Visual Artists’ Workspaces in Ireland

In 2022 I led a major piece of research for The Arts Council of Ireland to establish an audit of numbers, and to map Visual Artists Workspaces throughout the Republic of Ireland.  

The study originally identified 154 Visual Artists’ Workspaces in the Republic of Ireland via desktop research and collation of lists from Visual Artists Ireland (VAI) and The Arts Council. Once a Survey was completed in June 2022, the full list of Visual Artists’ Workspaces rose to 173.

The Research included buildings which comprise of:

• Artists’ studios - separated spaces suitable for one person. It can be a separate room or a divided pod within a larger space, but identifiable as a single studio space.

• Residencies - workspaces which offer residential accommodation to one or more artists alongside access to studio space and/or shared production/workshop space. Residential accommodation provided to artists without access to separate dedicated workspace was excluded from this study.

• Multi-purpose workspaces - rooms or studios where multiple artists can work at the same time. It can be a workshop room, a darkroom, a print studio or other space where visual artists can work together.

Read or download the Full Report from the Arts Council website here: https://artscouncil.ie/research-and-reports/