Talks at TBG+S Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

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 exhibited in Nolan’s comprehensive 2021 exhibition 'A delicate bond which is also a gap' at Solstice, and a body of work which followed on from the making of the show. The exhibition alluded to a vast span of time bringing together drawings, sculpture, two woven images of the 40,000-year-old sculpture 'Löwenmensch', 'Miracle Wave 2698 CE' and concluding with the ambitious, specially commissioned tapestry summoning images of the disintegrating sun 'When the sky above will not be named'. The publication features texts by the artist; Irish fiction and arts writer Sue Rainsford; Berlin-based writer and critic Martin Herbert, and an introduction by Solstice director Belinda Quirke.

Isabel Nolan represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale in a group exhibition. Her work has featured in EVA International, Limerick 2018; LIAF biennial, Norway, 2015; Artspace, Sydney, 2015; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013; Beijing Art Museum, 2008, and Glasgow International, 2006. Nolan is on the board of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, where she is a six-year studio member. She is represented by Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.

Solstice is a regional arts centre in the north east of Ireland, connecting artists and their work to local, national and international audiences. Inviting artists and communities to connect with us in our own special way. Programming a diverse range of music, theatre, visual arts, cinema and dance from local and international artists and companies.

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 content? do we still see drawing as a verb or a noun? Using some key images from diverse drawing practices these and other themes will be discussed.

This event was kindly supported by the Goethe Institute Irland and is hosted as part of the annual celebration of National Drawing Day, an initiative of the National Gallery of Ireland.

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