Yeats and the West; An Exhibition of Western Worlds

This exhibition comes to The Model from NUI Galway, and explores Yeats’s life, work, and legacy through his connections to the west. Rare artworks, books, manuscripts and exclusive images, photographs and film feature in an exhibition that reveals the impact of western heritage on W.B. Yeats and the wider Yeats

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Fanned Apart - Female Portraits From The Niland Collection

Fanned Apart; Female Portraits from The Niland Collection

This special exhibition curated on the occasion of the centenary of the 1916 Rising allows a glimpse into women’s lives in the twentieth century. The fifteen selected oil paintings by artists such as Estella Solomons, Barbara Warren, George Russell and Jack B. Yeats portray women in Ireland from different perspectives and

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Alexandra Hopf: ‘Sphinx’, 2016, neon tubes, 80×36 cm // Photo by Stephanie Kloss

Alexandra Hopf: The Night

Alexandra Hopf is a Berlin based artist working across video, painting and sculpture, with a research interest in individual memory, psychoanalysis, and the construction of art history. By revisiting the oeuvre of renowned artists of the Surrealist, Constructivist or Minimalist avantgardes, and underlining the prevalence of male figures in art

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Cléa van der Grijn; Reconstructing Memory

The Model is pleased to present an exhibition of newly commissioned work that marks a major turning point in the practice of Irish artist Cléa van der Grijn. Reconstructing Memory is a multifaceted experiential and textured exploration of the societal disparities in approaches to death in Mexican and Irish cultures.

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British Art Now: Seminar

On the occasion of our partnership with The British Council, The Model is convening a seminar with a specific focus on British Art since the mid nineties. The purpose of this discussion is to investigate whether or not key developments that emerged in the 1990s have shaped contemporary art in

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Moving Pictures - Artists Films from the Film London Jarmen Award

Moving Pictures: Artists Films from the Film London Jarmen Award

The Model presents Moving Pictures, a screening programme of artists’ films that showcases the rich and diverse range of artists’ moving image work currently being produced in the UK. Developed by the British Council Visual Art and Film teams in collaboration with Film London, this innovative programme of artists’ films

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