A4 Sounds

We currently have 10 regular studio memberships available at A4 Sounds. We are looking for artists from the following disciplines to join our studio community: Sculpture Print Photography Ceramics Textiles Media Memberships start at €100 per month with the option to add a storage locker for materials for €10-60pm. Interested? Applications can be made via our online form. Please visit our website for full information about our studio and application process: a4sounds.org/join-us or click the link in our bio __________ Facility Descriptions Sculpture Our workshop facility includes - A Large Build Area - Two Large Workbenches - A Large Range of Power and Hand Tools - Storage Areas and a collection of shared materials and consumables. Print Our print facility includes - Screenprinting Press - Printing Press - Glass Table for Monoprinting and Lino Printing - Heat Press - Drying Rack and a large collection of small hand tools and shared materials Please see our next post for information about our other facilities! Image Descriptions 10 text based images about memberships available at our studios, the artistic disciplines memberships are open to, and images and facility descriptions of our workshop and print areas. The text from the slides is repeated in the post above. Slides 5 & 6 are images of our workshop. Image 5 is a room view of a large workshop with 2 large benches in the centre, and a large wood storage area on the left. To the back of the image there are shelves with different types of tools. Image 6 is a close up of a tool area. There is a range of hand tools hung on the wall including saws, screwdrivers and hammers. Slides 8 & 9 are images of our print area. Image 8 is of a large lightbox, drying rack, shelves with paper and inks, and a collection of printing tools hanging on the wall. On the left there is a large table with a glass top that can be used for mono printing. Image 9 is of a printing press, screenprinting press, flash dryer, heatpress and screen storage racks. The equipment is stored in a line against the wall and on wheels so they can be moved and used as needed.

UNDERGROUND by Kat Lalor UNDERGROUND runs until May 24th 2026!! Opening Times Wed - Fri: 2pm - 7pm Sat & Sun: 1pm - 6pm Mon & Tue: Closed Documentation: Images 1 - 4 by Bowe O'Brien Photography @katebowe_obrien __________________ UNDERGROUND is a recognition and celebration of existence beneath the surface. Informed by Irish Vampiric Mythologies, this exhibition entangles underground cultures, Queer infrastructures, and the quiet, regenerating presence of the vampire. Paying homage to Drag as a resilient political power, the exhibition features a performative film set within soil; the living, renewing, connective tissue, humanised and tenderised by processes of decay. The film is visually led by a viscous green liquid, the source of infection, regeneration, and preservation amongst an ecosystem of underground vampires. As this liquid travels, it bathes and permeates the soil, flowing around, through, and between various vampiric bodies, each in a varying state of preservation, transformation, or euphoria. Holding reference to silent film, the work slowly renews, grows, and mutates temporally into an ode to Queer Club and Ballroom scenes, the deep and unyielding roots of community, activism, and political resistance, collapsing Queer time into a pulsing pool of immortality. __________________ Artist: Kat Lalor @katlalor.va Curator: Lisa Crowne @sitex.link Assistant Curator: Indigo Woolfrey @mother_woolf _Artwork Credits_ UNDERGROUND Film Written & Directed: @katlalor.va Videography: Rebecca Behan @becsbehanphotos Audio Technician: VUYO @vuyo_wm Crew: Kaz Reynolds Special Thanks: Imogen Hinojosa @imogen__blue MOUTHFUL OF STONES & UPSIDE DOWN Vinyl Prints Artist & Direction: @katlalor.va Photography: Rebecca Behan MEMORIAL BURIAL BOUNDARY Artist: Kat Lalor Eden Munroe @edenmunroe.va Lisa Crowne Indigo Woolfrey Fionn Pluincéid _Exhibition Team_ Installation Team Dámhín McKeown @gothdome Fionn Pluincéid @soul_swamp Aideen Farrell @aideenfarrellart Richard Reep @richardreep Lucy Carrick @luzyc_art Documentation Kate-Bowe O'Brien Poster & Promotion Kat Lalor Lisa Crowne Linda Kavanagh UNDERGROUND is supported by @artscouncilireland

UNDERGROUND | KAT LALOR 23rd April - 24 May 2026 A4 Sounds Gallery Exhibition Opening: Thursday 23rd April, 7pm - 10pm Link in Bio ______________ UNDERGROUND UNDERGROUND is a recognition and celebration of existence beneath the surface. Informed by Irish Vampiric Mythologies, this exhibition entangles underground cultures, Queer infrastructures, and the quiet, regenerating presence of the vampire. Paying homage to Drag as a resilient political power, the exhibition features a performative film set within soil; the living, renewing, connective tissue, humanised and tenderised by processes of decay. The film is visually led by a viscous green liquid, the source of infection, regeneration, and preservation amongst an ecosystem of underground vampires. As this liquid travels, it bathes and permeates the soil, flowing around, through, and between various vampiric bodies, each in a varying state of preservation, transformation, or euphoria. Holding reference to silent film, the work slowly renews, grows, and mutates temporally into an ode to Queer Club and Ballroom scenes, the deep and unyielding roots of community, activism, and political resistance, collapsing Queer time into a pulsing pool of immortality. KAT LALOR Kat Lalor is a Queer visual artist, generating a practice of worldbuilding through moving-image, performance and writing. They invoke their practice to interrogate constructed binary categories which limit the possibilities of Queer intelligibility. As someone existing between the gender binary, Kat’s practice acts as an explorative space for self-experimentation, perspective-switching, and speculative narrative building. They enact this by adapting Drag as a core methodology. Inspired by the writing of Renate Lorenz, Drag becomes a historical and political tool for symbiotic knowledge-making and knowledge-dismantling. With the performing body as the active site, Drag enables purposeful embodiments which can collapse the boundaries of truth/fiction, subjective/collective, and self/other. Profile: @katlalor.va ______________ UNDERGROUND forms part of our wider programme We Only Want the Earth. WOWTE is supported by @artscouncilireland

The Sea as a Witness: An Archaeological Memory A three part film programme curated by @cindychehab Part One: Sat 28th Mar @ 6pm Emergency fundraiser in aid of displaced families in Beirut _________ Errans (67’, Iceland, Lebanon, 2020) Mira Adoumier A woman arrives in Lebanon searching for a man she met years earlier in Iceland who has since disappeared. In Beirut, where buildings still carry the scars of past wars, his absence echoes through the city’s empty, labyrinthine streets. The call of the sea draws her southward, toward what seems like the Earth’s hidden centre. Mira Adoumier Mira Adoumier (b. 1985, New York) is a filmmaker, visual artist and researcher based in Oslo, whose work is shaped by her experience of growing up in exile, moving across cultures, continents, and languages. Drawing on her academic studies in cinema, philosophy, biology, and psychology, her films explore landscapes at the intersection of center and periphery, real and imagined, weaving the multiple relationships between image, text, voice, and sound. A member of The Camelia Committee with Carine Doumit and Nour Ouayda, Mira is also a guest lecturer at Nordland Kunst- og Filmhøgskole in Kabelvåg, Norway. In addition, she programs and curates films for art institutions and festivals and does the cinematography for artist films. A member of The Camelia Committee with Carine Doumit and Nour Ouayda, Mira is also a guest lecturer at Nordland Kunst- og Filmhøgskole in Kabelvåg, Norway. In addition, she programs and curates films for art institutions and festivals. __________ Tickets Event: €7.00 - €21.00 Solidarity Ticket: €7.00 - €21.00 All proceeds from ticket sales and donations will go directly to relief efforts in Beirut. Can't come but would like to support? You can purchase a solidarity ticket and/or make a donation via our website! _________ Accessibility Full information including event accessibility can be found on our website! Link in Bio This event forms part of our wider programme WOWTE, which is supported by @artscouncilireland

