Open Call to Artists | 195th RHA Annual Exhibition
- Deadline: Sunday, 23rd February 2025 at 11:59pm
- Type: Awards, Opportunities
- Award: largest artistic prize fund available to artists – (2024 prize fund totaled over €78,000)
- Link to applications: https://royalhibernianacademy.oess1.uk/
ENTRY PRICING
- Maximum Artwork Entries: 3
- First or Single Entry Price: €20.00
- Additional Entries: €20.00 per artwork up to 3 artworks.
Join us this summer for the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition featuring painting, print, sculpture, drawing, photography, mixed media and architectural models. Irelands’ largest and longest-running open submission exhibition will be open to the public from Monday 26 May to Sunday 3 August with free admission, at all times. With the largest artistic prize fund available to artists (2024 prize fund totalled over €78,000) across different medium, the RHA Annual exhibition attracts the highest calibre of artists working today. Exhibitors include RHA Academy members, invited artists and 300+ artists whose work was selected through the, highly competitive, open submission process. 2024 year saw a record-breaking 5300+ works submitted from which less than 350 can be accepted into the exhibition, ensuring that the highest standard of work is shown. With works ranging in price from €50 to €60,000, this show is a must-see for both those new to buying art to the discerning collector.
The documentary Exhibitionists: Road to the RHA followed seven artists on their journeys to selection for the 189th Annual in 2019. View here on the RTÉ Player.
Major awards include the Hennessy Craig Award of €20,000 and the Homan Potterton Award of €10,000, both awarded to a painter under the age of 35, exhibiting in the RHA Annual Exhibition, who has studied at a recognised art college in Ireland. More Here.
2025 will also see the introduction of The Art of Architecture Pavillion competition. More Here.
Applications Now Open. Apply HERE
Read 195th RHA Annual Exhibition Terms & Conditions HERE
KEY DATES
- Open For Entry: 2 December 2024
- Entry Deadline: 23 February 2025, 11:59pm
- Selection Notification (stage 1): 7 March 2025
- Artwork Delivery (stage 2): 4 & 5 April 2025
- Selection Notification (stage 2): 11 April 2025
- Collection of unselected work: 25 & 26 April 2025
- Exhibition Open To Public: 26 May – 3 August 2025
- Collection of unsold work: 6 August, 11am to 4:30pm. For collection after this date please make an appointment for collection with [email protected]. All collections of unsold work must be made before 1 September 2025.
- All dates subject to change
OPEN CALLS
Open Call for Proposals | Earth Rising Festival 2025 at IMMA
- Deadline: Friday, 28th February 2025
- Type: Fundng/Opportunities
- Award: IMMA is offering €10,000 grant to the three winning proposals.
- Link to application details: https://imma.ie/whats-on/earth-rising/
We are delighted to announce an Open Call for Proposals for the Earth Rising Festival 2025. This annual festival is dedicated to sparking climate conversations and inspiring action through art and culture.
The 2025 edition of Earth Rising will align with “Staying With the Trouble”, a ground-breaking exhibition at IMMA inspired by Donna Haraway’s seminal book. Opening in April 2025, the exhibition invites audiences to rethink their relationships with humans, animals, and ecosystems, fostering imaginative new ways of seeing and acting.
Haraway’s concept of “making kin”—collaborating across species and communities—guides this call. In the same spirit, we are seeking projects that bring visual artists, ecological groups, and communities together to respond creatively to the Earth Crisis. Selected projects will culminate in presentations, activations, or installations at the Earth Rising Festival in September 2025, demonstrating how collaboration can inspire meaningful change.
About the Open Call
We invite proposals for innovative, community-focused projects that combine artistic creativity and environmental action to inspire hope, dialogue, and transformation. IMMA is offering three €10,000 grants to fund projects that will:
- Be developed between April and August 2025.
- Manifest at the Earth Rising Festival in September 2025, through an engaging and participatory format that connects with festival audiences.
We are looking for collaborations between visual artists, Irish-based environmental groups, and local communities. Proposals should aim to create impactful projects that highlight the power of collective action in addressing the climate crisis.
Project Themes
Proposals should respond to two or more of these themes:
- Everything is Connected Highlight the interconnectedness of humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems. Explore the shared responsibilities that sustain life on Earth.
- Imagine New Futures Envision hopeful, sustainable futures and propose imaginative solutions for a thriving planet.
- Working Together Showcase the strength of collaboration between people, communities, and nature, celebrating collective effort and shared ideas.
What We’re Looking For
We are particularly interested in projects (new or existing) that:
- Engage Communities: Actively involve local communities across the island of Ireland, in meaningful ways, fostering participation, dialogue, and learning.
- Combine Art and Environmental Action: Utilise the collaboration between artists and ecological groups to propose innovative responses to environmental challenges.
- Manifest tangibly at Earth Rising: Proposals must include a clear plan for presenting or activating the project at the Earth Rising Festival (12-14 September 2025), ensuring it resonates with audiences and creates lasting impact.
- Have Feasibility and Vision: Demonstrate a clear and achievable roadmap for development, delivery, and presentation, within the given timeframe and budget.
How to Apply
Proposals should comprise of a 5 page (max) PDF document which includes the following:
- Project Concept: A summary description (max 500 words) of the project, its goals, and how it aligns with the themes.
- Collaboration Plan: How the visual artist and environmental group will work together, including roles and responsibilities.
- Community Engagement Plan: How the project will involve and benefit local communities.
- Manifestation Plan: A clear vision for how the project will be presented or activated at the Earth Rising Festival.
- Budget: A breakdown of how the €10,000 grant will be allocated. Please note that the budgets are all inclusive and should cover all the expenses (including travel) needed for the presentation of your work, including VAT where applicable.
- Timeline: Key milestones from April to September 2025.
- Artist/Group Background: Bios of the artist(s) and environmental group, including relevant experience and contact details.
- Support Material: Up to 5 images, videos, or documents illustrating your concept or previous work.
Submission Details
- Deadline: Submit your proposal by 5pm Friday 28 February 2025.
- Notification: Successful projects will be announced by Friday 21 March 2025.
- Submission Email: Send your application to [email protected] with the subject line: “Earth Rising Open Call 2025 – [Project Name].”
- Only PDF documents will be accepted.
We will be hosting a Zoom clinic for any questions you may have about the application on 12th February at 4.30pm. To register please email [email protected]
For more details visit: https://imma.ie/whats-on/earth-rising/ We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing your ideas come to life at Earth Rising 2025!
OPEN CALLS
Open Call to Artists and Writers | Metachrosis Issue 5
- Deadline: Monday, 3rd March 2025
- Type: Opportunities
- Award: We’re accepting art, poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and any hybrid forms you can of those media.
- Link to application details: https://metachrosislitmag.com/submission-guidelines/
Welcome to Metachrosis Literary! We’re a literary and creative arts magazine that celebrates the arts. sciences, and humanities. We welcome exploration and experimentation across all forms of art and writing.
We’re accepting art, poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and any hybrid forms you can of those media. If you’re submitting a piece that falls outside of those categories, we would love to see it. You can submit under the label that you think is closest, and if you’re unsure, you’re welcome to send an email to [email protected].
- A prose piece written in computer code? Great
- A poem about the process of carbon dating? Love it
- A series of photos of interpretive dance inspired by 80’s sci-fi? Sounds incredible
- A critical essay on the art of erotic scrimshaw? Fabulous
We love the passionate, the critical, and the humorous. If you want to get a feel for what we publish, you can read all of our previous issues for free on our website. We have a page with suggested readings for anyone who is interested.
We’re accepting submissions via Oleada and Curatorspace, and all submissions are free. We cannot afford to pay people at the moment, but we will provide a copy of the issue to each contributor.
If you want to look at our socials, we publish sections of all the work in our magazine.
Instagram: @metachrosislitmag
Threads: @metachrosislitmag
Twitter: @Metachrosislit
If you’re not sure that what you have is a good fit, you can check out all of our digital issues, which are free to read. We have all submission guidelines and formatting requirements alongside our submission guidelines on our website.
You can also send us a brief synopsis of the work, and we’ll confirm that it’s of interest. ( and hopefully give you the name of someone who might be a better fit.)
Open Call for Applications | Bram Stoker Festival 2025
- Deadline: Monday, 3rd of March 2025 at 6pm
- Type: Fundng/Opportunities
- Award: The maximum budget that is available is €15,000.
- Link to application details: https://bramstokerfestival.com/en/page/open-call-2025/
Dublin City Council is inviting proposals for the 2025 Bram Stoker Festival, running from Friday 31st October to Monday 3rd November. This annual event celebrates Bram Stoker through a diverse array of literary, cultural, and family-oriented activities across Dublin City Centre.
Want to join us in thrilling and terrifying Dubliners with deliciously dark treats this Hallowe’en?
We’re looking for events, shows, experiences and productions of all kinds to complement our existing 2025 programme. They must have a real connection to or be thematically linked to Bram Stoker; his works, his life, his philosophy, Victorian Dublin, all things Gothic, the supernatural or the mysterious.
A maximum budget of €15,000 is available for selected proposals. We have budget available for projects which fit our criteria.
About the festival
Bram Stoker Festival is one of Dublin’s biggest multi-disciplinary arts festivals, with a broad audience of Dubliners of all ages and backgrounds, united in a love for the unknown, the supernatural and the Gothic.
Before you apply
It is essential that you download and read our How to Apply guide before applying – it contains everything you need to know before applying as well everything you need to submit.
Apply Now
- Applications close on Monday 3 March at 6pm.
- Selected applicants may be invited for interviews in Dublin or via Zoom on Tuesday 11 March.
- Applicants will be notified of the outcome by Friday 14 March.
Go on… scare us.
OPEN CALLS
Open Call to Artists | Ocean Virtual Artist Residency – Moku Art Studio and MANGO
- Deadline: Sunday, 9th March 2025
- Type: Opportunities
- Award: 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.
- Link to application details: https://www.mokuartstudio.com/ocean-opencall
Moku Art Studio and MANGO have partnered for the Ocean Virtual Artist Residency. This collaborative program empowers participating artists to embark on the journey of developing a new project aligned with the residency’s thematic focus: OCEAN
Dive into a transformative creative experience from March to April 2025. This residency offers a unique opportunity to develop your artistic projects, connect with a global community of artists, and share your work with an international audience.
What’s in store:
- Virtual Mentorship: Participate in five virtual sessions with experienced mentors from Moku Art Studio and @mangoresidencia.
- Theme Exploration: Develop your projects inspired by the theme of the Ocean, exploring a wide range of approaches—technical, conceptual, reflective, and experiential.
- Creative Development: Receive insightful feedback and guidance to refine your ideas, techniques, and creative vision.
- Global Exposure: Showcase your work at a Virtual Open Studio and Exhibition Inauguration, connecting with art enthusiasts and fellow creators from around the world.
We invite you to explore the boundless possibilities of the ocean and make waves with your art!
OPEN CALLS
Open Call for Artists and Writers | Portraits for Issue 4 from Profiles Journal
- Deadline: Tuesday, 18th of March 2025
- Type: Fundng/Opportunities
- Award: €100 – €500 (please see below for payment contributions per writer/artist)
- Link to application details: https://www.profilesjournal.com/submit-art
The submission window for Issue 4 is open until March 18th.
Profiles seeks portraiture across all visual media (that can appear in print — sorry, sculptors). We’re open to experimental twists on the definition of ‘portrait’ — we want to see a vibrant personality, however you’ve captured it. To get a sense of what we’re after, we recommend reading past issues of Profiles.
We especially welcome submissions from artists who are underrepresented in the arts due to their ethnicity, socio-economic background, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or age.
We also accept submissions of fiction and non-fiction and are happy to accept submissions of artwork and writing from the same individual over the course of one submission period. However, please submit them using separate forms, unless they are part of the same project (in which case please use the writing submission form and combine your artwork and written piece in a single document).
We feature work from artists living in Ireland and abroad.
Profiles is proud to receive continued financial support from Dublin City Council, as well as our kind donors, in 2025. As such, we are delighted to be able to pay all contributors to Issue 4.
