Art Walk: February 2025
19 February 2025, 2pm
Enjoy an afternoon of art in the city. We will introduce you to exhibitions and arts organisations in Temple Bar which you can later explore at your own pace.
09 December 2023, 4pm
Dublin Art Book Fair Guest Curator Wendy Erskine in conversation with four fellow artist-teachers Kevin Curran, Judith Kimber, Paul Reid and Tamsin Snow.
Wendy Erskine, teacher, writer and this year’s Guest Curator of Dublin Art Book Fair, will be in conversation with four fellow teachers. Writer Kevin Curran, artist Paul Reid, photographer Judith Kimber and TBG+S Studio Artist Tamsin Snow consider their artistic practice and the relationship – if any – that it has with their work as secondary school teachers. It could be said that a secondary school classroom is one of the most polyphonic of working environments, where a multiplicity of pupil’s voices must be encouraged and valued. This group of artist-teachers share their views on this aspect of the book fair’s theme: Polyphonic.
Wendy Erskine is the author of two prize-winning short story collections published by The Stinging Fly Press. She is a frequent broadcaster and interviewer, and her non-fiction is widely published. In 2022, she was Seamus Heaney Fellow at Queen’s University and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Kevin Curran is a secondary school teacher in his home town of Balbriggan, Co Dublin. His first novel, Beatsploitation was published in 2013, followed by Citizens, 2016 and Youth, June 2022. His short stories have been published in anthologies and literary journals such as The Stinging Fly, and he has also written non-fiction for the Guardian and The Observer.
Judith Kimber is a secondary school music teacher from Belfast. She's a prolific reader, an occasional writer and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
Paul Reid is a Belfast-based artist and secondary school teacher who is a member of Creative Exchange Artists Studio. His work has been published by the Tangerine Press.
Tamsin Snow is a Dublin-based artist. She completed at BA in Fine Art - Studio Practice and Contemporary Critical Studies at Goldsmiths College, London in 2008 and received her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London in 2012. Her practice derives from ongoing investigations into the legacies of modernist architecture.
This event takes place as part of Dublin Art Book Fair 2023: Polyphonic, sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.
Image description: Three portraits side-by-side of Judith Kimber, Kevin Curran and Paul Reid. Left to right: (1) Judith is smiling and looking at the camera, she has a medium white skin tone with shoulder length silver hair, which is curled at the ends. She wears a black jacket and purple and mauve scarf. (2) Kevin Curran has short brown hair and a beard and is looking directly at the camera. He is wearing a black jumper over a blue shirt. In the background there is a green, blue and black spray-painted wall. (3) A black-and-white image of Paul Reid who is looking directly at the camera. Paul has short black hair pushed to the side, unshaven with a black moustache. He is wearing a black round neck T-shirt.
19 February 2025, 2pm
Enjoy an afternoon of art in the city. We will introduce you to exhibitions and arts organisations in Temple Bar which you can later explore at your own pace.
22 April 2025, 6pm
On the occasion of Music Currents Festival, TBG+S Studio Artist Jaki Irvine presents SHHh...Ow...emmM, an audio visual performance with Izumi Kimura, Joe O'Farrell, Sarah Grimes and Cora Venus Lunny.