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VAI News

Zurich Portrait Prize Shortlist Announced by National Gallery of Ireland

From more than one thousand entries, the shortlists of both the 2020 Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize

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The Unseen Shows Podcast – Episode 7: Róisín White ‘These Dark Shapes’

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

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Arts Council Northern Ireland to Open Creative Support Fund

Communities Minister Carál Ní Chuilín has announced the Northern Ireland Creative Support Fund will reopen on 31 July with a

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€500,000 Creative Ireland Investment in the new Creativity in Older Age Programme

Catherine Martin T.D. announced a new programme of creative activity for older people to be delivered by the Creative Ireland

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Open Call | DCC / VAI Art Writing Award 2020

Dublin City Council and Visual Artists Ireland invite applications for the Art Writing Award 2020. The DCC / VAI Art

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Visual Artists Shortlisted for Venice Art Biennale 2022

Catherine Martin TD, Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht has announced the successful applicants who have

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Call for Participation | Make a Hyacinth, Bucket Challenge Sculpture with Alan Phelan

This Monday Plinth Commission recipient Alan Phelan will be at Void Gallery, Derry, to hand out materials for his crowd-sourced

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The Unseen Shows Podcast by VAI – Episode 6: Ursula Burke ‘A False Dawn’

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

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90 Artists to Receive Micro Grants from RHA #ReallyHelpingArtists

#ReallyHelpingArtists was a initiative the RHA conceived back in April as a way of creating a positive action amid all

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Bassam Al-Sabah, Sam Keogh, Ruth E. Lyons and Inga Meldere Recipients of TBG+S International Residencies

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to announce the recipients of our International Residency Programme, supporting artist residencies in

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