Temple Bar Gallery + Studios News

Damir Ocko: We Saw Nothing But the Uniform Blue of the Sky

2012-02-14T16:50:36+00:00

Last October, TBG+S welcomed Croatian artist Damir Očko to Dublin, as part of the three month long 'Paths Crossing' production residency. During the residency, Damir worked from studio 16 at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, where he researched and created a new film work, ‘We saw nothing more but the uniform blue of the sky’, incorporating a spoken performance by a Dublin native Noel Kenny and shot on location on Dollymount Strand Dublin. The soundtrack was recorded in Panchord studio Dublin.

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.

'We Saw Nothing But The Uniform Blue of the Sky' will be exhibited in Gallery Tiziana di Caro, Salerno, Italy in March 2012.

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.

Assistant Art Education Curator and Assistant Art Administrator: Applications open

2012-01-12T11:31:18+00:00

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for two new positions offered under the Job Bridge national Internship Scheme and the Work Placement Programme (1)

Position 1

(Job Bridge Scheme)

Assistant Art Education Curator: Learning and Engagement

We are seeking an individual with energy, commitment, passion, self-confidence and excellent organisational skills to support development and daily operations at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. The individual will work very closely with the Studios Support and Marketing Officer and Studios Development Manager well as learning from the whole team of this highly-regarded national venue for contemporary art and art-making.

Our successful candidate will liaise with the 30 artists who work in the studios, exhibiting artists and our partners in our learning and engagement programme. Our new team member will play an integral role in artists’ liaison, coordinating our programme of artists’ workshops, talks, tours, other participatory or live events as well as proposing new projects that will engage our online and offline audiences with the gallery and artists’ studios. S/he will have a key supporting role to the Studios Support and Marketing Officer in communicating and project-managing the artistic and education programmes for the gallery and artists’ studios.

Skills and Education

Graduate degree in Fine Art, Art History, Arts Management, Arts Education or relevant disciplines. A Master’s degree or post-graduate diploma in arts management, curating, art education, visual culture or critical studies will be an advantage.
High level of competency in team-working, communications, interpersonal understanding, organisational systems, planning, concern for clarity of presentation and work quality
The ability to work on one’s own initiative to act creatively and be forward thinking to anticipate problems and crises
Our successful candidate will demonstrate absolute commitment to the internship period and be driven and ambitious for their career.
Knowledge and/or experience of art education programmes and best practices nationally and internationally will be an advantage.

Application Process:

Applications should be sent by email to Studios Support and Marketing Officer Rayne Booth rayne@templebargallery.com by 5pm on Thursday 16^th February 2012 and please include the following reference number on your application: INTE-655473

· Applicants should include a CV and letter of interest in the position, including personal strengths, what specifically you might bring to Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and highlighting an event, project or programme in your past that demonstrates your strengths in the above criteria.

· Interviews will be held on Wednesday 29^th February 2012 please indicate whether you will be available on this day in your application.

· The internship is offered for a consecutive period of nine months – please indicate in your application that you are committed to this period.

· The internship is approved under the JobBridge National Internship scheme and applicants must be eligible under the terms of the scheme. For more information on the scheme and to find out if you are eligible visit http://www.jobbridge.ie/InternEligible.aspx

To download this job specification as a PDF please click the following link

Assistant_art_education_curator.pdf

Position 2

(Work Placement Programme 1)

Assistant Art Administrator

We are seeking an individual with energy, commitment, self-confidence and excellent organisational skills to support development and daily operations at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. The individual will work very closely with the Studios Support and Marketing Officer and Office Administrator well as learning from the whole team of this highly-regarded national venue for contemporary art and art-making.

Our successful candidate will liaise with the 30 artists who work in the studios inclusive of international artists and curators in residence, the front-of-house team, visitors to the building, contractors and suppliers. Our new team member will play an integral role in assisting with coordination of the arts programme, front-of-house and visitors services, marketing, building and operations administration and will provide production support to our international artists’ and curators in residence. S/he will learn tasks and responsibilities essential to the day to day running of a dynamic arts organisation.

