Ormond Art Studios Talk Series: Holly Pickering and Rachel Enright-Murphy

Artists Holly Pickering and Rachel Enright-Murphy will be in conversation as part of A River In-Between talk series at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

Ormond Art Studios hosts a series of four talks and performative lectures featuring eight current studio members. The talks and performative lectures take place in artist pairs on Saturdays throughout March. The series offers a platform for artistic exchange and public dialogue. Locating the talks at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios draws on the connection and community between both Studio Complexes.

Schedule

08 March – Holly Pickering and Rachel Enright-Murphy
15 March – Aindriú Ó’Deasún and Jonathan O’Grady
22 March – Mary Kervick and Sinead Kampff
29 March – Silvina Sisterna and Anna Stuart

Holly Pickering is an artist from Waterford based in Dublin. Her research-based practice moves between the mediums of moving-image, sculpture and writing. Her practice poses inquiries into the ways in which we communicate and translate information to one another, aiming to interrogate how the subtle behaviours and nuances that unfold within social interactions might speak to how larger power structures attempt to maintain a shared sense of reality, and influence how we navigate ourselves throughout the world. Her practice employs language as a medium to explore its own fallibility, using it as a tool to consider feelings of desire and defeat which arise in our attempts to express the weight of subjective or social reality.

Rachel Enright-Murphy is a multi-disciplinary artist and a 2022 graduate of NCAD Media with Critical Cultures. Her practice combines text with video, sound, performance, and print to create poetic and often humorous work that interrogate acts of reading, speech and writing. Recent engagements include a forthcoming solo show in the Ormond Project Space, participating in SÍM residency, Reykjavik in 2024, and exhibiting in Dzaldov Gallery Berlin. Her work has been performed in the Complex Gallery as a response to Fly Floor (2023) and in Unit 44, Dublin. She is a recipient of the Arts Council Agility Award (2024) and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Emerging Artist Bursary (2024).

Ormond Art Studios is an artist-led space in the heart of Dublin and a platform for emerging visual artists. It supports the development of arts practice through affordable studio provision, critical discourse and space for events, residencies and exhibitions.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is an artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery supporting the development of artists and the creation of art. This event is supported by Free Space at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Free Space creates opportunities for artists to access space in the city for peer learning, artist exchanges, project development and presentations.

Event location information: Enter through our street facing gallery and register at desk. Studio 6 is located on the first floor and is accessible by lift. There is a semi accessible toilet on the ground floor.

For further accessibility information please contact Learning + Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin at orla@templebargallery.com or phone: 016710073