Members have the opportunity to plan and host their own exhibitions and events. See below for details.

Sign up to our Void Visionaries mailing list (https://forms.gle/e8NGAgFcUJBgcFJp6) to be kept up to date with future workshops and events.

 

Open call for exhibition submissions:

 

As part of our Void Visionaries programme, young people are encouraged to plan and host their own exhibitions, workshops and events.

Please see information below on their upcoming events and opportunities:

 

Void Visionaries presents: energy drinks at midnight – OPEN CALL for young artists!

 

The Void Visionaries leadership team are currently searching for fellow young artists, aged between 14 and 22 years old, to submit their work to be considered for an upcoming exhibition called energy drinks at midnight which will take place in Void’s education space from 23 June – 8 July 2023.

To have your artwork considered for ‘energy drinks at midnight’, please send us an email with:

 

  • Your name
  • Your age (you must be between the ages of 14 and 22 years old to be considered)
  • An image of your artwork saved as its title attached
  • The artwork title, dimensions (max 1m x 1m), medium and price (if applicable)
  • 1-2 sentences about how your artwork relates to the theme of ‘youth’ and ‘the experiences of young people’

 

To voidvisionaries@gmail.com 

You are invited to submit up to three 2D artworks of any medium, which respond in some way to the theme of ‘youth’ and ‘the experiences of young people’. Submissions of prep work/sketchbooks are also encouraged.

Submission deadline

 

19th May 2023

 

Successful artists will be contacted by the end of May.

 

Void Visionaries presents: Blue

 

Thursday 25 May

7:30-9pm

Void’s Education Space

On Thursday 25 May from 7:30-9pm, Void Visionaries presents: Blue in Void’s Education Space.

Blue is an electronic ambient musical performance by Smile Project that aims to create dense, peaceful, and esoteric soundscapes through use of synthesizers, samples, and colour. It is both cold and warm, soothing and intense, and is designed to inspire a feeling of hope in the listener.

https://smileproject.online

Visitors are invited to come along listen to this performance in response to Re_sett_ing_s.

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Smile Project is a member of Void Visionaries who is studying software development at NWRC.

“I have always been really interested in computers, but mainly their creative applications. I really love the internet, and the whole ‘internet utopian” idea that was prevalent from people like John Perry Barlow in the late 90s. I think a lot of the internet’s problems would be solved if people were more independent on it, which I sort of advocate for by making art and hosting it on my own custom website! My goal is to make something that either makes someone happy or makes them feel less alone, so my music tends to be very hyper, colourful but glitchy electronica, or it’s a very sombre emotional ambient sound. I love making cool contemporary art as I think it makes the world a much brighter place, and I always love the idea of someone finding my work in some dark corner of the internet twenty years down the line and being able to get that sense of a particular place at a particular time. My work is very densely electronic, but it’s all quite personal to me too, even if it seems like it might be less formal due to the lack of lyrics of acoustic components I hope you like my work” – Smile Project

 

Acknowledgements

 

Image credits – Michael Devine

Previous exhibitions:

MMXXI

Void Visionaries presented their first group exhibition MMXXI in the Void Engage space in February 2022.

MMXXI brought together the work of fourteen young artists and Void Visionaries group members. The exhibition title referenced the Roman numerical system, translating to ‘2021’. Roman numerals are present in everyday life in a range of different ways, featuring on headstones, to titles of films, to given names; often marking a time of significance.

Across a range of different media, the work on display was anchored by experiences of everyday life during the year of 2021. Displayed together, the works formed a discussion around the different ways the artists have perceived the past year and what it meant to them, emphasising the unifying qualities of visual art.

With each artist approaching art as a way to document daily observations, the exhibition became a collective visual diary of 2021, creating a multi-perspective view of the year as we continued to pave our way through living with the pandemic. The works mark this very particular time in history.

Through reflections on continued lockdowns, special places and people, daily encounters, pastimes and experiences, social and political affairs and mindset, the works invited the viewers to question how they felt in 2021 and to reflect on their own experiences and observations.

Artists: Cara Canning, Cara Cummins, Robbie Doherty, Alice Dysart, Luke Kelly, Matthew Macdonald, Isabelle McKenzie, Jack McSparron, Daria O’Donghaile, Agnieszka Plata, Patrick Smith, Shay Taylor, Catherine Ward and Lucy Young.