Kealy to leave Model

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The current Director of The Model Sligo, Seamus Kealy will be leaving The Model on the 31st May 2013 as his contract comes to an end.

The Board of The Model Sligo wishes to acknowledge the contribution of Mr. Kealy to The Model over the term of his tenure.

The vision and mission of The Model remain the same and The Model Board wishes to announce that the post of Director of The Model will be advertised in the coming months, in the meantime an Acting Director will be appointed.

West of Ireland landscapes by Nick Miller

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Thursday May 2nd – Saturday June 1st

The Hamilton Gallery is delighted to host ‘Selected Works’ an exhibition of west of Ireland landscapes by Nick Miller which will open on Thursday 2nd May at 6pm.

Nick Miller’s Sligo based landscapes painted from his mobile studio have been shown across the world to critical acclaim, but this is the first time they will be shown in the county in which they are painted and where he has lived since the early 1990’s. It is over a decade since he last showed in the Model in 2002 with the Chinese artist, Chen Zhongsen “Chen + Miller: East- West”, and nearly 20 years since The Model also showed his 1994 IMMA exhibition  “South African Works”.

The exhibition at the Hamilton Gallery contains a selection of “Truckscape” paintings and watercolours from 2005 to 2011 many of which have not been shown in Ireland before.  It has been also timed to coincide with a showing of his father’s work at the Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon in “Emerging artists” a show curated by Alice Lyons that focuses four European artists who began work later in life and includes the remarkable work of Hilton Miller a mathematician turned painter who worked in in almost in complete isolation for 40 years in London, exhibiting only once before he died in 2012.

Miller likens landscape to portraiture, and is consumed with the demands of addressing present reality, rather than something abstract. His work with landscape feeds off the intensity and immediacy of encountering the world at close quarters, and attempts to hold the urgency of that connection in paint.  Opening the doors of his truck - his mobile studio, he intensively painted the Sligo landscape in this manner from 1997 to 2012 when the truck was finally decommissioned.

Gallery opening hours Mon to Sat 10am – 5pm.   www. hamiltongallery.ie

Hamilton Gallery, 4 Castle Street, Sligo.
Tel: 071 914 3686
Email: info@hamiltongallery.ie

'Sligo Impressions' Exhibition

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An Art Exhibition entitled" SLIGO IMPRESSIONS"  by John Gunning (BA Hon) will be held in the Yeats Building, Sligo town on Thursday 30th May at 7.30pm.

John, a Sligo town native, is a graduate of the Fine Art Dept in Sligo IT.

This is his second solo exhibition in Sligo and he has also exhibited in Dublin and Leitrim.

This present work is influenced by landscapes of Sligo but John also paints in abstract.

The exhibition will be opened by Mary McDonagh, Arts Officer with Sligo Council.  Everyone is very welcome to attend.

Exhibitions Listings @ The Model

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Illustrations to the Stories of Red Hanrahan: Norah McGuinness
28 Mar - 19 May
This exhibition features a number of original illustrations created by McGuinness in 1927 for WB Yeats' book, Stories of Red Harahan and The Secret Rose.

/http://themodel.ie/exhibitions.


Female Artists of the Twentieth Century
02 Apr - 19 May
This exhibition surveys the changing themes and practices of female artist's throughout the twentieth century.
/http://themodel.ie/exhibitions


An Anatomical Chart Of Love Pains
14 Apr - 16 Jun
Lili Reynaud Dewar (FR) Köken Ergun (TR), Ian Nolan (IE), Nikola Röthemeyer (DE), Zin Taylor (BE/CA) Five artists respond to Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk's novel, The Museum of Innocence. An intense microcosm of existence from one chapter is the backdrop to each artist's production for the exhibition.
/http://themodel.ie/exhibitions
 

Jack B Yeats - Enter the Clown; The Circus as a Metaphor
25 May - 02 Sep

This exhibition will look at the circus as a metaphor in the work of Jack B Yeats. Throughout his 70 years' painting, 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 particular. The show will be one of the corner stones of Tread Softly, Sligo's new festival celebrating the artistic heritage of the Yeats family.

Dr. Hilary Pyle will officially open the exhibition at 1pm on 13 June

Curators' Tours

Wed. 29 May 1pm
Wed. 12 Jun. 1pm
Wed. 26 Jun. 1pm
Wed. 10 Jul. 1pm

Tours will take place daily throughout Tread Softly Festival,

22 Jul - 09 Aug.  Please see our website for more information.
 


Rabih Mroué
30 Jun - 08 Sep

Opens Sat, 29 Jun. at 6.00 pm

Artist in Attendance. Lebanese artist and theatre director Rabih Mroué has taken the art world by storm over the past few years. His 2012 film The Pixalated Revolution, powerfully represents the people's resistance in present-day Syria through an analysis of mobile phone images and video taken by Syrian civilians. Mroué was the recipient of the 2010 Spalding Gray Award and the 2011 Prince Claus Award 'for his radical interrogation of memory, power, and the construction of truth'.
 

Tilo Schulz

30 Jun. - 08 Sep
Opens Sat, 29 Jun, 6.00 pm Artist in Attendance

This will be the first solo exhibition by German artist Tilo Schulz in Ireland. The exhibition project is a response by the artist to Sligo as an environment. The artist is developing means to combine a sculptural project with concerns he has with today's migrations of people within Europe. Altogether the project interlinks recognizable aesthetics and more abstract forms to constitute what Schulz has coined as his own "social formalism."

Support from Goethe Institut and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen