The deadline for submissions: Thursday 28 June, 4pm

Applications are invited for a programme of exhibitions at Ballina Arts Centre’s newly-developed concourse exhibition space. This is an exciting opportunity for artists to exhibit their work in an intimate gallery space located in Ballina Arts Centre, and is open to Mayo-based artists only.

This new initiative offers itself as a unique platform to artists, as the gallery space is in a prominent position within the arts centre. Work will be accepted in all disciplines of visual arts practice and subject to size.

Applicants should provide the following:

• At least 8 visual examples of their work*,
(photographs, slides, digital images on CD will all be accepted)
• Artist’s Statement detailing the work
• any other supporting material

*Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for the return of visuals.

Submissions should be sent to:

Concourse Programme 2019-21
Ballina Arts Centre
Barrett St.
Ballina
Co. Mayo

Note: e-mailed submissions will not be accepted. Artists will be paid a fee for exhibition.

For further information, contact Ballina Arts Centre, tel: 096 73593 / e-mail: info@ballinaartscentre.com

Application deadline: Tuesday 15 May, 4pm

The Arts Office of Offaly County Council is seeking proposals from artists and performers interested in being included in this year’s Culture Night Event in Offaly, Friday 21 September. New ideas are especially welcome. They will consider proposals including but not limited to:- music performances, comedy acts, literature events, visual art exhibitions, theatre, dance, film, workshops.

If interested:-
· Please include your proposal, CV and costing (costing to include materials, fee and travel).
· There is a limited budget. Proposals will be evaluated on quality, innovativeness and a cost efficient budget.
· NOTE: Only artists and performers that have a valid Tax Clearance Number can be funded please check before applying.

Email proposals to: arts@offalycoco.ie (please keep size to a minimum– under 2MB).

Application deadline: 1 May

In-Vision’s goal is to highlight the best of Irish and international video art and creative film. To celebrate all forms of experimental film ranging from video art to screen-dance in an extensive and broad spectrum of wonderful artists and creators. The festival will be held in the popular LightHouse Cinema in Dublin city where there will be live screenings of successful applicants and a Q+A with selected artists.

Please note: there is no submission fee to apply. In-Vision are unable to offer artists/film-makers an artist fee.

To submit your work email a pdf to our email invisionfestival@gmail.com with the following information:

• Artist/filmmakers name
• Address
• Availability to go to festival on July 12th
• Declaration of all rights over the film
• Title of film
• Year of production
• Artist statement/Film description
• Link to film (password if relevant)
• Relevance to theme of “Flesh and Blood” (please visit website for full details)

invisionfestival.com

Deadline for applications: 9 May, 5pm

Science Gallery Dublin is seeking proposals for up to twenty works for INTIMACY, an exhibition that asks what human connection is made of. They are looking for works that explore the themes on intimacy in surprising and unusual ways. Provisional exhibition dates are October 2018 to February 2019.

What is INTIMACY and can it be quantified, optimised, or commodified? Does INTIMACY hide in surprising places, or in plain sight? And will technology compromise the future of human connection, or bring us all together in new and exciting ways? There has never been a more important time to examine the way we relate to each other, and ask whether our definition of INTIMACY needs a reboot.

INTIMACY will examine the science and art of connection between humans, bringing together neuroscience, art, behaviour, belief and trust.

The exhibition will find closeness in surprising places and probe how INTIMACY can emerge between friends or opponents, across time and cultures, or amongst networks and groups. With electronic communication ever more pervasive, INTIMACY will examine how all this interconnectedness may disrupt traditional notions of togetherness, opening new avenues for connection, or killing off intimacy altogether.

Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? What does it mean when bodies are ‘in sync’? Does intimacy have a language? From FOMO to frenemies and oxytocin to online dating, we’ll find out what INTIMACY means in the 21st century.

Proposals may be new or existing works, and will be funded up to a maximum budget of €2000, which should include all artist fees, VAT, materials, equipment, shipping, travel etc.

