Hamilton Gallery countdown to our St Brigid’s Day exhibition at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House London, is underway.
The exhibition will open to the public from January 23rd and will run until February 1st, St Brigid’s Day.
Between today January 1st 2019 and our opening in London we will bring you a daily blog with some of the 90 works by Irish women artists that will be shown at the exhibition.
We’ll include interviews and insights from the artists involved as well as other news and developments relating to events at the 12 Star Gallery in London which will occur in compliment to the exhibition.
oil on board
30 cm x 30 cm
unframed
Exhibition Complete. Please Contact Gallery before purchasing as this piece may no longer be available
oil on canvas
30 cm x 30 cm
unframed
Exhibition Complete. Please Contact Gallery before purchasing as this piece may no longer be available
St Brigid’s Day
Contemporary Exhibition | 90 Irish Women Artists
The iconic early Christian symbol St Brigid has been chosen to serve as a catalyst for 90 invited Irish women artists to create an original painting for this exhibition.
Folk custom, the four seasons, women’s lives and crafts, poetry, all intersect at the 1st of February feast-day of Saint Brigid in Ireland. What is celebrated is the rebirth of the living earth; it was usual in some places to turn a sod of earth with the spade, the work of cultivation beginning again. Many customs, especially around food and cattle, are connected with the day, but the best known was the making of St Brigid’s crosses out of straw or rushes.
Women’s political journey in the last century of Irish history makes it right to choose the day for special celebration of Irish women artists and the works of art are further held in focus by their relation to the poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” by Leland Bardwell, which positions the poet as observer, half outside the culture that she watches.
The exhibition is a dynamic and vibrant contemporary response, to the import and changing cultural significance of powerful traditional female symbolism not just in Irish, but in all contemporary societies.
Organised by Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland, with the support of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and the Irish Embassy to Great Britain.
