Michael Hill

It is the final few days to visit Lucy Stein's 🌙 Lunula 🌙 closing Sunday 3 May this week at @templebargalleryandstudios . 🪱 What a dream (literally at times! 💭) to work with Lucy on her show, have her back in Ireland for a while and experience her work daily for the past couple of months. 🐏Happy memories of visiting Four Knocks passage tomb and the Hill of Tara with Lucy and Aileen Murphy, and Lucy's talk with Aleana Egan in the gallery with Bruegelian Patrick's Day scenes behind the backdrop of Lucy's curtain work (made over a weekend in the gallery!). 🏛️ Thank you to Lucy who merged my fanaticism of megalithic Ireland and Rosalía as elements of her beautiful sanctuary in Temple Bar. 🍊 Photographs by @roskavanagh @lucyjanestein @galeriegregorstaiger #lucystein #lunula #contemporarypainting #painting

Aleana Egan A maritime child Interface Inagh, Connemara Save the date - Opening Saturday 11 July, 4pm 12 July - 16 August 2026 Curated by Michael Hill A maritime child responds to the atmosphere of pathos and human fallibility felt within the site at Interface. Aleana Egan’s artworks share an instinctive sensibility, referring to processes of adaptation, repair and reuse. The exhibition hints at a central nervous system, influenced by sensory formations carried through the low-lying modernist building, its cantilevered canopies and the various outdoor tanks, pumps and connective infrastructures of the former salmon hatchery. Egan’s subtle but deliberate sculptural forms speak with the industrial materiality of Interface, and the expansive natural landscape that encloses the site in the picturesque Lough Inagh Valley. Exhibition dates: 12 July - 26 July, 12-6pm daily during Galway International Arts Festival, continues to 16 August, 12-6pm Saturdays and Sundays. Interface is an exhibition, studio and residency programme for artists of all disciplines situated in the Inagh Valley, in the heart of Connemara. The facility was built as a salmon hatchery in the late 1980s by renowned Irish architects Scott Tallon Walker. The facility was bought by the current owners in 2007 to develop a centre of scientific research. Interface Inagh is founded and directed by Alannah Robins. — Interface Inagh, Recess, Co. Galway, H91 VW58, Ireland How to get there: Interface is not serviced by public transport due to its remote location. It is approximately 1 hour drive from Galway, and 3.5 hours drive from Dublin. Please contact me for suggestions for local accommodation and camping. With support from Kerlin Gallery and Konrad Fischer Galerie. Thanks to Alannah Robins, Emma O Flaherty and John Durning at Interface. Image: Aleana Egan, remote sense (Isuzu Trooper), 2019 (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Konrad Fischer Galerie. Photograph by Silvia Cappellari. #aleanaegan #interfaceinagh #connemara @interfaceinagh @kerlingallery @konradfischergalerie

‘The Last Balkan Cowboy’, Dragana Jurišić’s exhibition at @templebargalleryandstudios ends this Sunday 1 March. What a strange time to be exhibiting images of Wild West iconography when violence, patriarcism, nationalism, and desperate attempts to control land and resources are at the core of many current horrors. Dragana is drawn to this conflicting symbolism of Western-genre outlaws: wandering outsiders roaming the landscape for opportunity, romance and adventure, albeit shadowed by the reality of migration, placelessness and the search for home. Her photographs are an attempt to rationalise her identity, growing up in Yugoslavia–a country that no longer exists–and how to envisage post-conflict restoration. Dragana’s reluctant gunslingers imagine a heroic alternative to the neglect and trauma caused by war and dislocation. Her work is about reclaiming identity and a sense of belonging, while rejecting the violence of the past. To quote cult-Yugoslav Westerns director Hari Džekson (about whom Dragana’s photographs and upcoming documentary film focus): “Let your dream be your weapon.” Legends live among us. What an honour to work with @dragana23 on this project, an icon in her own right. Thank you for being open to this adventure. Installation photography by @roskavanagh , prints by @iarts_jim , framing by @framefoundry #draganajurisic #thelastbalkancowboy #haridzekson #yugoslavia

