Temple Bar Gallery + Studios announces the recipient of the Paul Robinson Studio Award 2025

The Paul Robinson Studio Award supports an emerging artist of talent and promise to develop and focus their artistic practice during their Project Studio Membership at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S). The award is created in the memory of Paul Robinson, a partner and much-loved member of the Arthur Cox team for over 20 years and TBG+S Board Member from October 2013 to November 2017. He is warmly remembered with great fondness and respect for his many contributions to the organisation, support of the artists working here and his engaging interest in contemporary art.

Blaine O’Donnell is the recipient of the Paul Robinson Studio Award in 2025. Primarily working in sculpture, O'Donnell takes an experimental approach to the materials and debris of photography, architecture and geology, and investigates the art object as a starting point for tracing networks of relationships between objects, humans and places. In 2021, O'Donnell created a permanent sculptural installation at VOID, Derry, for Office of the Rest, a Forerunner project commissioned by Mary Cremin. O'Donnell's essay Things to Do With Photographs was shortlisted for the Source Magazine Writers Prize 2021.

Selected exhibitions include TWO PHOTOGRAPHS AWAY, curated by Aisling Dunne, Ardgillan Gallery, Co. Dublin (2024); hinder / further, two-person exhibition with Andreas Kindler Von Knobloch, curated by Mark O'Gorman, The Complex, Dublin (2022). Recent residencies include Firestation Artists' Studios, Dublin (2024–25), Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2024), Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico (2024); and the TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange, Finland (2023).