Diptych by Kate MacDonagh. 2018 Cairde Visual winner. Water based woodblock and painting, 182cm x 132cm. Photo © Colin Gillen/framelight.ie

Cairde Visual 2019

The Model presents Cairde Visual, Cairde Sligo Arts Festival’s sixth annual open submission exhibition. Building on two years of successful partnership with Cairde SAF, this dynamic and colourful show features work from both Irish and international artists across a broad range of media.   Please visit https://cairdefestival.com/ for further information.

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Richard Bolhuis © Richard Bolhuis & Joséphine Kurvers

Richard Bolhuis; Underground Bliss

The Model in partnership with the Museum De Buitenplaats in the Netherlands, and with the support of the Mondriaan Fund, will present a solo exhibition by visual artist, musician and composer Richard Bolhuis. This unique artist will create original pieces for The Model through an immersive, interdisciplinary ‘total installation’. Composed

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The Essentials of Cranmore

The Essentials of Cranmore

A community exhibition by residents of Cranmore. Led by artist Ken Gunning, residents and participants provided a generous hospitable insight into their community through the lens of photography. Themes of belonging, place and space were explored through a number of workshops. Through the process members of the community journeyed from

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Tightrope, Dagestan, 2015. 58.10 min., video, colour, sound. Tightrope walker: Rasul Abakarov.

The Keeper

Ed Atkins, Frances Beckett, George Bellows, Joseph Beuys, Rosemarie Brodhag, Harry Clarke, Patrick Collins, Connolly Cleary, William Conor, Barrie Cooke, John Coyle, Dorothy Cross, Diarmuid Delargy, Gerard Dillon, Micky Donnelly, Rita Duffy, Mary Duncan, Micheal Farrell, Carsten Fock, Marie Foley, Percy French, Stella Frost, Roisin Gartland, John Gerrard,  Constance Gore-Booth,

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Chris Doris; The Empty Field

The Model welcomes the work of Chris Doris, a unique and personally intimate gallery experience which draws on the artist’s distinctive synthesis of practices in psychotherapy, art, meditation and other forms of interoception. Expansive ‘Open Paintings’, text paintings and works on steel and paper evoke the empty ground of being,

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Jennifer Walshe

Jennifer Walshe; Aisteach

The Model is delighted to present an ambitious and multi-faceted gallery project combining visual art, literature, film, performance and music, which will see renowned composer and artist Jennifer Walshe working both as curator and creator of Aisteach; the Avant-Garde Archive of Ireland. Aisteach (www.aisteach.org) is an archive of fictional histories

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