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Services. Advocacy and information for professional artists in Ireland. Membership. Approx. 1500. Website. visualartists .ie. Visual Artists Ireland (VAI, Irish: Ealaíontóirí Radharcacha Éire) is an advocacy, support, publishing, and information organisation representing professional visual artists on the island of Ireland.
In Ireland, "La Tène ornamented material from the third to fifth centuries AD is difficult to demonstrate [from Ireland]". [1]In the 6th to 8th centuries the art of the newly Christianised Irish mixed with Mediterranean and Germanic traditions through Irish missionary contacts with the Anglo-Saxons, creating what is called Insular art (or the Hiberno-Saxon style) and such masterpieces as the ...
126 was founded in 2005 by artists Austin Ivers and Ben Geoghegan in the living room of their home in Galway. [ 2] The gallery was named after the number of the house. The two aimed to create more exhibition opportunities in the city, and to highlight artists who had a connection to Galway. [ 3] After 2 years, they curated a large "quality ...
Prendergast is particularly known for her City Drawing project which she began in 1992. She detailed pencil maps of the world's capital cities, now the work is part of the permanent collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Her work is held in galleries around the world. She has lived in London since 1983. Prendergast is a member of Aosdána.
The National Gallery of Ireland ( Irish: Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann) houses the national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House, and another on Clare Street. It was founded in 1854 and opened its doors ten years later. [ 1 ]
Erin Corr (1793–1862) – engraver. James Humbert Craig (1878–1944) Martin Cregan (1788–1870) Frances Emilia Crofton (1822–1910) – landscape artist. Dorothy Cross (born 1956) – artist working in a range of media from sculpture to video. William Crozier (1930–2011) – Irish-Scots still-life and landscape artist.
Nationality. Northern Irish. Colin Davidson (born 1968) is a Northern Irish visual artist, living and working near Belfast, Northern Ireland. An artist who works in themes, his recent large-scale head paintings have been exhibited worldwide.
The Arts Council is under the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism. It is the main distributor of funding to artists and arts organisations in Ireland and also serves to advise the government on the arts. It also funds the artists' organization Aosdána. They support architecture, dance, drama, film, literature, music, opera, community arts ...