Artist Lucy McKenzie takes part in an online conversation with Curator Pádraic E. Moore on the occasion of her solo exhibition, Tour Donas.

Featuring paintings, sculptures and elements of décor, this exhibition highlights the heterogeneity of McKenzie's practice. Weaving together fragments of art historical narratives with topical contemporary subjects, Tour Donas explores appropriation, authorship and the hierarchies between art forms.

A touchstone for this project is the Belgian avantgarde artist, Marthe Donas, (1885-1967) who spent two years in Dublin from 1914, studying at the cooperative stained-glass studio, An Túr Gloine; The Cubist vocabulary Donas developed is comparable to that of Irish artists Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett. Another key reference explored is De Ooievaar (Villa Stork), a listed Modernist building in Ostend, circa 1935, which McKenzie purchased in 2013 and is now carefully restoring as a home where the varying strands of her multidisciplinary practice can unite. To learn more about this exhibition visit our website templebargallery.com

Lucy McKenzie in conversation with curator Pádraic E. Moore

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Soundwork by Richy Carey, with sections taken from the exhibition 'Galalith' by Lauren Gault.

Lauren Gault’s exhibition, Galalith, is an expanded staging of her sculptural installations, responding to Temple Bar Gallery + Studios internal gallery space and the building’s external, environmental context.

The exhibition incorporates sunlight caught by a street facing solar panel, a threaded assemblage featuring unused galalith(1) stock, recycled rubber safety surfacing, large scale suspended sculpture and a human/non human soundscape (solar controlled). Gault worked with independent feminist curator Katherine Murphy to research and realise this body of work, undertaking a collaborative studio residency at TBG+S.

Fenrir I Galalith I Soundwork

In association with the Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios presents an artist talk with representatives of Ireland at Venice, Eva Rothschild (2019) and Niamh O'Malley (2022). The conversation, mediated by Kate Strain of Kunstverein Aughrim, reflects on their exhibitions for the Irish Pavilion as Ireland’s representatives of the 58th and 59th La Biennale di Venezia.

Eva Rothschild was born in Dublin and lives and works in London. She represented Ireland at the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, with The Shrinking Universe (2019), and presented for the Irish tour at Visual Carlow (2020), and at Void, Derry (2021).

Niamh O’Malley was born in Mayo and lives and works in Dublin. She represented Ireland at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, with Gather (2019), and presented for the Irish tour at The Model, Sligo and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (2023).

The Irish Tour of Ireland at Venice is supported by the Arts Council as part of its commitment to promote the visual arts to Irish audiences.

Gather: Niamh O’Malley in conversation with Eva Rothschild

A talk with international curator Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge and TBG+ Studio Artist Brian Fay hosted by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for National Drawing Day.

Thinking about contemporary drawing practices internationally and in Ireland this talk explores the innate paradoxes in drawing now: why is drawing described as something special and not at the same time? if drawing is a medium is there specific content? do we still see drawing as a verb or a noun? Using some key images from diverse drawing practices these and other themes will be discussed.

This event was kindly supported by the Goethe Institute Irland and is hosted as part of the annual celebration of National Drawing Day, an initiative of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Talk: The Paradoxes of Drawing with Brian Fay and Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge

Solstice Arts Centre presented the launch of a new book A DELICATE BOND WHICH IS ALSO A GAP by Isabel Nolan at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios 7 March 2024. Artist Isabel Nolan is in conversation with Francis Halsall, writer, lecturer and co-Director of Art in the Contemporary World Masters Programme, NCAD, Dublin. A DELICATE BOND WHICH IS ALSO A GAP is designed by Oonagh Young, and features work exhibited in Nolan’s comprehensive 2021 exhibition 'A delicate bond which is also a gap' at Solstice, and a body of work which followed on from the making of the show. The exhibition alluded to a vast span of time bringing together drawings, sculpture, two woven images of the 40,000-year-old sculpture 'Löwenmensch', 'Miracle Wave 2698 CE' and concluding with the ambitious, specially commissioned tapestry summoning images of the disintegrating sun 'When the sky above will not be named'. The publication features texts by the artist; Irish fiction and arts writer Sue Rainsford; Berlin-based writer and critic Martin Herbert, and an introduction by Solstice director Belinda Quirke.