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Commissioned writers and artists will receive €500 each for their work, as well as an additional fee of €125 for the time they invest in meeting each other and the editors to collaborate.
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Writers, translators and artists whose work is received via our submission call will receive a flat fee of €200 each.
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The cover artist will receive a flat fee of €500.
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We will pay an additional €100 to each contributor who records a reading of their work and/or takes part in an interview for the annual Profiles radio special, broadcast by Dublin Digital Radio.
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We will also pay €100 to each contributor who reads or discusses their work at the Issue 4 launch event held in Dublin.
Ensure you read our guidelines in full before submitting your work — they are also available in OpenDyslexic font.
Please submit your work via our Google form below. Submissions are not accepted via email. (Please note: you must sign in with a Google account to access the form, but we will contact you via the email you provide manually.)
OPEN CALLS
Open Call | Draíocht Artist Studio Residency
- Deadline: Monday, 31st March 2025 at 6pm
- Type: Fundng/Opportunities
- Award: This Residency consists of the use of Draíocht’s Visual Artist’s Studio for the period above, rent free with an additional payment of €500 per month.
- Link to application details: https://www.draiocht.ie/take-part/artists/open-call-draiocht-artist-studio-residency-2025
Draíocht is seeking applications from Visual Artists from or based in Dublin 15/ Fingal for a Studio Residency from 3rd June-30th August 2025.
Applications for one, two or three months will be considered. The purpose of the residency is primarily to provide time and space for an artist to develop their practice in a comfortable, practical and supportive environment.
This Residency consists of the use of Draíocht’s Visual Artist’s Studio for the period above, rent free with an additional payment of €500 per month. The Studio is integral to Draíocht’s infrastructure and the Residency is integral to our programme.
As such, Artists are expected to make full-time use of the Space. If an artist is not in a position to use the Studio on a full-time basis, this should be made known to Draíocht at application stage outlining the proposed usage.
The Studio is available for use 10am to 5.30pm, Monday to Saturday (except Bank Holidays).
Please note that this is a Studio Residency only. It does not include Exhibition or Mentorship opportunities.
What to include in your application?
If you wish to be considered please send the following information.
A current CV (2 pages maximum). Expression of interest to include: artist statement; a clear indication of the focus of the studio residency; website and/or other links to your work and/or up to ten images of relevant work in jpeg format. Please send all in a single PDF.
Where to send the application?
Emer McGowan, Director, Draíocht, The Blanchardstown Centre, Blanchardstown Dublin 15.
Email: [email protected] / Phone: 01 809 8027
Submission Deadline: 6pm, Monday 31st March 2025
A plan of the Artist Studio plan is available HERE
Meet Past Resident Artists HERE
OPEN CALLS
Open Call | A4 Studio Memberships
- Deadline: N/A
- Type: Funding/ Opportunities
- Link to Application: https://a4sounds.org/join-us/
A4 Sounds is a non-profit artist-run workspace and gallery in north-inner-city Dublin. It is one of the biggest artist-led spaces in Ireland, currently providing facilities and professional development supports to 70 artists.
Our mission is to transform the means by which cultural works are produced, accessed, and understood in Ireland, and by doing so to contribute to the development of a more just society.
Guided by feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and LGBT-inclusive politics, A4 Sounds supports artists and activists who fight for change. What kinds of artists are we looking for: As a socially engaged organisation we have keen interest in applications from artists working in the following disciplines: Social Practice, Social Justice, Social Intervention, Socially Engaged, Dialogical, Participatory, Critical Thinking & Research, Activist, Political, Relational, Community, Collaborative Art or New Genre Public Art.
However, we do not expect all studio artists to work in this way and we welcome applications from artists working in a wide range of disciplines.
Applicants should be committed to the ongoing development of their practices.
Application process:
- Artists can apply via our application form on our website.
- We will review applications and invite selected artists to view the studio and an informal interview.
- New members will be selected based on their portfolio and available space within the studio.
From €75 per month for access to Shared Studio Space.
For more information and to apply click here: https://a4sounds.org/join-us/ Contact: [email protected]
Please let me know if you need any further information.