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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.
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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Visual Artists Help Desk with Rob Hilken (2 June)
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.…
VAI Webinar | ‘Boost with Facebook’ (9 June)
Event: ‘Boost with Facebook’ – using Facebook & Instagram to Create or Develop Sales Channels for Artists Format: Webinar (Online via Zoom) Date: Weds 9th June Time: 3pm Description: Visual Artists Ireland are teaming up with Facebook. In this webinar representatives from Facebook will help you the artist explore the creation & development of sales channels…
VAI Webinar | How to start an online shop in collaboration with Google Digital Garage (26 May)
Visual Artists Ireland are delighted to announce a new collaboration with Google Digital Garage, offering an online course titled ‘How to start an online shop‘ via live webinar. Join us for a free Google Digital Garage live webinar at 3pm, on Wednesday 26th May We’re pleased to be partnering with Google Digital Garage to provide a…
Visual Artists Cafe | Sculpture Dublin: Introducing.. Kildonan Park (25 May)
Visual Artists Ireland Café – Kildonan Park 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 Kildonan Park and the immediate vicinity of the new sculpture commission. The…
Visual Artists Help Desk with Rob Hilken (2 June)
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.…
VAI Webinar | ‘Boost with Facebook’ (9 June)
Event: ‘Boost with Facebook’ – using Facebook & Instagram to Create or Develop Sales Channels for Artists Format: Webinar (Online via Zoom) Date: Weds 9th June Time: 3pm Description: Visual Artists Ireland are teaming up with Facebook. In this webinar representatives from Facebook will help you the artist explore the creation & development of sales channels…
VAI Webinar | How to start an online shop in collaboration with Google Digital Garage (26 May)
Visual Artists Ireland are delighted to announce a new collaboration with Google Digital Garage, offering an online course titled ‘How to start an online shop‘ via live webinar. Join us for a free Google Digital Garage live webinar at 3pm, on Wednesday 26th May We’re pleased to be partnering with Google Digital Garage to provide a…
Visual Artists Cafe | Sculpture Dublin: Introducing.. Kildonan Park (25 May)
Visual Artists Ireland Café – Kildonan Park 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 Kildonan Park and the immediate vicinity of the new sculpture commission. The…
A Web of Echoes | Paul Doran at Zari Gallery, London
04/05/2021 – 25/06/2021 @ – Echoes from the past come in waves, weaving in and out to form a tapestry of memories. Remnants of the past are etched into our psyches, political systems and environmental surroundings. Throughout the earth’s existence, cataclysmic events have shaped the future. We are now living through a momentous time of turbulent change and we have […]
“Life Goes On” | Jacqueline Wylie at Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
07/05/2021 – 30/05/2021 @ – Life Goes On – Scenes of East Belfast during the First Lockdown. Jacqueline Wylie began to document the impact of Covid-19 on herself and the spirit of her local community of Ballymacarrett in May 2020. Most of the photographs were taken while she walked the Greenway in East Belfast, litter picking and engaging with people, […]
LUMINOUS VOID: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society | 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 […]
Custom House Studios Group Show | Gallery Reopening
10/05/2021 – 31/08/2021 @ – Custom House Studios galleries reopens to the public Monday May 10th with an exciting group exhibition of artists working at Custom House Studios. Galleries open Monday to Friday 10:00 – 17:00 and weekends and holidays 13:00 – 16:30. Reopening exhibition features paintings and printmaking from nine artists ; Tom Brawn, Kate Cuddy, Bryan Gerard Duffy, […]
May 14, 2021
Save the Date – Public Art Now Conversations (24-26 June)
Public Art Now Conversations is an exciting new online event exploring the changing landscape of Public Art now and in the coming decades, June 24-26, 2021. Technological University Dublin and the Grangegorman Development Agency are delighted to invite your attendance as part of Public Art Now Conversations; a structured programme of six online conversations led…
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…