stunning celebration on so many different levels.

A gifted Sligo artist opening her first solo show; a celebration of a new artists unique voice, one formed and shaped by Sligo’s maritime environment; an exquisite collection of masterful collagraph, cyanotype and aquatint print works; a communal recognition of artistic accomplishment and celebration of a powerful new and evocative creative voice…and so much more.

Martin, Rachel - The Metal Man' Edition of 5 Framed Material: Cyanotype on BFK paper Framed/ UV protected, non-reflective glass Dimensions: 51 × 31cm Year: 2026

Rachel and Dylan with their parents David and Alaine

Martin, Rachel - A Sight to Sea' Edition of 5 Framed Material: Cyanotype on BFK paper Framed/ UV protected, non-reflective glass Dimensions: 19 × 29cm Year: 2026

The Sea, The Sea, an exhibition of print work's by Rachel Martin opened to a packed-out Hamilton Gallery on Saturday afternoon. This is the Sligo artists first solo show having graduated from TUS Limerick College of Art and Design last year.