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Lightroom Basics Workshop at Belfast Exposed
This technical course is aimed at beginners to Lightroom and those wishing to refresh previous knowledge. The course will cover the basic Lightroom features and techniques that you can use to adjust, correct and enhance your photographs, how to prepare your photographs for printing, and how to catalogue and organise your library of images. What…
Photoshop Basics Workshop at Belfast Exposed
This technical course is aimed at beginners to Photoshop and those wishing to refresh previous knowledge. The course will introduce you to the Photoshop interface and will cover the basic Photoshop features such as working in layers, and techniques that you can use to adjust, correct and enhance your photographs. What you will need No…
Open Call | “Boundaries”, Architecture at the Edge Festival, Galway
The Architecture at the Edge festival has issued a call for entries for the 2020 event, which promises a city- and county wide exploration of the theme “Boundaries” through a wide range of events between 2-4 October 2020. (Please note deadline has been extended to 28th August, 2020. 5pm.). Architecture at the Edge is seeking…
VAI Webinar | The Present as an Entanglement of Absences – Allan deSouza (17 Sept.)
Talk: The Present as an Entanglement of Absences Thursday 17 September, 4pm Allan deSouza is a California-based artist, whose works restage colonial legacies through counter-strategies of humor, fiction, and (mis)translation. Recent projects, Through the Black Country… (2017), and La Vida del Capitan (2019), transpose Henry Stanley’s 1870s African expedition journals to England during the 2016…
VAI Webinar | The Present as an Entanglement of Absences – Allan deSouza (17 Sept.)
Talk: The Present as an Entanglement of Absences Thursday 17 September, 4pm Allan deSouza is a California-based artist, whose works restage colonial legacies through counter-strategies of humor, fiction, and (mis)translation. Recent projects, Through the Black Country… (2017), and La Vida del Capitan (2019), transpose Henry Stanley’s 1870s African expedition journals to England during the 2016…
VAI Webinar | Curator Talk with Claire Gilman – The Drawing Center, New York (8 Oct)
Claire Gilman (Ph. D. Columbia University) is Chief Curator at The Drawing Center in New York where, over the past eight years, she has overseen the curatorial program, organizing more than thirty exhibitions and public programs and authoring nearly as many catalogues. Projects have ranged from first-time museum shows of such artists as Torkwase Dyson,…
ONLINE: Visual Artists Café – Show + Tell (25 August)
This Visual Artists’ Café will put our members in the spotlight. We will see work from 6 artists for our fourth online Show & Tell. We hope you can join us from your home or studio. Anyone who has attended one of our Visual Artist Cafés around the country over the last year or so will…
Visual Artists Help Desk with Rob Hilken (Online)
Do you have an area in your practice you need help with or would just like some advice on where to go next? Every Wednesday 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…
202020 | Group Exhibition at Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere
31/07/2020 – 31/08/2020 @ 11:00 am – 6:00 pm – 20th Anniversary Exhibition Group show including Taffina Flood, Rachel Ballagh, Cathy Bacon and Sarah Walker Taffina Flood was born in Dublin and educated at The National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She received BA in Fine Art (Painting) in 1991 and an MA in Fine Art ( Painting and Printmaking) in 1998. She has […]
Healing Paths | Sandra Johnston & Francis Fay at Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden
07/08/2020 – 30/08/2020 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm – For the exhibition Healing Paths at Galleri CC, Maria Norrman has invited two performance-based artists, Sandra Johnston from Northern Ireland and Francis Fay from the Republic of Ireland. Their work deals with the modern history of Ireland in a personal way. Norrman has visited Ireland twice, and became acquainted with the work of Johnston and Fay. […]
On Show | IADT Graduate Show 2020 Online
31/07/2020 – 31/08/2020 @ – In our current Covid-19 world everything we know and value within practice-based education has been radically reworked and reconceived. On Show showcases and celebrates the unique and creative response of the class of 2020 – a graduate class like no other, one bound together by their resilience, imagination and determination to see their work and […]
The Bloods | Amelia Stein at The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
07/08/2020 – 11/10/2020 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm – In association with Kilkenny Arts Festival Working with members of the Defence Forces from the 3 Inf Bn, based in James Stephens Barracks, Kilkenny, the photographer Amelia Stein has produced a body of work that is both a visual inventory in the medium of traditional black and white photography, and a portrait in time, that seeks to represent […]
July 31, 2020
23 Artists Receive Arts Council’s Next Generation Award
The Arts Council’s prestigious Next Generation bursary has been awarded to 23 artists practicing a wide range of disciplines including visual art, dance, film, theatre and literature. The awarded artists are from all over the country and include visual artists: Avril Corroon, Dorje De Burgh, Kevin Gaynor, Laura Ni Fhlaibhin, Eva Richardson Mccrea and Saoirse…
July 31, 2020
The Unseen Shows Podcast – Episode 7: Róisín White ‘These Dark Shapes’
The Unseen Shows is a podcast series by Visual Artists Ireland, featuring interviews with artists whose exhibitions have been affected by the closure of galleries in mid-March, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our final podcast in this series features an interview with Róisín White, whose solo exhibition, ‘These Dark Shapes’ was due to open…
July 28, 2020
Arts Council Northern Ireland to Open Creative Support Fund
Communities Minister Carál Ní Chuilín has announced the Northern Ireland Creative Support Fund will reopen on 31 July with a £4m support package for the arts, creative industries and cultural sector. The Minister said: “I am announcing further details on the opening of a £4 million funding package designed to help bolster freelancers and performers…
July 21, 2020
€500,000 Creative Ireland Investment in the new Creativity in Older Age Programme
Catherine Martin T.D. announced a new programme of creative activity for older people to be delivered by the Creative Ireland Programme through its strategic national partners and the local authorities. The Creativity in Older Age Programme has been designed to counteract the social side effects of the pandemic. It will begin immediately and will be…