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2020Programme

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We are a centre for creativity, providing a place for artists to thrive and ways for people to experience contemporary art.

Founded in 1983 – by artists, for artists.

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.

Find out how you can support our mission on page 28–37.

INTRODUCTION

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

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Welcome to Temple Bar Gallery + Studios 2020 Programme. In this publication we outline our five exhibitions for the year, along with information on our studio membership and opportunities for artists at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

Our Exhibition Programme will focus on diverse practices by ambitious artists, allowing a rich rhythm of exhibitions across the year. At TBG+S we are committed to supporting artistic risk-taking and experimentation, so artists can push ideas, pursue new directions, or further consolidate their work. In 2020, we will produce four solo and one group exhibition. Solo exhibitions include new work by Mairead O’hEocha (IE), Tamsin Snow (IE), and Sean Edwards (UK). Bárbara Wagner (BR) & Benjamin de Burca (IE) will present their highly acclaimed video installation, Swinguerra, commissioned for the Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2019. A group exhibition, Agitation Co-op, curated by Michael Hill, brings together work by Libita Clayton (UK/NM), Michele Horrigan (IE), Catriona Leahy (IE), and Laurie Robins (UK), uncovering historical, political, archaeological, colonial, and cultural narratives from various geographic and contemporary contexts. Across our five exhibitions, underpinning threads see artists grapple with the world they encounter - its anxieties, its potencies, its poetic fragmentation, the nature of its reality, the complexity of its truths. Such ideas will be touched upon in differing ways by these exceptional practices.

Alongside the five exhibitions, we will produce Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) in November and celebrate its tenth anniversary. Since the first edition in 2010, DABF has built its reputation as Ireland’s only art book fair and a central platform for artists’ books. With an emphasis on art, architecture, design, visual culture, philosophy, select fiction and artists' books, DABF has become an important meeting point for cross-

disciplinary programmes, a place to source unusual books from cutting edge publishers, big and small, international and Irish, and where you can partake in a unique atmosphere of curated events and commissioned artworks.

Our exhibition and studio programmes are augmented by TBG+S’ commitment to nurturing audiences and connecting them to the work of contemporary artists through an extensive programme of talks, tours, events, performances and screenings. In 2020, we will consolidate Making Connections – a multi-stranded high quality public engagement programme - aimed at diverse audiences, with a focus on city dwellers, to create, discuss and connect with art on their doorstep.

Once again, we are delighted to support three international studio residencies with our partners, HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme, Finland, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

Ian Maleney is our commissioned writer for 2020. His debut collection Minor Monuments (Tramp Press, 2019) has been highly praised for its poetic serenity and reflective qualities. Ian is invited to write on each of the exhibitions with creative freedom to respond in his own way to the art.

TBG+S would like to acknowledge all our audiences, supporters and funders, our studio artists and all the artists who we will work with in 2020. We look forward to seeing you many times throughout the year and hope you will enjoy the 2020 Programme.

Clíodhna ShaffreyDirectorTemple Bar Gallery + Studios

INTRODUCTION

Director’s Welcome

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STUDIOS

Our thirty high-quality and affordable studios provide professional artists at all stages of their careers, from recent graduates to internationally recognised artists, with a vital place to work in Dublin.

Robert ArmstrongMichael BoranJenny BradyChloe BrenanGerard ByrnePaul ColemanGary CoyleLynda DevenneyVivienne DickMike DuhanAleana Egan

Sean FingletonJoe HanlyAnn Maria HealyDragana JurišićCatriona LeahyRonan McCreaMaria McKinneySibyl MontagueJoe MoranIsabel NolanMartina O'Brien

Eve O’CallaghanNiamh O’MalleySarah PierceAtoosa Pour HosseiniRichard ProffittLiliane PuthodAlice RekabMargaret TuffyMarcel VidalEimear Walshe

Current Studio Members 2020

I can’t tell you how much a stretch of floor and length of wall means in order to think, and make, and see. A studio at TBG+S is a room in a house of artists and I feel very lucky to be part of it.”Niamh O’MalleyThree Year Membership Studio

Maintaining an artistic practice over the long term can be a challenge. The time spent in TBG+S provides high quality physical studio spaces, but also importantly a sense of community and connection that really sustains.”Ronan McCreaThree Year Membership Studio

The studio at TBG+S has provided me with a dedicated and focused space for researching and developing new work. It's also given me access to a vibrant community of critical thinkers and makers.”Chloe BrenanProject Studio

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Chloe Brenan in her studio at TBG+S

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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios invites applications for one and three year studio tenures, the Recent Graduate Residency award and two international residencies in 2020.

