Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is pleased to announce Aoife Ní Dhuinn as the recipient of the TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency Award in 2026.
The TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency Award offers a unique and substantial professional development opportunity to an emerging artist of talent and promise. The annual award includes a large free studio, an artist bursary of €7,000, and a variety of institutional supports to an artist who has graduated from an undergraduate degree in the past three years.
Aoife Ní Dhuinn is a visual artist from Clondalkin, Dublin. Through sculpture, drawing and image making, her work is concerned with big/small feelings, and peculiar aspects of modern culture. Using materials like wood, ceramics and pencil drawings, her practice reflects on the absurdities of modern life: 'the internet, being a teenager in ur 20s and learning how to drive.' Alongside her personal practice, Aoife Ní Dhuinn maintains a collaborative practice with Falon Weaver. Through a shared interest in existentialist thought, internet culture, and material exploration, their practice adopts a broad range of processes including concrete casting, ceramic sculpture, meme making, and going for walks.
Solo exhibitions include Hair Pin Bends, Platform Arts Belfast (2026); Email Shaped Clouds, Ormond Studios, 2023. Select group shows and projects include Right Here/ Right Now, Rua Red, Dublin (2025); Synthetic Artifacts, The Complex X Hardware (2025); Transatlantic Conversation He(arts), Muine Bheag Arts Radio, Episode 6, in collaboration with Falon Weaver (2025). Aoife Ní Dhuinn’s practice has received support from South Dublin County Council Bursary (2025); Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award (2023, 2024).
Aoife Ní Dhuinn describes the impact of the award on her practice and her hopes for the residency going forward:
"I am beyond thrilled to have received the TBG+S Recent Graduate award. In a time when studio space is increasingly difficult to access, the residency offers the invaluable luxury of space, time and stability. It will allow me to develop my work at a larger scale, deepen my engagement with my research and processes, and continue expanding the material language of my practice. I'm very excited to become part of the community at TBG+S. The opportunity to learn from artists that I admire, and build new professional relationships feels especially significant at this stage of my development. I feel incredibly fortunate to have received this award and I'm excited to see where the year leads."
TBG+S looks forward to supporting Aoife Ní Dhuinn as she develops her practice over the coming year and welcoming her to the studio complex and its creative community of artists.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) and Bétonsalon are pleased to announce Alexandre Caretti as the inaugural recipient of the TBG+S and Bétonsalon Dublin/Paris Residency Exchange 2026.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios would like to congratulate Studio and Board member Isabel Nolan on her commission for the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Dreamshook.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios invites applications from visual artists for a new opportunity in partnership with the Embassy of France in Ireland, Dublin City Council and the Embassy of Ireland, France.
