Ten artists are awarded studios at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios in 2026
From Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
16th March 2026
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is pleased to announce the awarded artists from the open calls for Six Year Membership, Three Year Membership and Project Studios.
Six Year Membership Studios have been awarded to Jaki Irvine and Niamh O’Malley. Three Year Membership Studios have been awarded to Caoimhe Kilfeather, Diaa Lagan, Michelle Malone, and Aileen Murphy. Project Studios have been awarded to Colm Keady-Tabbal, Thaís Muniz, Joanne Reid, and Eoghan Ryan.
Six Year Membership Studios offer long-term tenure to exceptional visual artists living in Ireland for which an open call is made every six years. Three Year Membership Studios offer a long-term tenure to artists who have developed an established, professional practice. Project Studios offer a one-year tenure to artists who are developing exciting emerging practices and demonstrate talent and potential. An open call for Three Year Membership and Project Studios is made annually.
The artists were awarded studios by a selection panel including current TBG+S Studio members and established curators based in Ireland and internationally. The selected artists are representative of the exceptionally high-quality and rigorous contemporary art practices in Ireland today. Studios are subsidised with support from the Arts Council, with additional support for one Project Studio annually through the Paul Robinson Studio Award, sponsored by Arthur Cox LLP.
TBG+S received a large number of high-quality applications for Studio Membership and would like to extend our gratitude to all artists who took time to submit to the open call.
TBG+S looks forward to welcoming the incoming artists to the Studios and the community of artists.
2026 Studio Membership Artists
Jaki Irvine places music and sound at the core of her moving-image installations, often composing and performing soundtracks while collaborating in improvisation with musicians. These improvised exchanges introduce openness, responsiveness, and a live sensibility into her work, allowing video editing, rhythm and sounds to evolve intuitively, blurring boundaries between the known and unknowable, practice and performance.
Colm Keady-Tabbal is an artist based in Dublin and New York.
Caoimhe Kilfeather makes work across sculpture, photography, film, and installation. Her practice grows from hands-on studio experimentation and research into architecture, ritual, memory and landscape. She is especially interested in everyday, vernacular structures and how their materials and histories shape the way people feel towards and understand a place.
Diaa Lagan is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice weaves together mythology, history and contemporary realities to explore the complexities of human experience. Through metaphorical narratives and symbolic imagery, He reinterprets ancient myths and cultural archetypes to reflect contemporary socio-political conditions. Lagan’s work examines how language functions as both a visual system and a carrier of cultural knowledge across diasporic histories.
Michelle Malone practice is based on her experience growing up in a variety of social housing systems in inner-city Dublin, primarily Oliver Bond flats. Her multi-disciplinary installations comprise sculpture, image-making, oral histories, audio, and text. Her practice seeks to give material voice to working-class histories from the perspective of lived experience. It is her belief that it is much needed in the art industry to let marginalised people tell their own story.
Thaís Muniz practice explores the intersections of inherited and acquired identities, memory, transit, and inward love as a methodology of radical self care. She creates intimate and collective spaces through film, performance, workshops, sculpture, and print, responding to the geopolitics of place. Muniz’s work engages in the reimagining of realities by employing mechanisms of refusal, education, dreaming, and personal magic.
Aileen Murphy approaches painting and its history with care and a playfully disobedient spirit. Her large-scale paintings, drawings, and collages explore the body, humour, psychological states, and fantastical imagery. She layers motifs, forms, and techniques in ways that blur boundaries between figuration and abstraction.
Niamh O’Malley is works with moving image alongside sculptural materials including glass, wood, metal, and stone. Through objects and recorded fragments, she produces material and physical gestures that revive and reanimate a form, an architecture, or a moment. Her works gesture towards enabling or offering protection, conveying sensations of touch, and more – of grabbing, holding, or caressing surfaces, offering a moment of tether and precarious poise.
Working primarily in sculpture, Joanne Reid’s work often begins as an intuitive response to materials, objects and spaces that form our built environment. Reid’s material vocabulary draws primarily from the urban environment and construction sites, often using steel, plywood, timber, plaster, and concrete. Reid is interested in our desire to reproduce the natural world and the history of ornament in architecture and is influenced by art historical compositions, such as the still life.
Eoghan Ryan works across moving image, installation, performance, puppetry, and collage to explore how power circulates socially and through mediated culture. His process involves sustained periods of editing and documentation focused on specific people, sites, objects, or songs, developing fable-like reflections on the collective and the personal as institutions. These institutions range from states of being and nation-states to the cultivation of provisional culture, in art as in bacteria.