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Our Members Area gives information on how to join VAI, the benefits, as well as access to your Membership account, including renewals, members’ galleries, webinars archive, and access to our discount scheme and discounted members’ events.
Resources
Our Resource section is full of helpful advice on the wide range of topics that constitute an artist’s career and practice. As well as information on best practice, we offer details on our advocacy areas and guides, as well as an online Payments Calculator.
Publications
Our publications section includes subscribing to our weekly eBulletins, as well as information on our bi-monthly Visual Artists News Sheet, our online archive, and how to advertise in the eBulletin and The Visual Artists News Sheet.
Visual Artists Ireland
Vision: We dare to dream of a time when visual artists will live in a world of opportunities.
Mission: Our Mission is to create a trusted space where visual artists are valued and have access to supports and knowledge that enable them to develop at all stages of their professional career.
COVID-19 VAI Status
Our physical offices are closed in Dublin and Belfast, but we are continuing to delivery 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 too. 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
Latest news, events, and jobs and opportunities, click headings to view all.
Open Tender | Provision of Mental Health Creative Outreach Programme, Northern Ireland
The Western Trust on behalf of CAWT (Co-operation and Working Together) seeks to appoint a suitably qualified service provider in each of the three lots to provide Creative Outreach Programmes to individuals experiencing mental health difficulties, (whether or not they have been diagnosed), ensuring that the principles of recovery are an intrinsic element of each…
Open Call | TOAST New Makers Programme, UK
TOAST is a unique lifestyle brand, creating and curating simple, functional, beautiful clothing, homeware and editorial. We are known for our thoughtful, contemporary design and commitment to traditional textiles and craftsmanship. We believe strongly in nurturing relationships with established mills, knitters, weavers, ceramicists and artists around the world. The TOAST New Makers programme will support…
Job Vacancy | Administrative Assistant at Visual Artists Ireland
VAI are looking for an outstanding multi-tasker with excellent communication skills and an upbeat attitude. Candidates should be able to assist management and all visitors to the company by handling office tasks, providing polite and professional assistance via phone, mail, and e-mail, making reservations or travel arrangements, preparation and monitoring of invoicing, and generally being…
New Short Filmmakers Funds in Film, Documentary and Animation – Wexford County Council
Screen Wexford in association with Wexford County Council Arts Office and Bodecii Film is calling for applications to its Short Film Fund initiative. The aim of this annual award is to provide funding and support to emerging filmmakers based in the County Wexford region looking to develop ambitious and creative narrative short films. The closing…
Visual Artists Help Desk with Shelly McDonnell (10 Dec.)
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. Help Desks can be on any topic…
Webinar | Working with Curators with Brendan Fox (24 Nov.)
It is extremely beneficial for artists to have their work seen by curators. Outside of the potential for exhibitions, there is also the valuable opportunity to engage in a critical discussion of their practice. The webinar will give you an insight into how curators may engage with your work and interpret it differently to your…
VAI Webinar | Per Cent for Art – Applications and Delivery (24 Nov.)
This ninety minute workshop Per Cent For Art in Ireland will address current opportunities, discuss what is needed in a proposal and application to a Per Cent for Art commission, and look at the production, delivery and promotion of a finished project. This workshop will present information but will be discursive in nature, allowing for artists…
VAI Webinar | How to prepare photos for the web
Having an online presence is now an essential part of being an artist and for most people that will mean having great images of your work to share. In this hour long webinar you will Gain an understanding of how to manage your image Become familiar with photography post-production skills and terms Identify software requirements…
RAY DAY 7-RADIO WAVES | Crawford Gallery Online
26/11/2020 @ 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm – Free to attend but pre-booking is essential through Eventbrite. Artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly, founders of The School of Looking, investigate the art and science of seeing in this series of lunchtime talks on their exhibition INVISIBLE LIGHT at the Crawford Art Gallery; funded by Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) Discover Programme and developed with […]
Online Talk | Photographs from the David Kronn Collection with Seán Kissane
26/11/2020 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – IMMA invites you to join a talk by Seán Kissane, Curator, IMMA who introduces Northern Light, a new exhibition drawn from the exceptional collection of photography amassed by Dr David Kronn over the past 25 years. Kissane will discuss a selection of prints, that highlight the complex history of the conflict in Northern Ireland specifically, […]
setting suns | close horizons – Online Exhibition by Nick Miller
12/11/2020 – 31/12/2020 @ – I often make series of works on paper to nurture my own energetic relationship with painting, experimental tangents for their own sake. In normal times, when planned exhibitions occupy me, these works fill up storage draws and are rarely, if ever seen. Responding to the existential impact of Covid 19 in the context of cancellations […]
Pop up expo | Modeenagh Studio, Fermanagh
05/12/2020 – 23/12/2020 @ – Exhibition of contemporary drawings by Irish and International artists in association with The Drawing Box a socionomic arts project that celebrates arts beyond borders.
November 20, 2020
Arts Council Awards 94 Commissions to Artists and Organisations Across Ireland
The Irish emigrant experience, the female munitions workers of the First World War, children’s curiosity for nature, and dance during the pandemic feature among 94 new commissions announced the Arts Council this week. The investment, worth a total of €1.3 million across 20 counties, means that artists will partner with arts organisations to create new…
November 19, 2020
Preparing for Brexit | Trading and Customs – EORI Numbers
If you are an artist based in Ireland or Northern Ireland that plans to ship work anywhere outside of the island after the 1st January 2021 then you should start getting prepared. You currently need an EORI number to move goods from Ireland or the UK to non-EU countries (until 1st January 2021). After the…
November 17, 2020
Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce Report Published
VAI welcome the publication of “LIFE WORTH LIVING”, the Report of the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce, announced by Catherine Martin T.D., Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht today. It has been widely acknowledged that the impact of COVID-19 on the Arts/Culture sector has been more detrimental, and will last longer,…
November 17, 2020
Creative Ireland Programme and Dublin City Council Announce Diversity Commissions
Gallery of Photography Ireland have announced the five talented artists that have been commissioned to produce new artworks that creatively reflect diverse communities in Dublin city. The initiative is supported by the Creative Ireland Programme and Dublin City Council and is being curated by Gallery of Photography Ireland. “We are delighted to partner with Creative…