Application forms and guidelines on how to apply for studios will be available from our website approximately one month prior to each deadline:www.templebargallery.com/studios-residencies

Six Year Membership StudiosSix Year Membership Studios offer a long-term tenure to exceptional visual artists living in Ireland, who are active in their practices. In 2019, Six Year Membership Studios were awarded to artists Gerard Byrne and Isabel Nolan. TBG+S will aim to offer additional Six Year Membership Studios in the coming years.Check our website for updates.

Three Year Membership StudiosThree Year Membership Studios offer a three-year tenure to artists who are developing an established, professional practice.Deadline for applications: Friday 13 March 2020, 5pm

Project StudiosProject Studios offer a one year tenure and are awarded to artists at an earlier point in their professional art practice, which demonstrate talent and potential.Deadline for applications: Friday 9 October 2020, 5pm

Recent Graduate ResidencyThe Recent Graduate Residency offers a large free studio for one year, a €1,500 stipend, €500 international travel bursary, and a variety of institutional supports to an artist who has graduated from an undergraduate degree in the past three years.Deadline for applications: Friday 15 May 2020, 5pm

Studio Membership International ResidenciesSTUDIOS

The TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange is supported by the Finnish Institute in London.

The ISCP Residency is made possible with the support of the Arts Council of Ireland.

iscp international studio &curatorial program

International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Residency, New YorkThe ISCP Residency supports an Irish or Ireland-based artist to spend three months in residency at ISCP in Brooklyn, New York.Deadline for applications: Friday 13 March 2020, 5pm

TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange, Helsinki/DublinThe TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange supports Irish artists and artists based in Ireland to spend three months in residency at HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme, in a live/work studio on the island of Suomenlinna in Helsinki. The Exchange supports Finnish artists to live in Dublin and work from a studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.Deadline for applications: Friday 18 December 2020, 5pm

Cité Internationale des Arts Residency, ParisBassam Al-Sabah has been awarded a residency in Paris as part of the Cité Internationale des Arts programme. Bassam was nominated by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, and will work from a studio in Paris for three months in 2020. Bassam plans to explore collections and museums in Paris to inform new research and expand on his ongoing representations of war and violence, conflating both historical and contemporary references against a framework of his own lived experience as a child in Iraq. Bassam Al-Sabah was the TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency recipient in 2018.

Gary Coyle in his studio at TBG+S

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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios' Atrium connects the public gallery to the individual artists’ private working spaces. Current TBG+S studio artists are invited to use the Atrium to test experimental work or exhibit ideas and artworks in progress.

The 2020 Atrium programme will include Sean Fingleton and Joe Moran, and our group exhibition in July will extend between the Gallery and Atrium with work by Catriona Leahy.

Free Space offers opportunities for artists and collectives to develop projects, share learning and to host public events.

Free Space offers space to artists and collectives to develop projects, share learning and platform events open to the public. We accept proposals from artists and arts groups for short-term and ongoing projects and events to take place in Studio 6, Studio 27 and/or the Atrium at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

We offer a meeting space to arts collectives who are working towards a specific public project or one-off events and support groups such as AEMI (artists’ and experimental moving image) and Critical Forum Dublin (a discursive platform for artists working in moving image) on a regular basis.

How to Apply:There is a rolling deadline for this opportunity for a limited number of projects.

Email orla@templebargallery.com for further details on application requirements.

Please note that Free Space does not include the Gallery and does not accept proposals for exhibitions.

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Free Space Studio 6, Studio 27, Atrium

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TBG+S Studio Artist Alice Rekab and Jenna Collins performed their work Two External Light Sources at the Same Time as part of the Studio Screening Programme hosted by aemi in Studio 6, February 2019.

Paintings on display in Sean Fingleton’s studio at TBG+S

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GALLERY

Our exhibitions identify Irish artists of talent at pivotal points in their practice, and introduce work by international artists to Irish audiences.

