Frank Sweeney Screening Series
07 October — 04 November 2025, Tuesdays | 6pm
A screening series curated by exhibiting artist Frank Sweeney, selected in the context of his new film installation, Go Ye Afar.
DABF24 Workshop | Exploring Queer Archiving with Collaborative Zines
23 November 2024, 2pm
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Explore the queer archive with Emma Hurson and Ava Chapman as they lead a workshop using copied and found archival material to create a collaborative zine.
All ages welcome. No experience necessary. Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Join Emma Hurson and Ava Chapman in Studio 1 for a collaborative zine-making workshop as part of Dublin Art Book Fair. Participants will interact with copies of images and material found in queer magazines, libraries and archives. The workshop will open up discussion on the importance of documenting personal narratives and cultural stories. Participants will be encouraged to consider memories, events, places and people relevant to them in doing so contribute to a collaborative zine through writing and collage.
Each participant will receive a copy of the zine by post in the days following the workshop.
Emma Hurson is a Monaghan-born writer and artist, currently based in Dublin. After completing an undergraduate in Sociology and Social Policy in Trinity College Dublin, they are currently completing a Master’s Degree in Art Research + Collaboration in IADT. Their work has involved print-based projects and events, working for the past five years under the pseudonym ‘babyface’. Their ongoing project, an Irish queer archive, is an active mobile library, which lives and grows among their friends and peers. It has so far gathered ephemeral, independently-produced, and community-based print materials including zines, journals, maps, articles and event memorabilia
Ava Chapman is a writer living in Dublin. She completed her undergraduate degree in English Literature and History at Trinity College Dublin, where she edited Icarus, Ireland’s oldest literary magazine, and wrote her thesis on gay women’s writing in activist magazines in Ireland. She co-edits Lesbian Art Circle, an arts event and publication which centres queer women.
Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) is a centre for contemporary artist books offering unique artist publications and titles from creative, small and independent publishers, both Irish and international.
DABF24 is proudly sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and RTÉ Supporting The Arts.
