Ormond Art Studios Talk Series: Silvina Sisterna and Anna Stuart

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

Silvina Sisterna is a socially engaged artist whose practice bridges community collaboration with experimental visual approaches. Her work, which often incorporates analogue photography, writing, and filming, explores themes of identity, belonging, and transformation. Silvina worked alongside a community of migrant women from Latin America, the Nepantla Collective, to co-create the visual body of work Points of Encounter, exhibited at Photo Museum Ireland in 2024. Silvina is the recipient of several awards, including the Arts Council’s Agility Award (2024), the 2023 Create and FSAS Residency Award, the AIC Project Realization Award, and the 2023 AIC Mentorship.

Anna Stuart is a visual artist based in Dublin and a graduate of the Bachelor’s Degree in Art (Sculpture) at IADT, Dun Laoghaire (2022). Encompassing sculptural and image making processes, her practice seeks to explore new areas of art making as a way of observing and engaging with the world. Underpinned by a fascination with deep time, Stuart often draws upon living systems, phenomena and natural processes to create work which explores our relationship with the non-human and reconsiders ways of being.

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