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Visual Artists Ireland
Vision: We dare to dream of a time when visual artists will live in a world of opportunities.
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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
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Open Call | Exhibitions at Locust Projects, Miami, USA
Founded by artists for artists in 1998, Locust Projects is Miami’s longest running non-profit alternative art space. Locust Projects is currently inviting local, national, and international artists to apply for the opportunity to access the centre’s space and resources to create ambitious, large-scale new work in their 1,500 sq ft main gallery. Locust Projects is…
Open Call | Live Coding Projects for ‘On-the-fly’, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain
‘on-the-fly’ is a Creative Europe project, led by Hangar in partnership with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Ljudmila and Creative Coding Utrecht, committed to supporting the development of European live coding practices. Live coding is a performing art and a creative technique, centered on writing and modifying algorithms in real-time, often in…
Open Call | Back to Normality: Utopias, Dystopias and Fictions – WIENWOCHE 2021, Austria
WIENWOCHE understands itself as a (post-)migrant, queer-feminist festival for art and activism and looks at cultural work as an interventional tool in social, political and cultural debates. The tenth edition of WIENWOCHE will take place 10-19 September 2021 in Vienna, Austria. Titled ‘Back to Normality’, it pursues a mission to travel to the year 2121…
Open Call | Proposals on the Theme of Gifts and Giving – ANTI Festival, Finland
The 20th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place 14-19 September 2021 in Kuopio, Finland. The organisers now invite artists, working in any field, to propose projects that directly engage with the theme of gifts and giving. The open call is seeking to identify between two and five small scale projects. Proposed…
VAI Webinar | Artist Talk from Katie Holten (19 Jan)
Katie Holten is a visual artist and environmental activist based in New York City and Ardee. Holten grew up in Ireland and studied Fine Art & History of Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin, and Cornell University in New York. She also studied Complex…
Visual Artists’ Café | Sculpture Dublin: Introducing the O’Connell Plinth – City Hall (Jan 19)
This is the second of six Visual Artists’ Cafés that will bring together artists, arts organisations and audiences, and connect them with local projects. This Café introduces the O’Connell Plinth – City Hall and the immediate vicinity of the second Sculpture Dublin commission. The winning commission will be presented at the event. You will hear…
Visual Artists’ Café | Sculpture Dublin: Introducing Smithfield Square Lower (Feb 23)
Visual Artists Ireland Café – Smithfield Commission As part of the Sculpture Dublin public engagement programme, Visual Artists Ireland is organising a series of cafés that bring together artists, arts organisations and audiences, and connect them with local projects. This Café introduces Smithfield Square Lower and the immediate vicinity of the new sculpture commission. The awarded…
VAI Webinar | Rethinking Presentation – Adapting to a New Landscape (Jan 14)
This event in collaboration with Wicklow County Council Arts Office will explore some of the new and different ways that artists and curators have presented work outside of traditional institutions as a result of the COVID-19 restrictions. Featuring; Valeria Ceregini, Jas Singh and Ciara Finnegan. Valeria Ceregini is an Italian art historian and visual arts curator…
Christmas at VISUAL
23/12/2020 – 31/12/2020 @ – VISUAL is here to delight and inspire you this Christmas. Visit us for a new season of artworks including the breathtaking The Soil Became Scandinavian in our Main Gallery and Signals and Circuits now open in our Digital Gallery. Our Homemade series of art activities will keep kids busy over the holidays. They can even send us their artwork to hang in our […]
Visiting IMMA this Christmas & New Year
23/12/2020 – 27/12/2020 @ – This has been an exceptional year and all of us at IMMA are extremely grateful for the support shown to us throughout the year. We are delighted to end the year with IMMA open. Over the Christmas holidays visit our exhibitions and soak up the festive atmosphere with our Christmas tree The People’s Tree, Ribbons & […]
Sound Art Release | Shapeshifter 2, Marie Phelan
21/12/2020 – 24/01/2021 @ – Shapeshifter 2 is the second iteration in the Shapeshifter series by multimedia artist Marie Phelan. This work examines traces of beliefs that persist within our landscape, with a focus on their transformational properties, and subsequent ways of being. Shapeshifter 2, created during 2020, takes the form of an audio release, featuring direct recordings from within […]
Exclusive Curator’s Tour: Mondrian Online, National Gallery of Ireland
18/12/2020 – 14/02/2021 @ – Experience the magic of Mondrian from wherever you are in the National Gallery of Ireland’s new Exclusive Curator’s tour: Mondrian Online. Step inside the Gallery’s atmospheric Beit Wing with curator Janet McLean on a 25-minute online tour of this landmark show. Featuring art from across all periods of a fascinating career, Mondrian is the first exhibition of the artist’s work […]
December 23, 2020
Arrangements in place to pay PUP to people who lose their job between now and the New Year
The Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys, TD, announced that arrangements are in place to process new applications made by people for the Pandemic Unemployment Payment over the Christmas period. Minister Humphreys informed today’s Cabinet meeting of the measures that she has put in place to ensure that those who require PUP income support will,…
December 22, 2020
Minister Martin Announces Payment of Additional €1.9m to the Arts Council
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, announced that she has approved the payment of an additional €1.9m to the Arts Council. This funding is in addition to previously additional allocations of €25 million to the Arts Council which was designed to help alleviate the effects on the arts…
December 15, 2020
Maeve Mulrennan Joins Cork County Council Arts Office
Cork County Council Arts Office are delighted to welcome Maeve Mulrennan who has joined as Assistant Arts Officer. In this role she will be working with the Library and Arts Services team to develop and produce creative engagement opportunities for people living in the County. This will include the Cork County Creative Ireland Programme and…
December 15, 2020
Appointment of Cultural Officers in London and New York under Global Ireland 2025
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, T.D., announced the appointment of two specialist Cultural Officers, one in London and one in New York, under the Government’s Global Ireland 2025 strategy. These appointments are a key action to widen and deepen Ireland’s global cultural presence and engagement in these priority…