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Mairead O’hEochaTale Ends & Eternal Wakes

28 February – 25 April 2020

Mairead O’hEocha is exhibiting new paintings and ink on paper drawings that concentrate on the subject of animals and their presentation within museum dioramas. Taking inspiration from Dublin’s Natural History Museum (or Dead Zoo), O’hEocha uses this ‘trophy cabinet’ from Ireland’s colonial past to register historic and contemporary attitudes of display. O’hEocha’s selective compositional approach to painting reflects the meticulous arrangements of taxidermied animals in constructed artificial environments, and her ongoing engagement with representation and image-making draws to light important concerns about these accepted forms of presentation.

O’hEocha’s works reflect on how we continue to conceptualise and claim nature through museological hierarchies of display, and their inventories of indigenous and colonial conquering, naming and ordering. Promising embodiments of freedom, animals expose our own social codes of order and constraint.

O’hEocha goes beyond the urgency of current environmental concerns to present artworks that chart human anxieties, like fear, desire and control. They ask how we can better acknowledge the limitations while also celebrating the complexities of representing the ‘natural world’ today.

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 (2019-2020), A Painter’s Doubt, Salzberger Kunstverein (2017), and Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (published by Phaidon, 2016).

Opening Thurs 27 February, 6pm–8pm

Mairead O’hEocha, Kingfishers (Detail), 2019. Oil on Board. Courtesy the artist and mother’s tankstation, Dublin | London.

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Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca’s films focus on music and dance forms that draw under-represented communities together, highlighting visibility, legal rights and self-representation. The resulting films are a hybrid of music documentary and socio-political study that deftly communicate complex issues with a broad-reaching and upbeat attitude. Wagner & de Burca conduct in-depth primary research in specific social contexts, building relationships with individuals who actively elaborate their own roles in their film-scripts, resulting in a vibrant and inclusive collaborative film-making practice. Wagner & de Burca represented Brazil at the Venice Biennale 2019, with Swinguerra, a film that documents an expressive contemporary dance phenomenon performed mainly by transgender and non-binary dancers. In the context of changing social and political

conditions in Brazil, swingueira is an artform that calls for liberation and participation.

Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have exhibited extensively in major museums, galleries and festivals around the world, including Stedelijk, Amsterdam (2019); Wexner Centre for the Arts, Ohio (2018); Skulptur Projekte, Münster (2017); and São Paulo Bienal (2016). In June 2020, a major new work made between the west of Ireland and France will be shown at VISUAL, Carlow. TBG+S will host a Dublin screening of this new film to mark the occasion. It will then be screened in a regional tour of music venues and arts centres around Ireland, curated by Rayne Booth, throughout 2020.

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Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de BurcaSwinguerra

This exhibition unsettles historical, political, cultural, archaeological, industrial, and agricultural narratives from a local to global scale. Often relating to the land and landscape (what it is formed of, who controls it, who can access it, what is its value), the four artists, Libita Clayton, Michele Horrigan, Catriona Leahy, Laurie Robins, expose faults in the terrain, and in the systems and structures that preside over it. In an Irish context, this relates to historical colonial rule and fragmentation of the landscape, the current housing crisis, the Irish border, and the tensions around it reprised by Brexit. Taking an international perspective these fissures are strained by the global economy, the threat of war and mass displacement of populations. The invited artists work collaboratively with researchers, writers, musicians, publishers, and activists, emphasising the importance of collective action in response to deep-rooted structural opposition.

Libita Clayton’s solo exhibition, Quantum Ghost, was shown at Spike Island, Bristol, and Gasworks, London (both 2019). Michele Horrigan is Founder and Curator of Askeaton Contemporary Arts. She has held solo exhibitions, Where Does The Law Stand With Leprechauns?, at The LAB, Dublin (2018), and Stigma Damages, Occupy Space, Limerick (2014). Catriona Leahy’s work has recently been exhibited at Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh (2020), CCA, Derry (2019), 3rd Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art, St. Niklass, Belgium (2016), Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, The Netherlands (2015). Laurie Robins held a solo exhibition, ‘FREE TRADE OR ELSE’*, at South London Gallery (2019), and his work has been shown at Transmediale, Berlin (2019), Whitney Independent Study Studio Program, EFA Project Space, New York (2017).

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Catriona Leahy, Faultlines (Detail), 2019. Photographic print and photogram on Resin-coated paper. Courtesy the artist.

