BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.6//EN TZID:Europe/Dublin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:22@visualartists.ie DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250408T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20251101T170000 DTSTAMP:20251003T090757Z URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/the-dreaming-road-jack-butler-yeats-at -the-model SUMMARY:The Dreaming Road | Jack Butler Yeats at The Model DESCRIPTION:Exhibition continues 25th March - 1st November 2025.\n\nJack Bu tler Yeats\; The Dreaming Road\nTue. 25 Mar. – Sat. 1 Nov. 2025\n\nThe D reaming Road presents audiences with the opportunity to trace Jack Butler Yeats’ extraordinary journey as an artist through four important\, inter connected stages of his life and work. The show touches on the legacy of h is unique artistic family\, as well as the indelible influence of his earl y life in Sligo on his entire career. A selection of his politically charg ed paintings of the 1920s are on view alongside a number of the great mast erpieces of his later years\, which are noted for their wildly romantic an d expressionistic style. While Jack was notably reluctant to discuss his c reative practice\, the exhibition is augmented with a number of statements by the artist himself that shed light on aspects of his attitudes and app roaches to painting.\n\nThe Yeats Family was one of the most creative and accomplished in the literary and cultural world of early twentieth century Ireland. Patriarch\, John Butler Yeats was distinguished as an artist\, a nd particularly noted for his work in portraiture. Jack’s three siblings William\, Susan\, Elizabeth made significant contributions to literature\ , publishing and education throughout their lifetimes. Their mother\, Susa n Pollexfen\, was the daughter of a wealthy Sligo merchant family\, and im bued in her children a deep love for the people\, landscape\, and mytholog y of the county.\n\nJack Butler Yeats remains one of Ireland’s best love d and most accomplished artists. Unlike his siblings\, Jack was sent to hi s maternal grandparents in Sligo\, where he lived between the ages of eigh t and 16 years. He cut his creative teeth on the deep experience of Irish life he encountered in the town\, and its western characters and dramatic landscape populated his works until the end of his life. While his subject matter remained the same throughout his long career\, his style of painti ng\, and the meaning he gave his works changed over time. His initial depi ctions of western life was marked by a strong sentimentality\, which he ex pressed in watercolours during the period 1898–1910. This gave way\, in his early oil period (1910–1925)\, to the pronounced realism that he dev eloped to make political and social commentary.\n\nJack had been on a visi t back to Sligo in 1898\, when he witnessed some of the centenary re-enact ments of the 1798 Rebellion. The spectacle of the event appealed to Jack ’s love of the drama of everyday life\, and he was inspired to create on e of his first political scenes\, Robert Emmet – Procession at Carrickna gat\, Co. Sligo\, 1898. The more serious concern of Ireland’s nationhood that the centenary celebrations brought to the fore\, also impacted the y oung artist. From 1898 onwards he became more convinced of the right to Ir ish self-determination. He went on to paint several\, more overtly politic al works\, some of which are also on view in this exhibition\, culminating in the masterworks The Funeral of Harry Boland\, 1922\, and Communicating with Prisoners\, c. 1924.\n\nFrom the 1920s and into the later part of hi s career\, another more marked development took hold. Jack’s subject mat ter became imbued with a deeper mysticism and symbolism. His handling of p aint became much freer\, he abandoned his palette and brush\, and worked d irectly onto the canvas using only the primary colours. Throughout the 194 0s\, his paintings increasingly present us with apocalyptic visions. He de veloped a highly personal technique\, which placed less emphasis on compos ition. He focused more on creating work in a ‘stream-of-consciousness’ style and termed the paintings he made in this way as ‘happenings’.\n \nThe exhibition continues until 1st November. In depth Curator’s Tours will run on each Saturday at 11am throughout June\, July and August\, and can be booked at the front desk or at www.themodel.ie.\n\nWe keep all of o ur exhibitions free of charge and open to everyone. We kindly ask that tho se who can afford to\, make a donation of €5 for this exhibition. This c an be done by contactless payment at the station in this gallery. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://visualartists.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025 /07/the-draming-road-16x9-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Connaught,Exhibition LOCATION:The Model\, The Mall\, Sligo\, Co. Sligo\, F91 TP20\, Ireland GEO:54.27445;-8.465393 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Mall\, Sligo\, Co. 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