The Sunset Belongs To You – A Major Children’s Portrait Project brought to you by The Model, Home of The Niland Collection
A Call Out To Children, Families & all of Sligo’s Communities
In an exciting new initiative, The Model has commissioned two of Ireland’s most distinguished artists to paint the portraits of 10 young Sligo citizens. The finished paintings will become part of Sligo’s municipal Niland Collection, where they will represent these children and their communities into the future.
Our vision is that these portraits will reflect the breadth and diversity of all of Sligo’s communities in 2023. We want to include and represent children from all kinds of backgrounds and abilities. We now invite Sligo people to nominate a child sitter to represent their community by having their portrait painted for our shared municipal art collection.
Two of Ireland’s most accomplished portrait painters, Mick O’Dea and Geraldine O’Neill ,have been commission to create the portraits in consultation with the children, their families and The Model’s Director, Emer McGarry.
For an application pack please email Nadia Tamerji nadiatamerji@themodel.ie
or
Application for The Sunset Belongs to you. Portrait Project
We will accept expressions of interest until 30 May 2022.
The Sunset Belongs To You is kindly supported by The Community Foundation for Ireland and the Arts Council