Discover art at the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in Dublin
Visitors to Dublin can rent a car from the cities airport or one of the many car hire companies on offer and travel to the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, located in the heart of Dublin’s cultural quarter.
This is one of Ireland’s leading contemporary art venues and is a publicly funded, non profit making organisation that hosts an impressive, high-quality programme of Irish and international artwork.
The programme comprises of work from established and emerging artists whom create pieces of art using a wide range of media. The Temple Bar Gallery and Studios are based in a purpose built facility, providing up to 30 studios for local and international artists.
In recent years work from artists including Ian Bleakwell, Nigel Rolfe, Jon Brunberg, Mark Orange, Fergus Feehily, Ziga Kariz, Vanessa O’reilly and Susan MacWilliam, amongst others, have been exhibited.
The Temple Bar Gallery and Studios was established in 1983 by artists to help to meet the increasing demand for affordable studio space in Dublin city centre. This move proved pivotal in strengthening Temple Bar’s position as Dublin’s cultural quarter.
During the mid-nineties a brand new gallery and studio complex was designed for the company by leading architects McCullough and Mulvin, which today houses the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and integrates a gallery with on-street access.
This year events include from the 4th February 2010, a diverse range of artists, activists, writers and academics will host provocations, which will include talks, workshops, screenings and performances in the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and around the city.
Participants for this event include Croatian artist Igor Grubi who was featured in this years Istanbul Biennale, plus writer Owen Hatherley, author of the acclaimed book ‘Militant Modernism’. Influential theorist Simon Sheikh and artists Mark Orange and Seamus Nolan will also participate.
Between the 6th and 12th March 2010, artist Peter Liversidge will ‘decommission’ the structures and items that have amassed over the course of the events and return the gallery to an empty space, before closing the event during a special ceremony on the 13th March 2010.
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