Open Call | Cairde Visual 2018 at The Model (Submission Fee)

Deadline for submissions: 10 June

Artists are invited to submitted artworks for the Cairde Visual Open Exhibition.

A significant, international open submission exhibition for the North West, Cairde Visual was established in 2013, by a group of Sligo based artists together with Cairde Sligo Arts Festival. The first annual submission took place in The Hyde Bridge Gallery in 2014. The fourth annual exhibition took place at The Model in 2017 and boasted over 100 artworks from local, national and international artists, featuring a great diversity of media. The exhibition has, in a short space of time, become a much-anticipated feature in the arts festival’s programme and in the cultural calendar of the region, not to mention an increasingly important fixture for artists all over Ireland and abroad.

2018 sees the return of The Model Cara Award, The Hamilton Gallery Award, and the Cosgrave’s Delicatessen Award. Introduced in 2017, the Cosgrave’s Delicatessen Award offers a €500 cash prize to the selected artist. The Hamilton Gallery, a pioneering contemporary art gallery in the heart of Sligo, offers the winner a solo exhibition in the gallery’s calendar of exhibitions in 2018. Clive Bright was the recipient of this award in 2016 and Daniel Chester was the recipient in 2017. Recipients of the Model Cara award – a short-term residency in The Model’s artist studio – to date have been Helen Blake in 2015 and both Daniel Chester and Selma Makela in 2016, and Anna Spearman in 2017.

Please Note Submission fees: one entry €10, two entries €15, three entries €20. There is 30% commission charged on the selling price.

Submission forms and full terms and conditions here: cairdefestival.com/cairde-visual-2018/

Open Call | Cairde Visual 2018 at The Model (Submission Fee)