Company Structure

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is a registered charity CHY12031 and a company limited by guarantee and owned by the artist membership.  We are one of the registered bodies approved by the Revenue Commissioners for tax relief on donations of €250 or above.There is a Board of nine members with four artist members and five external persons with expertise in a variety of fields of profession.

Our Current Board members are:

Chairperson Noel Byrne:  Business and Marketing.

Noel has over 30 years’ experience in logistics, transportation and related industries. Having worked both in operational and sales positions for two of the world’s largest international freight forwarders in Ireland and overseas, he joined DHL in 1984 as Area Sales Manager. In 1986 he was appointed Sales Manager Ireland and in 1991 he joined the board of DHL Express Ireland as Marketing and Sales Director with responsibility for Sales, Customer Services, Pricing, Brand Communications and Marketing. A Council Member of The Sales Institute of Ireland, Noel was elected a Fellow in September 2005.

Robert Armstrong:  Membership Artist.

Simon Bolger: Head of Online Partnerships at Google.

Simon is Head of Online Partnerships for Google in Europe, Middle East and Africa, responsible for Google's publisher partnerships in the region. Previously at Google he has been Global Leader of AdSense Online Account Management, and he led the AdSense Emerging Markets team to launch AdSense into developing markets. Prior to Google Simon was involved with founding and working at a number of start-ups in the Media and Online industries, and before that he worked in RTE developing their first digital radio and Internet radio channels. Simon has a Bachelors Degree in Communications from Dublin City University, and a Masters Degree in Radio from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Alan Butler:  Membership Artist.

John Byrne:  Membership Artist.

Karen Downey:  Independent Curator and Arts Consultant.

Karen is currently Senior Curator at Belfast Exposed where she has worked on the development of the exhibition, archive and publication programmes since 2001. Highlights include exhibitions with Allan Sekula (2011), Taryn Simon (2011) and Hans-Peter Feldmann (2010). New work commissions include Mark Curran, John Duncan, Factotum, Melanie Friend, Kai-Olaf Hesse, Claudio Hils, Daniel Jewesbury, Anthony Luvera, Mary McIntyre, Aisling O’Beirn and Donovan Wylie. Karen also works as an independent curator. In 2009 she curated Northern Ireland’s presentation at the 53^rd Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition by Susan MacWilliam. In 2011 she curated Versions and Diversions at Temple Bar Gallery and this year she will curate the 60^th Anniversary Exhibition for Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Joe Hanly:  Membership Artist.

Born in Dublin in 1952 Joe is a painter and printmaker who has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland since the early 1980s mounting solo exhibitions in most of the major venues throughout that time. A graduate of the NCAD he founded the Screenprint Workshop in 1977 and in 1983 was a co-founder of  Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. He is a lecturer in Fine Art  at the Dublin Institute of Technology. 

Paul Robinson:  M&A lawyer and partner, Arthur Cox.

Paul is a partner in Arthur Cox’s Corporate and M&A Group and has extensive experience advising on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions. He has a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, emerging & growth companies, private equity, corporate reorganisations and general commercial agreements. Paul has lectured and tutored in the area of business law at the Law Society and is a member of the Law Society Business Law Committee.