Temple Bar Gallery + Studios presents the fourteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF), Ireland’s leading art book fair, taking place in the Gallery over ten days. A centre for the artist book, DABF is a focal point to artists, designers, writers, and collectives to make, sell, and platform their publications. It champions creative, small and independent publishers; Irish and international. This year, DABF has a record number of successful artist book submissions. With over 275 artist books at this year’s fair, it demonstrates the possibilities of the book as a form for art that co

Artists Anthony Carey and Sean Carver have come together for a joint exhibition which navigates the emotional landscapes of memory, identity and reflective and emotive experience. Together, the exhibition offers a powerful exploration of the human condition – through two distinct but complementary visions. Over the last number of years, Dublin based artist Anthony Carey has been exploring themes of belonging, loss and human connection, drawing from personal and collective experience. He creates richly textured surfaces that reflect the complexity of the human condition, his paintings invi

This festive season, following its hugely successful run in 2023, The Ark is proud to present The Giggler Treatment, a marvellous, mischievous new musical based on the novel by Roddy Doyle. If adults are mean to children, they get the Giggler Treatment. It's smelly. It's squishy. And it sticks to your shoe. But sometimes, just sometimes, the Gigglers make a mistake... Can Robbie, Kayla, Jimmy and Rover the dog come to Mr Mack's rescue before the poo hits the shoe? Written and composed by Fionn Foley (Tonic, Fierce Notions), this glorious adaptation of the much-loved novel is