2. Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is a unique artists-
studios’ organisation and gallery in Dublin city
centre. We focus on contemporary art and have a
national importance indeveloping the visual arts in
Ireland. Through our 30 artists’ studios and our gallery
programme, we facilitate and support professional artists
to make new art work. We also offer a full programme of
talks, events and education activities around our artists’
studios and gallery that engages our visitors and
communities with artists and art-making.
Our gallery programme is currently devised by a Curatorial
Panel elected by the artist members of TBG+S. The
curators of the 2012/2013 gallery programme are Robert
Armstrong (Artist, Rayne Booth (TBG+S), Isobel
Harbison (Independent Curator), James Merrigan (Artist
and Art Critic) Paul McAree (Artist and TBG+S Curator-
in-residence) .
3. Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Artists’ Studios
Ruth E. Lyons on the VISIT Artists Open Studios Day.
5. Studios structure: Members
(3 years)
Annual Application: Deadline end of March
Lifelong Associate
Studio
www,templebargallery.com members members
members
(10) (I year)
Graduate
studio
(6 months)
12. Damien Flood, Associate member 2010, Member 2011-2014
Damien Flood, Associate member 2010, Member 2011-2014
13. Open Studios Activities
Studio Exhibition for Culture night
VISIT 2011 was an open invitation to the public to come see how
artists work, to explore artistic methodologies and to have a
glimpse into the creative processes that culminate in the artworks
often shown in galleries, museums, art centers, artist led spaces
and various venues.
Free ink life drawing workshop with Oisín Byrne for VISIT 2011
14. How to Apply for a studio at TBG+S
● Guidelines
● Application form
● Criteria
● Professional practicing visual artists
● Quality of Work - interesting, original, demonstrates fresh ideas and novel artistic thinking and is relevant to the
contemporary visual culture.
● Recent Work and Activity
● Quality of Proposal
● Expressed and Perceived need
● Well expressed, clear and concise written sections
● description of your art practice
● proposed use of the studio
● specific goal or project you may be working towards
● Reasons why occupancy of subsidised studio space at TBG&S is important to development of your work
● Supporting material – clear and well presented
● Images
● Links to video
● CV
● Catalogues
● Reviews
15. Selection Panel
● 1 TBG+S Board member
● 2 external members (professional visual
artist, curator, critic)
● 2 TBG+S staff members
Tips
● Do not assume that any of these people have prior knowledge of your work
● Make your application easy and appealing to navigate and read
● Be straightforward
● Apply again!
● And studio visits
16. Recent Exhibition and activities
Offline curated by Rayne Booth, brought together 5 artists whose work reflects the
documentation and consumption of reality and how it is intrinsically linked with and conducted
via online platforms. It featured work by Aleksandra Domanović, Joel Holmberg, Parker Ito,
Eilis McDonald, Jonathan Rafman. April/ May 2011
17. Martin Healy – The
Inhabitant curated by Mary
Cremin
The Inhabitant, a solo exhibition by Irish artist Martin Healy comprises two of Healys most recent
film works Fugue (2011) and Last Man (2011). Healys work encompasses film, video, and
photography and the subject matter references popular culture, science fiction and film. Sept/Oct
2011
18. Versions and Diversions -
curated by Karen Downey
Versions and Diversions comprised of work by Maurizio Anzeri, Ruth Claxton and Mariana Mauricio. These artists
have developed an experimental approach to working with found photographs, intervening in the image at surface
and compositional levels through a range of processes, from cutting and placing, to stitching and tearing. July/Aug
2011
19. Conquested - curated by Aoife
Tunney
Conquested featured work by Culturstruction, Aoife Desmond, Karl Burke, Carl Giffney and
Denis McNulty. The exhibition focussed on architecture and how we experience it in cities.
It was held across three venues; Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, The Paper Store , a
warehouse in the Docklands area of Dublin and Unit 3 Spencer Dock, Dublin. Oct/Nov
2011
20. Liam O’Callaghan - Bit Symphony
curated by Rayne Booth
Liam O’Callaghans Bit Symphony is an audio-visual installation consisting of an
assemblage of turntables, amplifiers and speakers, reconfigured and manipulated so as to
autonomously perform a complex musical composition of looping records. Dec/Jan
2011/12
21. Dublin Art Book Fair, 2nd – 4th Dec
2011
The Dublin Art Book Fair was a project that aimed to publicise and distribute art books
and publications in Dublin. Over the first weekend in December, the gallery at TBG+S,
became a market fair at which over 20 publishers from Ireland and abroad specialising in
art books were represented.
22. 30 + Participatory Events inclusive of
screenings, talks, workshops and live
events
Aoife Tunney curated an artists’ talk between Annika Strom and Delcan Clarke about her
work From the community hall. Feb 2011
23. Luke Fowler -
Pilgrimage From Scattered Points
Pictured are 3rd Class - Griffith Barracks, Educate Together School at the Children’s
Scratch Orchestra and Live performance. March 2011.
24. Summer Lightning II – curated by
Rayne Booth and Darren
McCreesh
Summer Lightning was a hugely successful fundraiser featuring musical acts such as
the Twinkranes, Cian Nugent, Great Lakes Mystery, Angkorwat, Magic Pockets and
Skinny Wolves DJs, and visual artworks by Alan Butler and Eilis O Connell. July 2011
25. Versions and Diversions
– collage workshop
This workshop was for the active retired, creating collage
using old photographs, facilitated by Ida Mitrani. Aug
2011
26. Public talk: Concentration
City, as part of Conquested
exhibition
Investigating the Ballardian concept of the psychological effects of urban landscape on
the individual with relation to Dublin, by combining the thoughts of artists, architects
and UCD professors, this talk curated by Aoife Tunney was part of the Conquested
exhibition.
27. New Commissions
Master of the Universe by TBG+S studio artist Seamus Nolan. During the run of the
Made in Temple Bar Festival, a 20 foot temporary inflatable monument to Aidan Walshe
was installed on the roof of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. July 2012.
28. EU Commission – “Paths
Crossing”
Damir Ocko production
residency
Croatian artist Damir Ocko spent 3 months at TBG+S on a production residency creating
a new film work involving Dublin performers, crew and locations. The finished work will be
exhibited in Italy in 2012. Oct-Jan 2011/12
