DMC 'The Dunmurry May-Day Conspiracy' Artist : Aoibheann Greenan Curated by Rayne Booth April 17

th - June 20

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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios presents DMC: Dunmurry May-Day Conspiracy. A solo exhibition in which artist Aoibheann Greenan presents a full scale inhabitable diorama in the gallery. This pseudo-recreation simulates the ceremonial ground of a fictional secret society called the Draoithe Dún Muirigh (the Druids of Dunmurry) and imagines a new folklore around the Delorean car manufacturing plant in Dunmurray, Co.Antrim. Aoibheann Greenan's work uses imagery that is often influenced by Utopianism, b-movies and counter or sub cultures. Ideas of tourism and the idealisation of other cultures which filter through Greenan's work chime with the location of TBG+S, in Temple Bar, the most popular tourist destination in Ireland. Her diorama mimics Temple Bar's often absurd attempts to perpetuate the myth of national identity by projecting hyperreal and romanticised image of Ireland.

Writing Commission | Sara Baume is commissioned to write five short essays over the course of 2015 in response to TBG+S’ gallery programme to be published and for broadcast on RTE’s Arena. Her most recent piece, DMC (Dunmurry May-Day Conspiracy) can be read by following this link . A recording of Sara reading her essay for RTE Radio 1 can be heard on the TBG+S Soundcloud page.

Sarah Baume’s debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter

Wither, was published by Tramp Press in February 2015. Sara Baume won the Hennessy Award for New Irish Writing in 2015.

'Bealtaine' Thursday 30

th April 9-10pm

Artist's Performance - Aoibheann Greenan DMC The 30th of April marks the pagan festival of Bealtaine, a time of purification and transition in which bonfires are lit and hawthorn trees are decorated. According to folklore it is a time when the veil between the world of the supernatural and our own is said to be at its thinnest. On this date Aoibheann Greenan invites viewers to witness the pseudo- re-enactment of a fictional secret society named Draoithe Dún Muirígh, as part of her exhibition 'Dunmurry May-Day Conspiracy' At Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Upcoming Exhibition

Display Show

03 July - 29 August 2015

Curator: Gavin Wade

Gavin Wade is an artist-curator and Director of

Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Art is not exhibited, art exhibits. Display Show

initiates a set of artworks embedded with, and

reliant upon, explicit conditions of display. Each

work expresses its context as a combination of

functional attributes that allow the artwork to

always be in the mode of exhibiting – they are

always in the process of display.

Display Show exhibits a number of portable

exhibition systems from reworkings of Frederick

Kiesler’s display units of the 1920s and 40s, by

Celine Condorelli and Gavin Wade, through to

Yelena Popova’s customised flight case containing

paintings with references to constructivism, Nazi

theft and hoarding of artworks. Mobile walls,

plinths and architectural modifications focus on

the gestures and actions of friendship, support and

politics within the processes of producing images,

furniture, architecture and communities.

Through Display Show the artists-designers-

curators will make propositions as to how the

physical space of the gallery and ground floor

space, in its context in the larger building and

within the Temple Bar area, could operate to its

full potential.

Our series of Talks and Events are programmed regularly and are free and all are welcome to attend. 'Relatively Speaking' Thursday 30

th April 1.15-2.15pm

Walking Tour of three contemporary art galleries. Lead by Róisín Hackett the tour began in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios viewing Aoibheann Greenan's DMC Exhibition, with commentary from our guide Róisín. We continued to the Project Arts Centre gallery space where we were given an introduction to 'A Breath Crystal', Guest curated by Mihnea Mircan (BE). Dublin Gallery Map Launch + Dublin Gallery Weekend Tuesday 28

th April, Studio 6, 11am

There was a large introductory meeting on Tuesday 28

th May, gathering together Directors and Curators

representing over 20 galleries throughout the city to discuss the launch of Dublin Gallery Weekend. A new promenade visual arts festival, Dublin Gallery Weekend, is due to run from 11-13

th September

2015. Dublin Gallery Weekend will involve most of the galleries listed in the map and will feature a programme of visual art exhibitions and events across Dublin city.

Dublin Gallery Map is a handy printed map featuring 28 Dublin galleries and up-to-date exhibition listings (April-September 2015). It is available free of charge in selected galleries, tourist offices and hotels and also downloadable online. Visitors and locas alike can follow the map’s trail and use it as their personal tour guide to discover some of the great contemporary Irish and international art on show in Dublin city. Dublin Gallery Map is managed by Rayne Booth and is sponsored by Fáilte Ireland with support from Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. www.dublingallerymap.ie

Drawing Day Saturday May 16

th 11am-12.30pm Studio 6 Drawing Day workshop was lead by artist David Eager Maher. As part of National Drawing Day in Dublin, Temple Bar Gallery+Studios hosted an open Drawing Workshop. The workshop, lead by artist David Eager Maher, took place on Saturday May 16th from 11am to 12:30pm. Supplies were provided, but participants could also bring their own tools if desired. Admission was free, with free tickets booked in advance on Eventbrite.

