TY students go behind the scenes at Isabel Nolan’s exhibition

During the week, Liam and I (Wacky) have been helping out with some of the preparations for the Model’s next big exhibition called, ‘A Hole Into The Future’ by Isabel Nolan. This exhibition features many great pieces of Isabel’s work including many sculptural pieces of art. Most of her work

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Sue Morris – Departure points

“We travel to not only see new places … but to see ourselves as something other, to shed our skins of deeply engrained habits…And what do we find at that magical destination? Our old selves, no doubt” (Private Territory by Rolandus Rasauskas) While I may not have discovered a new

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Howling at the Moon – exhibition pending

In the latest post from her residency at AIR Krems, Sue Morris reviews a contemporary art exhibition and thinks ahead to her own new exhibition in Baden bei Wien on Saturday 24 November. Excitement, trepidation and logistical problems abound. A joint exhibition opened last Saturday at Kunsthalle, Krems, by artists

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Domestic Interventions

In her latest blog post on the progress of her residency at Krems, Sue Morris reflects on first contact with her co-residents and the increasingly fluid boundaries between her work, the domestic space and its ephemera. “It is a curious fact of acoustics that a toilet plunger, skilfully waved before

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Time and Space

Model Studio artist, Sue Morris, continues her series of reports from her residency at Air Krems in Austria. Here she reflects on how the residency is already affording her new perspectives on time space, two of the most important dimensions for any artist. How quickly and easily a new routine

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Goodbye Vienna, Hello Krems

A blog from Model Studio artist Sue Morris: I am a visual artist, usually practising from the Model studios, Sligo, Ireland, but have temporarily relocated to take up an Artist`s Residency in Krems, Austria. I was awarded the residency/scholarship through an exchange programme with Custom House Studios, Westport and AIR

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