Isabel Nolan represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale in a group exhibition. Her work has featured in EVA International, Limerick 2018; LIAF biennial, Norway, 2015; Artspace, Sydney, 2015; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013; Beijing Art Museum, 2008, and Glasgow International, 2006. Nolan is on the board of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, where she is a six-year studio member. She is represented by Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.

Solstice is a regional arts centre in the north east of Ireland, connecting artists and their work to local, national and international audiences. Inviting artists and communities to connect with us in our own special way. Programming a diverse range of music, theatre, visual arts, cinema and dance from local and international artists and companies.

Book Launch: Solstice Arts Centre presents Isabel Nolan in conversation with Francis Halsall

Amies Siegel discussing artistic practice in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. 

Amie Siegel in conversation with Megs Morley

Artist Mark Swords participated in a public conversation with Programme Curator Mary Cremin, on the occasion of his solo exhibition The living and the dead at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

For Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Mark Swords has created theatrically staged paintings that have come into being through a series of gestures that juxtapose the idea of making and unmaking. The paintings, often overwhelming in chromatic saturation and design denote the artist’s instinctive knowledge of colour. Layers of mark-making create a screen through which the buried undertones and colours emerge. The exhibition runs until Saturday 1 April 2017.

Artist Talk: Mark Swords in conversation with Mary Cremin

Otobong Nkanga in conversation with the exhibition curator Caroline Hancock, on the occasion of her solo exhibition "The Breath from Fertile Grounds". This event provides a unique opportunity to hear Otobong talk about her work, and Caroline discuss their dialogue and exchange of ideas in the run up to the exhibition, and her curatorial framing for the same.

Artist/Curator Talk: Otobong Nkanga in conversation with Caroline Hancock

Alison Pilkington and Stephen Loughman will converse around themes of contemporary painting and their own painting practices.

In this two-way conversation, these two distinct and vital contemporary Irish painters explore ideas from the uncanny to the subject of imagery and the various influences on their art, from commercial film to art history.

Supporters Club Talks present a strong line-up of guest speakers on the theme of 'production, practice, ideas’. Places for this talk are reserved for TBG+S Supporters Club members.

Supporters Club Talk #12 | Alison Pilkington and Stephen Loughman

Publication Scaffold is a series of events, performances, installations, and discussions, curated by artists Michele Horrigan and Sean Lynch, and curator Jo Melvin, as part of Dublin Art Book Fair 2019 at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

Publication Scaffold finds practical and metaphorical ways of envisaging the process of publishing. It points to books not solely as objects, but as conversation and encounter, as discursive notions surrounding their own existence, leading to new ways of thinking about the portable, malleable exhibition format as a publication itself. The podcast, which includes excerpts from the talks and performances, is presented, and produced by artist Michael Holly.

Podcast contributors: Gareth Bell-Jones, Elisabetta Benassi, Adam Chodzko, Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty, Wayne Daly, Emanuele De Donno & Viaindustriae, Ramon Kassam, Jo Melvin, Vukašin Nedeljkovic of Asylum Archive, Renata Pękowska, Cesare Pietroiusti, Juan Sandoval, Dan Starling. John Carson and Conor Kelly’s artwork, Evening Echoes, is represented, reprising its first exhibition at TBG+S in 1995.

For full details of the participants and contributors visit https://www.templebargallery.com/content/files/Publication-Scaffold-programme-final.pdf

Publication Scaffold at Dublin Art Book Fair 2019 was made possible by an Arts Council Arts Grant, along with support from the Artist Residency Programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Limerick, and Mahler & Lewitt Studios, Spoleto.

