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

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

Amie Siegel in conversation with Megs Morley

Artist and filmmaker Declan Clarke participated in a public conversation with artist Gerard Byrne, on the occasion of Clarke’s exhibition The Hopeless End of a Great Dream at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. The 16mm film commission was shot entirely on the grounds of Trinity College Dublin, using the diversity of architecture within Trinity’s walls as a backdrop and metaphor for the last 100 years of Irish history. Declan and Gerard discuss the work and Declan’s artistic practice to date.

Artist Talk: Declan Clarke in conversation with Gerard Byrne

Sibyl Montague's varied and multi-disciplinary practice combines found and time based material to foreground the primacy of material and its ability to perform. Working between sculpture, video and installation, her work explores the core materiality and agency of images and objects that accumulate through capital, to engage principles of economy that suggest wealth, leisure or parcity.

Throughout her practice Montague uses the process of assemblage – where the contingency and incongruous associations of different elements aim to re-assert everyday materials in a process that concurrently de-familiarises them. Drawing from a wide vocabulary of elements that combine both online/offline sources, the works focuses on the particular, base qualities of material and its currency and affect within larger networks or economies relating to consumer goods, user experience or brands.

On completion of her year-long Project Studio tenure at TBG+S and following her recent exhibition Beyond Violet at Wexford Arts Centre awarded as part of the Emerging Artist Award, Montague will discuss her recent work and participate in a discussion with TBG+S Director Clíodhna Shaffrey.

Studio Talk: Sibyl Montague

The TBG+S Writer Commission aims to expand ideas around writing about art. Temple Bar Gallery + Studios presents a reading by Claire- Louise Bennett and Sara Baume.  The reading will be introduced by Susan Tomaselli (editor of gorse journal).

Commisioned Writer Reading 2016

Atoosa Pour Hosseini's studio talk on the 24th August in her studio here at TBG+S where we got a sneak peak at some of the 8mm film she is currently working on for her moving image and live sound performance in Filmbase.

Atoosa has been an artist member of TBG+S since 2015, and has been working in Studio 18 for the last year. Check out her work here; www.atoosapourhosseini.com

Atoosa Artist Talk

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

The sonic art of Oslo-based US artist and musician, Camille Norment, can be felt not just by the ears, but via the coccyx.


* An earlier version of this file referred to Ms Norment taking part in the current Venice Biennale. In fact, she represented Norway in 2015.

Culture File: Feeling The Feels with Camille Norment

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is delighted to present a reading by Gavin Corbett and Claire-Louise Bennett. The writers will be introduced by Susan Tomaselli, founder and editor of gorse journal.

These two outstanding writers have been commissioned by TBG+S in an experimental programme that aims to support different kinds of writing about art. Gavin Corbett is TBG+S’ third commissioned writer. Claire-Louise Bennett was the commissioned writer in 2016 and Sara Baume in 2015. For this programme, writers are invited to write short pieces - taking their own tack, fictional or otherwise - in response to the five gallery exhibitions that take place over the course of a year. The writings are published on our website and available in our gallery.

Claire-Louise Bennett and Gavin Corbett are writers of immense talent. They are part of a new generation of Irish writers gaining international recognition for the new-found vitality of their writing - pushing boundaries in contemporary, experimental fiction. Claire-Louise Bennett has been praised for her ambitious, imaginative and innovative prose. Jial Tolento of the New Yorker praised her debut Pond, calling it ‘a work of fiction that will make you feel pleasantly insane’. Matthew Adams, of the Guardian, called Gavin Corbett ‘one of the most inventive and beguiling writers of contemporary fiction’. The Irish Times, in praise of his latest novel, Green Glowing Skull, called it ‘a blizzard of imaginative energy… prose sings on every page - while it slips its strangeness in.’

A Reading with Gavin Corbett and Claire-Louise Bennett to Celebrate TBG+S Writing Programme

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

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.