
The Visual Artists' News Sheet Online
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The Visual Artists' News is a Visual Artists Ireland publication printed six times a year. The Visual Artists' News Sheet Online offers our readers a platform to discuss a number of articles and topics contained in the print edition.
The Visual Artists' News Sheet Online
1w ago
BRIAN CURTIN DISCUSSES HIS ROLE AS ONE OF THE CURATORS OF THE BANGKOK ART BIENNALE 2024 WHICH INCLUDES THE WORK OF FOUR IRISH ARTISTS.
The fourth Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB) opened to the public on 24 October 2024 amidst a glitzy week of events, launches, and after-parties. It will run for nearly four months, closing on 25 February. This edition of BAB presents over 70 artists from around the world and is staged across 11 venues ..read more
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1w ago
Material Laboratories: Metal Fest
National Sculpture Factory
5 October 2024
The night of Psyche II, James L. Hayes’s collaborative performance, was one of the wettest nights of the year. Despite the orange weather warning for rain, the event – which centred on an outdoor live iron casting in the yard of the National Sculpture Factory – proceeded. The result was an epic battle with the elements: a battle to get the huge iron furnace up to a temperature of 1500 degrees in driving rain; a battle to keep the moulds for the pour sufficiently hot; and a battle to prevent the molten iron ..read more
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2w ago
EL PUTNAM REVIEWS TULCA FESTIVAL OF VISUAL ARTS.
This year’s TULCA Festival, curated by Michele Horrigan and titled The Salvage Agency, meets us in our current moment of global instability and uncertainty, mistrust and disillusion, extreme automation and military acceleration, when it can feel nearly impossible to claim any sense of agency. However, the festival assembles a selection of artists who collectively demonstrate a sense of purpose by salvaging the multiplicity of entangled crises and digging into the thickness of time ..read more
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2w ago
Creative Ireland Shared Island Programme
Counties Leitrim and Fermanagh
March to October 2024
In the middle of June, I stood in a bog in Leitrim, silently and blissfully, with a group of 45 people. For two minutes, no one spoke or shuffled. We just listened to the chorus of an Irish midsummer. For those who know me, this will seem like par for the course. In my creative work, I often find myself in intentional listening situations with groups of sonic enthusiasts ..read more
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2w ago
JOANNE LAWS INTERVIEWS JOAN JONAS AS PART OF VAI GET TOGETHER 2024.
Joanne Laws: Perhaps I could ask you, first of all, about growing up in New York in the 1930s and 40s. I imagine it was a completely different city to the one we know now?
Joan Jonas: Yes, it was a much more beautiful city. It didn’t have all those terrible glass buildings. I loved New York growing up there ..read more
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1M ago
Site-Responsive Intervention
Goldenbridge Cemetery, Inchicore, Dublin
12 – 29 September 2024
Goldenbridge Cemetery is a living archive. Spread across two acres, it speaks directly to political and social landscapes from the early-nineteenth century onward, communicating the histories of the communities it continues to serve. Nestled between the Camac and the Grand Canal, Goldenbridge was the first Catholic graveyard built following emancipation. Opened in 1828 by Daniel O’Connell, this walled Victorian garden cemetery inadvertently became a time capsule, when new burials were stopped, l ..read more
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1M ago
ELLA DE BÚRCA INTERVIEWS ELIZABETH COPE ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF HER PAINTING PRACTICE.
Ella de Búrca: Could you open up on your early influences and what led you towards painting?
Elizabeth Cope: As children, my father used to take us around to all the different monuments. We had some of our family buried in Killín Cormac in County Kildare. I remember seeing Ogham stones in the graveyard (that were later stolen) and you’d have to translate them into Latin ..read more
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1M ago
Curated and Produced by Household
Multiple Locations in Belfast
1 – 3 November 2024
Developed through a new international public art commissioning programme, ‘Red Sky at Night’ took place in six unique locations around Belfast during the first weekend of November. The six new commissions were curated and delivered by Household – a collectively-led organisation supporting the production of high-quality art that connects people and place – and funded by Belfast City Council, the British Council, and the Mondriaan Fund, as part of the Belfast 2024 celebrations ..read more
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2M ago
SHARON KELLY OUTLINES A NEW BODY OF WORK CREATED WITH AN ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND SIAP AWARD.
Over the past ten months, I have been developing a new body of work, supported by a Major Individual Award (SIAP) from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI). This award, given in recognition of contribution to creative life in Northern Ireland, is the highest value awarded to artists in Northern Ireland: £15,000 ..read more
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2M ago
Butler Gallery
10 August – 29 September 2024
‘Deep Time Dip’ by Liane Lang at Butler Gallery in Kilkenny sees the artist present several bodies of previous work, giving the viewer an impression of the impetus behind her practice. Lang’s work is situated between sculpture and photography, using a variety of media to play with viewer subjectivity and contemporary society’s obsession with the image. Lang’s sculptures tell the story of their ‘objectness’, whether industrial or natural, and expand on relations with the body.  ..read more