Summer School 2025

Drop into the gallery anytime during Summer School to explore the projects devised and workshops by artists John Conway, Vanessa Donoso López, Clodagh Emoe, and Renata Pękowska. Make art and try out new things with the supportive TBG+S Gallery team on hand, or book a workshop with an artist.

Summer School 2025 a four-day programme where the Gallery is dedicated to artistic activity, workshops and conversation, with projects devised by studio and invited artists. Summer School is part of the Making Connections programme which offers introductions to contemporary art for all audiences, especially those who are new to, or curious about, contemporary art.

For free. For everybody.

Print! Do! Cut! Place! Make! with John Conway

Use print and collage with John Conway to think about shapes and colours, and position your work in the Gallery alongside other people’s contributions to from a part of this communal art installation (ooh!) Use a printing press, printing blocks, and tons of preprinted colourful materials to collage and contribute to an evolving artwork.

Book Now | Family Workshop: Print + Collage

Book Now | Adult Workshop: Print + Collage

John Conway is a visual artist who works with lots of different types of communities in lots of different ways. He is known to some—namely his five-year-old daughter—as the best artist in the whole wide world.

Speaking with Clay with Vanessa Donoso López

Vanessa Donoso López will set up space to create an artwork made of a series of threaded necklace-like clay discs. Inspired by ancient Sumerian tokens used for record keeping long before written language existed. Create your own clay symbols, and add them to the evolving necklaces. Over time, the strings of tokens will form a unique language shaped by shared mark making.

Book Now | Family Workshop: Speaking with Clay

Book Now | Adult Workshop: Speaking with Clay

Vanessa Donoso López’s work unfolds through making installations that look at cross-cultural identity, migration and the elements emerging from the inhabited space. She uses a variety of processes, including archaeological experimentation, collaborative clay sourcing, drawing, and conversations around repetitive object making.

Wild Forms with Clodagh Emoe

Clodagh Emoe invites you to experience the wonder of nature by joining her continued exploration of the potential of natural plant dye. Use wild plant life to create colour on our gallery walls and look at what grows naturally around us through mark making and experimental drawing.

Book Now | Creating Wild Forms with natural plant dye

Book Now | Connecting with wild plants through drawing

Clodagh Emoe works closely with practitioners/researchers in areas of philosophy, architecture and ecology exploring ways to deepen our connection with the natural world. Clodagh’s recent work engages with the biodiversity crisis drawing attention to the power and potency of our native wild plants.

Drawing Time! with Renata Pękowska

For the final day of Summer School, and following the success of last year, Renata Pękowska returns to host a drawing session in the Gallery. The session aims to explore drawing lines and other marks as traces and the record of time, our experience of it, and generating reflections of its subjectivity.

Book Now | Drawing Time! with Renata Pękowska

Event location information: Each of the Summer School workshops and activities take place in the street-facing Gallery at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, with access to a semi-accessible bathroom. For further access information or queries regarding any of the workshops, please contact TBG+S Learning + Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin.