• Art For Blind & The Model Present Out Of Step Weekender

    May 26, 2022 - By 

    Over this weekend of 27th-29th May, Out of Step – a festival curated by Art for Blind for their residency at The Model, Sligo – will unfold through film, music performance, conversation and workshops. Underground tastemakers par excellence, Art for Blind continue to explore Ireland’s rich multidisciplinary cultural fabric. The aim of their residency at Sligo venue – also home to the Niland Collection – has been to explore the programming of artists and musicians from diverse social, economic and geographical backgrounds. This weekender, its title inspired by the iconic Minor Threat song, expands the residency into the realm of film offering a view from the…

  • The Model, Sligo’s Art For Blind Curatorial Residency Kicks Off With Arthur Itis and Tuath Show This Saturday

    September 8, 2021 - By 

    Sligo contemporary arts centre The Model is set to host a season of music and events curated by one of the finest imprints on the island, Sligo-based music and art collective, Art For Blind. The series – which will include music, film and printmaking – is part of the collective’s residency at The Model over 2021-2022. The first event is set to take place this Saturday, 11th September with two of the most forward-thinking acts in Ireland’s experimental underground. Making their debut in front of Sligo audiences are Cork-based, shapeshifting artist Arthur Itis, and Donegal-based establishment-bothering outfit Tuath, both of whom eschew easy genre classification. The experimental solo project of Arthur Pawsey, Arthur…

  • Picture This: High Winds Move Slowly @ The Model

    October 28, 2017 - By 

    One of the more interesting quirks of our society, as it moves through the ages, is the re-emergence of patterns that we often mistake as being innovative simply because they did not initially emerge during our lifetime. Fashion notoriously produces examples of this each and every season. The cultural polymath is another example of a re-emerging pattern disguised as a new facet. He or she is a photographer/artist/filmmaker – and it is not unusual to view a business card inundated with slashes to highlight this. While this may seem as a new trend, a short glance back in history reveals…

  • Drawing Workshop @ The Model, Sligo

    October 17, 2017 - By 

    The Model in Sligo have announced details of a forthcoming workshop with artist Arno Kramer. Artists of all disciplines are invited, and particularly those who make use of the medium of drawing. Kramer, who is originally from The Netherlands, has exhibited in Ireland extensively over the past two decades and was previously a lecture in the AKI (Academy of the Visual Arts and Design) in Enschede, the Netherlands. High Winds Move Slowly, a collaboration between Kramer and Henk Visch, is currently being shown in The Model as well. The class is due to take place from 10am to 5pm on Tuesday…

  • Cléa van der Grijn – Reconstructing Memory

    April 4, 2017 - By 

    Cléa van der Grijn – Reconstructing Memory (Image Courtesy of Heike Thiele) Cléa van der Grijn’s exhibition Reconstructing Memory has just finished in The Model in Sligo. The show is due to travel to Limerick and Dublin before heading stateside to Minnesota’s Rochester Arts Centre. If you didn’t get the chance to see van der Grijn’s exhibit before it’s closure you can view it below, and if you did you can relive it once more via a walkthrough an commentary by the artist. You can also read a response to the show written by Rebecca Kennedy here which discuss the main…

  • Picture This: The Night @ The Model

    March 29, 2017 - By 

    Alexandra Hopf – The Night Image courtesy of Heike Thiele What: The Night Where: The Model, Sligo When: 24th February – 16th April Words: Rebecca Kennedy It would be unwise to assume that the physical size of an exhibition space would act as a limitation to the quality of work it beholds. Seen as the majority of assumptions spring forth from our subconscious, it is oddly fitting to hold such presumptions when visiting Alexandra Hopf’s exhibition, The Night in The Model, Sligo. With motifs ranging from psychoanalysis, surrealism, modernism and the construction of art history & mythology, this capsule exhibition escapes it confines and embodies…

  • Picture This: Reconstructing Memory @ The Model

    February 8, 2017 - By 

    Cléa van der Grijn – Reconstructing Memory (Image Courtesy of Heike Thiele) What: Reconstructing Memory Where: The Model, Sligo When: 17th Decmber 2016 – 2nd April 2017 Words: Rebecca Kennedy Irish artist Cléa van der Grijn has spent nearly a decade meditating on our society’s response to death and loss. From 2008’s Momentos to her new show, Reconstructing Memory, in Sligo’s The Model, the artist has harbored a fixation with death and loss – a fixation that has nourished her creative process. Reconstructing Memory is an exhibition that examines the disparities between the cultural responses to death in both Ireland and Mexico. Irish culture has an…