Adult Workshop: How to make a shirt

Artist Alexandre Caretti invites you to draw a garment of your choice — on paper or fabric. Taking inspiration from a collection of photographs and archival materials gathered by the artist, you will create a pattern that reflects your own tastes and imagination to add to your size garment. Once completed, these unique patterned garments will inhabit a textile installation created by the artist.

Your contributed patterned clothing artwork will form a collective cartography and imprint of participants of this year’s Gallery Takeover. This collective installation will reflect on identity and storytelling created through the patterns of textiles and layering of objects in our homes.

This adult workshop is suitable for anyone new to or curious about contemporary art. Confirmation of attendance wilal be requested closer to the time.

This event is part of Gallery Takeover 2026, a four-day summer programme where the Gallery is dedicated to artistic activity, workshops and conversation.

Alexandre Caretti: ‘Making a film about love is not about explaining what love is, but about telling a love story. It is this starting point that guides the artist’s sculptural language’. Alexandre Caretti’s artworks narrate without explaining, drawing on architecture, materiality, gentleness, humour and play to provoke an encounter with his work and the stories that inhabit it. Alexandre Caretti (born in Besançon) lives and works in Lyon. He is currently on a residency at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is an artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery in Dublin City Centre. The Gallery presents five exhibitions annually of newly commissioned work by Irish and international artists. This is supported by a programme of free talks, tours, screenings and workshops.

Event location information: The workshop will take place in our street-facing gallery space at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. A team member will be at the entrance to check you in and support throughout visit, they will be wearing red lanyards.

The Temple Bar area is a busy area with a new level path that leads to the entrance door, which has a 5cm step, the gallery is otherwise step free. The space is bright with natural light and will contain freestanding sculpture, tables and chairs. The event space and street outside can be busy and louder at times. The space remains open to visitors during the workshop. A large single room bathroom with grab rails is next to the gallery space.

Contact our Learning & Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin with any questions or to enquire about booking a quiet-time visit at [email protected] or phone 01 6710073.