{"id":291203,"date":"2026-02-19T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/291203\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:23:16","slug":"the-landscape-is-always-on-your-shoulders-artist-reflects-on-the-mesmerising-influence-of-sligos-coastline-on-her-first-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/291203\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The landscape is always on your shoulders\u2019 \u2013 artist reflects on the mesmerising influence of Sligo\u2019s coastline on her first exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rachel Martin pictured at the opening of her exhibition in the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aab179b2-cbd8-4f26-8683-8df994da445c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rachel Martin pictured at the opening of her exhibition in the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">No one is too far from the sea in Sligo so it\u2019s no surprise that a young artist has been heavily influenced by the Atlantic Ocean crashing against the shore where she grew up in Ballinfull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The north Sligo woman, Rachel Martin (24), has launched her first art exhibition in the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo which will run until the 28th of this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachel Martin pictured at the opening of her exhibition in the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo No one is too&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,161304,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-291203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-gerry-mclaughlin","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}