Model Arts and Niland Gallery

The Model Arts and Niland Gallery is a contemporary arts centre and gallery space in Sligo, Ireland. It is housed in a building completed in 1863 at No.22, The Mall, which originally served as the Model School. The Model is a museum at the centre of the community, offering global perspectives on art, ideas, culture and identity through programming described as urgent, experimental and relevant to people's lives. It receives core funding from Sligo County Council and the Arts Council, and is home to The Niland Collection.

The building which today houses the Model Arts and Niland Gallery was completed in 1863 at No.22, The Mall, Sligo. It was originally built to provide a venue for the new Model School, with construction beginning in the 1850s. The architect was James H. Owen, who designed it in an Italian-Romanesque style with a central block and two wings. Local builders Keighron and sons executed the design, and the Model School opened its doors in 1863. In the mid-1950s, Jack B. Yeats donated his painting, Leaving the Far Point, to Sligo Corporation, beginning Sligo's Municipal Art Collection. The following year, Sligo County Librarian Nora Niland established the Sligo County Museum and was instrumental in founding the Yeats Summer School in 1960. The Gallery where the collection had been exhibited was renamed the Niland Gallery on the tenth anniversary of Nora Niland's death (d. 1988), and in 2001 it was transferred to the Model Arts and Niland Gallery.

A dynamic and innovative centre for the contemporary arts, situated on Europe's northwest periphery, in receipt of core funding from Sligo County Council and the Arts Council.

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