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 | Aideen Barry, Ciaran O Keefe & Jennifer Mehigan

How to present work in new ways (for traditional artists/practices) This webinar aims to explore new methods in which Irish ...
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Webinar | Anushiya Sundaralingam & Richard Forrest – Studio Visits

This Visual Artists Café virtually visits the studios of Anushiya Sundaralingam & Richard Forrest giving us an insight into their ...
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Webinar | Visual Artists Café: Introducing… Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

Visual Artists Café: Introducing... Centre Culturel Irlandais is the first in a programme of online events that aims to shine ...
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Webinar | Loney Abrams (USA) – Navigating the Art World as an Artist Online

In this webinar, Loney Abrams revisits her seminal essay that idealistically proposes the virtual exhibition as a hopeful alternative to ...
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Webinar | How to Make Video Content for Social Media with a Mobile Phone

Simon Mills talks about how visual artists can use film to tell their story and showcase their work. He talks ...
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Webinar | The Do’s And Don’ts Of Developing Creative Proposals

Grants, bursaries, residencies, per cent for art commissions, project proposals...this webinar takes a closer look at the essential 'Do's and ...
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Webinar | Joy Gerrard – Artist Talk

In an open and fascinating presentation, Joy Gerrard walks us through her career as a visual artist and the things ...
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Webinar | Miriam O’Connor – Artist Talk

A fantastic artist talk with Miriam O’Connor where she talks about her love of photography and “putting the camera to ...
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Webinar | Communicating Your Practice Online with Conall Cary

Conal begins by talking about his experience as an artist and the research he embarked on in his MA in ...
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Webinar | Visual Artists Café: Introducing… Cork County

Visual Artists Café: Introducing... Cork County is the first in a programme of online events in collaboration with Cork County ...
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Webinar | Applying for Opportunities & Funding (for Printmakers)

This event was held in partnership with Belfast Print Workshop & Seacourt Print Workshop. This session is aimed at printmakers ...
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Webinar | Digital Marketing for Artists – Reaching Your Audience

Social Media is full of creative opportunities: networking, sales, and developing new audiences. Promoting work online can be done effectively ...
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Webinar | Visual Artists Café: Introducing… Belfast

Visual Artists Café: Introducing... Belfast was the first of a series of online events to highlight some of the support ...
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Webinar | Sculpture Dublin: Introducing Smithfield Square Lower

In partnership with Sculpture Dublin This Visual Artists’ Café focuses on Smithfield Square Lower and the immediate vicinity of the ...
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Webinar | Working with Curators – Brendan Fox

It is extremely beneficial for artists to have their work seen by curators. Outside of the potential for exhibitions, there ...
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Webinar | Show & Tell – Kilkenny Based Artists

This Visual Artists’ Café is a Show & Tell event. Featuring 6 visual artists based in county Wicklow sharing their ...
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Webinar | Thinking Outside the Box – Tonya McMullan (PRIME Collective & Bathhouse Belfast)

Creating & curating spaces (thinking outside the box) One of the most common questions we get is "how can I ...
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Webinar | New Ways of Engaging Audiences – Jesse Ringham (Serpentine Galleries)

With the closure of cultural spaces in 2020/21, physical audiences have been dispersed - but how and where have they ...
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Webinar | Visual Artists Café – Artist Led Initiatives

What is an artist led initiative? How are they established? And what are the benefits of working this way? We ...
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Webinar | Show & Tell – Wicklow Based Artists

This Visual Artists' Café is a Show & Tell event. Featuring 6 visual artists based in county Wicklow sharing their ...
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Webinar | Sculpture Dublin: Introducing the O’Connell Plinth – City Hall

In partnership with Sculpture Dublin This Visual Artists’ Café introduces the O'Connell Plinth - City Hall and the immediate vicinity ...
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Webinar | What Makes a Good Artist Website?

You've bought the domain, created your pages, pressed publish and things are looking good. But, you are just not getting ...
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Webinar | Artist Talk – Katie Holten

Ireland and beyond – an artist talk on international practice led by New York City based Irish visual artist and ...
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Webinar | Rethinking Presentation – adapting to a new landscape

Not in modern memory has a time like 2020/21 restricted artists' right for movement and physical connection. We ask, what ...
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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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‘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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