A Studio Space For Artists
Visual Arts Centre
Artists' Studios
The Visual Arts Centre provides affordable studio spaces for professional visual artists at various stages of their careers. A diverse range of contemporary practices exist under the one roof. The secure studio environment in Dublin’s Stoneybatter gives members the opportunity to focus on their work.
Established in 1979
The Visual Arts Centre Ltd. was set up as a not-for-profit limited company. Following a number of relocations around Dublin the studio settled at 20 Great Strand Street in 1981, renting what had previously been a shoe factory from CIE. Since then the studio moved to Saint Michan's Street, and then Nth. Brunswick St. before moving to our current location on the Nth. Circular Road, Dublin.
Previous Members Include
Benedict Byrne, Mark Pepper, Blaise Drummond, Brian Maguire, Camille Souter, Caroline McCarthy, Catherine Owens, Cecily Brennan, Daniel McKeon, Dorothy Cross, Mick Hegarty, Ronnie Hughes, Eithne Jordan, Geraldine O'Reilly, Gwen O'Dowd, Joe Butler, Marc Reilly, Mick O'Dea, Ned McLoughlin, Nuala Goodman, Richard Gorman, Theresa McKenna, Anne Tallentire, Donald Teskey and Janet Mullarney.
VISUAL ARTS CENTRE NEWS
15th June
Fergus Byrne is organising Generation, a day of performance art at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon.
20th Feb
Fergus Byrne showed at The Drawing Project, Dun Laoghaire.
17th Nov
TransversaI III at The Chocolate Factory, curated and produced by Deirdre Murphy and Fergus Byrne
15th May
Transversal2@DDF an exciting evening of dance and performance art curated by Deirdre Murphy and Fergus Byrne within the Dublin Dance Festival. It takes place at Fumbally Court, off Lower Clanbrassil Street. Nineteen different performance and over thirty artists involved. Click here for further details.
20th November
Ben Readman at Atelier Concorde curated by Associacao D'if, Lisbon , Portugal
5th November
Ben Readman at the R.H.A. After Dark Gala, Ely Place, Dublin 2
14th October
Ben Readman at 'A Vendre' Chateaux de Servieres, Au 24, Rue Montgrand, 13006 Marseille
9th -11th Oct
Ben Readman at OAA, Atelier Artonne, 13005 Marseille, France
9th Sept
Ben Readman solo show, Homeostasis opens at the Sycamore Arts Club
2nd July- 1st August
Ben Readman in NLA (New Living Art) @ IMOCA (Irish Museum of Contempory Art)
17th June
Ben Readman in a group show 'Drawing Room' curated by Vanessa Marsh
6th - 29th May
Hillsboro Fine Art presents a solo show by Eddie Kennedy, 'Scope'.
14-16th May
Ben Readman at the Monstertuck Stand at the ID&A Art Fair, Dublin
15th April - 8th May
Tadhg McSweeney solo show 'Portmanteau' opens at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery on Thursday 15th April.
26th March - 17th April
AUTO/MANO: Fergus Byrne & Joe Stanley at the Talbot Gallery,
www.talbotgallery.com
12-25th March
Ben Readman at 'Irish Wave' curated by BigSmallArtists, Beijing , China
Irish Dimensions - Yi Gallery, Beijing , China
Paper Links - SiNordic Arts Space, Beijing, China
5th March 2010
Ben Readman is awarded the 'Prix Mourlot' (Mourlot prize) for contemporary painting, Marseille, France, Exhibition continues until the 25th of March
2nd - 25th Mar 2010
Ben Readman is selected as finalist for the 'Prix Mourlot' and will exhibit 14 works in Galerie ESBAM - École supérieure des beaux-arts de Marseille, 41 rue Montgrand, 13006 Marseille, France
24th Jan
Bacon: The Forces Visible in his Figuration; a kinetic viewpoint. Performative lecture by Fergus Byrne at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. 1.30pm
3rd Dec - 30 Jan 2010
Eddie Kennedy and Ron Kingswood at the J.Caciolla Gallery, New York.
www.jcacciolagallery.com
Dec '09
Fergus Byrne shows works in group shows, Peep at The Talbot Gallery and Hooverville at The Sycamore Club.
15th Sept '09
Ben Readman in A Vendre, Galerie Montgrand, Marseille
8-11th Sept '09
Ben Readman in Ouvertures D'Ateliers D'Artistes, Atelier Artonne, Rue Ernest Renan, Marseille
Distillery Court,
535 Nth. Circular Road,
Dublin 1,
Ireland.
