Workshop: The Colour of What We Inhabit
05 — 06 September 2026, 10am–1pm
Artists Solange Dalannais and Vanessa Donoso López lead a textile workshop working with materials such as plants, soil, and mineral pigments.
Gallery Walk Through: Vanessa Donoso López, '(O-O-O)'
04 September 2026, 1:30pm
Further Information
Exhibitiong artist Vanessa Donoso López and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Director Cliodhna Shaffrey in conversation about the exhibition (O-O-O).
Join us for an introduction to (O-O-O), a solo exhibition by artist Vanessa Donoso López at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Vanessa and Clíodhna will lead you on a journey through the exhibition stopping to discover and listen to different elements of the artworks.
For this exhibition, Vanessa Donoso López reflects her experiences growing up in Barcelona and living in Ireland for over twenty years. Her practice explores identity, migration, and cultural behaviours shaped by relocation and adaptation. She creates everyday forms such as bowls, cups and other vessels, as well as more primordial shapes which resemble stones or rocks. They act as ‘transitional objects’, a phrase which relates to a sense of understanding that precedes knowledge-based learning, resembling intuition and feeling. At times Donoso López makes detailed, skilfully engineered forms, and configures large numbers of simplistic shapes into complex multi-part arrangements.
She uses attainable materials like clay and soil, plants and water, to examine how traditions, language and values adapt across cultures over time. Donoso López enacts an authentic, pragmatic practice of care upon these materials. While they symbolise core elements of life and sustainability in nature, they require nurturing and attentiveness when brought into a cultural environment, and these are the conditions that Donoso López assigns herself through her art.
Recent solo exhibitions include: DLR LexIcon Gallery, Dún Laoghaire (2025); Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin (2011–2022) and Galeria Herrero de Tejada, Madrid (2021). Her solo exhibition (O-O-O), is currently on view at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
Event location information: The exhibition is in our street-facing Gallery.. The gallery is naturally lit with delicate installations and floor and wall-based art. This is a standing event with an expected duration of 45 mins. Seating available on request. For further accessibility information please contact Learning & Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin.