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On Saturday the 19th of May, in celebration of National Drawing Day, The Model is running two drawing events for the public to participate in. These events are suitable for all abilities and provide an ideal opportunity to encourage people to try their hand at drawing in the presence of an art professional. Drawing is a universal language understood by all. There will be a morning and afternoon session, with an offer of 25 to attend both sessions!
11am -1.00pm | Sligo Abbey | E 15 | This outdoor drawing event will be led by Sligo artist Aine O’Gara. You are invited to draw in response to your senses and the iconic surrounding of the ancient Sligo Abbey. Drawing inspiration from from dark canvermous rooms and light drenched cloister arcades, create your own charcoal piece and contribute also to a group piece that will be hung on the Abbey railings. Characol and drawing pads will be provided.
2.30 -5.30pm | Education Room at The Model | E 15 Drawing from the Landscape | A drawing workshop led by artist Micheal Wann. Using the mediums of charcoal, water and pencil the group will experience the wide and versatile imperfection of the drawing process. How both vital and flawed elements of mark-making mean that the spontaneous and accidental become of equal importance to that of the rational and intentional.
Booking is essential for both events : www.themodel.ie/education/national-drawing-day-sligo-abbey
12 May- 02 Sep. 2012 | Jack B. and John Butler Yeats; Yeats and Son | Two separate yet companying exhibitions drawn from The Niland Collection unveil side by side the artistic developments of the Yeats Family through the work of John Butler Yeats and his son Jack B. Yeats. Curator’s Tour: 1pm Wed. 13 June, free of charge, booking is advisable. Further details: www.themodel.ie
4 – 26 May | Opening Fri 4 May at 7.30pm | Castlebar, Co. Mayo | Sinead Ni Mhaonaigh’s paintings are, according to art critic Aidan Dunne, “poised between austerity and luxuriance. Structurally they are often spare and concise, featuring simplified geometric motifs, but their surfaces are luscious, consisting of thick coats of rich oil pigment, beautifully textured.” Her practice explores the liminal space between object and form, and within their expressive eloquence they also explores the very act of painting itself. Sinéad is based in Dublin. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in many public collections, including Contemporary Irish Arts Society, Arts Council of Ireland and the OPW. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the AIB Art Prize and was selected for Futures exhibition at the RHA Gallagher Gallery, while in 2010 she won the Hennessy Craig Scholarship at the RHA | www.thelinenhall.com
Fri 4th – Thurs 31st May 2012 | Opening Fri 4th May 5.30pm – 7pm | The Gallery, Roscommon Arts Centre | Roscommon Arts Centre invites you to an exhibition of works selected from Boyle Civic Collection. The first two pieces of what was to become known as Boyle Civic Collection were purchased in 1990 at Boyle Arts Festival Exhibition. The Collection now comprises in the region of 300 examples of the best of contemporary Irish painting and sculpture. A decision was made in 1990 to buy work each year at Boyle Arts Festival for a permanent collection for the town funded by the commission made on the sale of other works at the exhibition. Works have been purchased annually since and donations have been made to the Collection by The Haverty Trust, The Friends of The National Collection of Ireland, The Contemporary Irish Art Society as well as by numerous highly regarded artists. The Collection is now regarded as one of the finest collections of contemporary Irish art anywhere in Ireland | www.roscommonartscentre.ie
Wednesday 2nd May – May 31st | Hawk’s Well Theatre, Temple St Sligo |
‘Faces of Sligo Town’ is a commissioned photographic project by Sligo Arts Service, Sligo County Council for the Bealtaine Festival 2012. The work is based on Sligo town shops and the people who run them. The theme of the project celebrates the generational link in family run shops which, over the years, continue to give character and a face to our streets. Twenty premises from barber, jewellery, sweet to clothing shops took part in the project over a three month period. Running alongside the Exhibition in the Hawk’s Well Theatre is a photographic window exhibition; project shops will display an A2 photographic work .This is part of ‘Sligoe 400’, celebrating Four Hundred Years of the Borough of Sligo.
| www.sligoarts.ie
‘Fovea’ by Vivienne Roche | 3rd May – 2nd June | To be opened on Thursday 3rd May at 6pm by Patrick Murphy, RHA Director. Over the last 30 years Vivienne Roche has worked in large-scale bronze, glass, steel, sailcloth, stuccodore plaster, and reconfigured landscape. Drawing, watercolour and photography have also been central to her work. Her artistic
themes derive from site-specific dialogues between architecture and sculpture, the emotional resonances of the coastal landscape in which she lives, relationships between male and female, archaeology sites and their artefacts, and between music and the visual. Light has been a central focus as is evidenced in recent work. www.hamiltongallery.ie
Inishbofin Island Galway.
Dates: 4th – 6th May 2012.
Opening: Friday 4th May 9:30pm.
On this May Bank Holiday weekend Inishbofin Island is celebrating 35 years since the first ever Arts Festival was held on the Island. The Inishbofin Community Arts Festival 2012 runs from the 4th to the 6th of May. Set in the stunningly scenic and historic backdrop of Inishbofin, this Arts Festival is a colorful and eclectic mix of music, visual art, craft, heritage, dance, creative workshops and demonstrations, and many fun family activities.
Including an exhibition by AKIN artists Margaret Irwin, Leonie King, Dolores Lyne, Jay Murphy and Siobhan Piercy; an Inishbofin Island Arts Trail featuring local and invited artists including Gavin Lavelle, Lol Haridman, Rosie McGurran, Steph Salmon, and Shenna Jolly amongst others; and a host of other arts and crafts including a Travelling Quilt Exhibition.
4 May – 1 June | Opening Friday 4th May 6pm | Book Launch and Artist Talk Friday 1st June 3pm | Leitrim Sculpture Centre, New Line, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim | Shiro Masuyama is the latest artist to receive the Fred Conlon Contemporary Sculpture Award in Ireland. Sponsored by Sligo County Council the residency involves a research period of two months on the coast in Easkey, County Sligo followed by one month producing the work for exhibition ’Farming Life’ at Leitrim Sculpture Centre. For Masuyama the work is always firmly located in the social contexts in which it is made and so it is no surprise that the rural contexts of counties Sligo and Leitrim became the focus of his present work. Masuyama draws attention to the everyday practices of rural cultures and the reciprocal relationship of people and their surrounding environment. Motivated by the desire to bring these interactions out into the living surface of the everyday Masuyama works to intervene in the regularities of daily existence in attempting to bridge the gap between art and life | www.leitrimsculpturecentre.ie
4-6 May 2012 | Opening Thurs 3rd May at 8.00pm | You are invited to attend the opening reception of the fifth exhibition of Visual Arts for Roscommon Lamb Festival upstairs in the Old AIB Bank Church Street, Roscommon. The opening of the exhibition will be performed by Albert Siggins Local Historian. The exhibition comprises of various works by artists amateur and professional who work in Roscommon County. As part of the opening there will be a performance by Artist Noel Molloy titled ’180degrees Return’
4 – 27 May | Opening 3 May at 6.00pm : guest speaker Dr Gisela Holfter Senior Lecturer in German University of Limerick | ‘Islands’| An international group of artists: Pierre Bourgault (Canada), Mike Byrne (Ireland), Mels Dees (the Netherlands), David Lilburn (Ireland) and Marielle van den Bergh (the Netherlands), have begun the process of collaborating on a joint artistic project on the subject of islands. The artistic vision, practice and media used by these individual artists vary widely, but their work is linked by a fascination with the sea and coastline in their respective countries. Their involvement and engagement with the project, coming as they do from widely contrasting backgrounds and experience will, we hope, lead to the creation of a fascinating body of work, which will form the basis of an exhibition, designed to travel to galleries in Ireland and the Netherlands | www.customhousestudios.ie
