Glebe Gallery

{{Short description|Gallery with gardens in County Donegal, Ireland}}

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{{Infobox building

| name = Glebe House and Gallery

| former_names = St Columb’s{{Cite news |last=McDonald |first=Frank |date=27 August 2018 |title=Enduring spirit: An Irishman’s Diary on Derek Hill and the Glebe House and Gallery |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/enduring-spirit-an-irishman-s-diary-on-derek-hill-and-the-glebe-house-and-gallery-1.3609328 |access-date=1 March 2025 |work=The Irish Times}}

| alternate_names = Derek Hill House

| image = Glebe House - geograph.org.uk - 899648.jpg

| image_alt = Red two-story house amid trees and bushes

| location =

| address = Glebe, Church Hill, County Donegal, F92 WP70

| location_town = Letterkenny

| location_country = Ireland

| coordinates =

| opened_date = {{Start year and age|1828}}

| owner = Office of Public Works

| map_type = Ireland#Ireland County Donegal

| known_for = House of Derek Hill

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Glebe House and Glebe Gallery are located just outside the town of Letterkenny near Churchill. The house was built in 1828. The English portrait and landscape painter Derek Hill lived and worked there from 1954 until he presented the house and his art collection to the Irish state in 1982.{{Cite web |title=Glebe Gallery and Garden – Derek Hill House |url=https://heritageireland.ie/places-to-visit/glebe-gallery-and-garden/ |access-date=1 March 2025 |website=Heritage Ireland |publisher=Office of Public Works}} Hill's former studio has been converted into a modern gallery with changing exhibitions while his art collection is shown in his former home together with European and oriental furniture and William Morris wallpapers and fabrics. The collection includes works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Louis le Brocquy, Graham Sutherland, Auguste Renoir, Jack Butler Yeats, Oskar Kokoschka, Patrick Swift and the native Tory Island painter, James Dixon.{{Cite web |title=Glebe House and Gallery, Churchil |url=https://www.donegalcottageholidays.com/blog/glebe-house-gallery-churchill/ |access-date=1 March 2025 |website=Donegal Cottages}}{{Cite web |last=Purkis |first=Harriet |date=10 February 2014 |title=Contemporary Art for Children |url=https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/contemporary-art-for-children |access-date=1 March 2025 |website=Ulster University}}

Run by the Office of Public Works the gallery is open for a limited season each year - around Easter and then from June to the end of September. Access to the permanent collection in Glebe House is by guided tour only. The woodland gardens, which border Lough Gartan, are open all year round.

In May 2023, an outdoor classroom for the local Gartan National School to interact with arts, culture and nature in a holistic manner, was opened on the premises.{{Cite news |date=2 May 2023 |title=Minister opens new Outdoor Classroom at The Glebe House and Gallery |url=https://www.donegallive.ie/news/local-news/1160145/minister-opens-new-outdoor-classroom-at-the-glebe-house-and-gallery.html |access-date=1 March 2025 |work=Donegal Live}}{{Cite news |date=2 May 2023 |title=New outdoor classroom officially opened at Glebe House and Gallery |url=https://donegalnews.com/new-outdoor-classroom-officially-opened-at-glebe-house-and-gallery/ |access-date=1 March 2025 |work=Donegal News}}

In July 2024 it attained full-accreditation from the Heritage Council’s Museum Standards Programme for Ireland for maintaining its mark of excellence.{{Cite news |date=23 July 2024 |title=Glebe House and Gallery awarded for excellence |url=https://www.donegaldaily.com/2024/07/23/glebe-house-and-gallery-awarded-for-excellence/ |access-date=1 March 2025 |work=Donegal Daily}} In September that year, the gallery and house both closed to facilitate conservation works;{{Cite news |date=13 January 2025 |title=Famous Glebe House emptied of rare contents for conservation works |url=https://www.donegaldaily.com/2025/01/13/famous-glebe-house-emptied-of-rare-contents-for-conservation-works/ |access-date=1 March 2025 |work=Donegal Daily}} and in November it received a green flag award for sustainability in its parks and green spaces.{{Cite news |date=11 November 2024 |title=Glebe House and Gallery recognised with Green Flag Award |url=https://highlandradio.com/2024/11/11/glebe-house-and-gallery-recognised-with-green-flag-award/ |access-date=1 March 2025 |work=Highland Radio}}

In January 2025, the gallery was re-opened when conservation work finished, with the house remaining closed until conservation works there finish in the summer.