BLOODROT is a new exhibition featuring art by 110 women artists who responded to the work of Donegal poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin.
The show at the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, also includes art by Donegal artists Maria Gasol, Fiona Mullholland and Leanne McLaughlin.
The show opened to mark International Women’s Day recently and is presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, The Netherlands and Pulchri Studio.
The exhibition draws attention to human rights issues and the stories of women in recent times in Ireland, particularly in the context of Irish Mother and Babies homes.
Annemarie Ní Churreáin, who is originally from Cloich Cheann Fhaola, thanked all of those involved in the new exhibition.
“Thank you to each Bloodroot artist for being a witness to female experience. Thank you for cracking open new ways of being with the stories of our mothers, daughters, sisters.
“Thank you to Hamilton Gallery, Doire Press, the Embassy staff, and all who’ve helped dream this profoundly moving exhibition into place,” she said.
Bog Queen, Photograph on acrylic by Phenomenal Women (Collaborative arts practice by Caroline Coyle and Nicole McKenna).
Since 2018, Irish Embassies and Consulates across the world have been marking Ireland’s new national holiday, Lá Fhéile Bríde by celebrating the creativity of women, through a broad programme of events.
This year an open call exhibition, themed on Annemarie’s poetry and curated by Hamilton Gallery, was produced in The Hague, International city of Peace and Justice. Contributors to the exhibition were forwarded four poems, selected by Annemarie from her powerful debut collection Bloodrot as inspirational and thematic springboards.
Bloodroot is the fourth of these exhibitions Hamilton Gallery has curated, each involving hundreds of women artists, in association with Irish Embassies around the world for Lá Fhéile Bríde.
Previous exhibitions, themed on the lives and work of women writers Leland Bardwell, Eva Gore-Booth and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and have been shown in London, Beijing, Dublin, Berlin and New York.
The 2025 exhibition, Bloodroot, is presented in a partnership between the gallery and the Embassy of Ireland, The Netherlands. Seventy-three participating artists, who travelled to The Hague for the Lá Fhéile Bríde Celebration hosted by Ireland’s Embassy to The Netherlands on January 31, were warmly welcomed by Ambassador Ann Derwin.
Drained heart[h], Rann Ringfort, Co Donegal. Digital embroidery and Donegal tweed by Fiona Mulholland.
Equally compelling themes surrounding the human rights of women and children are uncompromisingly addressed in Absinthe and Absence’ a solo exhibition by Jackie Hudson Lalor, currently running alongside Bloodroot at Hamilton Gallery.
Absinthe & Absence and Bloodroot were opened in Hamilton Gallery Sligo, by Marian Harkin TD on International Women’s Day and will run until the end of April 2025.
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