Libita Clayton, Michele Horrigan, Catriona Leahy, Laurie RobinsAgitation Co-opWith screenings by: Forensic Architecture, Melanie Smith, Eva Richardson McCrea, Frank Sweeney and the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society (DDWPS)

Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca. Film still of Eduarda Lemos, Swinguerra, 2019. 2 channel video installation 2K, colour, sound, 23 minutes. Courtesy the artists and Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro.

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Opening Thurs 17 September, 6pm–8pm18 September – 7 November 2020

Tamsin Snow

Utilising the materials, aesthetics and principles of modernist architecture, Tamsin Snow, creates CGI films, sculptures and immersive installations that embody these values, as well as drawing from architecture of the spaces she is exhibiting in. Her CGI films are constructed from crowd-sourced 3D models of existing buildings (Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin) as well as those portrayed in cinema (2001: A Space Odyssey), resulting in an uncanny sensory experience as we are directed through strange yet familiar locations. As the stylistic elements of modernism and science fiction become increasingly co-opted by global industries, Snow also appropriates a corporate language to further distance and alienate the viewer within her fabricated reality. Snow’s continued interest in buildings and rooms that are designed to serve a specific function relates not only to art

galleries but to autopsy rooms and her imagined representations of cryogenics laboratories, each suspending a precarious balance of pragmatism, spirituality and otherworldliness.

Tamsin Snow’s exhibition in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios will be her first solo exhibition in Ireland. Her previous solo exhibitions include Like, Flesh, AtelierFrankfurt (2019), SpareFace, Block 336, London (2018), and three collaborative solo exhibitions with Sarah Tynan at Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin (2014-2015) and Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray (2017).

Tamsin Snow, Autopsy (Detail), 2015. Powder-coated steel, resin, 94 x 228 x 76 cm. Courtesy the artist. Sean Edwards, Production image, 2019. Courtesy the artists and Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin.

Sean Edward’s multi-disciplinary practice incorporates sculpture, site-responsive installation, photography, publications, moving image, and radio plays to evoke a sense of shared feelings of many people whose lives have been shaped by particular social and economic structures, including the class system in Britain, public housing, and the opportunities these frameworks can withhold or present.

Drawing from his personal and familial experience of growing up on a large council estate in Wales, Edwards shares the social history of marginalised communities. Working class experience, moving and emigration, forgetting and remembering, and assembling fragments and parts of various life-affecting moments are all unpinned with the values of care, duty, and place. His work does not dwell on the more-frequently associated aspects of housing estate life (such as crime, oppression,

melancholy) but the possibilities that can emerge from prescribed community living and the potential to move forward and assert oneself as an individual in the broader world. Edwards’ work is detailed, focusing on small moments of the everyday, expressing value in routine and infrastructure, but poetically conveying the atmosphere, texture and sensibility of neglected people and places.

Sean Edwards represented Wales at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). His exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios will be his first solo show in Ireland, and his first new body of work exhibited following the Venice Biennale. His Venice exhibition will tour to Ty Pawb, Cardiff and The Bluecoat, Liverpool in 2020. Recent solo exhibitions include Drawn in Cursive (parts 1, 2 and 3) at Chapter, Cardiff, Network, Aalst, and Mostyn, Llandudno (2014) and Resting Through, Kunstverein Frieburg, Freiburg (2012).

Sean EdwardsOpening Thurs 10 December, 6pm–8pm11 December 2020 – 13 February 2021

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LEARN + ENGAGE

Our dynamic programme offers different pathways for audiences to learn, reflect and engage with artists and their work.

The TBG+S commissioned writer assists in expanding possibilities for writing about art. Each year we invite an Irish writer to create a series of pieces inspired by the exhibitions at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. This commission invites writers to take their own path, fictional, personal or otherwise, and in forms inclusive of essay, poetry, prose, or script. The series of texts are available to download from our website, with printed copies available in the gallery:www.templebargallery.com/learn-engage/commissioned-writer

In 2020, we have commissioned Ian Maleney. 'Minor Monuments' is the title of Ian's debut collection of essays (Tramp Press, 2019) on the theme of home, memory and belonging. His writings have been highly praised for their poetic serenity and reflective qualities. He has been published by Winter Papers, gorse, and

the Dublin Review. He is the founder of Fallow Media, an inter-disciplinary publication for music, photography, and long-form writing on the internet.

Previous TBG+S Writers include Annemarie Ní Churreáin (2019), Doireann Ní Ghríofa (2018), Gavin Corbett (2017), Claire-Louise Bennett (2016), and Sara Baume (2015).

A public talk with Ian Maleney and Annemarie Ní Churreáin will take place in Autumn 2020.

TBG+S Writing Commission:Ian Maleney

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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios presents Ireland’s only art book fair, celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2020. Dublin Art Book Fair platforms creative and cutting-edge publishers, big and small, Irish and international. It is a centre for the contemporary artist book and includes a section of specially curated book titles. DABF has evolved into a significant cross-disciplinary meeting ground, reaching out to peer organisations in the city and lesser known museums, collections, and galleries. In the relaxed and stimulating environment of Temple Bar Gallery, discover a unique selection of books on art, architecture, visual culture, philosophy, design and select fiction, enjoy a coffee and engage in a free curated programme of talks, tours, workshops and discussions.

Alice Rawsthorn (UK) is Dublin Art Book Fair guest curator in 2020. She is a world leading design critic and author. Her books include 'Design as an Attitude' (2018) and 'Hello World: Where Design Meets Life' (2013). Alice is Chair of Trustees at Chisenhale Gallery in London and The Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire, and is a founding member of the Writers at Liberty campaign for human rights.

Dublin Art Book Fair19–29 November 2020

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Gain an insight into the artistic practices at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, get behind the scenes, explore our exhibitions, meet artists, and learn something new.

Our Talks + Events programme offers free events which coincide with our gallery and studio programmes. These take the form of artist and curator talks, studio visits, gallery tours, film screenings, performances, listening events, studio exhibitions, and workshops.

In a new series, we invite TBG+S studio artists to present on their practice and recent activities. Visit our website to find out what’s on and how to reserve free tickets:www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/events

If you would like to arrange a bespoke visit to TBG+S for your school or group, please contact info@templebargallery.com or call 01 671 0073.

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Vivienne Dick introduces her studio practice to visitors as part of The Artist’s Way Seminar, 2019. Photo: Daniel Reidy

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Making ConnectionsPeople + Art + Temple Bar

LEARN + ENGAGE

Late View and Open Studio Drop in for a special late opening of our exhibitions and visit one of our artist’s studios. Wind down after a busy day at work and chat with our curators over a glass of wine or a soft drink.

Art WorkshopExplore our exhibitions through art activities, creative exercises and personal responses.

Summer SchoolJoin us for three days of art activity as the entire gallery is dedicated to a variety of different workshops and participatory installations. Leave your mark and display your work in the gallery. Meet artists and hang out with your friends and family. All welcome – individuals, family, friends. No previous experience necessary.

The Artist’s WayA stimulating day-long event which showcases the many activities that take place in our building, through talks, discussions, studio visits and more. This unique event explores the artist’s way from various perspectives, with the opportunity to meet artists and other people interested in art.

Winter SchoolBrighten up the dark evenings in winter by joining us for our Winter School. Take part in workshops, meet artists, attend talks and tours, and more. Keep an eye out on our website and social media in late 2020 for further information.

Wednesdays 6pm–8pmwith refreshments22 April, 27 May, 5 August, 21 October

Saturdays 3pm–4pm21 March, 23 May, 29 August, 26 September

3–5 July 2020

Saturday 10 October 2020

January – February 2021

Come together with people who live and work in Temple Bar to create, discuss and connect with art on your doorstep. For free. For everybody.

Making Connections introduces you to contemporary art and artists through a programme of late evening exhibition viewings, weekend art workshops, a three-day Summer School in our street-facing gallery, and an evening Winter School of adult workshops with our studio artists.

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Creative Generations is our innovative arts-in-education programme which brings high-quality visual arts education to children in Dublin inner-city schools.

The programme of eight week-long artist residencies, led by Arts Education Curator Jean Mann, involve TBG+S studio artists working collaboratively with children to create an ambitious new artwork for their school. The residencies also include introductions to the artists’ practices and contemporary art, with participating schoolchildren visiting the gallery and artists’ studios at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

Creative GenerationsLEARN + ENGAGE

Creative Generations is kindly funded by Central Bank of Ireland.

Celina Muldoon, Artist in Residence, St. Vincent’s Girls’ National School, Oct–Nov 2019.

