Sky Arts are searching across the UK and Ireland for an inspiring and talented artist who can be crowned Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year. The winner will join a select group of distinguished artists who may be considered for a future project by the Gallery, and will be awarded a £10,000 commission to [...]

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Axis Balymun are offering readers of the Irish Art Blog a chance to win a meal for two followed by tickets for  ‘Waiting for Elvis‘ -  a cracking comedy written by Eileen Gibbons based around two women who meet at a park bench waiting anxiously for Elvis to turn up. The show will be on [...]

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Primary school students from every county in Ireland entered the annual art competition, which is devised by Sightsavers to encourage young people to engage with their creativity whilst learning to appreciate the importance of their own eyesight and the challenges faced by millions of visually impaired people in the developing world. The 16 winners were [...]

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The annual Luas Art Competition is now open for entries! They’re looking for the best art form using the theme ‘Luas – adding the missing link!’ This theme relates to Luas Broombridge, the planned new extension of the Luas Green Line (Brides Glen to St. Stephen’s Green) through the city centre to Broombridge. The competition [...]

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The two winners of the Walkers International Law Firm Dublin Secondary Schools Art Competition have been announced at a prize giving ceremony in Walkers Dublin offices, based in Sir John Rogerson’s Quay. Pictured left to right were Managing Partner Walkers Law Firm, Vicki Hazelden, Sarah Louise Donohoe (14) from Dominican College in Sion Hill, Blackrock [...]

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The law firm Walkers Ireland has today (September 12th) launched a secondary school art competition, open to second level students in Dublin city and county. Cash prizes worth a total of €14,000 are on offer to the winning schools in the two categories for students ‘Up to Junior Cert level’ and ‘Up to Leaving Cert’. [...]

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Irish painter, Al Freney, was recently selected from over 2,350 international entries as the only Dublin based artist to exhibit at the 32nd annual BP Portrait Award in London – the world’s most prestigious portrait competition, which promotes the very best in contemporary portrait painting. Housed in the National Portrait Gallery, Freney’s work entitled, ‘At [...]

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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 [...]

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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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The 2011 RDS Student Art Awards prize fund of €16,100 is comprised of the awards and prizes listed below. Each award has specific terms and conditions which must be complied with. Entries to the RDS Student Art Awards will be judged by a panel formed by an RDS nominated judge; a National Gallery of Ireland [...]

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Greenacres Open Submission Show opened on Saturday the 5th with over 150 guests and many of the 50 exhibiting artists in attendance.  In the show, levels of experience and education vary with some artists exhibiting their work for the first time, while others may have exhibited for 20 years. To acknowledge the artists for their [...]

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ARTifact asks the public to create artwork based on two themes – ‘RTÉ as part of Irish life’ or ‘RTÉ of the future’. Submissions can be a painting, sculpture, drawing, illustration or photography. The three winning works will be placed at RTÉ’s Donnybrook premises in Dublin alongside work by Irish artists such as Robert Ryan, [...]

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