August Art Walk

Meet us at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, the starting point for our walking tour.

We will visit Photo Museum Ireland for an introduction to In Our Own Image: The Politics of Place and the Project Arts Centre to hear about Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's exhibition I Need Your Help/ Tá Do Chúnamh Ag Teastáil Uaim. We will finish with an introduction to our new exhibition, Ramon Kassam's Paintings from The Last Gallery ⅋ Studio.

Photo Museum Ireland is the leading voice for photography in Ireland. Their exhibition The Politics of Place is a landmark survey that undertakes a critical reframing of the way Irish life has been represented through photography. It addresses how photographers have engaged with one of the defining obsessions of our national identity – the notion of place.

Project Arts Centre is a centre for artists, arts workers and audiences of all ages, housing a year round programme of visual and performing arts in two theatre spaces and a gallery, as well as providing informal meeting spaces and artist hot desks for the development of new work. I NEED YOUR HELP / TÁ DO CHÚNAMH AG TEASTÁIL UAIM is an immersive, interactive environment; an experiment in worldbuilding; and part of the artist’s continuing archival project to record the lives of Black trans people in the present so that they will not be forgotten in the future.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is a leading artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery in Dublin City Centre. In Ramon Kassam's exhibition Paintings from The Last Gallery ⅋ Studio, imagines paintings originating from the site of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios in an alternative present-time, where it is no longer in use and is approaching dereliction. Rather than pondering on this motif as something melancholic or pessimistic, Kassam’s intent is to romantically honour and celebrate painting and the physical spaces that facilitate and activate it.