Exhibitions & Public Events

2008

Under Erasure
Featuring: Candice Breitz, John Duncan, Richard Galpin, Ken Gonzales-Day, Idris Khan, Lidwien van de Ven.

Preview: 10th June 2008 6-8pm
Exhibition continues until July 6th 2008

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios presents Under Erasure, a group show where the interplay between what is concealed and revealed makes evident the power of erasure as subject and process in contemporary art. The title owes something to Jaques Derrida the French philosopher who used the strategy of deletion (already developed by Heidigger ) or ‘Sous Rature’ as a means to convey the inadequacy of language to accurately define ideas.

John Gerrard & Joy Gerrard
Preview: 11th April 2008 6-8pm
Exhibition continues until May 24th 2008

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios is pleased to present a two person exhibition by John Gerrard and Joy Gerrard. Both John and Joy have been connected with Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in the past: Joy presented ‘The Crowd Transfixed’, work in progress in Studio 6 (then a project space) in November 2003 while John was awarded a one year project studio at TBG&S in 2006. Both artists maintain separate art practices. While their careers are independent, as siblings they have always taken a strong and supportive interest in each others work. For the curator who has observed their respective trajectories it is clear that what connects this work is its engagement with important global issues. The validation for this dual presentation is the artists mutual concern with the environmental and the political and with the boundaries and limits of human control. Artistically, this translates into strong impactful imagery, resonant with the atmosphere of an impending force or event.

a situation, a situation, and a story by Niamh O'Malley
Preview: 26th February 2008 6-8pm
Exhibition continues until April 4th 2008

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios is pleased to present a situation, a situation, and a story, a solo exhibition by Irish artist Niamh O’Malley. At Temple Bar Gallery, O’Malley presents three new works which expand her enquiry into the fabricated nature of the viewing experience. Her works often consist of highly seductive and richly coloured surfaces which collapse on close viewing into simple constructions; a slide or a video, projected onto the surface of a painting. O’Malley is interested in the distance from a source image to a spectacle and the deliberate manufacture and inherent disappointment of illusions.

The Capital Paintings by Colin Darke
Preview: Friday, January 11th 6-8pm
Exhibition continues until February 24th 2008

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios’ first exhibition of the new year is a solo show by Derry based artist Colin Darke. The Capital Paintings, best described as a painting installation, comprises 480 individual pieces each painted on a standard A4 size canvas uniformly hung and covering the entire wall space of Temple Bar Gallery. Collectively, these pieces form a single significant body of work, the result of a methodical and painstaking process carried out by the artist over a period of four years. Colin Darke is well known as a conceptual artist both in and outside Ireland. This is his first solo exhibition in the Republic of Ireland.

2007

The BiG Store
Preview: Thursday 13th December 2007, 6-10pm
Exhibition continues until 22 December 2007

This Christmas, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios presents The BiG Store, a department store specialising in contemporary art. With prices ranging from €5 to €5,000, this is a perfect opportunity for budding and established art collectors alike to access the best new contemporary art by a wide variety of emerging and established artists. Like the classic Marx Brothers movie from which it takes its name, The BiG Store is an engrossingly eccentric and anarchic vision of a modern department store. This exhibition features specially commissioned work from over 80 of the most interesting and challenging artists from Ireland and abroad. A commercial sales floor has been temporarily installed in Temple Bar Gallery, transforming the space into a commercial gallery/shop; a disguise which aims to confront the objectives and functions of a commercial art space, as well as inviting the viewer/shopper to embark on a provocative expedition into themes of economy, art production and distribution, power, consumerism, fetishes and excess.

Florestania by Marjetica Potrc
Preview: Tuesday 6th November 2007, 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition continues until Sunday, 9th December 2007

Roundtable: “Rural Evolution”
with Marjetica Potrc, Andreas Lang (Architect/Public Works, UK), Wapka Feenstra (Artist/NL), Dominic Stevens (Architect/IRL), and Sheila Gallagher (The Green Sod Land Trust/IRL), chaired by Nathalie Weadick, (Director, The Irish Architecture Foundation).
at 2pm on Wednesday, 7th November 2007 in Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
“Rural Evolution” is organised in partnership with The Irish Architecture Foundation.

The Promiscuous Diversity of Contemporary Painting
J J Charlesworth , in conversation with Robert Armstrong
Thursday 4 October at 6:30pm

Vigil
An exhibition of new paintings by Dublin based artist Paul Nugent

Preview: Tuesday 25th September, 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition continues until 27th October
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Beaconsfield Artsworks, Karl Burke, Mark Dean, Bruce Gilbert, Leafcutter John,
Fergus Kelly & David Lacey, Pan sonic, Bob & Roberta Smith, DJ Tendraw, Nina Hynes

6th to 16th September 2007
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Public Talk: Artists Ulrika Ferm, Peter Rosvik and Mark Clare In Conversation
The International Studio (Studio 16)
Tuesday 20th March, 5pm

Is pop music bad for adolescents?
Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
Dr. Adrian North
School of Psychology, University of Leicester
January 24th 2007 @ 1pm more...

Matt Stokes - PROGRAMME OF SACRED SELECTIONS
A PIPE ORGAN RECITAL FEATURING EXPERIMENTAL TRANSCRIPTIONS OF UNDERGROUND MUSIC
Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch Place , Dublin
Wednesday, 14th February 2007 @ 8pm more...

2006

This exhibition is accommpanied by a gallery talk The Figure in the Landscape by artist Elina Brotherus - @ 5pm 6th June 2006

Black Brain Radio Discussion Panel
An in-depth forum discussion on alternative ways of considering radio and art will happen over the morning of Friday 17 February 2006. The key speakers will be Anna Colin from Resonance 104.4fm, London's first radio art station, Heidi Grundman from Kunstradio, Austria, Lorelei Harris, Features, Arts & Drama Editor with RTÉ Radio 1 and artist Garrett Phelan - Venue: The Irish Museum of Modern Art.