Publication Scaffold Podcast

The National Museum of Ireland – Natural History (or ‘Dead Zoo’) has been a major source of inspiration for Mairead O’hEocha in her solo exhibition Tale Ends & Eternal Wakes. O’hEocha recently spoke with Nigel Monaghan, Keeper of the Museum, about some of the fascinating historic stories and collections the museum holds, as well as its contemporary relevance to the study of the natural world.

Nigel Monaghan is Keeper of the National Museum of Ireland – Natural History, Dublin, and is responsible for the national collections in the fields of zoology and geology.

Mairead O’hEocha’s work has been represented in several acclaimed solo exhibitions including The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2015 and 2011); Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (2011), and mother’s tankstation, Dublin | London (2018, 2016, 2012, 2008). O’hEocha’s paintings have been represented in a number of important group exhibitions and publications that have explored contemporary painting practices, including Slow Painting (curated by Gilly Fox and Martin Herbert), Hayward Gallery Touring Programme, UK (2019-2020), A Painter’s Doubt, Salzberger Kunstverein (2017), and Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (published by Phaidon, 2016).

Mairead O’hEocha in conversation with Nigel Monaghan

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is delighted to present a podcast reading by writers, Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Ian Maleney as part of our annual Commissioned Writer programme. Introductions and conversation between the writers hosted by Susan Tomaselli, founder and editor of gorse journal.

Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Ian Maleney have been commissioned by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios in an experimental programme that aims to support different kinds of writing about art. For this programme, we commission a writer each year to write short texts on each of our five gallery exhibitions. We ask the writers to reflect on the exhibition, with full liberty to take their own path, responding in fiction, poetry, or otherwise. The writings are published on our website and available in our Gallery. In 2020, Ian Maleney is our Commissioned Writer and in 2019, Annemarie Ní Churrieán was our Commissioned Writer.

Ian Maleney and Annemarie Ní Churreáin are two exceptional writers who have emerged as part of a new generation of immensely talented Irish writers. Both have drawn on voices of people from their past and present life to reveal things in our world that can be exciting and unsettling, or both. Ian Maleney’s writings have been praised for their vivid recollection and poetic serenity (Fintan O’Toole) and Lisa McInerney, writing on his debut Minor Monuments (Tramp), describes it as ‘brilliant, pulsing with intellect and insight, with each observation composed so beautifully as to be deeply moving. This is the kind of book that changes its reader.’

Annemarie Ní Churreáin was immediately recognised as a distinctive voice for literature on the publication of her debut collection Bloodroot (2018). Thomas McCarthy (poet) praises her ‘mature sense of the lyric form and a rare sense of lyric completion, rooted in the bloodroot of women’s history’. Danielle Chapman (The Yale Times) speaks of the atmosphere of hiddenness and the possibility for revelation that provide the electricity in her poems. ‘Ní Churreáin’, she writes, ‘slices into the profoundly layered complexity of image with clear lines of powerfully compressed feeling’.

At this reading Maleney and Ní Churreáin read from a selection of their texts and poems written in response to the gallery exhibitions, as well as from their published and current writing. The evening will include an introductory conversation with Susan Tomaselli who will discuss the themes in their work, their writing process and how they engaged with the TBG+S Writing Commission.

https://www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/events/beyond-silence-listened-for-ian-maleney-and-annemarie-n%C3%AD-churre%C3%A1in-a-reading-and-conversation-with-susan-tomaselli

Beyond Silence Listened For: Ian Maleney and Annemarie Ní Churreáin with Susan Tomaselli

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is a leading artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery in Dublin City Centre.

Founded in 1983 - by artists, for artists.

At Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, we place artists at the centre of what we do. Our mission is to support the development of artists and the creation of art. We achieve this through high quality studio provision and an ambitious exhibition programme. We support an inclusive environment of learning and creativity and nurture close and sustained engagement of audiences with the work of Irish and international artists.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is proud to be funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.

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