@templebargalleryandstudios announced its 2026 programme last week, with exhibitions by Lucy Stein, Rebecca Moccia, Vanessa Donoso López, Morgan Quaintance co-curated with Alice Butler, and Racheal Crowther at TBG+S over the next 12 months. The exhibitions look at shared experiences throughout time, inherited values, and familial relationships to places and ideas that ultimately form our individual identities. @lucyjanestein ’s paintings trace a timeline of feminine representation across eras. @moccia_finora explores nostalgia as a characteristic of anxiety instrumentalised through Neoliberalism. @vanessadonosolopez proposes movement and porosity as strategies for adaptation, resistance and transformation. #morganquaintance considers how identity is formed by adaptation to structures of the social world in which a person inhabits. @rachealcrowther exposes the systems of influence that control and manipulate perception and condition behaviour. I am thrilled and privileged as always to have the opportunity to collaborate with these brilliant artists this year. Img 1 🌙 Lucy Stein ‘Lunula’ opens March 12 Img 2 🌋 Rebecca Moccia ‘Nostalgism’ May - June. With thanks to, and support from @bianchi_mou , @careof_milano , @iicdublino , @mazzoleniart , @collezioneagovino , @whitespaceprojectsnapoli Img 3 🪴 Vanessa Donoso López, July - September Img 4 🏢 Morgan Quaintance ‘I’ll Always Remember...’ October - November, co-curated with Alice Butler, @aemi_ie Img 5 🍵 Racheal Crowther ‘Liquid Trust’ January - March 2027. in partnership with @chisenhalegallery and @betonsalon #templebargalleryandstudios #tbgands #exhibition #gallery

#tbt 10 years ago this month @ruth_a_clinton , @profesh_moriarty and I published an artists’ book ‘Wound with a Tear’, also pronounced ‘Wound with a Tear’. 📄🪨🦠📚 The publication was a follow up to Niamh and Ruth’s 2014 off-site project at @dhg_dublin , for which they created a trail of scattered Interdepartmental Memoranda throughout the @trinitycollegedublin campus that investigated the ongoing deterioration and renewal of the institution’s archives, its buildings and their inhabitants. The messages between the Old Library and Department of Geological Science were unauthoured and it was ambiguous if the memos were coming directly from the buildings themselves rather than the staff within. The conversation drifts between concerns about archiving, dust accumulation and slow geological time, acting out a Wildean romance that questions resistance to change, holding knowledge and maintaining the imperial order of the institution. The artists’ photographs of the campus highlight the overgrowth, decay, patterning, chaos, dust, and mould embedded and accumulated within this historical setting over centuries. Ruth, Niamh and I screen printed the covers and hand-stitched the binding between @A4soundsstudios and their Project Studio at @templebargalleryandstudios . @she.lives hand drew the title-page/ex-libris. We made 100 copies that were soon dispersed into the world, appropriately finding themselves on bookshelves, in archive boxes, and in damp homes around Ireland knowing that they may never see the light of day again. @tcdlibrary @tcdgeomuseum @100yrsagotoday #ruthclinton #niamhmoriarty #woundwithatear #trinitycollege

It is the final days to visit Go Ye Afar by @frankbeee at @templebargalleryandstudios ending Sunday 23 November. The film begins on the half hour every thirty minutes during gallery opening hours. 🇮🇪🚕🇳🇬 The film’s immersive rear-projected installation on a floating screen, with mini-bus seats for viewers, connects Sweeney’s research on the cinematic experience of driving to the shared transitory experiences of the movie theatre, bus journey, and church congregation. Rear projection is used throughout the film, with footage shot in Calabar, and composited in camera in Studio 1 in TBG+S. It was amazing to see the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the practical effects used in the process come to life on screen. This exhibition touches on many aspects of the TBG+S programme over recent years and going forward, bringing together a nuanced representation of migration and its connectedness with cultural identity, economies and labour, travel, dreaming, belief systems, and memory. The film is co-written by Frank Sweeney and @b3333333ulah , featuring an extensive cast and crew in Ireland and Nigeria. Photography by @roskavanagh . Poster by @w______ren . #franksweeney #goyeafar #templebargalleryandstudios #tbgands #templebar #dublin #exhibition #artistsfilm #rearprojection #taxi #taxidriver #nigeria #calabar #missions

