Touring & Sharing

CEILIÚRADH: Treasures of the Boyne Valley
8 May – 2 August 2026
Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, County Louth

Crawford Art Gallery is delighted to loan a painting by Drogheda-born artist Nathaniel Hill (1861-1930) to Highlanes Gallery for Ceiliúradh: Treasures of the Boyne Valley.

Marking the twentieth anniversary of Highlanes Gallery, home of the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, the exhibition is inspired by the Boyne Valley and draws attention to the built environment, rurality, richness of nature, and ideas around climate change/action and sustainability.

Goose Girl in a Breton Farmyard (1884) was painted by Nathaniel Hill during a period the artist spent in Brittany with fellow Irishmen, Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940) and Walter Osborne (1859-1903), following their studies in Antwerp. Typical of his Realist style, Hill depicts the courtyard of La Ferme de Keranperchec at Pont-Aven in this small canvas, presenting a rural peasant scene which made for popular subject matter at that time.

Crawford Art Gallery wishes to thank Aoife Ruane, Stephen Hodgins, Simon Colfer, and the Highlanes Gallery team.

The exhibition coincides with To Land: Living Roots Awaken (23 May – 9 August 2026), a strategic touring partnership between Crawford Art Gallery and Highlanes Gallery, in collaboration with the Artist-Teacher-Researcher Curatorial Group.

Featured artwork:

• Nathaniel Hill, Goose Girl in a Breton Farmyard (1884)