Workshop: Just There with Tara Carroll and Eimear Murphy

Free tickets. Booking essential. This event is masked, masks will be provided.

Do you feel your body is often excluded when visiting exhibition spaces? Do you feel you can truly take your time and feel safe to intimately engage with the work? Join TBG+S Studio Artist Tara Carroll and artist Eimear Murphy in a relaxed group chat about creating comfortable positions for our bodies in a gallery setting.

Creating soft sculptures using cushions, foam shapes the group will explore how our individual bodies would like to be positioned to support active engagement. Your unique body will inform the making of the sculptures and pace of the workshop. We want everyone to feel comfortable and choose how they would like to engage.

The workshop will inform the creation of sculptural seats that support different types of bodies to intimately engage with the art installation at Tara’s upcoming solo exhibition Resonances Ripples at Sirius Arts Centre, Cork in 2025.

Tara and Eimear would like to invite people who feel they would benefit and can contribute to the workshop. The workshop will cater to people’s access needs to the best of our abilities.

All ages welcome. No experience necessary. Children must be accompanied by a parent.

Access:
Check in for this workshop in the street-facing Gallery. The event will take place on the first floor accessible by stairs and lift. This is a masked workshop, FFP2 masks will be provided. The room will have a HEPA filter, Stim toys, snacks, water and a variety of seating.

There is a semi accessible bathroom on the ground floor. Access to an outside space and quiet area will be offered.

If you need to discuss your access needs, ask questions, require more details or photos of the space/building please email Tara Carroll.

This event is supported as part of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Studio Programme.

Tara Carroll is multidisciplinary artist whose social practice rests upon the perception of the body, impacted by socio-political narratives; and its placement in individualistic society. During difficult times of embodied conflictions, their community supports them in creating new pathways of care.

Eimear Murphy believes that actively spending time with people and using materials together can make important artwork and ideas which help us to understand each other and the world we live in. Sometimes the artworks made from this are sculptures, sometimes they are drawings and sometimes there is no physical art made at all.