At the International Centre for the Image, PhotoIreland offers a range of programmes and opportunities for visitors, artists, researchers, and students to engage with contemporary photography and visual culture.
Throughout the year, our programme includes talks, tours, workshops, book launches, fairs, and other cultural events. We also provide studio spaces and library fellowships that support artistic and research practices. Learn more about these opportunities below.
Interested in organising a workshop, publication launch, talk, or other event at the Centre?
Contact us at office@image.museum with your proposal.
Artist Studios
Through artist studios, PhotoIreland offers four visual artists the opportunity to develop their practice within the International Centre for the Image. Through an open call, artists are awarded a studio space for a defined period and benefit from access to the Centre’s facilities, resources, and staff, as well as the support of a creative community of peers and professionals.
The International Centre for the Image presents artists with access to modern facilities, including an art library, workshop, art bookshop, and exhibition space. The studio programme is devised to support artists at different stages of their careers, providing a supportive and creative environment in which to develop their work and engage with contemporary visual arts practice.
The Studio Artists selected to date:
- Aoife Herrity
- Eamonn Doyle
- Emma O’Brien
- Evanna Devine
- István László
- Róisín White
- Vera Ryklova
The Studio Artists 2026 are Aoife Herrity, István László, Róisín White, and Vera Ryklova.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS →
The Artist Studios are kindly supported by The Arts Council of Ireland.
Library Fellowship
PhotoIreland’s new fellowship programme invited two individuals through an open call to engage with and mediate the PhotoIreland Collection housed at the International Centre for the Image. The fellowship recipients receive a fee for their participation and benefit from access to the facilities as well as guidance from the PhotoIreland team. The recipients are requested to produce a public outcome upon completion of the fellowship, to be defined and developed in collaboration with the Centre’s curatorial team.
This opportunity is presented to encourage research on publishing within contemporary arts practice, considering the importance of art books of any type, from photobooks, fanzines, and artist books to theory or resource books, or any other published ephemera. Applicants are asked to identify a specific theme to research within the collection that suits their own practice or current inquiry, from, for example, sustainability and ecological issues, to queer positions and collaborative practices; from formal aspects such as design and conceptual approaches to publishing, to wider conversations around art book collections and museology.
The recipients of the Library Fellowship 2026 are Clodagh Assata Boyce and Jennifer Mehigan.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE LIBRARY FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS →
The Library Fellowship is kindly supported by The Arts Council of Ireland.