Thursday 7th

May An art workshop for the students of St. Patricks Boys’ National School, Ringsend, was lead by artist Ella de Burca and Hannah Fitz organised by Jean Mann. Thursday 14

th May

Students of St. Patricks Girls’ National School,

Ringsend, participated in a workshop in their

classroom with artist Hannah Fitz, organised by

Jean Mann.

Wednesday 29th

April

Jean Mann facilitated a workshop for pupils of St.Patricks Boys’ National School, Ringsend, with the artist Kevin Cosgrove in his studio at TBG+S.

Thursday 30

th April

Students of St. Patricks Girls’ National School, Ringsend, visited the Artist’s Studio of Vanessa Donoso Lopez.

Educational Tour : Colaiste Iosagain, Portarlington Thursday 23rd April Norah-Jane Harte, the Art Teacher from Colaiste

Iosagain, Portarlington. brought her class of

Leaving Cert Applied

students to visit Hannah Fitz’ studio in TBG+S and

viewed the DMC exhibition.

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RD Level Educational Visit – Early April

Masters of Fine Art Students from Glasgow visited Aoibheann Greenan’s DMC exhibition and took a tour of the TBG+S building lead by Rayne Booth.

- The Irish Times Review Tuesday April

28th

Aidan Dunne ‘Visual Art round-up: Back to the DeLorean, and on

to the future’

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/visual-art-round-up-back-to-the-delorean-and-on-to-the-future-1.2190546

- Billion Journal ‘Stranger than History’ 24th

April 2015 James Merrigan Aoibheann Greenan DMC 'The Dunmurray May-Day Conspiracy' review http://www.billionjournal.com/time/Aoibheann_Greenan_TBG+S.html

- Pure M Issue 7 2015, Anita Byrne Aoibheann Greenan DMC 'The Dunmurray May-Day Conspiracy' review http://issuu.com/puremmagazine/docs/puremissue7

Studio 6 Open is available to small interest groups

to host public events that promote education and

learning around contemporary art. The following

groups are currently using this facility, and gain free

use of the space and connection to TBG+S.

‘Drawing Club’ – led by Mairead O’hEocha and

Alison Pilkington; ‘Experimental Film Club’ led by

Iranian Rouzbeh Rashidi.

Studio 27 is available to Arts Collectives and Alumni

for use as a project office space.

We are promoting May as a month to join the supporters club offering a 10% discount on subscriptions. A new programme of Talks+ Events is being developed to include Patrick Keiller, Filmmaker, (January 2016); Polly Staple (Director Chisenhale, London, UK (November/December); Mick Wilson, Researcher, University of Gotenburg (tbc) and an artist Alumni from Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

series presents four

speakers on the theme of ‘production, practice,

ideas’.

Supporters’ Club Talk#4 – Declan Long – Wednesday 13

th April

‘In Praise of Extremity’ Studio 6, 6pm TBG+S are pleased to present the final talk in our

series by Declan Long,'In Praise of Extremity' on

Wednesday May 13th at 6pm. Following on from a

successful series of talks, TBG+S have invited

Declan to speak to the Supporters Club on our

current theme of, ‘production, practice, ideas’,

with more details about the focus of his talk in due

course.

Declan Long is an Irish Art Critic and Co-Director of

the MA 'Art in the Contemporary World' in the

National College of Art and Design. He lectures in

modern and contemporary art in the Faculty of

Visual Culture and was a judge for the Turner Prize

2013.

An audio recording and slides from Declan Long’s

Talk can be viewed on the TBG+S youtube channel.

Membership studios selection took place on

Monday 18th

May for three year membership with

a panel including Niamh O’ Malley, Kevin Cosgrove,

Rayne Booth, Cliodhna Shaffrey

HIAP exchange residency. Barbara Knezevic is

currently in residency at HIAP, in a live/work studio

on the island of Suomenlinna. The Finnish artist,

Hanna Husberg will have a residency in TBG+S,

beginning in July. Funding for this has been made

available by the Finnish Institute, London and sees

the return of this residency as an exchange.

Clancy Moore Architects were selected by the

TBG+S Panel; Cliodhna Shaffrey, Rayne Booth,

Robert Armstrong, Hugh Campbell; Professor of

Architecture, Gerald Carty; Director Grafton

Architects. The design feasibility study will

consider the potential of augmenting the Atrium

Space, reconfigure the 3rd

floor kitchen/social area

and also consider options of a new entrance to the

building. www.clancymoore.com

Barbara Knezevic

2015, HIAP