Patrick hall Selects – new exhibition drawn for The Niland Collection

The Niland Collection: Patrick Hall Selects Thu. 01 May – Sun. 25 May The Model is delighted to present a selection drawn from The Niland Collection by the acclaimed artist Patrick Hall: “In making this selection from The Niland Collection, I have decided to pass over the Jack Yeats’ paintings

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Bealtaine Festival highlights at The Model this May

We are delighted to announce details of this year’s month-long celebrations of Bealtaine, Ireland’s national celebration of creativity as we age. We’re very excited about this action-packed programme of inspiring events at The Model and look forward to welcoming you to it. Commenting on the programme of free events available

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A Winters Light

Mark Garry; A Winters Light

We were absolutely delighted to get our hands on this month’s copy of Art Monthly to see the fantastic review of The Model’s current exhibition Mark Garry; A Winter Light. “A Winter Light is ethereal, joyous and luminous with hope”. Of course we knew that already but it’s great to

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Rock steady Go! A 1950’s themed film screening coming to The Model this March

Take a nostalgic trip back to the kitsch of the fifties at The Model for a very special screening of the cult movie Cry Baby on Saturday March 29th. Set in 1950s Baltimore, it stars Johnny Depp in one of his first film roles as the dreamboat delinquent Wade “Cry

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‘Roadworks’ new exhibition by Steve Wickham in Room at The Model

Steve Wickham is the violinist with The Waterboys and a resident artist here at The Model in Sligo. Roadworks, an exhibition running at ‘Room’ in The Model during the month of March, is a collection of illustrations captured while on the road touring with The Waterboys during 2013 using the

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Materials and Perception Masterclass

Anyone who visits the galleries here will find it hard not to get lost, gazing at the wonderful thread installations by Mark Garry. At a first glance they are barely visible, on closer inspection one might think that someone let a real rainbow loose in the room. The rainbow spectrums

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