The Sea as a Witness: An Archaeological Memory A three part film programme curated by @cindychehab Part One: Sat 28th Mar @ 6pm Emergency fundraiser in aid of displaced families in Beirut _________ Summer 91 (20’, Lebanon, 2014) Nadim Tabet & Karine Wehbé At a beach resort on the Lebanese coast, a young woman and a young man tell their shared story in different ways. Through their conflicting memories, the film explores youth, relationships, and the fragile nature of recollection, set against the lingering tensions of wartime Lebanon. Nadim Tabet & Karine Wehb Nadim Tabet is a film director with several short films under his belt and a feature film titled One of These Days which won Best Debut Feature at the Arab Film and Media Institute's 22nd Arab Film Festival in San Francisco. Along with his films, Nadim Tabet co-founded the Lebanese Film Festival and gives lectures on cinema in several universities across Lebanon. Whether in his short or feature films, Nadim has always been interested in the Lebanese youth and their relationship to history at large. How can trivial daily matters (boys meet girls, carelessness, desire for life etc.) resist the upheavals of Lebanese history? This slow contamination of intimacy by larger stakes is a way for Nadim to investigate questions around the notion of loss, time that passes, and melancholia. Karine Wehbé is a Lebanese artist and graphic designer whose practice spans drawing, photography, video, and installation. Her work explores questions of history, memory, and the relationship between people and their environments. Her projects have been presented at venues including ICC New York, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Art Center, Beirut Art Residency, Takeover, and the Sursock Museum. Profiles: @lemmycaution40 @karinewehbe_studio __________ Full information including event accessibility can be found on our website! Link in Bio This event forms part of our wider programme WOWTE, which is supported by @artscouncilireland _________ Tickets All proceeds from ticket sales and donations will go directly to relief efforts in Beirut. Can't come but would like to support? You can purchase a solidarity ticket via our website!

Our third Rookery Stories Session is happening next week, Tuesday 31st March !! All welcome, tickets via our bio. _______________ THE ROOKERY STORIES Storytelling sessions with Hog & Dice Tue 31st Mar | 6:30pm - 8:30pm(ish) Tickets: €0.00 - €10.00 The collective noun for Rooks is a Storytelling, so it follows that the collective noun for Storytellers must be a Rookery. Storytellers at every level, from fledglings to old crows are invited to join our Rookery every month at A4 sounds to swap stories, develop their craft and find community in an inclusive and accessible environment that centres the queer and the disabled. This tradition and this art was once the province of the marginalised, who now find ourselves excluded all too often, join us in reclaiming it. Hog & Dice Once described as being like “a lovely loaf of fresh baked bread served at a satanic orgy” Fáin is an oral storyteller with a multidisciplinary background who loves to discuss the bizarre, the subversive and the deviant while creating an atmosphere of comfort, safety and comradery. Fáin studied Irish Folklore at UCD, laboured in the story mines of The National Leprechaun Museum, and has produced various multi-media projects including podcasts, audio-dramas, Alternative Reality Games and video essays. Often involving weird little puppets. Their influences include Growler, Tom Waits, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and the local crows. Profile: @hoganddice

The Sea as a Witness: An Archaeological Memory A three part film programme curated by Cindy Chehab Part One: Sat 28th Mar @ 6pm Emergency fundraiser in aid of displaced families in Beirut _________ This haunting memory that is not my own (30’, Lebanon, Armenia, 2021) Panos Aprahamian Through semi-fictional storytelling, This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own reflects on the links between economic growth, environmental degradation, and social injustice. Focusing on Beirut’s shoreline, its port, and the Karantina district, the film reveals landscapes marked by extraction and violence, places where both waste and lives have long been discarded. Panos Aprahamian Panos Aprahamian is a Berlin-based unfiction filmmaker, media artist, and writer from Beirut’s peripheral rustbelt. Through language, image, sound, and ritual, his practice explores the spectral presence of the future past in undead bodies, sacrificial landscapes, and social relations. Profile: @parmigiandon _________ The Sea as a Witness: An Archaeological Memory explores the sea as a site of memory, displacement, ecological crisis, and violent histories. Drawing from cinema across the Mediterranean, the programme positions the sea as both archive and witness, where sound, image, and motion carry stories that resist erasure. Curator Profile: @cindychehab Full information including event accessibility can be found on our website! Link in Bio This event forms part of our wider programme WOWTE, which is supported by @artscouncilireland _________ Tickets All proceeds from ticket sales and donations will go directly to relief efforts in Beirut. Can't come but would like to support? You can purchase a solidarity ticket via our website!

