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Latest Updates
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Job Vacancy | Development Manager with Helium Arts (Part-time)
Helium Arts is the national children’s arts and health charity and social enterprise, countering the social isolation of children living with long-term health conditions. Based in Mullingar and operating through Hubs currently in Cork and Limerick, they provide a creative community for children of all ages living with long-term health conditions to make friends, have…
Job Vacancy | General Manager of The Complex, Dublin
Job title: General Manager Reporting to: Artistic Director Responsible For: Administration Assistant and the Marketing Assistant A full-time position for 40 hours per week. The contract is valid for 2 years from 4th August 2020 and will be the subject of renewal by the agreement of both parties once this term is completed. There will…
ONLINE: Visual Artists Café, Tuesday 9 June
We are delighted to let you know that at our Visual Artists Café next Tuesday we will welcome visual artists Miriam O’Connor and Peter Richards. Miriam O’Connor lives and works in Cork and is recipient of the VAI Experiment Award 2020. Drawing inspiration from the language, sights and sounds of the everyday, her photographic practice…
Open Call | Walkers Stories from the Docklands Photography Competition 2020
Walkers Ireland and Business to Arts are inviting members of the public to participate in a photography competition. We are looking for photographs that fit under one of four themes – architecture, people in motion, life on the water and daily life. Photographs where possible should be taken in the Dublin Docklands area. Due to…
ONLINE: Visual Artists Café, Tuesday 9 June
We are delighted to let you know that at our Visual Artists Café next Tuesday we will welcome visual artists Miriam O’Connor and Peter Richards. Miriam O’Connor lives and works in Cork and is recipient of the VAI Experiment Award 2020. Drawing inspiration from the language, sights and sounds of the everyday, her photographic practice…
Webinar: The Do’s and Don’ts of a Studio Visit with Marco Antonini (4 June)
Making the most out of a studio visit can send a lot of us into a state of terror. Sometimes we can overthink what is about to happen, and find ourselves thinking of things that might have gone better when they have left the studio. We have asked Marco to give us the benefit of…
VAI Online: Clinic with Emma Dwyer (Co. Waterford Based Artists Only)
Clinic with Emma Dwyer (Digital Marketing and Communications) This clinic with Emma Dwyer follows her webinar looking at the Digital Marketing and Communication for visual artists. The internet is making it easier for artists to network and reach new audiences both on and off line. Artists are promoting themselves, consciously or not, as a brand.…
Webinar: How to Present You and Your Work – Digital Marketing and Communications with Emma Dwyer
After a fully booked webinar with Emma Dwyer in April, we are delighted to bring another event on Digital Marketing and Communications in June. This webinar is presented in association with Waterford County Council and Garter Lane Arts Centre. The internet is making it easier for artists to network and reach new audiences both on…
Fergus Hogan | Not the time to be silent
04/06/2020 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm – Thursday 4 June 2020 @8pm on zoom: Access here https://www.facebook.com/groups/NotTheTimeToBeSilent/ Fergus Hogan lives and works in Waterford where he lectures full time in systemic family therapy and narrative and storytelling therapy at Waterford Institute of Technology. His main research and publications are in the area of men’s lives and fatherhood. His first novel The Wisdom […]
Sanctuary/Wastelands by Alanna O’Kelly | IMMA Screen
26/05/2020 – 30/06/2020 @ – A new online screening series showcasing film and video works from the IMMA Collection. IMMA are delighted to present IMMA Screen, a new series which celebrates film and video works from the IMMA Collection. Previously only shown in an exhibition space, this is the first time these works will be shown online. The screenings are […]
Trancending Time by Aoife Dunne | Public Art Commission by Fingal County Council
08/06/2020 – 10/06/2020 @ – A pioneering, innovative and contemporary handling of a uniquely universal issue, digital installation artist Aoife Dunne, conjures the absurd and fantastic into a fully travelling otherworld. Enter your address @ transcendingtime.ie & have this technicolour dream come right to your doorstep. This insightful, evocative 4D installation is presented by Fingal County Council Public Art Programme, […]
In Confinement, Mokuhanga | Graphic Print Studio Dublin Online
26/05/2020 – 31/07/2020 @ – Graphic Print Studio asked some of their artists to make new work in the confines of their homes, using the traditional printmaking process known as Mokuhanga, which is Japanese for Woodblock Printing. Mokuhanga differs from western Woodblock printing, mainly because it utilises waterbased inks instead of oils, without a printing press. Yoko Akino, Cliona Doyle, […]
June 2, 2020
Amanda Coogan and Julie Merriman Receive Markievicz Award 2020
Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan T.D., has announced the 2020 recipients of the Markievicz Award, the second year of this bursary scheme for artists and writers, which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the appointment of the first female cabinet minister, Constance de Markievicz, in 1919. The Award Scheme is an initiative…
June 1, 2020
Visual Artists Café with Miriam O’Connor and Peter Richards (9 June)
We are delighted to let you know that at our Visual Artists Café next Tuesday we will welcome visual artists Miriam O’Connor and Peter Richards. Miriam O’Connor lives and works in Cork and is recipient of the VAI Experiment Award 2020. Drawing inspiration from the language, sights and sounds of the everyday, her photographic practice…
May 28, 2020
Get Together Recordings | Sustaining Your Practice – Mary A. Kelly, Geraldine O’Reilly, Nick Miller and Susan MacWilliam
Get Together 2020 has been postponed due to Covid-19 and we hope to reschedule the event in Spring 2021. In the meantime you might enjoy listening to some recordings of talks from previous events. In this panel discussion, chaired by Mary A. Kelly, established Irish artists Geraldine O’Reilly, Nick Miller and Susan MacWilliam discuss the…
May 26, 2020
Theatre Forum publish “Re-opening Arts Centres – Guidelines”
Theatre Forum have published useful Guidelines on the Re-opening of Arts Centres. These will assist arts centres throughout the country to consider how they might prepare to re-open under radically changed circumstances. The Government’s Phased Reopening plan provides a road map for organisations, including those supported by the Arts Council, to reopen their workplaces, cafés,…