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Recipients Announced | Artist Residencies at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris for 2024-2025

From Centre Culturel Irlandais 4 April 2024. Announcing the Recipients of 44 Artist Residencies at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in

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Out Now | March April 2024 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet

In columns for this issue, we reflect on capacity and slowness across the arts sector; Lian Bell considers the implications

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[Image 1] Left: Muirne Lydon, Installing Sarah Purser Show; image courtesy and copyright of the National Gallery of Ireland; Top Right: The Book of Kells, The portrait of Christ (folio 32v located opposite the Eight circle cross); image courtesy and copyright of The Board of Trinity College Dublin; Bottom Right: Ludovico Mazzolino, The Crossing of the Red Sea, 1521, oil on wood panel; image courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland, NGI.666, National Gallery of Ireland Collection, Creative Commons License.
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miniVAN | Art History and Conservation

In the latest edition of the miniVAN, Production Editor Thomas Pool interviews Muirne Lydon, Paintings Conservator at the National Gallery

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Cecilia Danell, The Primeval Sunset, 2022 [detail], hand-tufted rug, 100% wool yarn, 200 x 200 cm; image courtesy of the artist, Kevin Kavanagh, and Crawford Art Gallery
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Out Now | January February 2024 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet

Happy new year to our valued readers, supporters, colleagues, and friends! The first VAN issue of the year features a

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Top Left: Omin, ‘Waxing Lyrical’, 2023, oil, acrylic, spray-paint on birch panel; photograph by Omin, image courtesy of the artist and Basement Gallery, An Taín Arts Center; Bottom Left: Caoilfhionn Hanton, 'I didn't float up the Lagan in a bubble' WIP, 2020, Spraypaint; photograph by Ian Humes courtesy the artist and Hit the North festival with Seedhead Arts, Belfast; Right: Holly Pereira, ‘Belgrade Perot Kilim’, Belgrade Irish Festival, 2022; photograph by @vatovec image courtesy of the artist.
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miniVAN | Street Art

In the latest edition of the miniVAN, Production Editor Thomas Pool interviews Holly Pereira, Omin and Caoilfhionn Hanton about their

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Noel Hensey announced as the winner of the VAI Experiment! Award 2023

Visual Artists Ireland are delighted to announce Noel Hensey as the winner of the Experiment! Award 2023. Experiment! provides an

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Shilpa Gupta, Words Come From Ears, 2018, Motion flapboard, 15-minute loop, 43 x 244 x 13 cm; photograph by Par Fredin, courtesy of the artist, Uppsala Art Museum, and the Henry Moore Institute.
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VAN Event | Orit Gat in conversation with Isobel Harbison

Thursday 14 December at 6 pm, in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for Dublin Art Book Fair 2023. Visual Artists

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VAI announces 2-month residency for a current member at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

For over two decades, the Centre Culturel Irlandais’ annual residency programme has offered great opportunities to over 450 artists of

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Out Now | November December 2023 Special Issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet

Visual Artists Ireland is thrilled to publish the November-December 2023 special issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet. As recipient

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VAI Launches Experiment Award

Experiment is a programme that provides an alternative form of residency. The purpose of the residency is to provide artists

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