Young Art Writers workshop with Lily Cahill

Monday 19 + 26 February

There are a very limited number of spaces for this workshop and so we ask that participants are fully committed to attending both sessions.

Young Art Writers is designed for anyone age 18 – 25 with an interest in art and writing, or who would like to be introduced to this area. Over two sessions participants will discuss and experiment with writing in relation to the current gallery exhibition Anne Ryan's Tugann an Torann, led by Lily Cahill.

Young Art Writers is an ongoing gallery-based workshop series at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. It explores different aspects of writing in relation to visual art through workshops led by writers, artists and curators with a writing practice. The workshops adopt a shared learning and explorative approach as opposed to taught or critique-based sessions. No experience is necessary and all levels of writing ability are welcome.

For this exhibition, Ryan responds to the city nightlife in Temple Bar. Her paintings express the push and pull that takes place within the historic industrial area and cultural quarter, and its psychedelic spiral into a raucous tourist hotspot once the sun goes down. Motifs and iconography from pop music, cinema, classical painting and sculpture all collide in dreamlike chaos like a hazy memory of a concert or party. Ryan also draws upon her experiences of being an Irish emigrant in London since the late 1980s and the connected feelings of displacement and rootlessness.

Anne Ryan’s recent exhibitions include: Fighting on the Dance Floor, Exeter Phoenix (2023); Sirens (with Sophie von Hellermann), Turner Contemporary, Margate (2021); The City Rises, Southwark Park Galleries, London (2021); Earthly Delites, Hastings Contemporary (2020); Euoī, Euoī, Euoī, Ribot, Milan (2019); A Barbarian at the Gate, greengrassi, London (2017); The Cowboy Paintings, Turps Gallery, London (2017). Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to present Limerick-born Ryan’s first exhibition in Ireland in over twenty years following her show at Limerick City Gallery of Art in 2002.

Lily Cahill is a visual artist, writer, facilitator and editor. She is the winner of the Visual Artists Ireland/ Dublin City Council Art Writing Award 2019. She has written or performed her work for The RHA, The Lab Gallery, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, CIRCA, Art and Research Collaboration (ARC) at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Paper Visual Art, the School of Visual Culture at NCAD and Foaming at the Mouth.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is a leading artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery in Dublin City Centre. Supporting the development of artists and the creation of art through high quality studio provision and an ambitious exhibition programme. Creating an inclusive environment of learning and creativity and nurture close and sustained engagement of audiences with the work of Irish and international artists. Founded in 1983 - by artists, for artists.

Event location information: This event will take place in the gallery where the exhibition is installed. You can enter the street-facing gallery up until 6pm. Please ring office doorbell at side entrance if you arrive after this time. There will be cushions and seating in the gallery, and participants will set up in an informal circle in the space. Art works are on the walls and plinths in a brightly lit room.

If you have any questions please contact orla@templebargallery.com

Image description: A group of young people are seated in a circle on the floor in an dimly lit gallery space. There are notebooks, a large sheet of paper and pens in front of them. Magenta and light blue organza curtains hang behind them on right side. Behind them and in the centre of the room there is a small sculpture on a clear perspex plinth. There are bags and jackets on a ledge on the left hand side.