The Model Sligo

11/07/2025

🎭 Wandering Voices: Ferocity and Resilience 🔥

Experience a powerful trail of live performance with Wandering Voices, featuring poetry, movement, music and storytelling that speak to our times. This year’s theme, Ferocity and Resilience, invites six incredible artists to explore courage, collective action and the raw beauty of the human spirit.

📅 Sat 12 July | ⏰ 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
🎟️ €8 per episode | €20 for all 3
🔗 Book now! https://www.cairdefestival.com/2025/wandering-voices

Each 30-min performance takes place in a different location - follow the trail and witness something new in every space:
📍 2pm - Aepril Schaile & Anna D
The Model, The Mall
📍 3pm - Andrew Galvin & Subhashini
The Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge
📍 4pm - Taryn de Vere & Filmore!
Methodist Hall, Wine Street

Come for one or experience all three!

Curated by Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan & Patrick Karl Curley✨


Sligo Hub Sligo County Council The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon The Canopy Sligo The Model Sligo Yeats Society Sligo, Ireland Visit Sligo

10/07/2025

The Model warmly invites you to view the exhibition 'Flights from Reason' curated by aemi_ie from Sat. 12 July.

'Flights from Reason' is a programme of new works by film artists from Ireland, France, the U.K., Poland and Sweden, and will be running until Sat. 20 Sep. 2025.

Working within a range of interconnected contexts and from a rich variety of sources the filmmakers in this programme all employ an indirect approach to their subjects, producing exciting forms of visual and sonic montage as a means of expressing unknowns, engaging with evasive figures and connecting with buried or fading histories. A complex of ideas emerges, producing entanglements where conscious and unconscious intertwine, ‘psychic knots’, as described by Joanna Stroud, that can be considered without a need for resolution.

With film works by Aurélien Froment, Saskia Holmkvist, Keira Greene, Ewelina Rosinska and Chloe Brenan.

📌 Visit our website for more details on the exhibition! www.themodel.ie

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

09/07/2025

This Saturday! Cairde Arts Festival presents Wandering Voices | Ferocity and Resilience – a trail of short performances taking place in 3 different locations with 6 different artists from around the island and close to home.

Full details and booking here: https://www.cairdefestival.com/2025/wandering-voices

2pm:
Aepril Schaile and Anna D
The Model, The Mall

3pm:
Andrew Galvin & Subhashini
The Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge

4pm:
Taryn Devere & Filmore!
Methodist Hall, Wine Street

09/07/2025

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last Saturday, 5 July, for the opening of 'Extra Alphabets', a new solo exhibition by artist Mairead O’hEocha, curated by Michael Hill, here at The Model.

We’re especially grateful to writer Ben Eastham for joining Mairead in a thoughtful and engaging Artist Talk in the galleries – a real highlight of the day.�

Sincere thanks as well to Mairead O’hEocha and Michael Hill for their incredible work in bringing this exhibition to life.

If you couldn’t make the opening, there’s still plenty of time to visit. 'Extra Alphabets' is on view until Sat. 20 Sep. 2025. Don't miss it.

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

08/07/2025

✨ Cairde Sligo Arts Festival – Closing Festival Club in collaboration with The Model Late Nights ✨

✨ Fun Protestants, Tailtiu, Alix & Ruairí�
📅 Sat. 12 Jul. 10.30pm
📍 The Model, Sligo
🎟️ Tickets €12
🎫 To book visit the link in our bio / www.themodel.ie/tickets

Fun Protestants is a Northern Irish duo blending sound art, acrobatics and sharp satire. Made up of sound artist Cameron Clarke and acrobat Mish Thoburn, their work is inspired by a movement of artists exploring the Irish identity. Fun Prods (yes, they’re actual Protestants) boldly satirise local Northern Irish issues and the chaos of latestage capitalism.

Alix & Ruairí are a Belfast-based duo: Alix Craig - music maker, image worker and writer from the northern Highlands, and Ruairí McCann - musician, illustrator and writer, raised in County Sligo. He is a member of the experimental music duo, Two Nice Catholic Boys.

DJ Tailtiu is an artist and producer from Belfast making a serious impact with her breakout track ‘Too Hot’. She is an expert in electro, taking a key creative role on Babymorocco’s album Amour. Beyond the studio, she is taking over the club scene headlining her own show DJing in Madrid, joining Babymorocco on tour across Europe and Australia, and pushing projects as Tailtiu and MMMouth.

Line-up
10.30pm–12pm: Alix & Ruairí
12pm–1am: Fun Protestants
1am–2am: DJ Tailtiu

08/07/2025

July Newsletter out now! Read here:

This July, The Model presents two compelling new exhibitions, beginning with Extra Alphabets, a solo show by celebrated Irish artist Mairead O’hEocha, opening Sat. 5 July at 3pm. The opening event will feature an artist talk with O’hEocha in conversation with writer Ben Eastham – admission is ...

08/07/2025

What's On - ART Exhibitions

Sligo: Recent Paintings

Mairead O’hEocha’s paintings at The Model cast an array of unusual elements into everyday scenes; from birds invading a garden lunch to an octopus in a trophy room or a fake loaf of bread at the tenement museum. The artist’s new works consolidate a variety of her recurring themes, which include depictions of the natural world and her relationship with it, sensory encounters and digital space.

Mairead O’hEocha: 8 July – 20 September

Visit https://www.irishartsreview.com/whats-on/ to see what exhibitions are on across Ireland and Irish artists exhibiting abroad.

Image: Mairead O'hEocha at The Model Sligo

25/06/2025

Great guided tour of The Dreaming Road again this Saturday – there are still tickets available!

Guided Tour | Jack B. Yeats, The Dreaming Road at The Model

Every Saturday
7 Jun. – 16. Aug. 2025, 11 am
€15 pp

Learn all about the art and life of Jack B. Yeats in this 45-minute guided tour of the exhibition The Dreaming Road. Led by an expert curator, the tour explores Yeats’ life, his love of Sligo and how it is reflected in all of his art. Enjoy private time in the gallery for an intimate, focused viewing experience while gaining deeper insight into one of Ireland’s most iconic painters. Perfect for art enthusiasts, curious visitors, and anyone looking to connect with Yeats’ unique artistic legacy.

For larger groups (10 or more) please contact [email protected] before booking.
https://visualartists.ie/events/guided-tour-jack-b-yeats-the-dreaming-road-at-the-model/

23/06/2025

Repost • Mairead O’hEocha
Extra Alphabets
5 July – 20 September
The Model, Sligo

Opening 5 July 11am–5pm, with a talk between Mairead O’hEocha and Ben Eastham at 3pm

Curated by Michael Hill
The exhibition is supported by an Arts Council Project Award .

Exhibition title typography by Rose Nordin

21/06/2025

We’re sad to see 'Chorus in Rememory of Flight' leave The Model! – If you didn’t get a chance to experience Julianknxx’s powerful installation in person, we encourage you to read this thoughtful piece by Gemma Tipton in The Irish Times, which offers insight into the artist’s wider practice and perspective.

🔗 bit.ly/julianknxx-themodel-irishtimes



Photo by: Cían Flynn Photography

20/06/2025

Art historian Jessica Fahy shares her thoughts on ‘The Dreaming Road’ on RTÉ Radio 1 ARENA, "an exhibition tracing the artistic journey of one of our country’s most important and loved artists, Jack Butler Yeats."

Listen here 👉 https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22522107/

In depth Curator’s Tours of the exhibition will run on each Saturday at 11am throughout June, July and August, and can be booked at the front desk or our website.