Aisling Conroy is a multidisciplinary artist, sound therapist, yoga and meditation teacher. Aisling’s practice intertwines several aspects of the healing arts, incorporating meditation and sound healing modalities to deepen the conceptual and sensory dimensions of her work as an artist. These practices extend beyond the studio into workshops and events, creating participatory spaces that explore introspection, health and wellness, embodiment, and the experiential intersections of art and healing. This workshop will include a guided meditation and sound bath. This will be a unique experience allowing the audience to fully immerse themselves in the art works and the gallery space, fostering dialogues between art, healing, and communal engagement.

Free, but booking is essential. Limited availability (10 Max).

What to bring?

Required: Please bring a Yoga mat, as you will be lying on the floor for the sound bath.
Required: Please bring a blanket (body temperature lowers the longer we are lying down)
Optional: if you wish a pillow or cushion for your comfort.

Eye masks will be provided for the Sound Bath.

Important information:
Please notify us if you have any accessibility requirements, are pregnant, if you have any illnesses or injuries, or if you have allergies / sensitivities to essential oils.
*Sound Baths are for everyone, but if you have a pacemaker fitted, this is not a therapy for you. *

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Tutor, An Gee Chan will first demonstrate tote bag printing in the gallery space as part of the Out of Print exhibition.

Participants will then will have a 2 hr practical workshop in our studio. During the workshop, participants will learn screen printing techniques and create personalized tote bags by designing and transferring paper stencils onto reusable cotton tote bags.

The workshops will focus on creativity and care in our community. 

Important information:

This is suitable for ages 10 – 16 years.

Black Church Print Studio exhibition ‘Out of Print is included in this month’s Art Walk. Hosted by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Art Walk is a free outdoor guided tour introducing contemporary art exhibitions in Temple Bar.

Meet at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios at 2pm for an introduction to Fergus Feehily’s solo exhibition Fortune House. Next you will visit The Library Project for Black Church Print Studio’s group exhibition Out of Time. Finishing with a visit to Eva Richardson McCrea’s exhibition The Decameron / Na Deich Lá at the Project Arts Centre.

Book a spot and be introduced to our vibrant contemporary art organisations and community.

Book here

Artist Jamila Prowse will share reflections on holding an artistic practice on crip time, including practical adaptations that allow for a flexibility in time around her and her collaborators’ disabilities, maintaining a practice in and around long-term sick leave and being bed bound.

Important information:
Free, but registration is essential by email to [email protected]

Street Name: Essex Street East
Location: The Giddy Dolphin/Tomahawk Streakhouse (Formerly Dollard & Co), 4 Essex Street East
Distance: 210m / 280 steps
Spaces Available: 3

Street Name: Bachelors Walk
Location: Sunset Hair Salon, 2 Bachelors Walk
Distance: 210m / 280 steps
Spaces Available: 1

Street Name: Fleet Street
Location: Temple Bar Hotel, 13-17 Fleet Street
Distance: 250m / 340 steps
Spaces Available: 1

Street Name: Strand Street Great
Location: The National Hyperbaric Centre IRL, 53-54 Strand Street Great
Distance: 270m / 370 steps
Spaces Available: 2

Street Name: Aston Quay
Location: Opposite SuperValu Aston Quay
Distance: 300m / 410 steps
Spaces Available: 1

Street Name: Foster Place
Location: Opposite Bank of Ireland
Distance: 400m / 540 steps
Spaces Available: 1

Drop off available at Milano restaurant
Location: 19 Essex St E, Temple Bar, Dublin, D02 HW84
Distance: 62m / 85 steps

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Aisling Conroy is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin and a professional member of Black Church Print Studios. She graduated from NCAD with a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art, Print in 2009 as well as a Master of Fine Art postgraduate degree in 2011. Aislings work has been displayed in a number of solo exhibitions and selected group exhibitions. Her practice explores metaphysical realms, meditation and sound as a means to reimagine the sensory experience. Through cymatics, the study of how sound waves create patterns in physical materials, Aisling visualises sound as a tangible force through which the unseen vibrations and rhythms of our lives can be represented. The SHRINE series included in this exhibition is a meditation on the human experience and the passage of time through the feminine lens and specifically women’s collective journey throughout history to the present day. Her work is currently represented in public & private collections internationally.

