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Open Call | AIB Portrait Prize 2024 | National Gallery of Ireland


  • Deadline: Friday 21 June 2024, 10pm (IST)
  • Type: Funding/Opportunities 
  • Award: €15,000 and will be commissioned to create a work for the National Portrait Collection, for which they will be awarded a further €5,000. Two additional awards of €1,500 will be given to highly commended works.
  • Download Application: Download the AIB Portrait Prize 2024 entry form here.

The AIB Portrait Prize 2024 is now accepting entries. The annual competition showcasing contemporary portraiture is open to artists from across the island of Ireland, and Irish artists living abroad. The winner of the competition will receive a cash prize of €15,000 and will be commissioned to create a work for the National Portrait Collection, for which they will be awarded a further €5,000. Two additional awards of €1,500 will be given to highly commended works.An exhibition featuring a shortlist of portraits chosen by the judging panel will go on display in the Gallery from 9 November 2024 until 9 March 2025.Please complete the following before downloading the entry form:

  • Ensure that you have read and fully understood the rules of the competition.
  • Read the competition FAQs.

Entry form:

Download the AIB Portrait Prize 2024 entry form here. You’ll find a link to an Irish language version at the bottom of the page.

Checklist for entering:

  1. All fields in the entry form must be filled in. Incomplete or inaccurate entry forms will not be processed.
  2. Where possible, please save the entry form as a Word Document. PDFs are also accepted
  3. You must submit a digital file of your portrait (JPEG, video, audio).
  4. You must title your digital file with your full name.
  5. If you are entering a 2D portrait, you must submit 1 image (JPEG). Maximum file size: 3MB. This should be included as an email attachment, along with your entry form, and emailed to [email protected].
  6. If you are entering a 3D portrait, diptych, or triptych, you can submit a maximum of 3 images (JPEGS). Maximum file sizes: 3MB. These should be included as email attachments, along with your entry form, and emailed to [email protected].
  7. If you are entering a video or audio portrait, you must send your video/audio file and entry form to [email protected] via WeTransfer. You must title your digital file with your full name.

Deadline:

Send your completed entry form and digital file(s) to [email protected] before 10pm (IST) 21 June 2024. Best of luck to everyone entering the competition this year!

An exhibition sponsored by AIB, organised by the National Gallery of Ireland.

OPEN CALLS

06 June

Open Call to Artists | Arts + Health – Two Artist Bursaries 2025

Category
Open Call

  • Deadline: Friday 6 June 2025 at 12pm
  • Type: Funding/Opportunities
  • Comissions/ Award: Two bursaries worth €3000 each – available to individual artists or a group of artists working across any artform(s) to tell the story of an arts and health project they are delivering.
  • Link to Application Details: Arts + Health Artist Bursaries 2025 – Arts + Health

The national arts and health website is offering two bursaries to artists in 2025, funded by the Arts Council and the HSE. Two bursaries worth €3000 each are available to individual artists or a group of artists working across any artform(s) to tell the story of an arts and health project they are delivering.

Are you an artist delivering an arts and health project? Would you like to showcase the project to a larger audience? See the bursaries below:

  1. The Artist Documentation Bursary invites artists to document a project being delivered with a health or social care community, with two awards available.
  2. The Emerging Artist Bursary is available for an early-career artist to reflect on their arts and health practice.

Applications are now open for both bursaries with a closing date of Friday 6 June 2025.


artsandhealth.ie Artist Documentation Bursary 2025

The bursary is applicable to the documentation of arts and health projects across all arts practice areas (participatory arts, performance arts, environmental enhancement) in the Republic of Ireland.

The purpose of this award is to support professional artists working in arts and health contexts to enhance their documentation practice. The bursary can be used to produce a short film / animation, audio work, publication or visual documentation about an arts and health project, for public viewing.

An endorsement from the health or social care provider must be included with the documentation proposal.

The artist documentation bursary aims to:

  • Showcase arts and health practice to national audiences;
  • Support artists to strengthen their documentation practice;
  • Raise awareness around the impact of arts and health practice;
  • Inspire artists, healthcare staff and health service users involved in arts and health projects.

The bursary cannot be used to engage a professional to document a project. Artists can allocate a portion of bursary funding to support skills development in documenting their practice, for example, through mentoring or training.

Application process 
Download the application form, eligibility criteria and FAQs here:
https://www.artsandhealth.ie/assets/uploads/2025/04/Application-form-artsandhealth.ie-artist-documentation-bursary-2025.docx


artsandhealth.ie Emerging Artist Bursary 2025 

Professional artists with an emerging arts and health practice are invited to apply for the artsandhealth.ie Emerging Artist Bursary 2025 to reflect on their practice.

The bursary is open to individual early-career artists working in any artform in the Republic of Ireland.

Early-career artists working with healthcare communities are not always afforded the same opportunities to reflect on and interrogate their practice as their more experienced peers. This bursary is purposely designed to provide artists with the headspace for reflective enquiry as they develop and shape their arts and health practice.

Learning that arises from the bursary will be shared with the wider arts and health community via artsandhealth.ie. How this learning is presented is at the discretion of the bursary awardee.

One bursary award of €2000 will be offered to the successful applicant.

Application process 
Download the application form, eligibility criteria and FAQs here:
https://www.artsandhealth.ie/assets/uploads/2025/04/Application-Form-artsandhealth.ie-Emerging-Artist-Bursary-2025.docx


CLOSING DATE
The closing date for both bursary awards is Friday, 6 June 2025 at 12 noon.

artsandhealth.ie is the national website for arts and health in Ireland, managed by Réalta, the national resource organisation dedicated to developing arts and health in Ireland. The artsandhealth.ie bursaries 2025 are funded by the HSE and the Arts Council.

 


OPEN CALLS

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08 June

Open Call | Virtual Art Residency – Ocean III

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  • Deadline: Sunday, June 8th at 23:59 local time in your country.
  • Type: Opportunities
  • Link to Application Details: Oceans Open Call | Oceans Virtual Artist Residency | Moku Art Studio

We are delighted to announce that the Ocean Virtual Art Residency has been endorsed as an activity by UNESCO’s UN Ocean Decade. Being an endorsed activity brings increased visibility, including the Ocean Decade Network, and the chance to contribute to a global, collaborative effort aimed at achieving a healthy and sustainable ocean.

This collaborative program empowers participating artists to embark on the journey of developing a new project aligned with the residency’s thematic focus: OCEAN


Residency Format

There will be 5 virtual meetings among all the international participating artists under the guidance of a member of a Moku Art Studio and/or MANGO team. These sessions are dedicated to the inception and refinement of your artist project. Each meeting will feature suggested prompts designed to foster introspection and illuminate connections between artists’ projects. You can view OVAR 2024 here. 

Residency Expectations

Throughout the program, artists engage in the creation of an artistic project that resonates with the residency’s theme, yielding tangible outcomes. Their projects delve into the multifaceted theme of OCEAN through diverse avenues, encompassing technical, conceptual, reflective, and experiential explorations.

Upon the culmination of the virtual residency, we host a Virtual Open Studio and Exhibition Inauguration. During this event, artists virtually unveil their workspaces, showcasing their creations and engaging with virtual visitors who may inquire about the art and the artist behind it.

Required Application Information

Artists are required to compile the following information for their application:

  • Personal information like full name, nationality, current place of residence, languages spoken
  • Artistic discipline under which they are applying
  • Motivational letter
  • Explanatory text of the project to be developed during the residency (taking into account, in some aspect, whether technical, conceptual, reflective, or experiential, the theme or concept: OCEAN).
  • Brief artist biography
  • Up to 10 images, texts, audio, videos, etc. of your latest completed works or a link to your portfolio
  • Relevant links like website, Instagram, etc.
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  • Deadline (Open Call): Friday 21 June 2024, 10pm (IST)
  • Submission fee: No
  • Artist Payment: Paid
  • Payment Details:

    €15,000 and will be commissioned to create a work for the National Portrait Collection, for which they will be awarded a further €5,000. Two additional awards of €1,500 will be given to highly commended works.

  • Type: Funding/Awards, Opportunities
  • Applications Link: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/sites/default/files/2024-05/aib-portrait-prize-2024-entry-form.docx
  • Genre: Painting, Drawing, Photography, Sculpture, Visual Arts

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