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This weekend saw the opening of VUE, Ireland’s National Contemporary Art Fair, in the Royal Hibernian Academy. The exhibition consists of stands from 21 galleries from around the country. Samuel Walsh was the winner of the Savills Art Prize worth €5000. The exhibition is on from Thursday November 2nd till Sunday November 5th. For more…
This awards programme is open to penultimate year and final year students, as well as recent graduates of art, craft, and design. The Prize The shortlist of highly commended undergraduate students will be selected to display and sell their work at a UA exhibition in Dublin in November, curated by KTcontemporary, as part of the…
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Last Thursday, 14th April, RTE announced the winners of the nationwide art competition, ARTifact. ARTifact called for the general public to create artwork based on two themes – ‘RTE as part of Irish life’ or ‘RTE of the future’. Hana Hudak, a DIT student from Maynooth in Kildare, Anne McGill from Tyrone, and the students…
Cork artist, Roseanne Lynch won the 1st Alliance Francaise Photography Award last Thursday in Dublin.The announcement of this prestigious prize was made at the opening of an exhibition of the four finalists work at the Alliance Francaise gallery by the Director Claire Bourgeois. The judges included the photographer Anthony Haughey and the Director of the…
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