Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to announce Miranda Blennerhassett (IE) and Jack Faber (IL/FI) as the recipients of the TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange, 2022.
Miranda Blennerhassett will spend three months in residency at Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) from February to May 2022. Blennerhassett is interested in the cultural role of pattern and decoration. Her current focus is on domestic textile crafts such as weaving, quilt-making, knitting and embroidery. In making her installations, Miranda is thinking about the relationship between architecture and ornament; between domestic space and institutional space; between the handmade and the mass produced; and about the gendered production of crafts and ownership of spaces. She is interested in an inclusive approach to creativity that is inviting to audiences through familiar patterns and materials, and the reassurance of repetition.
Jack Faber will spend two months in residency at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios from May to June 2022. Faber is a Helsinki-based filmmaker and artistic researcher at The Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki. He is a trans-disciplinary artist, specialising in the transgressions of moving images and film. Merging cinematic practice and artistic research, Jack focuses on narrative strategies, interspecies relations and cultural frameworks, and explores their boundaries. His body of expanded cinema and moving image works goes by the name SUB PACIFIC FILMS.
Since 2007, the TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange has provided artists from Ireland and Finland with time, space, and support to create new work, and fostered dialogue, collaboration and international networking opportunities.
The TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange is supported by the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland.
Miranda Blennerhassett’s recent exhibitions and projects include: Rhythms, Flæði, Reykjavík, Iceland (2021); Cathedral Windows, Einszueins, Berlin (2020); staring forms, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2019); Mote, Mote 102, Edinburgh (2019); Small Town Decline: Rural Patterns of Decay, Glór, Ennis (2019); Sixteen Memos for the Next Millenium, NARS, New York (2018); Less Than 24 Hours, SÍM Gallery, Reykjavík (2018).
Jack Faber's recent screenings and installations include: CFTA, ExLab, Helsinki (2021); Cooking for the Apocalypse, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki (2020); History is Full of Ruse and Cunning, ExLab, Helsinki (2019), Astral America, Room 25, Tel Aviv-Jaffa (2019); Havana Cinematheque (2017); Netherlands Film Festival (2015); Motovun Film Festival (2015), Eye Film institute (2014).
The award was established in memory of Paul Robinson to support an emerging artist of talent and promise in developing their practice.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S), alongside partners Henry J Lyons, are honoured to receive The Irish Times Long Term Partnership Award for Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) at the Business to Arts Awards 2025.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to announce Dr Selina Guinness as Dublin Art Book Fair’s Guest Curator and present her theme: Flock.