Gailearaí Hamilton [1] | |
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  Location within Ireland | |
| Established | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Location | 4 Castle Street, Sligo, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 54°16′14″N8°28′23″W / 54.2705°N 8.472925°W |
| Type | art gallery |
| Founder | Martina Hamilton |
| Owner | Martina Hamilton |
| Public transit access |  Sligo O'Connell Street bus stop (Sligo) |
| Website | hamiltongallery |
The Hamilton Gallery is an art gallery in Sligo, Ireland. [2] It hosts a continuous programme of solo and group exhibitions by contemporary visual artists. [3]
The gallery was founded in 2010 by local artist Martina Hamilton, and is sited in a Victorian building on Castle Street. [4]
In 2018, the Hamilton Gallery hosted responses to the W. B. Yeats poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. [5]
An exhibition of 2019–20 commememorated the life and work of Eva Gore-Booth. [6] Another 2020 show responded to Bram Stoker, whose mother was from Sligo. [7]
In 2022 it hosted a short film created for the St Brigid's Day global Irish festival of 2022, with a poem by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. [8]
Other local artists have also exhibited at the Hamilton, such as Seán Larkin, Cathy Carman, Helen O'Toole, Heidi Wickham, Naomi Draper and Mark Garry. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
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