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.
20 December 2024, 11:30am
Join Jay Hōdo Roche for a talk about art, friendship and nature through the lens of the mystical realism of Zen in the context of Fergus Feehily's exhibition Fortune House.
This event is free. Booking is essential.
Taking place in the street-facing Gallery at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, this talk takes advantage of the incoming morning light on the occasion of the Winter Solstice. Based on a longstanding friendship with exhibiting artist Fergus Feehily and themes and conversations they have shared over the years, the talk will reflect on the surrounding environment of Fergus’s solo exhibition Fortune House.
Fortune House is situated in deep winter, taking place on both sides of the solstice, continuing into brighter days. This changing context draws on ideas of illumination, making associations with places as far-reaching as the megalithic site of Newgrange and the neon streets of Shinjuku, Tokyo. These locations have personal significance to the artist, bridging time and memory through the exhibition.
The title, Fortune House, conjures a vision of a site where luck, prosperity, or a glimpse into the future might be found. Feehily states an increasing reticence to explain his work, allowing ideas around the art-making process to be puzzled out and questioned. He seeks an experience of looking without the need to pin down or impose a fixed meaning.
Jay Hōdo Roche was born in Dublin in 1968. He studied fine art painting in what is now IADT, graduating in 1990. He works professionally as an artist and runs a design and craft company based in county Wicklow. He was ordained as a Zen Priest in 2018 and is now a teacher at the Dublin Zen Centre in Temple Bar. He lives in Greystones, county Wicklow with his wife and children.
Fergus Feehily born in Dublin now lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Lulu, Mexico City (2022); La Maison de Rendez-vous, Brussels (2020); Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne. (2019) and Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (2018). His work has been shown at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Dallas Museum of Art; X Museum, Beijing; Tokyo Opera City; June, Berlin; Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; Capital, San Francisco; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Sydney Non-objective; and Two Rooms, Auckland. In 2023, a major new monograph on the artist was published by Zolo Press, Mexico City/Brussels.
Fortune House is on view in the Gallery, 13 December 2024 — 23 February 2025.
Event Information: Seating will be provided. For further access information please contact Learning + Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin.
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
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