Domestic Interventions

In her latest blog post on the progress of her residency at Krems, Sue Morris reflects on first contact with her co-residents and the increasingly fluid boundaries between her work, the domestic space and its ephemera. “It is a curious fact of acoustics that a toilet plunger, skilfully waved before

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Time and Space

Model Studio artist, Sue Morris, continues her series of reports from her residency at Air Krems in Austria. Here she reflects on how the residency is already affording her new perspectives on time space, two of the most important dimensions for any artist. How quickly and easily a new routine

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Goodbye Vienna, Hello Krems

A blog from Model Studio artist Sue Morris: I am a visual artist, usually practising from the Model studios, Sligo, Ireland, but have temporarily relocated to take up an Artist`s Residency in Krems, Austria. I was awarded the residency/scholarship through an exchange programme with Custom House Studios, Westport and AIR

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The Model, Sligo.

The Model Cinema hosts the Guth Gafa International Documentary Roadshow

Friday, Nov 02, 6pm This November, the Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival hits the road and will screen award-winning documentaries in regional centres around the country and on Friday, 02, November their roadshow will be in Sligo for screenings in The Model CInema. Alongside the screening of two key films

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Deirdre Houston – Recollections of Locations and Dislocation

room @ The Model 3rd – 31st August 2012 Deirdre Houston ‘Blue Lake’ 2012 As both a recent Graduate in Fine Art and a returnee former emigrant, within the work I am referencing memories of location and dislocation, growing up hearing soft recitals of Yeats ‘Enwrought with golden and silver

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Sarah Stevens: Museum of Abandoned and Bereaved Objects

‘room’ @ The Model is a contemporary exhibition space designated to the resident studio artists and is independently programmed and curated, from July 3rd – 29th, artist Sarah Stevens will curate the space. Sarah Stevens’ solo show Museum of Abandoned and Bereaved Objects is a sculpture and photography exhibition that

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