Online Podcast Launch | Producing Strategies
10 March 2026
Discussions about cultural production hosted by Vaari Claffey and Francis Halsall.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is delighted to host the online launch of Producing Strategies, a new podcast series by curatorial practitioner Vaari Claffey and writer and academic Francis Halsall, exploring creative producing as a practice and form. In conversation with creative experts, Claffey and Halsall speak with curators, film producers, editors, designers, food producers, fashion designers, and more – about how they produce things and make things happen.
They want to find out if there is a common language shared by producers of creative work, and if and how it might be possible to compare strategies for cultural work across different fields of practice.
The series is ongoing, with published interviews with Lian Bell, Alice Butler, Vivian Crockett, Nathan O'Donnell, Mark O'Gorman, Cleo Prickett, Anita Reilly, and Amanda Wilkinson. Follow Producing Strategies on Instagram or find them wherever you listen to your podcasts.
The podcast is produced in collaboration with Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and Kunstverein Aughrim's Creative Producer Programme with support from the research office of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
Producing Strategies is supported by the Arts Council.
Episode 1 | Vaari + Francis
In this first episode, Francis talks to Vaari about her wide-ranging curatorial practice and using strategies of production taken from different ways of reaching publics, varying from films to festivals.
Episode 2 | Mark O'Gorman: collaboration and improvisation
Mark O'Gorman, Curator of The Complex Gallery, Dublin, talks to Producing Strategies about the strategies behind his practice of collaborative exhibition making.
Episode 3 | Nathan O'Donnell: editing and pedagogy
Nathan O'Donnell, editor of PVA (Journal + Books), talks to us about how he uses strategies of editing across his diverse practice, from producing publications to working in educational scenarios.
Episode 4 | Alice Butler: presenting experimental film
Alice Butler talks about or aemi (Artists' and Experimental Moving Image, which she founded in 2016 and co-directs with Daniel Fitzpatrick) and curating, commissioning and presenting experimental film.
Episode 5 | Lian Bell: Interactions with people in space
Lian Bell discusses working across art forms, media and spaces and how there is: "no dividing line between artist and arts worker in my practice".
Episode 6 | Cleo Prickett: the fashion atelier as shed
Fashion designer Cleo Prickett talks about running her practice of a contemporary tailoring fashion brand made 'in house' from her studio and home in the Liberties, Dublin.
Anita Reilly: conversation as practice
Anita Reilly is a community activist and broadcaster based in the Liberties, Dublin. For this episode, she speaks about her work which includes disability advocacy and community programming and liaising.
Amanda Wilkinson: curating as translation
Live at the Mermaid Bray, Amanda Wilkinson speaks about running Amanda Wilkinson Gallery and managing the estate of artist, filmmaker, and activist Derek Jarman.
Episode 9 | Vivian Crockett: curator as mediator in times of crisis
Vivian Crockett talks about her curatorial work at the New Museum, New York, and the museum's Sixth Triennial, co-curated with Isabella Rjeille of Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP).
