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Artists announced for Accenture’s Women on Walls at DCU

Five award-winning and internationally-acclaimed artists have been selected for Accenture’s Women on Walls at DCU initiative, which will celebrate the ...

Dominic McKeown and Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl Awarded University of Atypical’s Graduate Award 2020

University of Atypical is delighted to once more announce their annual Graduate Award, aimed at supporting D/deaf and disabled artists ...

Out Now | July / August Issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet

Over the last few months, the livelihoods of artists have been catastrophically affected by the unprecedented public health restrictions, undertaken ...

June Webinar Recordings Now Available to Members

Our Webinar's and online events over the last few months have been very popular with over one thousand places booked ...

Belfast Exposed Announce Artists for Future Artists Programme 2020

Belfast Exposed are delighted to announce this year’s six successful applicants to the ‘Futures Artists’ programme. The six emerging artists ...

Alan Phelan and David Beattie Awarded the Plinth Commissions 2020/21 – Void Gallery, Derry

Void Gallery is delighted to announce artists Alan Phelan and David Beattie as the recipients of the Plinth Commissions for ...

Get Together Recordings | Illustrating A Point – Panel Discussion

Get Together 2020 has been postponed due to Covid-19 and we hope to reschedule the event in Spring 2021. In ...

Have Your Say | Research on the Needs of Artist Workspaces in Dublin – Dublin City Council

The Dublin City Council Arts Office is looking for existing and emerging artists to participate in a research study that ...

New Research Points to “Cultural Catastrophe” in UK – Creative Industries Federation

“Cultural catastrophe” - over 400,000 creative jobs could be lost, with the UK creative industries projected to lose £1.4 billion ...

Government Announce €25M Extra Covid Support for Arts and Culture

An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar and Minister for Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan have announced €25 million in extra ...

The Unseen Shows Podcast by VAI – Episode 4: Austin Ivers ‘Threads’

The Unseen Shows is a new podcast series by Visual Artists Ireland, featuring interviews with artists whose exhibitions have been ...

Shortlist of Nominees Announced for Gallery of Photography Graduate Awards

Gallery of Photography Ireland is delighted to announce the nominees for their new Graduate Awards. With these Awards Gallery of ...

RHA Micro Grants Open for Applications Next Week

#ReallyHelpingArtists is a new fund from the RHA to make small, easily accessible grants to alleviate some of the financial ...

Highlanes Gallery Announce Shortlist for Open Exhibition, Bernie Masterson is Recipient of Janet Mullarney Prize

The life and work of Janet Mullarney has inspired the first Open Submission Exhibition and Competition from the Highlanes Gallery ...

Aideen Barry Awarded Bunting Harp Collection Commission from Music Network and the Irish Traditional Music Archive

“Oblivion is an alchemy, turning the sounds of the past into a completely unheard-of landscape that will only appear for ...

Get Together Recordings | Curating Ireland: New Ways of Working

Get Together 2020 has been postponed due to Covid-19 and we hope to reschedule the event in Spring 2021. In ...

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 ...

‘The Unseen Shows’ Podcast Series by VAI – Episode Three: Aine Phillips ‘Buttered Up’

‘The Unseen Shows’, a new podcast series by Visual Artists Ireland. This podcast series features interviews with artists whose exhibitions ...

Visual Artists Café with Kiera O’Toole and Miguel Martin (Tuesday 16 June)

We are delighted to announce that for our weekly Visual Artists Café next Tuesday the 16th of June, 3pm we ...

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 ...