The VAN Podcast is a podcast series from Visual Artists Ireland. Published every two months, The VAN Podcast features online conversations, recorded remotely, with various contributors to each issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet. This gives opportunities to discuss some of the ideas arising from published texts, while also offering insights into wider practice. Episode 6 features an interview with Aideen Barry, focusing on her current large-scale commission for Kaunas 2022, European Capital of Culture, and her forthcoming solo exhibition at Limerick City Gallery of Art. Aideen Barry is an ..read more

The VAN Podcast is a podcast series from Visual Artists Ireland. Published every two months, The VAN Podcast comprises online conversations, recorded remotely, with various contributors to each issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet. This gives opportunities to discuss some of the ideas arising from published texts, while also offering insights into wider practice. Episode 5 features an interview with Emma Campbell and Clodagh Lavelle, who are members of the Belfast-based art collective, Array. An edited version of this interview was published in the July/Aug 2021 issue of VAN. Array’s work e ..read more

The VAN Podcast is a podcast series from Visual Artists Ireland. Published every two months, The VAN Podcast comprises online conversations, recorded remotely, with various contributors to each issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet. This gives opportunities to discuss some of the ideas arising from published texts, while also offering insights into wider practice. Episode 4 features an interview with new media artist Elaine Hoey, who contributed to the May/June 2021 issue of VAN. Elaine works with a range of formats, such as Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, video ..read more

The VAN Podcast is a podcast series from Visual Artists Ireland. Published every two months, The VAN Podcast comprises online conversations, recorded remotely, with various contributors to each issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet (VAN). This gives opportunities to discuss some of the ideas arising from published texts, while also offering insights into wider practice. Episode 3 features an interview with Nathan O’Donnell and Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll, who developed a profile on their new publishing imprint, Numbered Editions, for VAN’s March-April 2021 issue, which had a loose thematic f ..read more

The VAN Podcast is a podcast series from Visual Artists Ireland. Published every two months, The VAN Podcast comprises online conversations, recorded remotely, with various contributors to each issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet. This gives opportunities to discuss some of the ideas arising from published texts, while also offering insights into wider practice. Episode 2 features interviews with Kiera O’Toole, as well as Jane Morrow and Moran Been-noon, who each contributed to the January-February 2021 issue of VAN. Kiera O’Toole is a Sligo-based artist, a PhD candidate at Loughborough Un ..read more

The VAN Podcast is a new podcast series from Visual Artists Ireland. Published every two months, The VAN Podcast comprises online conversations, recorded remotely, with various contributors to each issue of the VAN. This gives opportunities to discuss some of the ideas arising from their published texts, while also offering insights into their wider practice. Episode 1 features interviews with Cornelius Browne and Frank Wasser both of whom contributed columns for the November – December 2020 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet. Cornelius Browne is a Donegal-based artist whose practice has ..read more

The Unseen Shows is a podcast series by Visual Artists Ireland, featuring interviews with artists whose exhibitions have been affected by the closure of galleries in mid-March, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our final podcast in this series features an interview with Róisín White, whose solo exhibition, ‘These Dark Shapes’ was due to open at Pallas Projects/Studios in early summer. VAN Features Editor, Joanne Laws, talks to Róisín via Zoom about this exhibition and the wider themes in her practice ..read more

The Unseen Shows is a new podcast series by Visual Artists Ireland, featuring interviews with artists whose exhibitions have been affected by the closure of galleries in mid-March, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our sixth podcast features an interview with Ursula Burke, whose solo exhibition, ‘A False Dawn’ was due to run at the Ulster Museum from 7 February to 31 May. VAN Features Editor, Joanne Laws, talks to Ursula via Zoom about this exhibition and the wider themes in her practice. New episodes of The Unseen Shows are published every two weeks on Soundcloud, The Visual Artists’ N ..read more

The Unseen Shows is a new podcast series by Visual Artists Ireland, featuring interviews with artists whose exhibitions have been affected by the closure of galleries in mid-March, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our fifth podcast features an interview with Gary Coyle, whose solo exhibition, ‘Dreaming Different Dreams’ ran at at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. VAN Features Editor, Joanne Laws, talks to Gary via Zoom about this exhibition and the wider themes in his practice. New episodes of The Unseen Shows are published every two weeks on Soundcloud, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet On ..read more

For Get Together 2019 (14 June), Curator Ben Crothers chaired a panel discussion focusing on the role of illustration within the visual arts. The discussion features contributions from illustrators Fiona McDonnell, Jacky Sheridan, Holly Pereira and Stephen Maurice Graham. Photograph by Jonathan Sammon. Pictured: Ben Crothers ..read more