Pond, Chalk, Universe (Part II)

Join us at the gallery for an afternoon of talks, readings, a lecture and discussions, hosted by artist Fergus Feehily on the occasion of his solo exhibition, Fortune House at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Stephen Ellcock is an online collector and curator of images, as well as a writer and researcher and creator of a virtual museum on Facebook and Instagram. This event brings together artists of different generations and locations including artists Annie May Demozay and Aino Lintunen – both of whom the artist first met while teaching in Helsinki, Fegus Feehily himself, and TBG+S Programme Curator Michael Hill who worked closely with Feehily towards this project.

This event is the second part of Pond, Chalk, Universe, a day of events hosted by exhibiting artist Fergus Feehily on the occasion of his solo exhibition, Fortune House at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 13 December 2024 - 23 February 2025

Fortune House is situated in deep winter, taking place on both sides of the solstice, continuing into brighter days. This changing context draws on ideas of illumination, bridging time and memory through the exhibition. The title conjures a vision of a site where luck, prosperity, or a glimpse into the future might be found.

Fergus Feehily born in Dublin now lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Lulu, Mexico City (2022); La Maison de Rendez-vous, Brussels (2020); Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne. (2019) and Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (2018). His work has been shown at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Dallas Museum of Art; X Museum, Beijing; Tokyo Opera City; Capital, San Francisco; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. In 2023, a major new monograph on the artist was published by Zolo Press, Mexico City/Brussels.

Stephen Ellcock is a collector and renowned curator whose online ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ – an ever-expanding, virtual museum of art that is open to all via social media – has so far attracted more than 635,000 followers worldwide. Publications include Underworlds (2023) and The Cosmic Dance (2022) and Element: Chaos, Order and the Five Elemental Forces (2024) published by Thames & Hudson. Internationally acclaimed dance company BalletBoyz staged an adaptation of England on Fire, picture-edited by Ellcock, at Sadlers Wells in 2023.

Aino Lintunen, who was born in Jyväskylä, Finland, is a visual artist based in Helsinki. In her work, she uses methods of process-based painting, drawing and writing. She is interested in edges rather than cores, and navigates towards uncertainty. Lintunen has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki (MFA 2022), Aalto University (MA 2016) and the Slade School of Fine Arts, London. Lintunen is also a member of the artist-run initiative SIC, located in an old train station in Helsinki.

Annie May Demozay reads and talks a lot. She is deeply interested in all sorts of things but she is fickle and the things she finds interesting are always changing. Sometimes the things she reads and talks about end up in her writing - sometimes they do not. She considers herself a conduit and is interested in the past and communing with the dead. Her writing is sporadic as she is an idler with a poor imagination. She spends more time on her bicycle than slaving over sentences. She is more interested in talking than writing anyway. Although lately she has been memorising poetry which she recites whilst riding her bicycle (she shouts Philip Larkin at the hills). She is interested in the vernacular and things that follow one thing after another. She is interested in folk approaches to art making, in things that are passed down and altered, in building on what has gone before. She lives in Scotland.

Michael Hill is Programme Curator at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

Event Location Description: This event will take place across multiple spaces at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Entrance through our street facing gallery, rooms accessible by stairs or lift, semi accessible bathroom available.

For further access information please contact Learning + Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin at [email protected] or call 01 6710073.

Image Credit: The Corleck Head, photograph: Michaela Konz.

Host or Publisher Temple Bar Gallery + Studios