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Open Call: RHA Annual Exhibition Accepting Submissions

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The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts (RHA) Annual Exhibition is accepting submissions for next year’s 195th RHA Annual Exhibition. It is Ireland’s largest and longest-running open submission exhibition, and it will be open to the public from Monday, the 26th of May, to Sunday, the 3rd of August, with free admission at all times.

Open to all artists working in painting, drawing, print, sculpture, photography and architecture – the RHA Annual attracts a large public and critical audience.

Editor’s Note: there is a recap of last year’s exhibition of the few pieces which included textile materials – https://feltmakersireland.com/2024/07/30/exhibition-final-week-of-the-rha-annual-show/

Entry deadline: 23rd February, 2025.

For more information, visit the RHA website – https://rhagallery.ie/rha-annual/

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Exhibition: Final Week of the RHA Annual Show

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Now in its 194th year, the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts (RHA) Annual Exhibition is Ireland’s largest and longest-running open submission exhibition.

Excitingly, one of Feltmakers Ireland’s members, Leiko Uchiyama, has a piece in the exhibition!

  • Leiko Uchiyama – ‘Memories 64.20’

A video installation by Asha Murray has tufting in it! According to Tufting Shop: “Tufting is a modern technique in textile art that involves using a specialized tool called a tufting gun. This tool helps to weave yarn into a base fabric, creating intricate and textured designs.”

Asha Murray – ‘Are You Domestic Enough?”

Anna Macleod‘s sculpture, ‘Behold the Wind’ won the ESB Moran Award and Silver Medal for an outstanding sculpture. Her piece is made from Poplar wood, Harris tweed thread, and Lead.

Lastly, Abigail O’Brien‘s ‘Mentation I + II’ is a photographic print of two pieces of cross-stitch needlework: The photos show the stitching of the front and back of a colourful brain.

Abigail O’Brien – ‘Mentation I + II’

Overall, not many pieces in this year’s RHA Annual exhibition would be considered ‘textile art’.

However, for next year, members of Feltmakers Ireland and other fibre artists can hopefully increase the number of textile-related pieces by submitting our work under the ‘Mixed Media’ category. (The Open Call for this exhibition stated the following: “Submissions of work are invited from visual artists working in paint, photography, sculpture, architecture, print, drawing and mixed media. Works outside these categories are not accepted.“

Several high-profile, textile-related art exhibitions have recently taken place in the US, UK, and Europe, so there may be more opportunities for fibre-related work in future RHA shows.

The show ends this Sunday, 4th of August. 

Visit the RHA website for more information on the exhibition – https://rhagallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/2-194th-rha-annual-exhibition/

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Opportunity: RHA Studio – Fingal Co Artists

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Fingal County Council Arts Office, in partnership with the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) School, is pleased to announce the 2024 RHA Studio Award. This prestigious award offers a professional artist, a funded studio space for one year, beginning at the end of October 2024.

Open to practising artists at all stages in their professional careers working in visual art, applicants must have been born, have studied, or currently reside in the Fingal administrative area to be eligible to apply.

Deadline: the 19th of July.

For more information, visit their website – https://rhagallery.ie/residencies-awards/studio/fingal-county-council-studio-award/

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Event: Slow Art Day – April 13th

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Over one hundred museums and galleries worldwide will participate in Slow Art Day 2024.

  1. Sign up at a local museum or art gallery.
  2. Show up at your venue on Saturday, April 13, 2024, pay the admission fee (if there is one), and then look slowly—5-10 minutes—at each piece of pre-assigned art.
    Some museums select five art pieces, others concentrate on one or two, and others offer more options.
  3. Discuss your experience.

When: Saturday, the 13th of April, 2024.

The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in Dublin is the only venue located in Ireland. For more information and to book a spot at their noon-time event, visit the RHA’s website – https://rhagallery.ie/events/learning/slow-art-day-2024/

For more information about this event, visit the main website – https://www.slowartday.com/

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Open Call: RHA Annual Exhibition

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Applications to the RHA (Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts) annual exhibition are now open.

The show is Ireland’s largest open submission exhibition, with a prize fund of over €50,000 across disciplines. It runs from Monday, the 20th of May, until Sunday, the 4th of August, 2024, at the RHA Gallery.

Submissions of work are invited from visual artists working in paint, photography, sculpture, architecture, print, drawing and mixed media. Works outside these categories are not accepted.

Editor’s note: we don’t know whether felted artwork or textiles are considered sculpture or mixed media by the organisation. You may want to email them.

The deadline is soon: 25 February 2024, 11:59 PM.

For more information, visit their website – https://rhagallery.ie/news/applications-now-open-194th-rha-annual-exhibition/

Opportunity: Clare Island Studio Residency

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The award offers an applicant artist a two-month residency on Clare Island in a house with a separate studio.

The successful artist will be in residence from the 1st of October to the 30th of November (inclusive).

The deadline is Sunday, 13th of August, at 5 pm sharp.

For more information, visit their website – https://rhagallery.ie/residencies-awards/clare-island/clare-island-studio-residency-2023/