This online event is for members of Sample-Studios, Cork, and Elysium Gallery+Studios, Swansea, only. Please email director@sample-studios.
Access for Artists is an online workshop for artists who are interested in reducing access barriers in their practice and for artists with disabilities or longterm/chronic illnesses. The session will cover how artists can avail of access tools and technology to create more accessible artworks and work accessibly. It will also include information on how disabled artists and artists with longterm/chronic illnesses can advocate for their access needs by using access riders, how to fundraise access budgets, and how to work with support workers. Each participant will be provided with a list of accessibility resources to empower participants to craft their own access vision for their practice.
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer and the author of the free online resource Access Toolkit for Artworkers. She is an Independent Producer at field:arts, working with artists Bridget O’Gorman and Ebun Sodipo. She has previously curated the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and curated Speech Sounds as Curator-in-Residence of VISUAL Carlow. As a writer she has written for publications including Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal and Girls Like Us. She regularly contributes towards public programmes and lectures including at Somerset House, KW Institute, Konstfack University, Royal College of Art and Arts and Disability Ireland. She has sat on numerous selection panels including EVA Platform Commision 2025, Unlimited International Open Award and Edinburgh Arts Festival Platform 2023.
Accessibility
This event will take place online and will last 2 hours. Please contact director@sample-studios.com if you have any specific access requirements.
This event is supported by the Cork City Council Twinned City Scheme.