‘Very Old Water from the Terrible Place’ is a new interview I conducted with @albertortega_ , published in @_winterpapers 11. Out now! The interview unearths/exhumes some intense histories in modern Mexican history: the industrialisation and pollution of natural landscape, and the destruction caused by the Victorian-influenced sewage system; poverty produced by corruption in politics and the workplace; and disregard of traditional cultures and practices. Alberto draws from his own personal history to describe these issues, connecting his Otomí heritage and the dark deities and cruel tricksters that exist in its folklore; as well as Alberto’s own studies of modernist architecture and its authoritarian impact on indigenous communities. Thank you to Olivia Smith and Kevin Barry for inviting me to interview an artist for this edition. I had recently met Alberto, and heard his incredible story, through our friend @leticiapardo_ . I had seen Alberto’s exhibition, ‘One of the qualities of nocturnal beings is that they speak words of truth’, online at @prairie.chicago last year, where the images accompanying the interview are drawn. Winter Papers Volume 11 is available to purchase in many bookshops around Ireland and globally from . Those following the anthology’s history know that it sells out each year so please be quick to get a copy! Other friends, colleagues and inspiring folk included in this issue are: @brianfay1 , @yhrfdublin , @valeriemulvin @mcculloughmulvinarchitects , Stephen Sexton, @rocking_bob , and many more! #albertoortegatrejo #winterpapers #curleweditions #prairiechicago #otomí #mezquitalvalley #tasquillo #sewage #nahual #maguey #architecture #nativegenius #anonymousarchitecture #matrixofman

🫏 Lyndon Barrois Jr.’s @eljaybitu ongoing cinematic archive work, Universal International, is featured in the new issue of OVER Journal @overjournal 📒. Many thanks to Julia Gelezova @julia.gelezova and Ángel Luis González Fernández @bohoe for inviting me to contribute to this issue with an introduction to Lyndon’s work on the iconic image of the donkey in cinematic history 🎞️. I appreciate the considerate editing by Aidan Kelly Murphy @akellymurphy and it is great to see this work represented in print with a beautiful sequence of images 📖. 🌎 Elements of Universal International have been included in a two-person exhibition with Addoley Dzegede @dzegede at Sharp Projects, Copenhagen (2021); the Reflex Blue exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2023) @templebargalleryandstudios ; and Lyndon’s solo exhibition at Artists Space, New York (2022) @artistsspace , which also included his artist’s publication, Some Thoughts on Producing a Wand 🪄. 📸 OVER Journal, Issue 5 FUTURES @futuresphotography , is available to purchase from The Library Project @tlp_says , and International Centre for the Image @image.museum.ireland , Dublin, and online at thelibraryproject.ie (See website for international stockists) @photoireland #lyndonbarroisjr #universalinternational #overjournal #photoireland #internationalcentrefortheimage #donkey #cinema #lobbycards #cuemark #transitionhole

“…it is the great paradox of O’hEocha paintings that they are so preoccupied with death and so thrillingly alive. This is, I think, because they invert the conventional formula of painting from nature: rather than taking what we can already see is alive and fixing it on a flat surface, her work animates or enchants that which is otherwise inert, absent, or invisible… O’hEocha escapes the redundancy of painting a living world that is ‘perfect as it is’ by painting another world entirely. It is only, to paraphrase Paul Éluard, that the other world is in this one.” To mark Mairead O’hEocha’s exhibition at The Model, a poster/pamphlet has been produced featuring a new commissioned essay by Ben Eastham, excerpted above. DM me with your postal address if you would like to receive a free hardcopy Extra Alphabets typography by Rose Nordin. Funded by an Arts Council Project Award. @maireadoheocha1 @modelsligo @eastham_ben @amokamok @artscouncilireland #maireadoheocha #extraalphabets #themodel #sligo #exhibition #painting #contemporarypainting #gallery #naturemorte #stilllife #naturalhistory

