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Tara Carroll // Green and Purple Visual Art, Borrisokane (2026)

11/04/2026

Last weekend to see my installation ‘Resonances Ripples’ in the exhibition ‘Affected Forms’ .
I am visiting today and maybe tomorrow so please come say hello.
It is an incredible group exhibition to see so don’t miss out!

Photo credit: the astonishing

Photo: Close up detail of sculpture ‘For Isobel’

ID: Close up detail photo of a green velvet curvy cushioned sculpture. An elegant hand reaches out to touch top of the sculpture from the left of the photo. A bright gold watch is on their wrist. Blurred soft pinks are in the background.

03/04/2026

Please come along to my workshop tomorrow. It's going to be lovely and chill.
Anyone travelling from Dublin, I have spare train seats up and back. I booked a load of tickets as it's a busy Galway train. Please just DM me here or text me if you have my number.
Hope to see you there 💚💜

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Please Touch
Participatory Workshop with Tara Carroll
Saturday 4th April
2.30pm
Luan Gallery
Email Luan to book a space at [email protected]
You can also just turn up on the day.

Please Touch is a workshop led by Tara Carroll, developed as part of the ongoing project Resonances Ripples. This workshop invites participants to explore touch as a way to connect to the present, through the artwork present in the space, to each other and to their own bodies.

Through guided exercises, small actions and open discussion, the workshop considers how touch relates to bodily autonomy, particularly in relation to gender, disability and accessibility. Working collaboratively, participants will explore how touch is transferred across time, space, and bodies; by engaging with the work, we enter into community with others we may never meet. In going beyond language and the visual, the haptic is a mode of perception adept at resisting binaries and shifts the boundaries and understanding of the body and its connection with Others.

Please Touch offers a relaxed space to slow down, engage with the senses and invites participants to become active parts of the work.

The workshop will be a relaxed environment with an array of seats and cushions . We kindly ask people to wear FFP2 masks which will be provided to ensure the safety of everyone in the space. This is to practice collective community care and harm reduction. Close captioning can be provided through an automatic transcription app. The gallery main entrance is accessed by a ramp and the gallery space is step free. The accessible toilets are accessed by a lift. Any questions about workshop just DM.

01/04/2026

For Isobel 🌸

‘For Isobel’ is the name of one of my sculptures exhibited in ‘Affected Forms’ .
This work was created through my workshop called ‘Just There’ which the beautiful Isobel was participant of. We explored bodily autonomy and how are bodies could feel wanted in an art space. I loved one of Isobel’s arrangements and transformed it into a finished sculpture and named it after Isobel. Another vital participant in the workshop was Beasly amazing support dog. Here he is reconnecting with the work again, such a cutie.
I have a new workshop this Saturday 4th as part of my work. Please email or call Luan Gallery to book a spot. The exhibition is on until 12th April. I would love you could come.

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1: Photo of Isobel wearing a mask from the side sitting in a green plush velvet low sculptural seat. Beasly the cute corgi dog is laying down beside her in his working high vis jacket. The seat is on a wavy pink carpet with wine text on the ground stating ‘Radiating in every direction’. To the left a pink wall with a tall gathered piece of darker pink fabric flowing down it.

2: Photo of Isobel at the ‘Just There’ workshop which matches the same angle and seating position as previous photo. Instead Isobel is sitting on an arrangement of foam and fabric. Beasly is laying down beside her.

3: Photo of Isobel from the front sitting in same foam arrangement in the workshop. Her legs loosely folded with a marble sculpture sitting on foam in her lap.

4. Photo of Isobel from the opposite side in same arrangement in workshop.

5. Close up photo of Beasly sleepily resting his head on the knee support of the green velvet sculptural seat in the gallery.

6: Video of Beasly laying down on carpet of the installation in the gallery. He is happily wagging his tail remembering the work.

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18/03/2026

Appreciation Post 💚:

I would be lost without these two amazing humans .scopes and .
My project ‘Resonances Ripples’ and my current installation wouldn’t have been possible without Michael and Sebastian over the last two years as my access support workers. It is an absolute dream to work with two amazing friends who have the same ideals and morals of life and art as you. Every conversation we had together I learnt something new about the world, art or myself.

Sebastian was my first access support worker/studio assistant. It was a dream to work with a friend who knows how to get s**t done. Sebastian’s mind always amazes me. They’re so incredibly caring, thoughtful and honest. Their smile and laughter lights up a room. Sebastian got emotional seeing the work complete at the opening and had me bawling. They always make me feel so seen.

Sebastian passed on the role to Michael a perfect replacement.
Michael has kept me sane the past year which has been a rollercoaster of flare ups, navigating ableism in the arts and trying to produce new work.
My highlight for finishing new work for my recent exhibition was spending time with Michael in studio. Our conversations always grounded me.
Michael is one of the wisest people I have ever met. He is so sweet, caring and intuitive.

I love you both so deeply. Thank you for supporting me. 💜

I have been incredibly lucky and privileged to get funding to support me in having a studio assistant to meet my access needs.
Unfortunately it is restricted to small amount of weekly hours. I hope in the future this can increase to what I actually need to help me have a more equal footing to my peers.

