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This morning (Thursday 3^rd May 2011) at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S), Ms. Orlaith McBride, Director of The Arts Council officially launched the organisation’s artistic programme for 2012/13.  Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, situated in the heart of the capital’s cultural quarter, is a front runner in contemporary visual art for almost thirty years, consistently presenting challenging and exciting artistic programmes and this year is no exception. Admission is free to the gallery and to talks and events at TBG+S.

Following a successful re-launch in 2011, TBG+S is planning a colourful, vibrant and engaging season of exhibitions in its contemporary art gallery, complimented by a full programme of events that include “lunchtime bite-size”, exhibitions’ tours, studio talks, screenings, workshops, schools visits and more. All of this, as well as TBG+S’s plans for artistic residencies in 2012/13 were unveiled this morning to a significant gathering from the arts and business communities and some of the exhibiting artists and curators.

Barbara Knezevic’s (AUS), studio artist, presented her new, site-specific sculptural installation for the TBG+S building, Re-charging Device  

“ Speaking at the launch, Orlaith McBride said the most important thing for any arts organisation is that any claim it makes to have an artist-centred 'ethos' be genuine. It cannot remain a mere aspiration. Policy must be translated into practice. It must be active in the life of the organisation. It must be reflected in the everyday dynamics of what it does. Thankfully, this ethos is clearly at work within TBG&S.

You can see it in the fluid relationship that exists between studio artists and gallery space. And you can see it, too, in the exhibition programme for this coming year. The concern for the centrality of the artist is apparent. Not in a formal, or naively self-conscious manner. Instead, it allows us to see the robust, interrogative approach artists take towards their own practice. It reveals to us how each artist engages - critically and aesthetically - with the unique social and cultural context in which they move, and from which they draw inspiration".

To download the full programme launch press release click the link below. 

Press_release_to_send.doc 

To Download the programme brochure as a PDF click here

In 2012 Temple Bar Gallery + Studios will for the first time be inviting participants to a new studio award aimed specifically at artists who have recently graduated from a Bachelors degree in fine Art.

All artists who graduated from a Bachelors degree in Fine art in Ireland or abroad since 2009 are eligible to apply.

The Graduate Studio Award aims to assist graduate artists in focussing their studio practices at this crucial point in their careers, and to encourage more emergent artists to get involved with Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. As well as receiving a free studio at TBG+S for a duration of six months, the awardee will get the benefit of mentoring and support from the staff and artists at TBG+S. This could include studio visits from curatorial staff and visiting curators, assistance with applications, mentoring from studio artists, and free enrolment on courses with TBG+S affiliated organisations.

The successful applicant for the graduate studio award will have a strong and confident emerging studio practice, and will be able to articulate why and how they feel they would benefit from the opportunity.

How to Apply:

The deadline for applications is Tuesday 15 May 2012 at 5.30pm

There will be a specific application form downloadable from http://www.templebargallery.com/studios/apply

All applicants should carefully read the Graduate studio application guidelines for 2012, also downloadable from http://www.templebargallery.com/studios/apply before they complete their application.

If you require any assistance with your application, please contact rayne@templebargallery.com

To learn more about how you can apply for a studio at TBG+S please see http://www.templebargallery.com/studios/apply

A key aspect of Očko’s work is the research of the musical language and its potential to generate narrative by using the abstract sonic symbols organized in an acoustic structure such as music or to perform political statements within the system of an absolute indeterminacy. In particular, this is relevant for his films, where the simple soundtrack is replaced with complexities of an acoustic narrating. 

TBG+S and Damir Ocko would like to thank Dublin City Council Arts Office, Dublin City Council Events Department and Dublin City Council Public Lighting Unit. Special thanks to Lucy McKenna. 

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Call for artists Books

From 2^nd – 4^th December 2011, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios will host the first Dublin Art Book Fair and magazine archive. This event will take place in the on-street gallery in Temple Bar and aims to promote and aid the distribution of artist’s books and catalogues. Over twenty publishers from Ireland and abroad will be represented at the fair, and there will be an art magazine archive section curated by Aoife Tunney, as well as a full programme of live readings and talks.

Alongside this, TBG+S wishes to present an open submission section in which artists can present and sell their books. We are therefore inviting artists to send us their books, catalogues and other publications for inclusion in this project.

If you would like us to sell your books for you, please send us 5 copies of each of your publications, clearly marked with the following information:

Name
Contact details (phone, address and email)
Details of the publication (Title, date, author
Price of the publication

Deadline: All books must be with us by Monday 28^th November for inclusion in the fair opening on Thursday 1^st December.

For further details please email rayne@templebargallery.com

The other shortlisted websites for the award were nch.ie/online, fringefest.com, irishtheatremagazine.ie, axis-ballymun.ie and ewaneumann.com.

Rayne Booth, Marketing officer of TBG+S said

‘We are just delighted to be included in the category for best arts website alongside such great organisations and really impressive websites. To win it is a very big achievement for us and a great vote of confidence!’

The Temple Bar Gallery + Studios website was launched in May 2011 alongside a rebranded logo design for the organisation, which was carried out by David Joyce of Language design. The website was designed and made by Karen Hanratty of Pixel design.

