Talks @ TBG+S

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.

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.

Tamsin Snow | On Ice | Soundtrack by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is delighted to present curator Oliver Dowling in the eleventh talk in this series. Oliver Dowling is an independent curator with extensive experience, understanding and knowledge of the Irish visual arts scene. His career, spans from the late 1960’s to the present day. This conversation offers a unique occasion for audiences to hear from one of Ireland’s great art figures. Oliver’s unique experiences range from ROSC, to establishing his own gallery (The Oliver Dowling Gallery, 1971-1995), as Exhibitions Officer for the Arts Council of Ireland in the late 1960’s and again, as Visual Arts Officer in the late 1990’s to 2006, and as a co-founder of Dublin Contemporary, 2011. This conversation covering a particular and dynamic timespan in the history of contemporary art in Ireland, and involving range of incredible artists, moments and events, makes his personal insights and recollections precious.

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.’