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VAI Announces New Research Project: Local Action | Global Impact – Carbon Offsetting for the Arts

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We are excited to unveil a groundbreaking research project, “Local Action; Global Impact”, that merges the creative world with the climate movement. This innovative carbon offset project hopes to confirm the arts as a force for environmental change. About Local Action; Global Impact: At its core, this program recognises that every brushstroke, every action, every exhibition and event, every note, and every performance can make a difference in our fight against climate change. We believe that by harnessing the immense power of the arts, we can create meaningful change in our local communities while contributing to a greener planet on a global scale. Why “Local Action; Global Impact” Stands Out:…

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Creative Peninsula Twilight Market and Arts Night for Newtownards

From Ards and North Down Borough Council Creative Peninsula – Northern Ireland’s premier celebration of Art and Craft, will showcase the Borough’s most talented artists and makers at the Twilight Market and Arts Night event next Friday, 4 August. Formerly known as ‘Craft in the Square’, this year’s event has been renamed and moved to the later time of 4pm – 9pm. For one evening only, Conway Square and Ards Arts Centre in Newtownards will be transformed into a creative hub with 28 artists and makers displaying and selling their work. With a selection of ceramics, textiles, print, paintings and mixed media on offer and a drop-in area for children’s arts…

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Over €187k funding approved for Co-operation with Northern Ireland Scheme 2023

From the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Minister Martin approves funding of over €187k for Co-operation with Northern Ireland Scheme 2023 The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Catherine Martin has today (1 August 2023) announced a series of grants under the Co-operation with Northern Ireland Scheme. Minister Martin has approved allocations amounting to €187,015 to support cultural projects with significant cross-border elements. Small self-contained projects funded under the scheme seek to enhance, celebrate or commemorate the artistic, cultural, musical, film or heritage of the Island of Ireland on a North/South basis. Applications were invited for projects that helped to promote: Co-operation and…

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Major new acquisitions announced by IMMA and the Crawford Art Gallery

From the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. Minister Martin welcomes increased emphasis on diversity in the National Collection. Today (21 July 2023) Minister Catherine Martin announced the acquisition of over 100 works of contemporary art to the National Collection. This was supported by an allocation of €1.5m from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Crawford Art Gallery. The purpose of the award was to respond to significant gaps identified in the Collections of the National Cultural Institutions. These new additions to the National Collection will ensure that it is more representative of the…

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Orit Gat Announced as Recipient of The VAN Guest Editor Award 2023

VAI is delighted to announce London-based art critic and editor, Orit Gat, as recipient of the inaugural VAN Guest Editor Award 2023. Orit’s winning proposal demonstrates ambitious editorial engagement with emerging discourse on the relationship between art and literature. We very much look forward to working with Orit and publishing this critical and timely content in VAN November – December 2023 issue. Orit Gat is a writer and art critic living in London. She is a contributing editor at The White Review and at Art Papers and has written about contemporary art, culture, digital culture, and sports for magazines including Frieze, ArtReview, e-flux journal, LA Review of Books, Jacobin, and Paper Visual Art, among many others. She previously worked as an editor at e-flux, Rhizome, BOMB…

Paul Cézanne, La Vie des Champs (1876-77). Oil on canvas, 27.6 x 35.2 cm. Image, National Gallery of Ireland. Purchased, 2022, with special support from the Government of Ireland and a generous contribution from a private donor.

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National Gallery of Ireland Adds Cézanne Painting to Collection

Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, and Dr Caroline Campbell, director of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI), today unveiled Ireland’s first public Cézanne painting (the National Gallery owns a drawing by the artist, acquired in 1954). The painting, La Vie des Champs, was created between 1876 and 1877 upon the artist’s return to Provence, in southern France, from Paris. Translating to “Life in the Fields”, the oil painting depicts an imaginary, idyllic scene inspired by the country life of Cézanne’s native Provence. The painting, made when Cézanne returned to Impressionism, offers a window into the evolution of artist’s career with his employment of…

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The Arts Council publishes ‘Aosdána Beginnings’ by Mark Duncan

The Arts Council publishes ‘Aosdána Beginnings’ by Mark Duncan, commissioned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Aosdána in 2022. Free copies of the publication are available to the public. Over its 40 years Aosdána has honoured artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the creative arts in Ireland. The support awarded enables members to devote their energies fully to their art practice. The hard-back publication tells the history of Aosdána and how it was founded in 1981. Among the first members of Aosdána in 1981 were artists including Nobel laureates Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney, poet Leland Bardwell, writer May Lavin and playwright Brian Friel. Visual artists included…

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Gather by Niamh O’Malley | Ireland at Venice 2022 Officially Opens

Ireland at Venice 2022, the national representation of Ireland at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia presents Gather by artist Niamh O’Malley. Gather is curated by the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Curatorial Team, Clíodhna Shaffrey & Michael Hill Niamh O’Malley’s sculpture and moving image works hold us in the space for which they are made. Using steel, limestone, wood, and glass, she shapes and assembles objects to create a purposeful landscape of forms. Sculptures tall and free-standing, ground-bearing and cantilevered, with paced and looped moving image, inhabit and animate. This exhibition is a call to gather. It invites movement and communality. It is both lure…

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Kim McAleese appointed as Director of Edinburgh Art Festival

The UK’s largest annual festival of visual art is delighted to announce Kim McAleese as its new Director. She takes up the position ahead of the 18th edition of the festival, which returns from Thursday 28 July to Sunday 28 August 2022. Founded in 2004, Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) is the platform for the visual arts at the heart of Edinburgh’s August festivals, bringing together the capital’s leading galleries, museums, production facilities and artist-run spaces in a city-wide celebration of the very best in visual art. Each year the festival comprises newly commissioned artworks by leading and emerging artists, alongside a rich programme of exhibitions curated and presented by partners across the city.…

Francesca Woodman, Self-portrait talking to Vince, Providence, Rhode Island, 1977, Gelatin silver estate print; Photograph courtesy The Woodman Family Foundation and Marian Goodman Gallery, © Woodman Family Foundation / DACS, London.

Out Now! – May-June issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet

VAN’s May/June issue features coverage of several major exhibitions, including ‘i See Earth’ at VISUAL, Carlow, and ‘girls girls girls’ at Lismore Castle Arts. Also featured in this issue is an interview with Rónán Ó Raghallaigh, a profile on the 40th anniversary of Black Church Print Studio, a Regional Focus on County Longford, and much more. This issue introduces a new column series focusing on ‘endings’ from the Department of Ultimology, as well as several Arts & Disability columns, variously outlining: Arts & Disability Ireland’s Curated Space programme; Visual Thinking Strategies for people with visual impairments; and the realities of maintaining an art practice whilst living with chronic pain or…

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