Exhibition by Steve Wickham, ‘Geronimo Grandini’

This is a piece about loss. The loss of Steve’s beloved violin. It is an installation with a bespoke piece of film and a composed lament. The main body of the exhibition is housed within a kitchen table – where we sit , play music and perhaps wake our dead.

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Beasts of the Southern Wild

‘It all goes quiet behind my eyes. I see everything that made me Flying around in invisible pieces I see that I’m a little piece, of a big, big universe. In a million years when kids go to school, they’re going to know, that once there was a Hushpuppy and

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Ian Nolan, Winner of RDS Student Art Award, joins The Model in Feb!

The RDS Student Art Awards is a nationwide competition, which is open to Students specialising in the area of Fine Art and Design. Each year selected students partake in an exhibition, which takes place at the RDS in Dublin, and from these a number of applicants are selected for awards

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TY students go behind the scenes at Isabel Nolan’s exhibition

During the week, Liam and I (Wacky) have been helping out with some of the preparations for the Model’s next big exhibition called, ‘A Hole Into The Future’ by Isabel Nolan. This exhibition features many great pieces of Isabel’s work including many sculptural pieces of art. Most of her work

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Sue Morris – Departure points

“We travel to not only see new places … but to see ourselves as something other, to shed our skins of deeply engrained habits…And what do we find at that magical destination? Our old selves, no doubt” (Private Territory by Rolandus Rasauskas) While I may not have discovered a new

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Howling at the Moon – exhibition pending

In the latest post from her residency at AIR Krems, Sue Morris reviews a contemporary art exhibition and thinks ahead to her own new exhibition in Baden bei Wien on Saturday 24 November. Excitement, trepidation and logistical problems abound. A joint exhibition opened last Saturday at Kunsthalle, Krems, by artists

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