The Sea as a Witness: An Archaeological Memory A three part film programme curated by Cindy Chehab Part One: Sat 28th Mar @ 6pm Emergency fundraiser in aid of displaced families in Beirut ____ ‘The Mediterranean is wilder than we think, it’s geological, it’s planetary.’ -Etel Adnan The Sea as a Witness: An Archaeological Memory explores the sea as a site of memory, displacement, ecological crisis, and violent histories. Drawing from cinema across the Mediterranean, the programme positions the sea as both archive and witness, where sound, image, and motion carry stories that resist erasure. In a moment marked by aggression and ethnic cleansing by the Israeli Government in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran, this programme responds with urgency and political clarity. Across these regions, the sea has been militarized, to waters that have borne the weight of forced migration, fatalities, and ecological harm. The violence enacted upon bodies, human and nonhuman, along these shores and across maritime borders underscores a form of slow, systemic erasure that cinema can confront, contest, and document. The films gathered here insist that the sea must be understood as witness and as an active site of political meaning, where histories of violence are confronted. The programme’s presentation in Dublin, a coastal city in Ireland, adds an urgent layer of reflection. Surrounded by the sea, Dublin’s geographical and historical positionality evokes questions of mobility, borders, exile, and the environmental and political forces that shape islands and coasts. We come together to think collectively about the ties between the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic, and reflect about our own closeness to the sea, our position, as witness and participant. We invite the audience to imagine how memory, care, and solidarity can flow across waters and oceanic borders. ____ Tickets All proceeds from ticket sales and donations will go directly to relief efforts in Beirut. Can't come but would like to support? You can purchase a solidarity ticket via our website! ____ Full info on our website! We will be posting info about the films and artists over the next few days!

A4 MEMBER PROFILE: Gerard O’Brien Gerard O’Brien is a visual artist working in drawing and video. His work is predominantly concerned with landscapes – built and unbuilt and natural history. He holds degrees in Zoology, Landscape Architecture and Fine Art and these different areas of study are reflected in his work. After making art for decades, he returned to education in 2022 and studied Fine Art, and graduated with an MA in 2025. While living in Scotland he was part of Dundee Artists in Residence (D-AiR) and exhibited with them in several art ‘festivals’ in the city of Dundee. More recently, as part of his studies he had the chance to exhibit with his cohorts in an interim show ‘Gaffer Tape’, 2023 and final MA show ‘Waystation’ , 2024 at the Complex, Dublin. In 2025 he was commissioned to produce a series of drawings of over fifty birds on the endangered list in Ireland (Red-List) as part of a theatre project The Conference of Birds directed by Andrea Scott, performed by The Elders and Cor na Nóg. He is part of collective Landscapes in Motion, whose members span across a number of European countries. Profile: @the_artist_gerard _____________ Featured Images Becoming, 2024. Images 2-3 Conference of Birds, 2025. Images 4-5 Boundary, 2011. Images 6-7 Sketch Drawings, 1998 - Present, Images 8-9 _____________ Further Information You can read more about Gerard’s work via his profile on our website!

MEMBER NEWS! Opening Tonight! Member artists Aideen Farrell & Lucy Carrick are participating in the group exhibition Spring26 curated by @aisprior at @Draiocht_Blanchardstown Artist Profiles: @aideenfarrellart @luzyc_art ______ Spring26 4th Mar - 2nd May 2026 Opening: Wednesday 04 Mar @ 7pm Venue: Ground & First Floor Galleries, Draíocht Curated by Aisling Prior, and featuring 26 emerging artists with a Fingal connection, part of a series of initiatives for artists to mark Draíocht’s 25th Birthday. The exhibition is the outcome of an competitive Open Call process for visual art graduates of the last four years (2022-2025) from recognised third-level art colleges across the island of Ireland and abroad, at BA, MA or PhD levels who are from, live in or work in Fingal; and for early career artists who are from, live in or work in Fingal. The aim of the Exhibition is to support and celebrate the work of the selected artists while showcasing the breadth of work artists are engaged in, across the Fingal area. The work ranges across video, painting, sculpture, textiles, photography, drawing, print and installation. Participating Artists: Maria Atanacković | Maya Brezing | Lucy Carrick | Matthew Coll | Michael Shane Cox | Alex De Roeck | Aideen Farrell | Chris Forrester | Andrew Grace | Elizabeth Hogan | Uisce Jakubczyk | Sinead Kampff | Paula Leimane | Nathan Lowry | Nicole Manning | Justine McDonnell | James McLoughlin | Sorca O’Farrell | Kerrie O’Leary | Eileen O’Sullivan | Jack Pierce | Eileen Leonard Sealy | Annette Treacy | Aoife Ward | Catherine Ward | Diarmuid Woodcock. Information taken from @Draiocht_Blanchardstown website

