Current Exhibition: Slow Image

Curated by Noémie Cursoux, Winner of Black Church Emerging Curator Award ’26

Slow Image

6 – 28 February 2026

Curated by Noémie Cursoux

Preview: Thursday 5 February 2026 from 6 – 8 pm at The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

Featuring selected Black Church and invited artists: Svenja Michelle Behle, John Graham, Eva Nielsen, Sam O’Reilly, Tracy Staunton and Lee Welch.

Black Church Print Studio is delighted to present Slow Image curated by Noémie Cursoux, winner of Black Church Emerging Curator Award ‘26

Slow Image brings together practices that explore and question the materiality of the image in relation to contemporary visual culture. The title of this exhibition is inspired by Helen Westgeest’s publication, Slow Painting, in which the author reflects on handmade image-making as a counterpoint to the rapid, consumable imagery of our media-saturated world. 

This exhibition features works by Svenja Michelle Behle, John Graham, Eva Nielsen, Sam O’Reilly, Tracy Staunton and Lee Welch. Their work examines and responds to the highly saturated visual context of the contemporary world. Through both shared and unique approaches, their practices often highlight textures, layers, imperfections, and irregularities.

Slow Image highlights the enduring importance of handmade imagery, such as printmaking, painting, and drawing, in contemporary visual culture. Amidst a climate of visual overload and ambiguity, these art forms prompt viewers to consider what images genuinely communicate. Representations are never neutral or objective; they arise from decisions, opinions, omissions, perception, and interpretation. Slow Image encourages a slower, more attentive and critical way of looking.

Exhibition continues until Saturday 28 February 2026.

Opening hours: Mon – Fri 11 am – 6 pm, Sat 12 – 6 pm. 

Slow Image invite

Slow Image – Exhibition invite

Risograph publication to accompany exhibition

Slow Image Riso publication to accompany exhibition. Click on image to link to pdf of publication.

Click this link to view – List of Works

Click this link to view – Large Text Exhibition Guide

Click this link to listen – Exhibition Audio Guide

Associated Events

Temple Bar Art Walk

Curator talk by Noémie Cursoux at The Library Project as part of this tour.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 2 – 3 pm.


Meeting at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios at 2 pm (visiting 3 art venues).

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About this Walking Tour

Meet at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for an introduction to the Dragana Jurišić’s exhibition The Last Balkan Cowboy. Following this, we will go next door to The Library Project to visit Black Church Print Studios’ group exhibition Slow Image featuring artists Svenja Michelle Behle, John Graham, Eva Nielsen, Sam O’Reilly, Tracy Staunton and Lee Welch. Finishing at Project Arts Centre, we will hear an introduction to Maryam Tafakory’s film, Daria’s Night Flowers.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is a leading artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery supporting the development of artists and the creation of art.

Project Arts Centre is a centre for artists, arts workers and audiences of all ages, with a programme of visual and performing arts in two theatre spaces and a gallery, including space for the development of new work.

Black Church Print Studio is an artists’ collective that supports and promotes the development of contemporary art practice through the medium of printmaking.

Event location and tour route information: A member of our team will be present to welcome you at our street-facing Gallery. We will walk no more than approximately five minutes between venues. The walk will be through a busy pedestrianised area with mixed cobbled and accessible pathways. All locations are accessible at ground floor level. The introductions will be standing but seating is available on request. The venues are varied according to each exhibition and may include sound, moving images, artificial or dimmed lighting.

Sinuhé is a composer and sound performer who combines ancestral rhythms with industrial sound, seeking to create a unity between music and the human soul.

Talk + Sound performance

with Curator, Noémie Cursoux and Sound Performer, Sinuhé

Friday 27th February, 4–6PM,

The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin 4

Free but booking is required.

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More Information

Curator Noémie Cursoux will give a talk about the exhibition, followed by a sound performance of Sinuhé titled Uno. Based on a sonic interpretation of the artworks on display, the performance seeks to shape a continuous experience. Through a minimalist soundscape, the artist will generate a slow and immersive atmosphere in which the viewer becomes simultaneously a listener, engaging both with the artworks and with themselves.

Sinuhé is a composer and sound performer who combines ancestral rhythms with industrial sound, seeking to create a unity between music and the human soul.

 

Noémie Cursoux

Born in France, Noémie Cursoux is a Dublin-based curator, art critic, and PhD researcher in Art Theory at Aix-Marseille University. Her thesis focuses on expanded painting practices and the construction of images in relation to socio-political and technological issues. She recently organised the seminar Possibilities of the Contemporary Landscape (Aix-Marseille University, January 2025) and has published several papers and essays, including Eva Nielsen, Alluvion (Bullukian Foundation, 2025); Landscape Painting in the Digital Age, in Peinture et Numérique (Painting and Digital Technology) (2025); Brice Robert, Liminal (2025); and Yann Lacroix, Imago, Bullukian Foundation, in Artpress (2024).

Her curatorial projects include shows at L’Espace (Saint-Arcons-d'Allier, 2022–2023) and Capsule Bikini (Lyon, 2023). She also gives lectures in Art History at Aix-Marseille University and she is a member of the visitor engagement team at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin.

Image of the curator Noémie Cursoux in the gallery space looking at the artwork
Noémie Cursoux, current recipient of the Black Church Print Studio, Emerging Curator Award.

‘Slow Image’ Installation Images

Photography Lauren Hamilton

 

Installation shot of exhibition from the exterior, artwork is visible in the gallery, the artists' names are seen on the window.
Slow Image Installation shot - photographed from exterior
Three framed artworks on a white wall, two are hung beside each other so that they are touching, the third is hung further away to the right.
Five artworks hung on white walls. One small and one large painting are on the left wall, three framed pieces are hung on the right hand side wall.
Three paintings hung on a white wall. Two small paintings of figures are placed beside a large painting.
Two paintings displayed on a white wall close to the edge. Two framed prints are visible on a wall in the background.
A view of the installation in the gallery space. A large piece of satin fabric is suspended from the ceiling in the centre of the gallery. Artworks are seen on the walls.
Installation view of the exhibition. In the alcove at the back of the gallery space, three prints are seen on the back wall, two on the left wall, and one on the right wall. The lighting is much darker in this space than in the rest of the gallery.
Three prints hung on a white wall. The print in the centre is slightly larger than the two other prints. They have been hung on the wall using small circular magnets.
An off-white piece of satin fabric mounted onto a square board. There is a white print on the surface of the fabric.
Two prints hung on a white wall. The print on the left is much larger than the print on the right. They have been attached to the wall using small circular magents which are visible in the four corners of each print.
A framed print displayed on a white wall close to the edge, a yellow staircase is visible behind. Three framed photographs are hung on a wall in the background.
Two square framed prints hung on a white wall. The prints are the same size, they are surrounded by a thick white border mount and have thin light brown wooden frames.
Three frame photographs hung on a wall. The large photo on the left is in landscape, two smaller photographs in portrait orientation are placed on the right.

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