For more information and to apply online: opencall.sciencegallery.com/intimacy

Application deadline: Monday 30 April, 5pm

Luan Gallery invites applications from creative practitioners and designers in the applied arts to submit for inclusion in our 2019/2020 and possibly early 2021 programme for solo and group exhibitions.

Applications for the following are now being accepted:

• Photography and graphic design
• Fashion, textile and accessories design
• Furniture, interior and object design
• Curatorial submissions (to include above mediums).

Applications should include the following:

• Cover Letter
• Artist CV and statement
• Exhibition proposal
• Images
• Links to audio visual or film works

Full details on submission requirements can be found on: athloneartsandtourism.ie/opportunities/

Luan Gallery follows Visual Artists Ireland’s payment guidelines for Professional Visual Artists.
A 25% gallery commission applies on sales.

Deadline: 23 April, 12pm

Riverbank Arts Centre is looking for expressions of interest from Kildare-based artists for Home Is Where The Art Is II; a youth arts project.

About the Project
Now in it’s second year, Home Is Where The Art Is is a youth-led project, matching professional artists with schools and youth groups across Kildare to encourage and foster creativity.

Riverbank Arts Centre will match an artist with a youth group and the artists will be paid and expected to facilitate 2-3 sessions during which they will inspire and guide the group in their creations. Materials will be provided.

The finished pieces will be mounted and displayed in Riverbank Arts Centre’s Children’s Gallery during JuneFest 2018.

To apply e-mail your CV, examples of previous work and a brief proposal (max 250 words) on one PDF document to alex@riverbank.ie

“Home is where the Art is” 2017:
riverbank.ie/home-art-launch/

Application deadline: Friday 4 May

Visual Artists Ireland, Northern Ireland invite curators to take part in New Spaces. New Spaces is year long programme of 16 contemporary art exhibitions in four unconventional spaces across the Derry City and Strabane District Council area. Curators will be selected from an open call and will each produce four exhibitions over an eight month period. Each exhibition will run for up to 4 weeks.

View the full project brief here: New Spaces – Call for Curators

Project Aims
● Create opportunities for artists and curators
● Increase the number of skilled arts professionals/producers
● Retain talent in the region
● Develop long-term private sector partners
● Enhance the reputation of Derry City and Strabane as a centre of artistic excellence

The Spaces
We are currently in the process of finalising the venue partners. Venues will be high footfall, unconventional spaces in the Derry City and Strabane District Council. Confirmed at this stage are the Walled City Brewery, Gwyn’s Café and Pavilion, Brooke Park and The Cottage, Craft Village. The final venue is to be confirmed.

Mentoring
The programme will include a programme of support and mentoring for selected curators that will be delivered by Visual Artists Ireland in partnership with local arts partners, Void gallery, CCA, Derry~Londonderry, and Nerve Visual. The mentoring programme will see participants work with experienced curators to develop their proposals, gain project management skills and enhance their professional networks.

A two-day workshop – Project Management for the Visual Arts has been scheduled for the 17th & 18th May in Belfast.

Curators will each produce four exhibitions, one in each of the four venues. It is anticipated that the first exhibitions of the programme will open on 23rd June 2018. The details of all exhibitions in the programme should be finalised prior to the programme going to print at the beginning of June.

Each exhibition has a budget for one artist, or artist collective. There is also a limited budget for transportation of artworks and installation costs. Budgets must agreed in advance with the project officer. Special consideration should be given to project logistics within proposals.

● Curators will receive a fee of £250 per exhibition
● There is a fee of £200 per artist or artist collective (one fee per exhibition)
● There is a limited budget available for travel and transportation
● There is a limited budget available for installation costs

How to Apply
Curators are invited to submit proposals for two exhibitions according to the brief.

● Detailed proposal for Walled City Brewery and Gwyn’s Café and Pavilion, Brooke Park
● Covering letter that outlines your suitability according to the criteria above (no more than
one side of A4)
● CV

Send your applications to: rob@visualartists-ni.org

If you have any questions about the position please contact Rob Hilken on the above email address or by telephone on 028 9587 0361

Application deadline: 31 May

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is pleased to announce details of its 2018 Open Call curated by Linda Shevlin titled Syntonic State.

