Yeats Day and The Lilly Lolly Craftfest Event
Join us at The Model to celebrate Yeats Day and The LilyLolly Craftfest with two fantastic events: Jack Yeats at The Model Lunch Time Tour, 1.30 pm, Tues. 13, Jun Come and join us on Yeats Day for a walk through our current exhibitions: Jack B. Yeats; Lives and Ronnie
Ronnie Hughes; Strange Attractors – Educational Booklet
The education department has produced a beautiful and educational booklet for kids and parents to take along to Ronnie Hughes: Strange Attractors. ‘Using this guide, children and their parents can have hours of fun navigating the exhibition Strange Attractors by Ronnie Hughes. Engaging and interactive, this guide is packed with
Italian students enjoy their experience at The Model
One would be hard pushed to find a harder working set of individuals outside of the legion of volunteers and students whose commitment, talent and dedication, keep The Model ticking over, year round. The Model was recently lucky enough to play host to three Italian students who spent a fortnight
Ronnie Hughes: Strange Attractors – Walkabout
Ronnie Hughes began his career as an artist after receiving an MA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster. Since then, Hughes has had numerous solo shows in Ireland and taken part in prestigious group shows in New York, Chicago, London and Germany. As an award-winning artist, Hughes has
My Pick – Heike Thiele
As part of our My Pick series we asked Heike Thiele, Assistant Curator at The Model, to choose her favorite work and tell us why. ‘A Sunday Morning in Sligo’ is a watercolour that depicts a young man jumping from a mud bank to a pool below. A friend watches
Emer Mc Garry interviews Ronnie Hughes on Strange Attractors
The following text is the synthesis of a number of conversations between the artist Ronnie Hughes and curator Emer Mc Garry regarding his artistic practice. EM: What is it that excites you about painting? RH: That’s a very complex question but the obvious things are formal qualities – colour and