Building networks to strengthen practice 

This session will consider the ways that building a network of peers, mentors and collaborators can sustain and strengthen an artist’s practice.

Once artists leave structured education, it can be a challenge to find relationships with peers and others that can support, challenge and nurture practice. Those who live away from urban centres or otherwise work in isolation can feel doubly disadvantaged. In this webinar, Sara Greavu will speak about some methods and possibilities to foster these sustaining relationships, and we’ll collectively gather ideas and share strategies that have worked for us.

Sara Greavu 

Sara Greavu is the Director of Fire Station Artists’ Studios. Previously she was Curator of Visual Arts at Project Arts Centre and the curator, with Project, of the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2024) with the artist Eimear Walshe. Prior to this she worked at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry; VOID Arts Centre; and Outburst Arts, Belfast as well as working independently as a curator, writer and organiser. Independent projects include Open the book at a different page, a research exhibition produced with artist Ciara Phillips and former members of the Derry Film and Video Workshop, which dealt with intertwined political and cultural initiatives in Derry in the 1980s. Originally commissioned for the 39th EVA International, an iteration of the show is currently in OFF Biennale, Budapest.

This event is supported by Clare, Limerick and Tipperary County Council Arts Offices. 

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