Skills and Education

Graduate degree in Fine Art, Art History, Arts Management or relevant disciplines. A Master’s degree or post-graduate diploma in arts administration/management, curating or related fields will be a distinct advantage.
High level of competency in team-working, communications, organisational systems, planning, concern for clarity of presentation and work quality.
The ability to work on one’s own initiative to act creatively and be forward thinking to anticipate problems and crises
Our successful candidate will demonstrate absolute commitment to the internship period and be driven and ambitious for their career.
Knowledge and/or experience of national and international contemporary art will be an advantage.

Application Process:

Applications will be advertised be sent by email to Studios Support and Marketing Officer Rayne Booth rayne@templebargallery.com by Thursday 16^th February 2012 and please include the following reference number on your application: INTE-655515

· Interviews will be held on Wednesday 29^th February please indicate whether you will be available on this day in your application.

· The internship is offered for a consecutive period of nine months – please indicate in your application that you are committed to this period.

· The internship is approved under the Work Placement Programme 1 and applicants must be eligible under the terms of the scheme. For more information on the scheme and to find out if you are eligible visit http://www.fas.ie/en/WPP/Participants.htm

To download this Job specification as a PDF please click the following link

Assistant_art_administrator.pdf

Call for artist’s books

2011-11-07T11:25:45+00:00

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

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

TBG+S website wins Irish web award!

2011-10-25T15:18:46+00:00

On Saturday 22nd October Temple Bar Gallery + Studios’ new website www.templebargallery.com was awarded the prize for best arts website 2011 at the Irish Web Awards at Dublin’s Mansion house venue.

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.

Dublin Launch: “Death & Sensuality” - Irish artists in San Francisco

2011-10-17T12:57:33+00:00

TBG+S is pleased to host the Irish Launch Party of:

"Death & Sensuality"
A group exhibition of contemporary Irish artists in San Francisco: 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

On

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: City-wide open studios day

2011-10-17T10:37:14+00:00

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!

www.visitstudios.com / www.dublincontemporary.com
Follow us on facebook: Visit Studios

TBG+S Website shortlisted for Irish Web Awards!

2011-10-11T16:05:11+00:00

Our new website was launched in May and we are delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted for an Irish Web Award! We would like to thank our wonderful web designer Karen Hanratty at Pixel Design and David Joyce at Language for designing our new logo.

TBG+S Programme 2011 now downloadable as a PDF

2011-09-27T15:54:41+00:00

In case you did not get your hands on our limited edition 2011 programme brochure, we have made it available for download! Just click the link below to start downloading.

TBG+S_A5programme_lores.pdf

TBG+S Cultural Table Quiz #2

2011-09-26T10:22:54+00:00

Monday 3rd October, 7pm
Upstairs at the Hapenny Bridge Inn

For the second time this year, TBG&S invites you to test your knowledge of art, film, music, literature and more! Following the success of our last quiz night we will again be offering lots of great prizes and adding picture, drawing and musical rounds to the quiz mix . If you think you’re up to the challenge come along and be in with the chance to win one of our fantastic raffle prizes as well as doing your bit to fund the arts!

€40 per table of 4 with all fund raised going towards TBG&S’s programme of contemporary visual art exhibitions, artist’s talks and events.

Places limited so book ahead by emailing rayne@templebargallery.com or phoning us on 01 6710073

Culture Night at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

2011-09-21T14:31:24+00:00

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios is pleased to again participate in Culture Night, the annual evening celebration of culture in Ireland. This year, TBG+S are planning a full programme of exhibitions, screenings and open studios for Culture Night so make sure that you make TBG+S a main stop on your itinerary on Culture night, Friday 23rd September, from 6 -10pm.

Currently on show in the gallery, Martin Healy's acclaimed exhibition 'The Inhabitant' will be open until 10pm. As part of our culture night celebrations, we have asked Martin Healy to select two of his favourite science fiction films, which will be screened in Studio 6 from 7pm on culture night. More details will be posted soon on our facebook page and website, and free popcorn will be provided!

Finland based curator Jon Irigoyen has been participating in a month long residency at TBG+S. Jon is interested in working with urban communities and for Culture Night will be presenting the results of his research, which has focused on the Temple Bar area.Taking the form of interviews, documents, archive footage and artworks, this presentation will take place in Studio 16 from 6pm.

As well as this a small selection of our studio members will be opening their studio doors to the public, to give you a taste of what is to come ahead of the city wide open studios day Visit 2011on 22nd October. For more information on visit studios click here