Reminder: Our second session of The Rookery Stories is happening tomorrow! ____________ THE ROOKERY STORIES Storytelling sessions with Hog & Dice Tue 3rd Mar | 6:30pm - 8:30pm(ish) The collective noun for Rooks is a Storytelling, so it follows that the collective noun for Storytellers must be a Rookery. Storytellers at every level, from fledglings to old crows are invited to join our Rookery every month at A4 sounds to swap stories, develop their craft and find community in an inclusive and accessible environment that centres the queer and the disabled. This tradition and this art was once the province of the marginalised, who now find ourselves excluded all too often, join us in reclaiming it. Hog & Dice Once described as being like “a lovely loaf of fresh baked bread served at a satanic orgy” Fáin is an oral storyteller with a multidisciplinary background who loves to discuss the bizarre, the subversive and the deviant while creating an atmosphere of comfort, safety and comradery. Fáin studied Irish Folklore at UCD, laboured in the story mines of The National Leprechaun Museum, and has produced various multi-media projects including podcasts, audio-dramas, Alternative Reality Games and video essays. Often involving weird little puppets. Their influences include Growler, Tom Waits, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and the local crows. Profile: @hoganddice _______________ Who is this event for? Anyone who wants to listen to and/or learn and practice how to tell stories. The event is open to all but prioritizes the comfort and needs of disabled and queer folks. Attendees do not necessarily need to tell a story and are welcome to simply watch and listen if they wish. _______________ Want to tell a story? Just come along! At the beginning of the event you can sign up to one of six available slots. A sign up sheet will be available at our front desk! _______________ Tickets & Access Info Please visit our website for full information.

I forgot anteaters exist is a series of info-dump sessions allowing us to learn about the world through the special interests of others. Each session invites someone new to come and share their knowledge on a topic of their choosing. It could be related to their usual area of expertise or it could be their current side-quest down the rabbit hole network. _______________ WEEK FIVE: PERIMENOPAUSE with Fri 27th Feb | 7:00pm - 9:00pm Perimenopause is the term capturing the transitionary phase leading up to menopause (which marks the end of menstruation following 12 months without a period). Perimenopause have been widely misunderstood through time, mired by limitations within our contemporary medical models, medical misogyny, ignorance and a wellness industry content to profit off gaps in our knowledge and individual suffering. Historically, perimenopause has been used to further negative depictions of women as crones, witches and evil supernatural beings full of blood build-ups, deviancy and sexual frigidity. Mittel Schmerz will be sharing all she knows about it, as a result of experiencing 7 years and counting of this transition. Let me tell you, it's Peri Peri spicy. Mittel Schmerz Mittel Schmerz is a factotum who has been among other things (still is in many cases): mother, librarian, researcher, radio maker/presenter, long-standing Dublin Digital Radio resident, participatory arts dabbler, community organiser, reluctant academic. But most of all Mittel Schmerz is perimenopausal & needs to tell you all what that is and what to expect if it's something you may end up experiencing. @mittelschmerzbpmt _______________ Who is I forgot anteaters exist for? The series is open to everyone who loves a good rabbit hole. It is an open informal platform to share knowledge and share in the joy of the interests of others. Please feel free to bring along your own snacks & refreshments. _______________ I forgot anteaters exist forms part of our We Only Want the Earth Programme.