Webinar Recordings & Podcasts

Webinars

Here are some recordings of our recent Online Events.

This content is only available to VAI Members, you will be asked for your email address and members password. If you would like to book some of our upcoming events available members and non members click here.

Webinar | Adapting to a Changing Landscape (Artists, Curators & Galleries)

What do we do now? Artists living and working Ireland have already felt the huge impact of Coronavirus on their ...
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Webinar | Visual Artists’ Café: Opportunities in Pakistan

Do you want to develop your international profile? Are you interested in building international links with your organisation? This Visual ...
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Webinar | Artist talk from Allan deSouza (USA)

Talk: The Present as an Entanglement of Absences How can we tell stories and make artworks that are always in ...
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Webinar | Per Cent for Art (Applications & Delivery)

This ninety minute workshop  Per Cent For Art in Ireland will address current opportunities, discuss what is needed  in a proposal ...
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Webinar | Making an Impact on Social Media

Do you understand that Social Media is important but don't quite understand how it works? Have you dipped your toe ...
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Webinar | Digital Marketing Without Social Media

Do you find that social media takes up too much of your time? Do you want to become less reliant ...
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Webinar | How to Prepare Photos for the Web

Having an online presence is now an essential part of being an artist and for most people that will mean ...
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Webinar | Curator Talk with Claire Gilman (The Drawing Centre, New York)

Recorded on 8 October 2020 Claire Gilman (Ph. D. Columbia University) is Chief Curator at The Drawing Center in New ...
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Webinar | Sustaining Your Practice; a practical guide to staying connected and visible online

Recorded on 24 September 2020 Do you feel that being online has become essential but don’t know where to begin? ...
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Webinar | Reducing Our Carbon Footprint with Paddy Johnson

Recorded on 10 September 2020 What can we, as a community, do to reduce waste and lower our carbon footprint? ...
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Webinar | Visual Artists Café – Focus on Climate Change

Recorded on 29 September 2020 In this Visual Artists Café Brenda McParland introduces the exhibition 'New Era' that opened at ...
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Webinar | Visual Artists Café – Pakistani Artist Community in Ireland

Recorded on 15 September 2020 This Visual Artists Café online introduces the artists that took part in an online exhibition ...
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Webinar | Planning festivals & adapting to a changing landscape

Recorded on 1st of September 2020 This event is designed to help festival organisers adapt to a rapidly changing world ...
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Webinar | Managing Your Accounts with Gaby Smyth

Recorded on 30th of September 2020. Please note: The information presented in the webinar was correct at the time of ...
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Webinar | How to Photograph Your Art with Simon Mills

Recorded 25 June 2020. How To Photograph Your Art aims to develop photography and video skills that artists need to ...
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Webinar | Project Planning with Noel Kelly

Recorded on 18 June 2020. Project Management has been described as peering into the future and looking for the best ...
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Webinar | Show & Tell – Northern Ireland

This Visual Artists' Café put Northern Ireland in the spotlight. It features Show & Tell presentations from six artists based ...
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Webinar | Visual Artists Café – Kiera O’Toole & Miguel Martin

At our weekly Visual Artists Café on Tuesday the 16th of June, we were joined by artists Kiera O'Toole and ...
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Webinar | Digital Marketing and Communications with Emma Dwyer

Recorded on 11 June 2020 The internet is making it easier for artists to network and reach new audiences both ...
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Webinar | The Do’s and Don’ts of a Studio Visit with Marco Antonini

Recorded on 4 June 2020. Making the most out of a studio visit can send a lot of us into ...
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Webinar | How to Apply for Funding with Neva Elliott

Recorded 28 May, 2020 Among the many challenges that exist in the career of every artist is the need for ...
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Webinar | Going Viral with Haley Morris-Cafiero

Recorded 21 May, 2020 In this webinar, Haley discusses ways to present your work to mainstream media outlets for publication ...
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Webinar | Assessing the Landscape of Opportunities with Catherine Hemelryk