The website allows users to access up-to-date information on TBG+S’s activities from gallery exhibitions to studio opportunities. It also contacins information about TBG+S’s participatory education programme, and an extensive archive of past activities. Visitors to the website can sign up to the mailing list to receive information via email about upcoming events and a quarterly newsletter.

Friday October 21st 2011
From 6 - 9pm at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
Refreshments by Jameson's. Sounds by Not Abel. Visuals by Clint Eastwood

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San Francisco exhibition details:

"Death & Sensuality"
A group exhibition of contemporary Irish artists: Nina Amazing, Roisin Byrne, Alan Butler, Benjamin DeBurca, Breda Lynch, James McCann, Leo McCann,Tom Molloy, Not Abel and Alan Phelan. Curated by Jim Ricks

Mina Dresden Gallery
312 Valencia St., San Francisco
November 4th – December 3rd 2011
Opening reception: Thursday November 3rd 6–8pm
Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday 12 to 5pm

''Death & Sensuality" is a diverse group exhibition of contemporary Irish artists. It is organised and curated by Jim Ricks, a native Californian and artist residing in Ireland for the last 6 years. The project, which is presented as part of Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland’s year of Irish arts in America in 2011, looks to the politics of sex and violence in the work of contemporary Irish artists working with appropriation. To include new work by: Nina Amazing, Roisin Byrne, Alan Butler, Benjamin DeBurca, Breda Lynch, James McCann, Leo McCann, Tom Molloy, Not Abel and Alan Phelan.

“...In essence, the domain of eroticism is the domain of violence, of violation... What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners – a violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?”

– Georges Bataille, Eroticism: Death and Sensuality

“Cells lurking deep in the mouse hypothalamus help determine whether it fights or mates.”

– Ewen Callaway, Nature News

"Death and Sensuality" is an ambitious representation of contemporary Irish culture highlighting a range of mediums, artists and new work dealing explicitly with appropriation and contemporary social issues. The notion of the taboo, the undercurrents of violence and abuse, as well as the erotic, in both current events and history are investigated by the artists. This is achieved through re-working, re-producing and re-contextualising the ‘indisputable’ appropriated image and object. The result is an exciting exhibition of installation, collage, video, painting and drawing.

Although the works are informed from an Irish and ostensibly post-colonial perspective, they don’t relate exclusively to Ireland. A dark and intrepid gaze at sex and its connection to violence begins via well-know tangled Irish pasts with the Catholic church, the Troubles and British colonialism, but also quickly opens up to faith, resistance and subjugation generally. As such, foreign and
domestic concerns are explored. At times this is achieved directly and unflinchingly, and at others strangely, tangentially and perversely.

Imagine Ireland is a year-long season of Irish arts in America in 2011, an initiative of Culture Ireland, with funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

www.imagineireland.ie | www.jimricks.info | www.minadresden.com

Image: Tom Molloy, Courtesy of Rubicon Gallery and the artist.

VISIT 2011 is 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. Many exhibitions show the end result of artistic practices, VISIT 2011 invites you to see how visual arts practice takes shape on the ground. 

As part of our participation in this year’s artists’ open studios event Visit 2011, TBG+S invites you to get inspired and sign up for our free ink drawing workshop this Saturday 22nd October! ‘Visit’ provides the unique opportunity to see some of Dublin’s finest professional artists at work in their studios and is sure to leave any art-lover itching to pick up a brush and get creative in a studio of their own. For this very reason, we will be hosting the workshop in one of our world class studio spaces, facilitated by artist Oisín Byrne and feature a live figure model. All materials will be kindly provided by K&M Evans Art Supplies and places are limited so book now!

Where: Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 5 - 9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
When: 3.30pm - 5.30pm, Saturday 22nd October
How to book: 01 6710073 or info@templebargallery.com
Kindly sponsored by K&M Evans Art supplies

This year sees VISIT’s third event which comprises of eighteen visual arts studios in Dublin city and will provide access to over two hundred and fifty visual artists. Dublin’s creative city is mapped out through the great variety of studio work-spaces in this specially produced VISIT 2011 publication and on the accompanying website. VISIT operates as an archive in two ways, it provides an extensive inventory of all the participating artists and it also displays architectural spaces used by visual artists as studios, ranging from industrial warehouses, Georgian buildings, converted stables and many other inspirational uses of space. With this large scale open studios event, visitors can see the wide diversity of art forms at work within these spaces from painting, sculpture, video, photography, performance, new media and installation. 

This private and often hidden world of the Artist’s Studio life is opened up to the public for one day, VISIT is a chance to connect with the many unseen layers of cultural activity that go on in our city. Contained in this brochure and on our website you can find a map of the city-wide visual art studios, with information and contact details for this free public event and suggestions on how you can plan your day of studio visits. 

Discover VISIT for yourself – take a bus, hop on a bike, jump on the Luas or stretch your legs with a walk. On Saturday 22nd October we’ll be waiting for you, from 12 – 6pm. 

We hope you enjoy your VISIT! 

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