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COVID-19 VAI Status
Our physical offices are closed in Dublin and Belfast, but we are continuing to deliver our Advocacy, Advice, Lifelong Learning, and Information Provision online, by email, or in the case of the Visual Artists News Sheet either online or delivered by post to all members.
Our mainline number can be used to make contact as normal, and all of our email addresses and online forms are still being monitored and responded to. We recommend compliance at all times to Government advice and continue to be the voice of artists to the government and funding bodies during this time. You can find out more about our online events in the VAI Events section, and through the eBulletins which are still operating twice weekly. We are delivering regular networking and information events as part of our wider learning and skills programme. These also include online Help Desks which are supported by our Help Line which is still operating.
Latest Updates
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glór in association with Bealtaine: Foraging for Bio-colour – A Workshop with Kari Cahill
Foraging for Bio-colour is a video workshop visual artist Kari Cahill, by glór in association with the Bealtaine Festival. This workshop is designed to give you the basic knowledge and experience to explore the abundance of colour surrounding you in the landscape. Kari will demonstrate how to forage in the hedgerows and shores of County…
Per Cent for Art Commission | St. Paul’s N.S. Dooradoyle, Limerick
St. Paul’s N.S. is located at Dooradoyle on the suburbs of Limerick City close to University Hospital Limerick. Dooradoyle is a mixed social background area, which has been growing for the last twenty-five years. The school was originally built in 1970 and in 2019 our newly refurbished, state of the art school building was completed,…
Open Call | New European Bauhaus Prizes 2021
Organised by the European Union, the New European Bauhaus has the ambition to make the Green Deal a cultural, human-centred and positive, tangible experience. Everyone should be able to feel, see and experience the green and digital transformation and the way it enhances our quality of life. It is about bridging the global challenges with…
Residency | 3 bis f, Aix-en-Provence, France
The 3 bis f contemporary art centre is launching a call for applications from international visual artists to undertake a creative residency, the results of which will be exhibited in the art centre’s spaces. The residency will take place 9 February – 23 May 2022 and the exhibition from 21 May – 22 July 2022.…
VAI Webinar | How to develop creative proposals and Online Clinic (Co. Kerry-based Artists only) (27 May)
How to develop creative proposals This session is aimed at artists who feel they need to gain an overview on how to put together proposals for a variety of contexts. This session will look at how to target opportunities relevant to your practice and outline issues that you may need consider when approaching different opportunities…
Visual Artists Café – Introducing.. Donegal Visual Artists Network (Needs Analysis Workshop) (20 May)
Event: Introducing.. Donegal Visual Artists Network Format: Visual Artists Café (Online via zoom) Date: Thursday 20th May, 2021 Time: 3pm Event description: This Visual Artists Café aims to explore current Visual Arts practice in Co. Donegal – strengths, weaknesses, gaps, infrastructure and opportunities. Led in partnership with Artlink Dunree and the Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny…
Visual Artists Café: Introducing… Cavan (18 May)
Visual Artists Café: Introducing… Cavan is the first of a series of online events in collaboration Cavan Arts that aims to shine a spotlight on Visual Arts practice in Co. Cavan platforming artists, infrastructure through events and learning. During the first event we will hear from three people who will give short introductions and speak…
Visual Artists Help Desk with Shelly McDonnell (28 May)
Do you have an area in your practice you need help with or would just like some advice on where to go next? Artists can book a Help Desk session that will be held online. These Help Desks will be free of charge for Members and Non Members for the duration of the current crisis.…
LUMINOUS VOID: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society at Project Arts Centre, Dublin
13/05/2021 – 25/06/2021 @ – Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society is an overview of the twenty-year history of Experimental Film Society (EFS). Through an exhibition and event series, it will explore the unique, defiant and influential trail that EFS has blazed through the landscape of contemporary Irish moving image. Hailed as “the most active, prolific and intrepid […]
Online Event | Inequality and Racial Stratification in Ireland: Thinking about the Arts
02/06/2021 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Reflect on Dr. Ebun Joseph’s research on inequality and racial stratification in Ireland with Dr. Francesca La Morgia. EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Please register to receive zoom link. The relationship of race to cultural production—how race is represented, but also how it is experienced and how it may serve as a source of […]
Gallery Reopening | The Douglas Hyde Gallery
12/05/2021 @ – We’re delighted to announce that The Douglas Hyde Gallery will reopen from Wednesday 12 May! Our current solo exhibitions by Yuri Pattison and Steve Bishop were only very briefly open in December and we’re looking forward to sharing the artists’ work with you. Utilising video, sculpture, and online platforms Yuri Pattison’s work explores the political, […]
Gallery Reopening | IMMA
11/05/2021 @ – We are thrilled to be reopening our galleries on Tuesday 11 May, this is the final opportunity to visit the extraordinary work of Paula Rego in her major exhibition Obedience and Defiance as it must close on 25 May. We will also open a new display The Artist’s Mother: Lucie and Daryll, presenting the work of Chantal Joffe in […]
May 11, 2021
Turner Prize Shortlist Announced
Tate Britain today announced the shortlist for Turner Prize 2021: Array Collective, Black Obsidian Sound System, Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical, and Project Art Works. An exhibition of their work will be held at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry from 29 September 2021 to 12 January 2022 as part of the UK City of…
May 4, 2021
Creating Time Awards 2020/21
First series of Unlimited grants awarded to d/Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists Winner of The Voice, Andrea Begley, is one of 11 d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists to be awarded £1,000 by a new grant programme run by the University of Atypical. The Creating Time Awards is the first in a series of grant programmes…
April 29, 2021
New 2021 Programme for the Decade of Centenaries including a permanent new 20th Century History of Ireland exhibition
From the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media: Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Minister Catherine Martin announce 2021 Programme for the Decade of Centenaries including a permanent new 20th Century History of Ireland exhibition Cultural Institutions and Creativity take centre stage in the Government’s commemoration programme featuring: Investment in new…
April 23, 2021
Minister Martin Announces the Addition of a Significant Body of Contemporary Artworks to the National Collection
Minister Catherine Martin announces that 422 artworks by 70 artists will be added to the National Collection thanks to the €1m fund provided to the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and the Crawford Art Gallery in October 2020. The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media has been working with the…