It is the final few weeks of Mairead O’hEocha’s ‘Extra Alphabets’ at The Model, ending Saturday 20 September 🦜 The exhibition gathers almost thirty paintings and works on paper from the past seven years, shown in Ireland for the first time, as well as graphic painted and printed interventions with the gallery’s architecture 🐙 New paintings depict tabletop arrangements: birds invading a garden lunch, an octopus coiling its tentacles in a trophy room, and a blizzard observed from a cosy home workspace 🦧 Paintings of animals behind glass in artificially composed museum arrangements, and a series of claustrophobically close-up still lifes of glass objects illuminate ideas of containment and timelessness 🦇 Working with Mairead again was a huge ambition of mine 🐆 Around 15 or so years ago I was first seeing Mairead’s paintings in Dublin and it was so exciting every time a new one was shown, or especially, when she began a new series or stylistic shift - from gardens, to sunsets, to flower arrangements, to her amazing museum paintings... It is very rewarding to imagine others experiencing so many of these paintings for the first time now 🐒 An Arts Council Project Award allowed some playfulness in the installation, with painted graphics by Austin Hearne, typography by Rose Nordin, and a really fantastic talk between Mairead and Ben Eastham. Thanks also to Emer, Christian and The Model team 🐎 Photographs by @roskavanagh 📸 @maireadoheocha1 @modelsligo @eastham_ben @amokamok @austinhearne @artscouncilireland #maireadoheocha #extraalphabets #themodel #sligo #exhibition #painting #contemporarypainting #gallery #naturemorte #stilllife #naturalhistory

It is the final week to visit Jorge Satorre’s exhibition, Did I say I miss you?, at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Jorge’s modular fabrication and installation system for his woven bramble sculpture both accommodates and fights against the organic processes from which it was made. The gathering of branches, steel fabrication, installation in the gallery all engaged with a network of friends and other specialist makers. The various communities at play, as artist and audience, are represented in the reimagining of the gallery, scaled down to insect-size, where the scenarios lived out by gallery-goers are performed, through a series of drawings, by a collective of ants, flies, beetles, centipedes, and other creepy crawlies. 🐜🦟🦗🐝🐛🪱 The exhibition ends Sunday 6 July. 📸: @roskavanagh Thanks to Jorge for the very generous and specific response to the gallery’s invitation, and to Adrian Castaneda and Joey Ordonez for helping to make this all happen. @jorgesatorre @templebargalleryandstudios @adrian.castaneda_ @joey_ordonez_ @carrerasmugica_ @l_a_b_o_r #jorgesatorre #didisayimissyou #templebargalleryandstudios #tbgands #templebar #dublin #exhibition #sculpture #drawing #installation #insects #privateview

Mairead O’hEocha Extra Alphabets 5 July – 20 September The Model, Sligo Opening 5 July 11am–5pm, with a talk between Mairead O’hEocha @maireadoheocha1 and Ben Eastham @eastham_ben at 3pm Mairead O’hEocha’s paintings pose questions about the historical and contemporary lexicon of image making: how to interpret the natural world and our relationship with it, sensory encounters and the distorting realms of the digital universe. Extra Alphabets is the largest gathering of O’hEocha’s work in an exhibition to date. New large-scale oil paintings depict tabletop arrangements including birds invading a garden lunch, an octopus coiling its tentacles in a trophy room, and a blizzard observed from the comfort of a home workspace. The table becomes a focal point on and around which drama is constructed. The items on display, in concert with their evocative backdrops, convey real-world values and imagined stories from a range of settings such as Dublin’s Henrietta Street tenement museum, the palace of marvels in Bologna’s Palazzo Poggi, and the Baroque Villa Concordia in Bamberg. Many thanks to The Model @modelsligo for hosting the exhibition, which is supported by an Arts Council Project Award @artscouncilireland . Exhibition title typography by Rose Nordin @amokamok #maireadoheocha #extraalphabets #themodel #sligo #painting #exhibition #gallery #typography #rosenordin #beneastham