An Gee Chan is a visual artist who focuses her practices within printmaking, drawing and ceramics. In this exhibition An Gee explores creating soft furniture from hand printed textiles. She received her M.A. in Fine Art Printmaking from the Royal College of Art (2011) and acquired first class honours B.A. in Illustration and Animation from Kingston University in the UK (2009). She taught Printmaking and Drawing at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University 2014 to 2022. She currently lives and works in Ireland. She is a professional member of Black Church Print Studio.

Caoimhe Dalton is a practicing visual artist and professional member of Black Church Print Studio. She trained as a printmaker and graduated from NCAD with honours, she also studied Fine Arts in Academie Minerva in the Netherlands and the Barcelona Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.  Caoimhe’s practice focuses almost solely on hands-on, manual processes.  Her figurative work comes from stories of Irish folk practices and beliefs, from odd cures and superstitions to games and ghost sightings.

Jamila Prowse is an artist and writer, propelled by curiosity and a desire to understand herself through making. Informed by her lived experience of disability, mixed race ancestry and the loss of her father at a young age; her work is research driven and indebted to Black feminist and crip scholars. She is an active participant in a rich and growing contemporary disabled artistic community and has been ongoingly researching, programming and creating around cripping the art world since 2018. Self taught, Jamila is drawn to experimenting with a multitude of mediums in order to process her grief and radical hope.

Paul Roy is a visual artist originally from Dublin, now living in Westmeath. He received a first-class honours MA in Art in the Contemporary World in 2020, and has a background in painting, printmaking and animation. His current work reflects on how the onset of serious illness can impact upon an arts practice, altering both the subject matter and the physical approach to the processes of making art. This includes how his own personal experience of long-term ill health has informed every aspect of his creative process. His monoprint artwork incorporates hand written text as a means of directly communicating their subject. The process engenders them with a loose and soft line quality and a relaxed aspect to their overall appearance, wherein it is often possible to see the results of the actions of the artist’s hands directly within the image. Paul Roy solo exhibition ‘Heart Tracing’ currently runs at Esker Arts Tullamore runs until 15 March 2025.

Finnegan Shannon is an artist experimenting with forms of access. They intervene in ableist structures with humor, earnestness, and rage. Some of their recent work includes Alt Text as Poetry, a collaboration with Bojana Coklyat that explores the expressive potential of image description; Do You Want Us Here or Not, a series of benches and cushions designed for exhibition spaces; and Don’t mind if I do, a conveyor-belt-centered exhibition that prioritizes rest and play. They have done projects with MUDAM Luxembourg, the Queens Museum, moCa Cleveland, the High Line, MMK Frankfurt, MCA Denver, and Nook Gallery. Their work has been supported by a Wynn Newhouse Award, an Eyebeam fellowship, a Disability Futures Fellowship, and grants from Art Matters Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Disability Visibility Project. Their work has been written about in Art in America, BOMB Magazine, the Believer, and Out Magazine. They live and work in Brooklyn, NY.

Catherine Togher-Ward is an interdisciplinary artist and recent member of Black Church Print Studio. She graduated from NCAD in 2023 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art, Print. Her work is informed by themes of desire, transformation and temporality with an emphasis on the utilisation of the natural world as a medium for self exploration. In the included pieces she works directly with her subject matter, the moth, recording their metamorphosis on soft ground copper plates, making tangible the rhythms of the natural world and prompting us to reflect on our societal state of contortion within our productivity oriented culture. Catherine is the co-founder of Ardgillan Gallery (Dublin) and recipient of the Fingal Arts Office Graduate Award in collaboration with MART Gallery and Studios where she also exhibited in their awards show in August 2024. Her work is included in many private collections.