Read the newly published From Line to Flesh, by our 2020 Commissioned Writer Ian Maleney.

From Line to Flesh by Ian Maleney is written in response to the exhibition Swinguerra by Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca.

Ian Maleney is a writer based in Dublin. His first book, a collection of essays entitled Minor Monuments, was published in 2019 by Tramp Press and shortlisted for the Michel Deon Prize and Butler Literary Award. He received the Arts Council Next Generation Bursary for Literature in 2019. He is the online editor of the Stinging Fly, and founding editor of Fallow Media. His work has been published in The Guardian, Esquire, and the New Statesman.

The TBG+S Writing Commission aims to expand ideas around writing about art by inviting Irish writers to create a series of pieces inspired by the exhibitions at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.