BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.6//EN TZID:Europe/Dublin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:305@visualartists.ie DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250801T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250921T180000 DTSTAMP:20250808T090957Z URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/faigh-amach-group-exhibition-at-temple -bar-gallery-studios SUMMARY:Faigh Amach | Group exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios DESCRIPTION:Opening reception:\nThursday 31 July\, 6pm\n\n'Faigh Amach' is an initiative by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) in partnership with Culture Ireland and Southwark Park Galleries (SPG)\, London\, to support a n artist in presenting their first solo exhibition outside Ireland.\n\nRou ghly translating as ‘discover’\, 'Faigh Amach' takes place as a group exhibition at TBG+S in Summer 2025\, bringing together three artists selec ted through an open call process in 2024: Ella Bertilsson\, Kathy Tynan\, Emily Waszak. One of the three exhibiting artists will be invited to prese nt their first international solo exhibition at SPG Lake Gallery in Spring 2026. During the planning and duration of 'Faigh Amach'\, SPG Director Ju dith Carlton and Deputy Director Charlotte Baker will conduct in-person an d online studio visits with the three artists\, as well as visiting the ex hibition at TBG+S before making the selection for their programme.\n\nElla Bertilsson uses images and materials related to pop culture and the aesth etics of nostalgia to evoke a shared sense of memory and place. Her instal lations\, which often incorporate film and performance\, use the visual la nguage of magical realism and absurdism to conjure darkly humorous and dre amlike sensory environments. The clash of bizarreness and naivety reflects the impact of anxiety and precarity in everyday life. Bertilsson’s inst allation for 'Faigh Amach' creates a new encounter with a recent film work \, 'A PEANUT WORM’S DREAM'\, as viewers nestle into an immersive interio r space behind a mountain scene of a photographic backdrop. Now emerging f rom the film itself\, some of its characters – a fish\, and a goat/deer – begin to populate their real-world surroundings outside of the confine s of the film’s storage unit setting.\n\nKathy Tynan’s paintings of fa miliar cityscapes and domestic scenes illuminate moments of affection\, in timacy and curiosity. Rather than focussing her gaze on monumental landmar ks\, Tynan instead attributes value to that which is otherwise overlooked. Her semi-autobiographical subjects include her own family and friends but speak more broadly to shared enthusiasms\, experiences of care\, communit y\, and relationships. Tynan’s group of recent paintings in the exhibiti on collate a number of personal scenes from memory and family photographs. Patterned duvets and pyjamas conflate timelines between the artist’s ow n childhood and her experience as a mother with a young son. The sequence of paintings appear as a panorama of cinematic flashbacks.\n\nEmily Waszak ’s textile and assemblage works are informed by rituals of her Japanese cultural heritage\, experiences of grief and the landscape of her home in Donegal. Using both ancient and contemporary weaving techniques\, alongsid e the collection and display of found materials and other hand-made object s\, Waszak combines processes that transcend time and place to find meanin g in loss and understand how to access otherworldliness. Waszak has produc ed several large-scale woven works for the exhibition using a combination of discarded waste textiles gathered from industrial sites in Dublin\, and fragments of fabric with deep personal significance. The textiles loom ab ove a group of clay vessels holding ceremonial objects such as animal bone s\, which can be used as shakers in a form of incantation to connect with the spirit world.\n\nElla Bertilsson was born in Umeå\, Sweden\, and work s in Dublin and Kilkenny. Her recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include The Horse\, Dublin (2025)\; Ballina Art Centre (2024)\; The Dock\, Carric k-on-Shannon (2023)\; The Complex\, Dublin (2022).\n\nKathy Tynan was born and works in Dublin. Her recent solo exhibitions include Kevin Kavanagh\, Dublin (2024)\; Dunamaise Arts Centre\, Portlaoise (2022)\; Highlanes Gal lery (with Andrew Vickery)\, Drogheda (2020)\; The LAB\, Dublin (2019).\n\ nEmily Waszak was born in North Carolina\, United States\, and works betwe en Dublin and Donegal. Her recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Re gional Cultural Centre\, Letterkenny (2026)\; Pallas Projects\, Dublin (20 24)\; TU Dublin (2023).\n\nSouthwark Park Galleries is an interdisciplinar y arts organisation in South East London. Through a locally relevant and i nternationally significant programme of exhibitions\, performances and pub lic engagement\, their mission is to connect people using the intersection of art\, nature and culture to facilitate meaning and wellbeing across co mmunities. Established in 1984\, they have a thriving reputation as a test site for experimental practice by commissioning artists at a critical sta ge to make their most ambitious work for exhibition. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://visualartists.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025 /07/listings-exhibition-2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Leinster - Dublin LOCATION:Temple Bar Gallery + Studios\, 5 – 9 Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, Dub lin\, Dublin\, Ireland GEO:-6.2636547;53.3455723 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=5 – 9 Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, Dublin\, Dublin\, Ireland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Temple Bar Galle ry + Studios:geo:-6.2636547,53.3455723 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR