Talks at TBG+S

Listen to a live performance by Satin Shadow, the collaborative project of visual artist Austin Hearne and filmmaker Glenn McQuaid. Staged beneath the iconic oval aperture of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Satin Shadow gave their first live performance transforming the Atrium into a space of sonic and spiritual provocation. The performance was a Black Mass of sound and spoken word as Satin Shadow c...

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 exh...

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...

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 Venez...

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 assembla...

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, authorshi...

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. Nige...