Adult Workshop: Please Touch with Tara Carroll

Explore touch as a way to connect to the present and to each other through the evolving installation in the Gallery
About this Event

This workshop led by artist Tara Carroll offers a relaxed space to slow down and engage with the senses, inviting you to become an active part of the work.

Through guided exercises, playful actions and cosy chats, we will consider how touch relates to exploring our surroundings, ourselves, connecting with others and accessibility. We will work collaboratively to explore how touch is transferred across time, space, and bodies.

By engaging with the work, we enter into community with others we may never have met. Participants will touch, engage and add to the communal installation while creating collaboratively a playful audio description of the work.

Tara Carroll is a socially engaged and collaborative artist. Their work takes the form of installation, performance, participation, community building, advocacy and creative social spaces. During difficult times, it was Tara’s community that empowered them to carve new pathways of creativity, interdependence and care (real care). The work Tara creates is to return this gift to people who also feel outside of art spaces, together breaking down preconceptions of what art can be to access unique perceptions of ourselves.

The workshop will take place outside of gallery hours for quieter sensory friendly engagement. This is an adult workshop suitable for anyone new to or curious about contemporary art. Confirmation of attendance will 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.

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. There is 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.