Adult Workshop: How to make a shirt with Alexandre Caretti
09 July 2026, 2pm
Create your own unique clothing pattern with artist Alexandre Caretti to hang as part of a collective artwork.
Adult Workshop: Please Touch with Tara Carroll
12 July 2026, 10:30am
Further Information
Explore touch as a way to connect to the present and to each other through the evolving installation in the Gallery
This workshop led by artist Tara Carroll offers a relaxed space to slow down and engage with the senses, inviting you to become an active part of the work.
Through guided exercises, playful actions and cosy chats, we will consider how touch relates to exploring our surroundings, ourselves, connecting with others and accessibility. We will work collaboratively to explore how touch is transferred across time, space, and bodies.
By engaging with the work, we enter into community with others we may never have met. Participants will touch, engage and add to the communal installation while creating collaboratively a playful audio description of the work.
The workshop will take place outside of gallery hours for quieter sensory friendly engagement. This is an adult workshop suitable for anyone new to or curious about contemporary art. Confirmation of attendance will be requested closer to the time.
Tara Carroll is a socially engaged and collaborative artist. Their work takes the form of installation, performance, participation, community building, advocacy and creative social spaces. During difficult times, it was Tara’s community that empowered them to carve new pathways of creativity, interdependence and care (real care). The work Tara creates is to return this gift to people who also feel outside of art spaces, together breaking down preconceptions of what art can be to access unique perceptions of ourselves.
This event is part of Gallery Takeover 2026, a four-day summer programme where the Gallery is dedicated to artistic activity, workshops and conversation.
Event location information: The workshop will take place in our street-facing gallery space at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. A team member will be at the entrance to check you in and support throughout visit, they will be wearing red lanyards.
The Temple Bar area is a busy area with a new level path that leads to the entrance door, which has a 5cm step, the gallery is otherwise step free. The space is bright with natural light and will contain freestanding sculpture, tables and chairs. The event space and street outside can be busy and louder at times. A large single room bathroom with grab rails is next to the gallery space.
Contact our Learning & Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin with any questions or to enquire about booking a quiet-time visit.