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This Arts Act Funding Clinic took place on Monday 15th January 2024. Led by well-known curator and writer on art and architecture Marianne O’Kane Boal, this Clinic focused on the Artist Award and the Artist & Community Collaboration Award schemes. For the past 11 years, Marianne has delivered professional development workshops for Visual Artists Ireland focusing on tendering, creative proposals...

On Saturday, 10th June 2023, young residents from Kippure Village gathered at Blessington Library as part of Cruinniú na nÓg, the national day of creativity for children and young people. Mc’d by Rebel Phoenix, they showcased their recent creations for friends, family and members of the public to enjoy. Inspired by a highly successful GMCBeats “Song-in-a-Day” workshop with Rhyme Island in which...

In this information video, our coach Katherine Zeserson talks us through what coaching is, what to expect from the experience and how it can impact an artists work. To find out more and to apply for Artist one-to-one Coaching visit www.wicklow.ie

The Artist & Community Award Funding Clinic took place on Thursday 2nd February. This clinic featured an introduction to the Award by Wicklow Arts Officer Jenny Sherwin and a presentation by Áine Crowley, Programme Manager, Arts and Engagement at Create. Áine explored the practicalities of realising high quality collaborative artist and community projects.

The Artists Award Funding Clinic took place on Wednesday 1st February 2023. This clinic will featured an introduction to the Award by Wicklow Arts Officer Jenny Sherwin and presentations by past recipients of the Award, independent artists Ali Clarke and Shane Finan. Ali and Shane reflected on their experiences of applying and shared their insights and practical experiences of receiving the award.

Nell Regan is an internationally renowned Irish based poet and non fiction writer. Regan was born in London in 1969 but grew up in Dublin, Ireland. She was educated in University College Dublin, Lancaster University and Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a graduate of The Poets’ House, Donegal. Regan has worked as a documentary researcher. She teaches in Dublin. In 2013 Regan was made art...

Catherine Redding Dublin-based Canadian soprano Catherine Redding, described as ‘warm, clear and impeccably controlled’ (The Irish Times), has performed internationally in opera, oratorio and recital. Her operatic roles include Oscar (A Masked Ball) and Zerlina/Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) with Cork’s Opera 2005, Barbarina (The Marriage of Figaro) and Emmie (Albert Herring) with Opera Project, UK ...

Singer, occasional songwriter and mother of four Carmel McCreagh knows all about twists and turns. Life, she says as someone who knows only too well about such things, is not a linear journey. Just when you think that the path is smooth and clean, something jagged comes along to trip you up and rip the skin. Just when you think life is a glass half-full of Brandy Alexander, someone or something...

Kayssie K. is the Poet Laureate for Bray, Co Wicklow. It has a special place in her heart, as a town where she grew up and a place that has fuelled her creativity. “There’s something about bringing to life the many homes that I have experienced that has always felt so wholesome to me,” she says. “Throughout my works, I have found myself making references through language, culture, retelling sto...

Nell Regan is an internationally renowned Irish based poet and non fiction writer. Regan was born in London in 1969 but grew up in Dublin, Ireland. She was educated in University College Dublin, Lancaster University and Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a graduate of The Poets’ House, Donegal. Regan has worked as a documentary researcher. She teaches in Dublin. In 2013 Regan was made art...

Described as the “lively band with cool sounds from the sunny side”, the East Coast Jazz Band Musicians: Orlaith Power Declan Staunton Brian Shanley Tony Cullen Tomás Power eastcoastjazzbandireland@gmail.com

Hailed by the Irish Times as ‘the most promising Irish tenor heard in years’, Ross Scanlon has had an operatic career internationally and is now setting up a new business venture called ‘Sing@Work’. This is the first of its kind in Ireland offering a new take on corporate wellbeing through the power of singing in the work place.

DAVID BUTLER is a novelist, poet and playwright. The most recent of his three published novels, City of Dis (New Island), was shortlisted for the 2015 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. Doghouse Books brought out his first poetry collection, Via Crucis, in 2011, while a short-story collection, No Greater Love, was published in London by Ward Wood in 2013. In 2016 David received a Per Cent Lit...

1st prize-winner of the 2012 Jaques Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition and former NCH Rising Star, Fiachra Garvey ARAM, grew up on Móin Bhán in the Wicklow mountains. He spent his early childhood being the understudy to the family sheep dog Rex (who had lofty ambitions for early retirement) and playing the piano! Other pastimes included swimming in the Blessington lakes and staging plays ...

Wyvern Lingo

David Butler

James Mahon

Colm O’ Hara

The Penstons

Kila

Kayssie K

Catherine Redding, Rachel Factor, Liobe Petrie

Eithne Hand

Kevin Conneff & Redmond O'Toole

Dance Slam!

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