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Jack B Yeats; The Outsider
Summer
2010
This major Jack B Yeats retrospective will bring together
the painter’s great works for the first time in an exhibition
that celebrates his life’s work.
Yeats’ paintings reveal a fascination with characters that
lived on the fringes of society and he repeatedly painted tramps,
travellers, circus performers, drunks, sailors and gypsies. But
Yeats himself was an outsider, both to the people he chose to
paint and to the society into which he was born. This exhibition
explores Yeats’ interest in, and position as, the outsider,
and places his work in the context of the Modernist artistic
movement, a key feature of which was the development of the outsider
persona.
The show will be co-curated by Brian O Doherty (aka Patrick
Ireland 1972-2008), one of Ireland most celebrated living artists.
O’Doherty
emerged in the 1960s as one of the most multifaceted figures
in the New York art scene. Born in Ireland in 1928 and initially
trained as a doctor, O’Doherty knew Jack Yeats personally
when he was studying medicine and Yeats was dying. In much of
his writing for the Irish art world during 1960s and 70s O’Doherty
challenged Yeats’ position as the national painter of Ireland
and has since described Yeats’ work as the standard he “wanted
to write against – and for”
Niland Collection preview 2010
The Model is delighted to bring you a preview of the upcoming
programme for the Niland Collection in 2010.
The Birth of Modernism in Ireland
Spring
2010
This exhibition will address the tensions between the Celtic
Revival of Irish arts and literature in the early twentieth century
and the birth of the modernist movement in Ireland. The relationship
between the archaic and the modern was particularly antagonistic
in Ireland due to the country’s fractured history. This
show will examine the way in which this ideological tension manifested
itself on geographic lines between urban and rural Ireland. It
will particularly look at the image of the West among artists
as a rural idyll where, for many, the ‘true Ireland’ still
existed. The show will feature work by artists from both sides
of this clash including Keating, Yeats, Henry, le Brocquy and
Jellet.
Portraits from the Niland Collection
Autumn
2010
The Niland Collection features many portraits of important
figures from early the twentieth century worlds of politics,
art and literature. This show will bring together many of these
portraits and will particularly focus on those who played important
roles in shaping the emerging Irish Free State. The exhibition
will include portraits of Land League founder Michael Davitt,
gun-runner and revolutionary Roger Casement, as well as writers
such as WB Yeats and Padraic Colum, artists Jack B Yeats and
Estella Solomons and important collectors and patrons Thomas
Bodkin and Kathleen Goodfellow.
Niland Collection on Tour
Jack B Yeats – The
West of Ireland
Curated by The Model for Ballina Arts Centre February 2010
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