Open Studios

Fire Station Artists’ Studios (FSAS) invite the public for an Open Studio afternoon to explore residential studios and meet with artists living and working in the repurposed fire station. Join us to meet FSAS Resident Artists Evelyn Broderick, Kian Benson Bailes and Paul Hallahan to discover where they work and find out more about their practice.

There will be 3 slots available (4.30pm /5.30pm /6.30pm). This is free to attend, but pre-booking is essential.

Each visit will comprise going into the 3 artists' studios. There is a limit of 10 people per tour.

Evelyn Broderick is a multidisciplinary artist and currently the recipient of the inaugural FSAS residency award for artists with a socially engaged art practice. Her praxis MAKING|THINKING is an open dialogue that evolves through the interactions of the communities she engages with. Evelyn develops socially engaged structures to combine sculpture, printmaking and sound together in order to question the role making has in a both social and collective context. As a traditional Irish flute player, Evelyn’s sculptural work draws on the performative collective experience intrinsic to Irish traditional music. In 2020 Evelyn was artist in residence at UCD’s Parity Studios at the College of Social Science and Law. She has just completed an 18 month residency at Studio 468 in Dublin 8 as part of Common Ground’s community based residency where Evelyn further developed her project The People’s Shed. Evelyn is 2023’s recipient of Create’s the Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary.

Kian Benson Bailes is an Irish artist residing in the northwest of Ireland. His multifaceted practice explores rural Ireland, visual language and identity, through the use of sculpture, installation, collage, and textiles. Benson Bailes draws from Irish folklore, personal history, and queer theory, “to interrogate my own emotional landscape as a way of reconciling place and self.” Recent exhibitions include ‘Culchie boy, I love you / Grá mo chroí thú, mo chábóigín féin’, at Project Arts Centre, Co. Dublin and ‘The Gleaners Society’ 40th Edition EVA International, Co. Limerick.

Paul Hallahan is an Irish artist living and working at Fire Station Artist Studio’s Dublin whose work spans painting, sculpture and video. Interests within his work expand into many areas but commonly focus on how we as a species relate and interact with nature, taking art as a form or by-product of nature and our civilisation. His work looks beyond narrative as he finds interest in how we as humans connect with nature, taking consideration that we are nature and nature is us. Ideas around human disconnect from nature have led Hallahan to explore these ideas in various methods and in different mediums, an unfocussed/abstracted image has always been a method he has explored in static and moving image works.

Please let us know if you have any access requirements and we will do our best to meet your needs.

Image description: Visitors in the Studio of FSAS Artist Resident Samir Mahmood, during an Open Studio event as part of Five Lamps Arts Festival, in April 2024. Visitors in the Studio of FSAS Artist Resident Samir Mahmood, during an Open Studio event as part of Five Lamps Arts Festival, in April 2024.

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