‘Syntonic State’ takes dual cues from Galway’s merchant and mariner histories, and from the concept of nostalgia, with its cultural links to revelry and hedonism. The comfort we take in looking to the past – particularly during times of political and social crisis – forms the premise for multiple artistic responses.

Initially founded as a military base and urban site offering sanctuary to early colonists, Galway – derived from the Gaelic Gaillimh, meaning ‘Town of Strangers’ – ultimately became a settlement of foreign freemen. These historical developments arguably influenced the social and cultural diversity for which Galway has since become renowned. Thus, burgeoning trade routes and increased commerce influenced the evolution of Galway as a city, creating a newly-formed social stratum – that of the merchant classes.

Introduced in the seventeenth century, the term nostalgia denoted a common condition among Swiss mercenaries, who displayed symptoms of extreme homesickness, sentimental longing, or wistful affection for the past. Described then as a “disorder of the imagination”, nostalgia is now viewed as an emotion, rather than a physical condition. However, nostalgia does not always concern the past; it can be retrospective but also prospective. For many twentieth-century societies – including cultures that were globally displaced, marginalised from the cultural mainstream, or forged by eccentric traditions – a creative rethinking of nostalgia was not merely an artistic device, but a survival strategy. Such processes sought to make sense of the stateless condition, the impossibility of a homecoming, or a return to the halcyon days of a bygone era. This sense of grappling with displacement creates a desire to find one’s place in the world; to be ‘culturally syntonic’ – a psychology term denoting a person who is emotionally in harmony with their environment.

For full brief and application requirements see: tulcafestival.com/2018-open-call/

TULCA is curated through invited artistic participation and an Open Call process. The final selection of artworks will be based on thematic connection, artistic quality, and feasibility. There is no submission fee
Applications should be submitted via email to opencall@tulcafestival.com

Catalyst members are all invited to show a piece of work in any medium – work that they have made recently, that they have willed into existence, suspending or embracing the possibility of retroactive wishes.

Regret is a way of relating to objects and actions of the past, connecting our desires and wills to what we do and what we make. The Members Show this year takes the idea of regret – the retroactive wish – as a potentially compelling way of seeing what we’ve made and of bringing an element of looking-back into the present. Clément Rosset summarises Schopenhauer, saying that regret has no meaning; to do something different would have been to want something different. Even without meaning, a retroactive wish might carry something – the ghost of an intention, a persistent illusion.

The submitted work must be delivered or posted to the gallery between 9am – 5pm on the 27th and 28th of April. Please provide your name, title, medium and date included with your work.

For more information on theme and terms visit: catalystarts.org.uk/

Catalyst Arts 25th Year Members Show will take place 2nd – 5th May 2018, opening: Tuesday 1st May 6–9pm

To take part applicants must be a members of Catalyst Arts. Being a member is a great way to support Catalyst and have access to exclusive members opportunities throughout the year.

Click here to donate £20/£10 (unwaged) and become a member.

To find out more about membership visit catalystarts.org.uk/membership/

Closing Date for Applications: 30 April

Dublin City Council is seeking expressions of interest from artists, creative and cultural venues in the city to work with the Council to present the city’s inaugural Cruinniú na nÓg, a day of creativity for children and young people on June 23rd 2018.

Cruinniú na nÓg is an initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme at the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and is presented in partnership with the Local Authorities and RTÉ. The focus for Dublin City Council’s Cruinniú na nÓg 2018 will be on activities taking place in the city’s suburbs, neighbourhoods and villages, enabling young people to access creativity where they live, in their communities, with their friends and family.

Dublin City Council, via its cultural initiative Dublin’s Culture Connects, is seeking expressions of interest from artists and makers across Dublin. We are looking for artists, dancers, storytellers, musicians and all manner of experienced creative professionals, in any medium or artform, with an interest in working with children/young people, to work with us on one of three things for this year’s Cruinniú na nÓg:

1. Presenting age-appropriate cultural work for children/young people to see on June 23;
2. Working with children/young people to make new artworks or cultural engagement processes in the weeks leading up to June 23;
3. Facilitating once-off creative workshops or activities on June 23 for children/young people to do.

