BA Visual Art Sherkin Island

07/05/2026

09/03/2026

BAVA Portfolio Submission - Round 1 Deadline 20 March

09/03/2026

The BA Visual Art Degree Programme is now accepting applications for a new intake to the four year degree on Sherkin Island for the academic year 2026/2027.

For further information on the programme and application procedure see the TU Dublin webpage https://www.tudublin.ie/study/undergraduate/courses/visual-art-(sherkin-island)-tu977/?keywords=Visual%20Art&courseType=Undergraduate
or contact the Programme Chair, Jesse Jones at [email protected]

09/03/2026

Congratulations to Jesse Jones, Course Coordinator of the BA Visual Art Degree Programme, Sherkin Island on the opening of The Last Moth on Sunday 8 March at 2pm at the Ark Dublin. The Last Moth, by Jesse Jones and Naomi Moonveld-Nkosi, is The Ark’s first ever co-commission of a work by a child artist and an adult artist. The Sherkin research part was supported by Creative Places West Cork Islands in 2024.

The Ark is delighted to reveal the fantastic performer who will take to the stage in The Last Moth, our brand new show for ages 4+ by Jesse Jones and Naomi Moonveld Nkosi, running from 5-15 March 2026.

26/07/2025

Opening at 3pm today for Arts Festival

18/03/2025

Our Island, Our Neighbourhood
Saturday 29 March, 2pm
Community Centre, Sherkin Island
Join us for a BAVA open studio conversation with curator Sara Greavu and Sherkin based artist Mona O'Driscoll exploring socially engaged art from a local to a global context.
All welcome! Soup and tea and coffee provided, ferry to the island leaves Baltimore pier at 2pm for further timetable see Sherkin island ferry https://www.sherkinferry.ie/time-table/

18/03/2025

Booking on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/ma-art-and-environment-online-open-day-2025-tickets-1259238268559
Tuesday 25 March at 12 noon

The MA Art and Environment Online Open Day will provide information and inspiration about this unique archipelagic master programme.

The MA Art and Environment programme is led by TU Dublin School of Art and Design in collaboration with Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre. It uniquely combines post-studio art practice, interdisciplinary research, virtual teaching, Island Studies and community engagement. Taking contemporary art’s relationship with environments (ecological, spatial, political, economic) as its object of study, the MAAE instructs students in artistic practices shaped by ‘archipelagic thinking’ and a pedagogy that is world-centred. To support these ambitions, the MAAE has developed a distinct, three-part curriculum focused on Mapping, Sensing, and Hacking. Where Mapping gathers historical and empirical knowledge, Sensing promotes sensorial and aesthetic engagement with materials, systems, and environments. Hacking then, encourages imaginative, site-specific interventions that excavate, repurpose, or recompose elements of the environment.

Initiated by Dr Glenn Loughran (TU Dublin) and Ann Davoren (Uillinn) in collaboration with it is the only archipelagic Master’s degree programme on the Island of Ireland. It is supported by a team of artists, lecturers, and researchers in the School of Art and Design (TU Dublin), by the community workers and technicians at Uillinn and the Sherkin Island Development Society (SIDS) and by an international, interdisciplinary network of peers and colleagues.

Schedule

12:00 - 12:20 / What is an archipelagic masters programme? Dr Glenn Loughran
12:30 -12:20 / Uillinn: Connecting Communities. Dir Ann Davoren
12: 40 - 12:55 / Songs on the Horizon. Terry Farnell. MAAE Graduate 2025
12:55 - 13:10 / Sea Skin. Niamh Sean Meehan. MAAE Graduate 2025
13:10 - 1:30 / Q&A

Applications for 2025 can be made at:

MA ART and ENVIRONMENT
For more information, contact: Programme Chair: Dr Glenn Loughran:

[email protected]
MAAE Website

Image. Sea Skin. Niamh Seana Meehan (2024)

15/10/2024

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