We are delighted to announce that the Embassy of Ireland to China has opened the “W.B. Yeats: Ancestral Houses and Meditations” exhibition on the 19th September at the Centre for China Europe Cooperation in Chengdu, forming part of the Chengdu Ireland Week.
Tribes & Tribulations by Helen Merrigan-Colfer
Last Saturday we had the pleasure of opening Tribes & Tribulations, a new solo touring exhibition of sculptures and poetry by award winning artist Helen Merrigan Colfer.
Ancestral Houses Opening in Beijing
We are delighted to share a selection of photos from the opening reception of Ancestral Houses on June 13th, #YeatsDay, this week at LolliGo Art Space Beijing.
The opening celebration included poetry readings, a panel discussion and interactive children’s events.
On behalf of all participating artists and of all of us here at Hamilton Gallery we sincerely thank Ambassador of Ireland to China, Ann Derwin, and the incredible Irish Foreign Ministry staff at the Embassy of Ireland to China, for making this cultural event happen.
We also send our deepest thanks to Vincent Deng of VA Galleries who has curated the exhibition in LolliGo Arts Space, and to all of the staff at this gallery for hosting the reception and associated events.
Ancestral Houses will visit four other cities, Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing and Hong Kong as part of the cultural programme of Embassy of Ireland To China.
Ambassador of Ireland to China Ann Derwin who opened Ancestral Houses at LolliGo Arts Space, Beijing.
Ancestral Houses W B Yeats Inspired Exhibition opens in Beijing for #YeatsDay 2023
in association with
Embassy of Ireland to China | Hong Kong VA Galleries | LolliGo Art Space
One hundred years ago, in November 1923, W.B Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
This year, on the 13th June, the poets birthday, Hamilton Gallery will mark this anniversary with the opening in Beijing of “Ancestral Houses”, an exhibition of paintings by artists from across Ireland, as part of the cultural programme of Ireland’s Embassy there.
The exhibition comprises individual paintings from artists all over Ireland, in response to the suite of poems “Mediations in Time of Civil War” which Yeats wrote in 1921.
To accompany the exhibition, a new short video has been produced by Hamilton Gallery. Filmed by videographer Sligo Peter Martin in the beautiful setting of Temple House in County Sligo, the short film carries parallel readings from Ancestral Houses in both English and Chinese, while the cultural context of the poem is explained by Yeats Scholar Sean Golden.
Ancestral Houses | Produced by Hamilton Gallery in association with the Embassy of Ireland to China | Film by Peter Martin | Filmed at Temple House County Sligo
Hamilton Gallery extends special thanks to the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Irish Embassy in China for their invaluable involvement in making this significant cultural project possible, and also to the owners Temple House and the family of W B Yeats for their help in creating the film. The exhibition will travel from Beijing to several other major cities in China until the end of 2023, as part of the cultural celebrations surrounding the centenary of W B Yeats’ Nobel Prize.
#YeatsDay
Hamilton Gallery proudly sponsors the annual world wide social media celebration #YeatsDay each year
We are delighted again this year to support the Yeats Society in Sligo with the roll out of this wonderfully popular communal celebration of some or our greatest literature