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Fantastic Friend: €50 €25 students / artists• 20% discount on books at

Dublin Art Book Fair• An 'Art is for Everybody'

tote bag• Attend the annual

summer BBQ on our rooftop balcony

• Priority booking for TBG+S events

Super Supporter €250All of the Fantastic Friend benefits plus:• Attend an exclusive

Curator's Pick guided tour at one graduate exhibition in Dublin

• 10% discount on TBG+S Artist Editions (see page 34)

• A copy of our publication Generation: 30 Years of Creativity at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

• Name acknowledgement in the annual TBG+S programme brochure

Business Champion: €500All of the Super Supporter benefits plus:• 25% discount on venue

hire at TBG+S for one event (see page 37)

• 25% discount on TBG+S Artist Editions (see page 34)

• Priority booking for TBG+S events for FIVE people

Become a SupporterSupport Us

At Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, we place artists at the centre of what we do. We are dedicated to supporting artists and the creation of contemporary visual art. Your contribution enables us to provide artists with the necessary conditions to develop ambitious new work.

Become a Supporter today and help artists to create and thrive. Membership starts at just €50 per year.

Sign up at: www.templebargallery.com/support-us/become-a-supporter

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Studios are at the centre of visual arts practice. They are one of very few spaces for combining concentrated looking and critical thinking. Studios are also spaces of organisation, where practices are constituted, and worked upon.

As one of only a few dedicated artist studio organisations in Dublin, TBG+S serves an increasingly critical role in the sustenance of visual arts practice in a city where studios have been systematically disappearing over the past 10 years.

Simply put, if we want artists to be part of Dublin’s future, we need to support TBG+S.”

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Support Irish and international artists to attain their full ambitions for exhibitions at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. A donation to the Commissioning Circle supports the production of new work and experimentation.

TBG+S presents five innovative contemporary art exhibitions each year. We identify Irish artists at promising stages in their practice and work with highly-acclaimed international artists. The exhibitions give talented artists a platform at pivotal points for experimentation and development of new work. Exhibiting at TBG+S often marks a cornerstone in the career path of Irish visual artists and the work of international artists of acclaim is regularly introduced to audiences here for the first time.

Exhibiting artists at TBG+S are selected through comprehensive research and studio visits. A Curatorial Panel of artists and Board members, alongside the Director and Programme Curator, input into the Exhibition Policy through discursive quarterly meetings.

Commissioning Circle supporters will be individually named and invited to previews of the exhibitions they have helped to fund.

Your €1,000 donation to the Commissioning Circle goes directly into our exhibition budgets.

Donate at www.templebargallery.com/support-us/commissioning-circle

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, as a registered charity, is eligible to claim tax relief on donations of €250 or more. That’s €449.28 on every €1,000 donated, or a total of €1,449.28, effectively increasing the impact of your donation.

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Tai Shani, Tragodía, 2019, Installation view, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Photo: Kasia Kaminska

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Acquire a beautiful artwork for your home or workplace at an affordable price.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Artist Editions provide an opportunity to collect artworks by some of Ireland’s leading contemporary artists. By purchasing an Artist Edition you support our exhibiting and studio artists and our artistic programmes.

Keep an eye out for our new Artist Editions in 2020 and spark your interest in collecting art.

For viewing and further enquiries contact us at info@templebargallery.com, phone 01 671 0073 or visit the office between Monday and Friday from 11 am to 6 pm.

Aileen MurphyCackleberries, 2019Three-colour risograph29.7 x 39 cmPrinted by Or Studio, DublinEdition of 50 (+10 AP) signed by the artistUnframed €95

Aisling McCoyfloat from the series LIGHT/WEIGHT, 2019Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gsmPaper 420 x 297 mm Print 350 x 250 mm (unframed)Printed by Inspirational Arts DublinEdition of 20Editions 1–10 €120, Editions 11–20 €150 (Special TBG+S Studio Price)(pictured opposite)

Ailbhe Ní BhriainThe Muses II, 2018Pigment print on bamboo paper43.8 x 40.5 cm (framed)Edition of 30 (+5AP)Framed €550

The Muses III, 2018Pigment print on bamboo paper43.4 x 41.4cm (framed)Edition of 30 (+5AP)Framed €550

Stephen LoughmanThe Long Winter, 2018Four colour screenprintUnframed 50 x 70 cmEdition of 20Unframed €350

Gavin MurphyOn a flimsy framework of reality, imagination spins out and weaves new patterns (Pitch Pine), 2017Archival black and white photographUnframed 25.5 x 30.5 cm Framed 26.6 x 31.9 cmProduced in collaboration with Louis Haugh and Peter Mulvaney.Edition of 10Unframed €400 / Framed €475

Caoimhe KilfeatherRub, 2017Layered woodcutFramed 29 x 37.5 cmEdition of 5 (+1AP)Framed €570

Barbara KnezevicMonstera deliciosa, 2016Photogram on Ilford fibre based paperUnframed 40.5cm x 30cmFramed 42cm x 31.5cmPrinted by Louis Haugh at the Darkroom.ie.Edition of 10Unframed €400 / Framed €500

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Located in the heart of Dublin’s Cultural Quarter, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios offers unique and alternative spaces for hire.

Whether it’s a launch, corporate workshop, film screening, photo shoot, or performance, we would be delighted to discuss your event ideas and arrange a tour.

All profits from venue hire go directly into supporting our mission.

For more information and booking enquires visit our website:www.templebargallery.com/visit-us/venue-hire

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Become a Corporate Sponsor of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, and make a difference to the lives of artists. We connect you to Dublin’s visual art community and create meaningful relationships between artists and our partners.

Your sponsorship helps us to provide artists with the necessary conditions to develop ambitious contemporary art and reach diverse and growing audiences. We are dedicated to achieving shared objectives that positively benefit both artists and sponsors.

Our corporate partners help us to achieve our ambitions to invest in artists and their work and present high-quality contemporary art and public engagement.

Get in touch with Muriel Foxton at muriel@templebargallery.com today to discuss opportunities to collaborate.

Our Corporate Partners:

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Peter McGovern (Director, Henry J Lyons), pictured with Clíodhna Shaffrey (Director, TBG+S) to celebrate the launch of Dublin Art Book Fair 2019, sponsored by Henry J Lyons. Photo: Naoise Culhane

Clíodhna ShaffreyDirector

Michael HillProgramme Curator

Muriel FoxtonMarketing + Fundraising Executive

To be appointedLearning + Public Engagement Curator

Órla GoodwinGallery + Studio Coordinator

Seerish SanassyFinance + Accounts Coordinator

BoardAnne Mathews, ChairpersonRichard Lyons, Vice ChairpersonSibyl Montague, Company SecretaryMichelle DarmodyCatriona LeahyMartin MackinIsabel NolanElaine RussellGeraldine Shanley

Curatorial Advisory PanelCatriona LeahySibyl MontagueClíodhna Shaffrey Michael Hill

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M. O Brien & Co, Damian Evans, Bernard Dunleavy, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Miriam Reilly, Chris Reilly

Our Supporters

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios would like to extend special thanks and appreciation to the following group of people who have given generously of their time and expertise: Jean Mann (Education Curator), Tanad Williams (Artist + Technician), Kasia Kaminska (Photographer), Alex Synge (The First 47), Dr Kathleen James-Chakraborty (DABF Curator 2019), Maeve O’Flaherty (Acting Marketing + Fundraising Executive), Kevin Gaynor (Social Media + Administration Intern), Julie Storms (International Internship

Programme), Maria Botezatu, John Byrne and Edward Mullen (Building Maintenance), Sophie Behal, Giulia Berto, Shane Gallagher, Grace Kristensen, Maelisa Lennon, Stephanie Molloy, Emma Áine O’Leary, Molly May O'Leary, Debi Paul, Joanne Reid, Mark Nugent, and all of our wonderful volunteers, our studio artists and exhibiting artists in 2019: Ronan McCrea, Miranda Blennerhassett, Aleana Egan, Andreas Kindler von Knobloch, Tanad Williams, Pilvi Takala, Aileen Murphy, Tai Shani, Robert Armstrong, Joe Hanly, Alan Phelan, Dragana Jurišić, and Gerard Byrne, and our commissioned writer Annemarie Ní Churreáin. A special thanks to all the members of our Supporters Club.

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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios5–9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2, IrelandT: +353 (0)1 671 0073

Gallery Opening Hours:Tuesday to Saturday 11am–6pmOffice Opening Hours:Monday to Friday 10am–6pm

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