There are two fee levels in this open call, up to €1,000 and up to €3,000.

It is envisaged that the up to €1,000 award is for an individual artist or maker to devise and deliver a child/youth-focused activity on 23rd June in Dublin.

It is envisaged that the up to €3,000 award is for a venue or a group of artists or makers to devise, develop and deliver a set of activities for children.

For more info on this opportunity and how to apply visit dublinscultureconnects.ie/open-call

Deadline for submissions: Thursday 13 April

Cork Printmakers invite artists, photographers and other interested parties, to apply and be considered to participate in ‘Light Proof’, an exhibition at Cork Printmakers’ Print Gallery. This exhibition is part of CorkPhoto Festival 2018. This Submission Call is open to national and international participants.

Theme:
There is no designated theme for the individual pieces in this show. The exhibition will broadly investigate the possibilities and versatility of photography; as a starting point, an element or the core part of creating an image / artwork. It will also provide a platform to consider how photography and digital imagery influences how we view the world around us. Each participant may submit one unframed artwork for consideration.

Curator: Brian Mac Domhnaill

Please note there is no artist fee or other financial supports available for selected artists.

Cork Printmakers received a Capital Grant from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in 2017 to purchase a new Epson SureColour P9000 large format digital printer. Cork Printmakers are delighted to announce that an Award of a €100 digital printing voucher will be made to one selected artist.

Full submission details are available at www.corkprintmakers.ie or contact Cork Printmakers at info@corkprintmakers.ie / 021 4322422.

Application deadline: 1 May 2018

“Body/ Battleground; bodily autonomy beyond the 8th amendment” is a group art exhibition looking to highlight peoples relationship to their body outside of mainstream activism. Through bringing artists of different backgrounds together the hope is to foster a critically engaged visual culture that values the perspective from the margins.

Body/ Battleground are doing a call out for artists for a week long exhibition that will be held at a publicly accessible venue. The exhibition will be mid to late summer and artists will be paid €300 for the submission of three pieces that they will also have the opportunity to sell. Please note: these terms are subject to change depending on gallery availability/ fees/ fundraising etc.

To apply please send an introduction to yourself and a short proposal to bodybattleground2018@gmail.com. Body/ Battleground want to hear from people who don’t usually get a look in, sex workers, Travellers, intersex people, disabled folx, people of African descent, trans and non binary people, etc. and they have an open idea of what visual art is.

Email bodybattleground2018@gmail.com for more info or to apply.
facebook.com/bodybattleground/

Registration deadline: 11 May 2018

Tralee Chamber Alliance is organising an outdoor exhibition space called ‘Art in the Park Tralee’, this event will provide artists an opportunity to exhibit and sell their work in the heart of Tralee Town Centre on Denny Street and Ivy Terrace.

Artists will be allowed to display artworks on the railings of the town park. Each space is indicated by a letter/number attached to the railing and measures 9ft by 4.5 ft. This provides artists the opportunity for visitors to view their artwork and the public are given on opportunity to meet with the artists and learn about their work. Artists are only licensed to exhibit original artworks and the public can purchase original art directly from the artist. You can exhibit drawings, paintings, prints, photography and artworks are not required to be framed.

Art in the Park would provide an opportunity for artists to socialise, network and to gain from visitors, patrons and colleagues both encouragement and critique in the summer months and other seasonal events. The first event is hoped to be held on the first Saturday in June from 11am – 5pm and then it will run every Saturday until the end of August.

Please note: Cost of registration until the end of August is €50 and this will cover indemnity insurance of €30 and promotional costs of €20.

If any artist who wishes to register or requires further information, our registration form is on our website or you can contact Mary Greene, Arts and Events Officer at the Tralee Chamber Alliance at:

Email: artsofficer@tralee.ie
Tel: 0667121472 / Monday to Friday 9.30 – 4.30. Tralee Chamber Alliance, Suite 8 – Block 2, HQ Tralee, Dominick Street, Tralee, Co Kerry.