Jack Butler Yeats

VISUAL ART

jack butler yeats

The Wandering Gaze / An Misló Swuner

Presented in partnership with The Model

As part of Hereditas

Sat 6 to Sat 28 Sep

Jack B. Yeats, In Capel Street, Dublin, 1923. Collection Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. © Estate of Jack B. Yeats. All rights reserved, DACS London / IVARO Dublin 2024

Event Details

Times & Dates:
Sat 06 to Sat 28 Sep
Tues to Sat 11 am to 5pm
Official opening Sat 06 July, 4pm

Duration:
All day

Event Categories:
Visual Art

Admission:
Free

Age Suitability:
All Ages

Venue:
The Model, The Mall, Sligo

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Jack Butler Yeats The Wandering Gaze | An Misló Swuner

Presented in partnership with The Model

Curated by Dr. Julie Brazil

The Wandering Gaze presents a collection of images relative to Travelling people in the work of Jack Butler Yeats. Highlighting Yeats’ keen observations of diversity amongst nomadic groups within Irish society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the exhibition includes sketchbook drawings, illustrated prints, watercolour and oil paintings spanning the breath of his career. The exhibition was developed with participants from the Sligo Traveller Support Group working with the writer and Traveller Culture Collections Development Officer in the National Museum, Oein DeBhairduin.

Artworks are included from the Niland Collection the National Gallery of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, The Hugh Lane Gallery, The Crawford Museum, IMMA, University of Galway, and private collections.

This exhibition is part of the Hereditas Project, a collaborative arts project led by artist Séamus Nolan in collaboration with Sligo Traveller Support Group and funded by The Arts Council of Ireland’s Art:2023 Centenary programme. Researcher and project management by Niamh Moriarty.