Recorded 14 May This webinar gives your practical advice on assessing how different opportunities might be right for you. If ...
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Webinar | Curator Talk with Sarah Perks

Recorded 7 May 2020 Sarah Perks is an international curator and writer, currently Professor of MIMA School of Art & ...
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Webinar: Finances & Tax for self-employed artists with Louise Gorman

Recorded 7 May 2020 Delivered in partnership with Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council Please note: Louise references the UK/NI tax ...
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Webinar | Visual Artists Café – Galway Focus

This Visual Artists Café recorded on the 5th of May has a Galway focus. We welcomed artists and representatives from ...
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Webinar | Landscape of Opportunities with Maeve Mulrennan

This Webinar took place on Thursday 30th of April 2020. If you are signed up to the VAI eBulletin you ...
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Webinar | Writing About Your Work – Joannne Laws

This Webinar "Writing About Your Work" with Joannne Laws took place on Thursday 9th of April 2020. As an artist, ...
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‘The Unseen Shows’ Podcast

‘The Unseen Shows’, is a new podcast series with Joanne Laws, Features Editor of the Visual Artist News Sheet. It features interviews with artists whose exhibitions are currently sealed behind closed doors. These podcast interviews will be published every two weeks on Soundcloud, the Visual Artists News Sheet Online and here in our Members Area.

Episode 1 | Mark Garry ‘Songs and the Soil’ at The MAC

The first podcast in this series features an interview with Mark Garry, whose solo exhibition ‘Songs and the Soil’ opened ...
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Episode 2 | Neil Carroll ‘In Pursuit of the Brocken Spectre’ at The RHA

The second podcast in this series features an interview with Neil Carroll, whose solo exhibition ‘In Pursuit of the Brocken ...
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Episode 3 | Áine Phillips ‘Buttered Up’ at MART

The third podcast in this series features an interview with Áine Phillips, whose exhibition ‘Buttered Up’ opened at MART Gallery, ...
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Episode 4 | Austin Ivers ‘Threads’ at The Dock

Our fourth podcast features an interview with Austin Ivers, whose solo exhibition, ‘Threads’, was due to open at the end ...
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Episode 5: Gary Coyle ‘Dreaming Different Dreams’ at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

Our fifth podcast features an interview with Gary Coyle, whose solo exhibition, ‘Dreaming Different Dreams’ ran at at Kevin Kavanagh ...
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Episode 6: Ursula Burke ‘A False Dawn’ at the Ulster Museum

Our sixth podcast features an interview with Ursula Burke, whose solo exhibition, ‘A False Dawn’ was due to run at ...
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Episode 7: Róisín White ‘These Dark Shapes’ at Pallas Projects/Studios

Our final podcast in this series features an interview with Róisín White, whose solo exhibition, ‘These Dark Shapes’ was due ...
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Get Together Recordings

Get Together is Ireland’s National Day for Visual Artists. This annual event is geared towards all visual artists and offers the chance to meet other practicing artists and curators, engage in discussions on what impacts artists and make new connections with people working in galleries and arts organisations all over Ireland.

Get Together 2020 has been postponed due to Covid-19 and we hope to reschedule the event in Spring 2021. In the mean time you can listen to some recordings of Keynote Speeches and Panel Discussions from previous events below.

Curating Ireland: New Ways of Working | GT 2018

In this panel discussion from Get Together 2018 (21 May), Mary Cremin (Director of Void Gallery, Derry) chairs a panel ...
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Artistic Freedom – a human right with many obstacles | GT 2017

Marie Korpe and Ole Reitov are the co-founders of Freemuse, the world’s leading organisation defending artistic freedom. For Get Together ...
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Sustaining Your Practice | GT 2017

In this panel discussion, chaired by Mary A. Kelly, established Irish artists Geraldine O'Reilly, Nick Miller and Susan MacWilliam discuss ...
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Illustrating A Point | GT 2019

This recording is from Get Together 2019 that took place at TU Dublin Grangegorman on Friday the 14th June. Curator ...
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