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Europe in The Heart of Ireland

We are delighted to work in partnership with the European Parliament and European Commission in Dublin, on the launch exhibition for the new Europa Gallery located at 11 Chatham Street in Dublin.



The Europa Gallery gallery is part of the new EU Parliament and Commission facilities located in the heart of Dublin. We were delighted to curate an open call for 100 artworks from all over Ireland, to mark the opening of this important new gallery.

The exhibition was opened on the evening of October 3rd, by Dr Abagail O’Brien, President, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Fionnuala Croker, Acting Head of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland and Martina Hamilton, Director of Hamilton Gallery also made short addresses.


Opening reception for Europe in the Heart of Ireland

Photos by Leonardo Ramos | leo@thekiwi.world

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Learn About The Exhibition
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Monday 10.14.24
Posted by Malcolm Hamilton
 

Culture Night 2024

Tide and Ties - Remembering the Spanish Armada

Meet the Artists / Poetry Readings


Hamilton Gallery, Sligo and Spanish Armada Ireland are hosting the first international Spanish Armada inspired visual art exhibition featuring artists from Spain, Norway, the UK and Ireland.

Aideen Connolly, Medbh Gillard, Martina Hamilton, Lisa Gingles, Unni Mona Kristoffersen, Xavi Muñoz and Emma Stroude, along with poets Malcolm Hamilton, Winifred McNulty and Seamus Connolly, have been exchanging ideas and creating work reflecting the connections between their countries through the Armada narrative.

On Culture Night, September 20th from 7pm - 9pm you can visit the exhibition and speak with the artists about the inspiration and their creative processes for the artwork on display. There will also be readings by 3 poets engaged in the project.


Aideen Connolly - Lies Beneath Acrylic 30x30cm

Lisa Gingles - "El Corazón Desarraigado"  (The Uprooted Heart) Pencil drawing on old book cover and mounted on wood 25.5 x 14 x 4cm


In Omós Do Francisco

Scroíbh le Seamus Connolly | Ceol “Dunes” le Chequerboard | Scannánú le A&E Creative


Medbh Gillard - No Tengo Mas Qve Dar Te (I have nothing more to give you) Mixed media on circular birch panel Dia. 40cm

Emma Stroude - 'May Wreath' (In Remembrance of the Armada at Streedagh) Oil on canvas 30cm x 40cm 2024


September Streedagh

Poet Winifred McNulty reads one of her her new poems written for Tide and Ties - Remembering the Spanish Armada at the opening of the exhibition on September 7th 32024.


Sea Whistle XAVI MUÑOZ - Bronze

Unni Mona Kristoffersen - Shoe Tells Stories 40x27 HxWcm (Image Size)
Acrylic on Paper 2024 Frame - Reclaimed Norwegian Timber

Martina Hamilton - Savage Shore Oil on canvas 36cm X 45cm Image Size


Arlo

(After Spanish Armada ship wreckage at Streedagh County Sligo )

Written for the Tide and Ties Exhibition and read by Malcolm Hamilton for Culture Night 2024 at Hamilton Gallery


Wednesday 09.18.24
Posted by Malcolm Hamilton
 

Lapis Lazuli opens in Beijing | Cairde Visual to open on July 6th

Lapis Lazuli featuring work by 22 Irish Artists opens in Beijing

Image: Emma Stroude - Each Day As It Comes oil on canvas 40cm x 30cm 2023


Lapis Lazuli Contributing Artists

Daniel Chester, Tom Client, Gerry Davis, Joe Dunne, Susan Dubsky, Diarmuid Delargy, Medbh Gillard, Graham Gingles, Martina Hamilton, Bríd Higgins Ní Chinnéide, Brian McDonagh, Nick Miller, Gwen O’Dowd, Donncadh O’Callaghan, Sorca O’Farrell, Cormac O’Leary, Geraldine O’Reilly, Janet Pierce, Sarah Quick, Una Sealy, Emma Stroude, Tracy Sweeney.


Choi Centre Poster Image uses Lapis Lazuli Mountain by Una Sealy oil on linen 50cm x 40cm 2023

On June 13th Choi Centre Cloud House, Beijing, and the Embassy of Ireland in China celebrated #YeatsDay, the birthday of poet W.B. Yeats with the opening of the "W.B.Yeats: Lapis Lazuli" Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Hamilton Gallery from Sligo.

Commemorating the 45th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Ireland and China, Lapis Lazuli was opened by her Excellency Dr. Ann Derwin, Ambassador of Ireland to China. Acting Director of Choi Centre Cloud House Cher Wang, and Martina Hamilton, director of Hamilton Gallery, Sligo also addressed those in attendance for the event.

The exhibition features new paintings by 22 contemporary Irish artists. The artists created paintings paying homage to the iconic Yeats poem “Lapis Lazuli” which was in turn inspired by Chinese Qianlong-era lapis lazuli carving gifted to Yeats in 1935,

The individual works in the exhibition reflect powerfully upon the theme of the poem, which discusses the power of art to transcend cultures and generations, to connect hearts and minds. The exhibition itself was an embodiment of the theme , where a sculpture created by an unknown Chinese artist almost 300 years ago, had inspired W B Yeats to create one of his most powerful literary works, a poem which had in turn brought the work of 22 Irish artists back to China, where the original sculpture was created.

