Angelica Network closure

After much discussion, we are taking the difficult decision to close down Angelica network, the website and Instagram account in September 2025.

Thank you to all of the Angelica artists and to our partners who have engaged with our work – both online and off – over the last five years. For those who have used the Angelica Directory to offer opportunities to artists, we are deeply appreciative.

There’s always more work that can be done. Now, more than ever, we need advocates for genuine, meaningful inclusion and must all continue to challenge a sector which is – for the most part – too white, too middle class, too comfortable, too cliquey, and too disingenuous in its claims towards ‘diversity’.

When we started Angelica, we hoped that the network would eventually become unnecessary. That unfortunately is not the case. We have too much respect for what we have built, and for all of you, to let the network go on without the time or capacity to do it justice.

Angelica is now archived with NIVAL (The National Irish Visual Arts Library) at NCAD in Dublin.

Thank you all for being a part of this.

Moran, Rayne, and Jane

Angelica Network co-initiators

Image description: A black and white image of an Angelica flower head with a pale pink filter applied, a reminder of the need for all things to balance cycles of dormancy and growth.

Angelica is a wildflower; a global nomad of temperate areas – including Ireland – and believed to have originated in Syria, it is a much-mythologised plant. Angelica is widely understood as an agent which promotes support and deeper meaning, one which eradicates apathy and surface-level perspectives.