Temple Bar Gallery + Studios announces the event programme for Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF), 2025 including Guest Curator Dr. Selina Guinness' programme of talks, DABF's wider event programme and a new Publishing Talks Series.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is delighted to announce the event programme for Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF), 2025. It includes Guest Curator Dr. Selina Guinness' programme of talks, alongside DABF's wider programme of book launches, workshops, panel discussions and tours. A new Publishing Talks Series is a feature of this year's Fair.
Selina Guinness' theme Flock examines all things pastoral: humans and beasts; the relational art of shepherding; and the impact of flocks on habitats. Guinness will open the Fair with the Curator’s Opening Talk introducing the theme through her nominated titles, chosen with her invited readers. For panel discussion Cowboys & Shepherds, Fieldwork & Studio, Guinness invites visual artist and agriculturalist Adam Stead with visual artists and farmers Orla Barry and Miriam O’Connor. Isabel Nolan, Ireland’s representative at the 61st Venice Biennale (2026), Irish writer Darren Anderson and acclaimed author Cathy Sweeney participate in a second panel Of Human Flocks & Other Species.
The Publishing Talks Series includes the highly anticipated talk with associate publisher Tamara Sampey-Jawad and author Adania Shibli on their work for Fitzcarraldo Editions. PUBLICS Artistic Director Dr. Paul O’Neill and editor Dr. Gerrie van Noord discuss and read from their collaborative publishing practice. Author and editor Eva Fotiadi and contributing author Renata Pękowska introduce Exhibiting for Multiple Senses, published by Valiz. This series is supported by Creative Europe Desk Ireland.
DABF25 presents a rich ten-day programme of further talks, tours, workshops, readings, book launches, and a commissioned artwork by TBG+S Studio Artist Austin Hearne; each offering unique ways to engage with the artist book. Highlights include the return of National Irish Visual Arts Library, the launch of a collaborative publication State, in Relation, by Nathan O’Donnell, Susan Tomaselli, Oein DeBhairduin, Clare Bell, and Sonya Gildea; and a roundtable discussion zine fair and festival organisers hosted by creative producer Rita Hynes.
All tickets to DABF25 events are free. Tickets are limited and booking is essential.
Dublin Art Book Fair is proudly sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and RTÉ Supporting the Arts.
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