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The Kent-Medway Museum Partnership (KMMP NPO) seek artist proposals for a new artwork which will explore the often-hidden links and impact refugees have had upon our collections, towns, and communities both past and present. Submissions from artists or artist groups working in any medium are welcome. The commission comprises two elements, the chosen artist or…
The Golden Fleece Award is the largest prize open to both artists and makers in Ireland. Its mission, enacted in accordance with the wishes of its founder, Lillias Mitchell, informs how it is adjudicated and distributed. The mission of the Golden Fleece Award is to provide resources for practising contemporary visual artists and makers to…
Riverbank Arts Centre, the county arts centre for Kildare, located at the heart of the county in Newbridge, is entering an exciting period of change and development and to help lead the organisation through this period of transformation they are seeking to recruit an experienced and skilled Venue Director. The role, which will report directly…
Macnas is looking to add to our bank of freelance artists and theatre makers who are interested in working with them on their newly developed Macnas At School, and Spectacle Youth Theatre programmes. Information on both programmes can be found in link: https://www.macnas.com/education The things that matter most to us are, Epic Storytelling, Imagination, Innovation,…
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 are free of charge for Members and Non Members. Help Desks can be on any topic related…
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 are free of charge for Members and Non Members. Help Desks can be on any topic related…
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 are free of charge for Members and Non Members. Help Desks can be on any topic related…
11/12/2021 – 13/03/2022 @ 12:00 am – ON STEADY GROUND/UNSTEADY GROUND New Work by Cora Cummins and Saoirse Higgins Curated by Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll Municipal Gallery, dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire 11 December 2021 – 13 March 2022 dlr County Council is delighted to present On Steady Ground/Unsteady Ground, a collaborative exhibition by artists Cora Cummins and Saoirse Higgins, awardees of a Visual Art […]
10/12/2021 – 22/01/2022 @ – Return to Disintegration – Periodical Review 11 Selected by Sheena Barrett, Alice Butler, Mark Cullen, Gavin Murphy Pallas Projects 10/12/21—22/01/22 Tanad Aaron & Mark Swords, Ella Bertilsson, Helen Blake, Bog Cottage Collective, Jenny Brady, Amanda Coogan, crux.project, Ailbhe Cunningham & Aoife Desmond, Joy Gerrard, Emma Wolf Haugh, Barbara Knezevic, Orla McHardy, Dennis McNulty, Jennie Moran/Home […]
08/12/2021 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Join Void’s Director Mary Cremin on a tour of our current exhibition The Shrinking Universe with Eva Rothschild This lunchtime tour will explore Mary Cremin’s curatorship of the Ireland at Venice Pavillion 2019, and re-situate the work in a post-covid era. No booking required, and we welcome groups.
04/12/2021 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am – The Artist’s Well is a weekly studio visit with an invited artist online via Zoom. The informal and often intimate conversation looks at the life of the artist, their work practice and allows the viewers to comment or ask questions of the artist. Now in its 2nd series, artist host Alan Keane has facilitated visits […]
Applications are invited for the 2022 Visual Artists Ireland Residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. The Residency is open to all members of Visual Artists Ireland working in all visual art forms at all career stages. This year VAI will provide a two month research based residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Accommodation, one…
From the Department Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media: The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D., announced funding of almost €2 million by Culture Ireland for the promotion of Irish arts globally in 2022. The funding is to support Irish artists, arts organisations and Irish cultural centres abroad…
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to announce the awarded curators from our recent Open Call for Curators as RGKSKSRG (Rachael Gilbourne and Kate Strain), and Katherine Murphy. RGKSKSRG will curate Oh My Demigod, a group exhibition that re-reads and re-tells the epic Irish story of the Táin Bó Cúailnge, particularly the role played by the young Cú…
It has come to our attention that artists are being approached to be part of a new national collection. The request is for work to be donated and signed over as a gift to the organising institution. The printing of the work, inclusion in a future exhibition and publication form the basis for remuneration. We…