"Lapis Lazuli" is one of Yeats' later poems. In July 1935, Yeats' friend Harry Clifton gave him a Qianlong-era Chinese lapis lazuli carving as a gift for his 70th birthday, and Yeats wrote this poem in return. The figures and temple path mentioned in the poem are images from the carving. Yeats believed that art is not equivalent to reality; art has its intrinsic value. He thought that specific works of art and civilizations may perish, but that creativity, the act of artistic creation would also cycle and renew, endlessly. Through the detailed depiction of the carving, Yeats revealed the ancient Chinese people's philosophical attitude toward tragedy.



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LAPIS LAZULI FULL EXHIBITION

Cairde Visual 2024 opens at Hamilton Gallery on July 6th


Following the completion of two stunning solo exhibitions “Area C” by Eileen Ferguson and “Headspace” by Neal Greig, Hamilton Gallery will be dark from Saturday June 29th until Saturday July 6th as we prepare to host Cairde Visual 2024.

Now in its 9th edition, this dynamic and vibrant open exhibition will feature a range of work from both Irish and international artists across all media. Cairde Visual is an artist-led initiative which has been founded and facilitated by Sligo-based artists.

Cairde Arts Festival and Hamilton Gallery wishes to thank and acknowledge this years selection panel, Emma Stroude, Michael Wann and Steve Wickham. We wish also to acknowledge the outgoing selection committee: Barra Cassidy, Cormac O’Leary, Marilin North, Lorna Watkins and Heidi Wickham

Two significant annual awards are associated with Cairde Visual:

Hamilton Gallery: Solo or duo exhibition

The Model: Artist Residency Award

The official opening reception for Cairde Visual takes place at The Model Arts Centre on July 6th at 4pm.

Cairde Visual will be open at Hamilton Gallery daily from 10am - 5pm excluding Sundays.


Friday 06.28.24
Posted by Malcolm Hamilton
 

A busy and exciting few months ahead at Hamilton Gallery

Solo exhibitions by Eileen Ferguson and Neal Greig continue for May and June.

In partnership with the European Parliament Liaison Office Dublin we have launched the submission portal for Europe in the Heart of Ireland.

In July we are looking forward to hosting Cairde Visual 2024.

"Lapis Lazuli" Paintings by 22 artists themed on the iconic poem by W B Yeats to open in Beijing for June 13th / Yeats Day.

And ... What will you read? We are after your #YeatsDay contributions on June 13th


Now On

Make sure you don’t miss these stunning solo exhibitions by Eileen Ferguson and Neal Greig, running until June 28th


 We announce an exciting Open Call to artists to submit work for the new Europa Gallery opening exhibition in Dublin

Europe in the Heart of Ireland 

The Open Call submission portal is now open 


Hamilton Gallery in partnership with the European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland cordially invites submissions for Europe in the Heart of Ireland, an exhibition of new art works to launch the Europa Gallery exhibition space at the new European Parliament Liaison Office & European Commission Representation in Ireland in Chatham Street Dublin.

It is intended the exhibition will provide an insightful demonstration of artistic voices, techniques and preoccupations extant across Ireland at the time of the Europa Gallery opening. Accordingly theme / subject matter for submitted works is at the discretion of the artist.

Europe in the Heart of Ireland will take place at The Europa Experience Visitor Centre in October and November and subsequently at Hamilton Gallery Sligo. It is possible the exhibition will be shown as part of the Europe House cultural programme in other national and international venues TBC.

Learn more

Welcome to Cairde Visual 2024

We are delighted to host Cairde Visual in July for a 3rd consecutive year. Cairde Visual is one of the leading open submission events in the visual arts calendar in Ireland.

We look forward to welcoming all the participating artists and the Cairde Sligo Arts Festival team back to the gallery in July for an event that transforms our gallery space.


We're getting very poetic again this year 

#YeatsDay

 
Friends and followers you are all cordially invited to join in the #YeatsDay 2024 social media celebration. We support and help organise this event each year for the Yeats Society. It's a load of fun and gets people creatively sharing their favourite lines of poetry across all social media wherever they are in the world on June 13th.

What will you read?


Lapis Lazuli

While we are on the subject of W B Yeats we are delighted to let you know that our invited artists exhibition "Lapis Lazuli", themed on Yeats' iconic poem about art, and featuring new paintings from 22 Irish artists will open in Beijing as part of the annual worldwide Yeats Day celebrations on June 13th.

The link shared here is to a short film we've produced made to mark the opening of the exhibition in China, showing many of the art works with readings of Lapis Lazuli in both English and Chinese.  More information to follow in the weeks ahead on our website blog page


Wednesday 05.22.24
Posted by Malcolm Hamilton
 
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