Derek Hill Collection at Galway Arts Centre

Derek Hill Collection at Galway Arts Centre

galway.net , 6 Feb 2003

The Galway Arts Centre is to host the Derek Hill Collection in its first ever showing outside of the artist’s home in Church Hill, Co. Donegal. Prior to his death in 2000, Hill left his house and its celebrated contents to the Irish people and the property is now under the management of Dúchas – The National Heritage Service.

Derek Hill is probably best known in Ireland for his discovery and continuous support of the Tory Island Painters, especially the founder and best known of the group, James Dixon, whose paintings of Tory have been collected by major museums and are well represented in this collection. He also travelled widely throughout his life collecting works of art in a myriad of forms. His collection of patterned objects from Islamic and Oriental traditions feature strongly in this specially curated exhibition for Galway Arts Centre.

Alongside the Tory Island work, visitors to the gallery will be able to feast their eyes on examples of Hill’s portraiture as well fine ceramic works, prints, exotic fabrics and furniture.

The exhibition, entitled ‘A Pattern Language’ opens officially on Friday 14th February, when the guest speaker will be Adrian Kelly, Curator of the Glebe Gallery, where the collection is permanently housed in the grounds of Hill’s home.

To complement the Derek Hill show, Galway Arts Centre are opening an additional gallery on the 3rd Floor of 47 Dominick Street to present two extra Tory-themed work by Galway-based artists. A special exhibition of recent black and white studies of Tory and its people by Colm Hogan and an acclaimed hour-long documentary by Pat Collins entitled ‘Oileán Thoraigh’ will be on view for the duration of the main exhibition.

‘A Pattern Language’ runs until March 22nd at 47, Dominick Street and is kindly sponsored by Snap Printing, Galway.

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