Tilo Schulz

Tilo Schulz: Tied Up and Down, how to consider force a privilege

This is the first solo exhibition by German artist Tilo Schulz in Ireland, the exhibition project itself is a response by Schulz to Sligo as an environment. The artist develops means to combine his sculptural project with concerns he has with today’s migrations of people within Europe. Altogether, the project

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Rabih Mroué

Rabih Mroué

Lebanese artist and theatre director Rabih Mroué has taken the art world by storm. His 2012 film, The Pixalated Revolution, powerfully represents the people’s resistance in present-day Syria through an analysis of mobile phone images and videos taken by Syrian civilians. Mroué was the recipient of the 2010 Spalding Gray

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Jack B Yeats – Enter the Clowns: The Circus as a Metaphor

Jack B Yeats – Enter the Clowns: The Circus as a Metaphor

This exhibition will look at the circus as a metaphor in the work of Jack B Yeats. Throughout his 70 year painting career, Yeats expressed themes of mental illness, loneliness, political and social change, pacifism, cruelty, racism and grief in his portrayal of circus life, and of the clown in

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An Anatomical Chart of Love Pains

An Anatomical Chart of Love Pains

This unique exhibition project involves five artists invited to respond to a chapter in the book, The Museum of Innocence by Nobel Prize winner, Orhan Pamuk. Published in 2010, The Museum of Innocence is an elaborate tale of love, unrequited and otherwise, taking place in a politically shifting Istanbul of

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Untitled, Holloway Jail by Constance Gore-Booth (1868 - 1927)

Irish Women Artists of the Twentieth Century

The Model is delighted to present Irish Women Artists of the Twentieth Century. The Niland Collection holds a considerable amount of work by key Irish women artists and when looked at together, these works provide a comprehensive survey of the changing themes and practices of Irish female artists throughout the

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Sean Lynch: Church without a Steeple

Also as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations, the Arts Council is commissioning four contemporary artists to produce new work in response to the collection and the history of contemporary and modern Ireland that it reflects. In partnership with The Model, the Arts Council has commissioned Sean Lynch to develop

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