Visit a Sligo ExhibitionOn this page, you can discover all the exhibitions which are currently being held in Sligo.
Choose amongst indoor and outdoor exhibitions and find out when and where exhibitions of your interest are taking place. |
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Jack Butler Yeats - The Wandering Gaze / An Misló Swuner
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The Wandering Gaze presents a collection of images relative to Travelling people in the work of Jack Butler Yeats. Highlighting Yeats’ keen observations of diversity amongst nomadic groups within Irish society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the exhibition includes sketchbook drawings, illustrated prints, watercolour and oil paintings spanning the breath of his career. The exhibition was developed with participants from the Sligo Traveller Support Group working with the writer and Traveller Culture Collections Development Officer in the National Museum, Oein DeBhairduin.
Artworks are included from the Niland Collection the National Gallery of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, The Hugh Lane Gallery, The Crawford Museum, IMMA, University of Galway, and private collections. This exhibition is part of the Hereditas Project, a collaborative arts project led by artist Séamus Nolan in collaboration with Sligo Traveller Support Group and funded by The Arts Council of Ireland’s Art:2023 Centenary programme. Research and Project Management by Niamh Moriarty. Where: The Model, Sligo When: 6 July '24 - 28 September '24 More info: www.themodel.ie/?exhibition=the-wandering-gaze |
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The Sligo Wave
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The Sligo Wave provides an opportunity for audiences to explore Sligo’s place in the development of painting in Ireland. For over a hundred years, the county has attracted many different generations of artists to find inspiration in the ever-changing light along its rugged Atlantic coastline. This show features work that demonstrates this strong association with the medium – from the iconic painter Jack Butler Yeats, who won the silver medal for painting at the Paris Olympics in 1924 – to successive generations of artists connected to Sligo from the mid-twentieth century onwards.
While the artists represented in The Sligo Wave approach painting in myriad ways, they all have the ability to meld pigment into beautiful fields of cobalt, jade, crimson or tangerine, to offer us images that hum with an essential energy. In many of these paintings we feel a deep connection to the North-western landscape. Mountains meet the sea in dramatic form. Bog pools, foggy marshes, stars and sunlight create ethereal visions, and animals take on charged, new mystical meanings. The themes expressed encompass the physicality, spirituality, fragility, and temporality at the heart of the human condition, articulating on canvas ancient knowledge and emotions that go beyond words. The dynamic processes that underpin these paintings find their way to the viewer in playful and unexpected ways, through abstract and figurative representation, and states of being are expressed through form, light and colour. Where: The Model, Sligo When: 31 May '24 - 7 September '24 More info: The Sligo Wave - The Model, Sligo. |
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