Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to announce the 2026 Artistic Programme including five solo exhibitions, Dublin Art Book Fair, and studio and residency awards.
In 2026, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) presents five solo exhibitions including new commissions by Irish and international artists, alongside the sixteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair. The Gallery and Studios programmes focus on international collaborations, co-productions and partnerships.
Lucy Stein
Lunula
13 March – 3 May 2026
Lucy Stein’s paintings draw on feminine iconography from sources including ancient mythology, medieval and ecclesiastical illuminations, esoteric mysticism, and folkloric imagery. Incorporated into expressive, emotionally and psychologically charged compositions, Stein describes her work as coming from a “cosmic symbolic feminist headspace”.
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Rebecca Moccia
Nostalgism
15 May – 28 June 2026
Rebecca Moccia’s new multidisciplinary project explores nostalgia as a characteristic of contemporary anxiety, and its instrumentalisation through neoliberal socio-economic systems. Drawing from personal experience of her own familial and geographic background in Naples, Moccia investigates the construction of cultural identity as defined by social and political conditions in local and national contexts. In partnership with Careof, Milan. Moccia’s new moving image work is supported by Collezione Agovino, Naples; WHITESPACE Projects/Napoli; Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Dublin; Careof, Milan.
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Vanessa Donoso López
24 July – 20 September 2026
Reflecting her experiences living between Barcelona and Dublin for many years, Vanessa Donoso López’s practice explores identity, migration, and cultural behaviours shaped by relocation. Her research on ‘transitional phenomena’ refers to the space between internal and external reality, where creativity and culture take form, and how identities and relationships are negotiated through objects, gestures and shared practices. Supported by an Arts Council Project Award.
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Morgan Quaintance
I'll Always Remember...
2 October – 22 November 2026
Using the practical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu as an interpretative frame, Morgan Quaintance presents an interrelated body of new moving image, photographic and text-based work. This exhibition extends from a new moving image work, titled Bourdieu, in which the sociologist’s analytical tools are used as prompts guiding a biographical retelling of the artist’s childhood experience living between London and Chicago. Co-curated by Alice Butler, aemi.
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Dublin Art Book Fair
4–14 December 2026
TBG+S presents the sixteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair, guest curated by writer, editor and curator Nathan O'Donnell. Sponsored by Henry J Lyons.
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Racheal Crowther
Liquid Trust
15 January – 14 March 2027
Drawing on her background working in social care services, Racheal Crowther’s practice explores the fragile boundary between care and control. Repurposing objects and artefacts that are charged with the residue of labour and routine, Crowther exposes the failures of bureaucratic systems and the collapse of institutional structures that shape daily life for many people. Produced by TBG+S and part of a long-term project commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London, in partnership with TBG+S and Bétonsalon, Paris. Supported by an Arts Council Project Award.
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Emily Waszak, Ancestors, Lovers, Kin, at Southwark Park Galleries, 18 April – 5 July 2026 was developed in a collaboration with TBG+S, Culture Ireland
and Southwark Park Galleries, London.
Learning + Public Engagement
Exhibitions are explored further through a programme created in collaboration with exhibiting artists. Making Connections to Art is designed for those who are new to, or curious about, contemporary art. Artist to Artist creates and facilitates peer-learning opportunities for new, emerging and established artists, building connections within the artistic community. Events include Spring School, 3–11 March, led by Studio Artist Rachel Fallon; Summer School, 9–12 July; and Culture Night, 18 September 2026.
Studios
2026 studio awardees: Jaki Irvine, Colm Keady-Tabbal, Caoimhe Kilfeather, Diaa Lagan, Michelle Malone, Thaís Muniz, Aileen Murphy, Niamh O’Malley, Joanne Reid (Paul Robinson Studio Award), Eoghan Ryan.
Residencies
2026 international residency awardees: Liliane Puthod, Cité internationale des arts, Paris; Katie Watchorn (IE) and Miia Kettunen (FI), TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange; Patrick Hough (IE) and Ayumi Kanno (JP), TBG+S/TOKAS International Residency Exchange. ISCP, NY, Moly-Sabata, Sablons, and Bétonsalon, Paris awardees to be announced.
TBG+S Writing Commission 2026 | Cathy Sweeney
Cathy Sweeney is a short story writer and novelist. Her fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review and Granta, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Publications include short story collection, Modern Times (The Stinging Fly Press | W&N, 2020) and debut novel Breakdown (W&N, 2024).
TBG+S is supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is pleased to announce Joanne Reid as the recipient of the Paul Robinson Studio Award 2026, proudly sponsored by leading law firm Arthur Cox LLP.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is pleased to announce the awarded artists from the open calls for Six Year Membership, Three Year Membership and Project Studios.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios invites applications from artists for the TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency Award 2026 offering professional development, an artist bursary and one-year studio.