ID: Photo of Michael, Tara and Sebastian sitting on Tara’s green velvet sculpture in Luan Gallery space. They have arms around each other smiling. Michael has short brown hair. He is wearing black T-shirt, trousers and face mask. Tara has green, purple and orange hair and wearing pink face mask. They’re wearing bright pink and green shirt and trousers. Sebastian has short curly brown hair. They’re wearing a black jacket and trousers.

16/03/2026

Shout out to the human who birth me and the reason for my textile obsession.
My mam is the source of my creativity and is the big reason why I do the art I do.
She taught me compassion, care and how to not give up on people (our superpower and weakness).
She might not always understand me, what I do or say but she's always support me or at least just let me live the life I want.
Here she is helping me sew the top of my textile piece 'Drink from the Wound '. A piece I started during a prolong period of being bed bound with my disabilities. My mam came every week to help me meet my basic needs. Love you 💚

13/02/2026

Detail of my incomplete and ongoing work ‘Drink from the Wound’, it evolves during periods of enforced isolation due to disabilities.
The work has laid with me in bed the past year. It’s craving and aching for touch.

This new work is part of my installation which is part of the exhibition ‘Affected Forms’ curated by .
Opening tonight Friday 13th at 6pm.
The exhibition running for the next two months. Please come along.

ID: Close up photo of a hand embroidered textile artwork. A repetitive pattern of 3 blood drops with a yonic diamond shape in between. Embroidered in a rich wine colour on to a light red flowing poly-linen fabric.

09/02/2026

Install day for 'Affected Forms' exhibition!
and the incredible team have been doing an amazing job the past week.
Opening this Friday evening 13th Feb.
Please come along.

ID: Close up image of sculpture detail. Left of the image is the edge of a olive green cushioned curve of the sculpture. A white wire with a setting dial from a heated blanket with the brand name 'Dimplex' on it wiggles out from the sculpture. It sits on a plush pink carpet.

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31/01/2026

Looking back on the residency ‘Cultivating Q***r Disabled Visions’ which I facilitated workshops as for .
It was an incredible group of artists that I had the pleasure working with.
The workshops were created with accessibility as the focus. They were adaptable and flexible to the daily needs of the individuals and the group as a whole.
Through discussions we figured out together what the group wanted from the workshops. They entailed practice sharing, advocacy discussions, access rider workshop, outdoor movement and one on one mentoring.
One workshop focused on dissecting the residency call out text and discussing the arts industry co-opting of disability and q***r language. Discussing that organisations and artists should build on their awareness and accountability of using this language especially when they haven’t done the deep work of unlearning biases and on accessibility to use it.
The workshop came to fruition due to the group of artists going through complex difficulties being on a pilot residency of its kind which unfortunately the organisation was not prepared for. This was due to multiple reasons and not uncommon for the arts industry. But can be very damaging for disabled artists in particular.
I am sharing this because not to shame the organisation but to not disregard the artists’ experience and not make it out it was all great.
The organisation got the opportunity to engage in deep conversations with the artists and myself to learn from the difficult situations. I also facilitated an accessibility consultancy meeting.
I hope these opportunities will help Live Art Ireland in continuing taking accountability and growing their accessibility.
They didn’t shy away from discomforting and critical conversations and were very eager to learn and grow.
This is all we can wish for and hope other organisations do the same.

28/01/2026

I came across some photos of my work as accessibility consultant for the Art of Place: A symposium exploring people, possibilities and practices by Creative Places . It took places in the gorgeous gallery. I worked with a great team of people but in particular my co-accessibility consultant . Martha was an absolute dream to work with. We were always on the same page about everything and her unwavering support in helping me advocate for accessibility that bigger institutions tend to have so much red tape you have to face to potentially get. Conversations with Martha gave me so much hope for the future so here’s to working again together in the future 💚

Image credit for first image: Conor Keegan

Image 1: Photo of Tara wearing a pink face mask and holding a mic. They are standing in front of a projection that colourful graphic says “Art of Place: Symposium exploring People, Possibilities and Practices”.
Image 2: A photo of Martha and Tara standing side by side wearing face masks. Standing in front of a big illustration which was created live in response to the symposium by an illustrator.
Image 3: Martha and Tara are standing either side of the illustration with their arms open towards the illustration to draw attention to it.

16/11/2025

The week that is in it as the legend Michael D.Higgins finishes his presidency, I want to share photos from the last Paddy’s day. It was such an honour and privilege to be invited to his last Paddy’s day celebrations for my contribution of Community Arts to Inclusion and Creativity in Ireland. It was such an incredible evening hearing him speak and celebrating with my peers for all the work we do in the arts. He always championed arts and culture and we massively thank him.

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Image 1: Photo of a vibrant group of artists huddled in a group around President at the time, Michael D.Higgins.
Image 2: Photo of Tobi, Tara, Tobi and Renn standing together all dressed up fancy and smiling in front of the Arás an Uachtaráin.
Image 3: Photo of Eimear, Tara and Renn standing together all dressed up fancy and smiling in front of the Arás an Uachtaráin.
Image 4: Photo of Tara and Renn posing with a bronze sculpture of Former President Mary Robinson.
Image 5: Photo of Tara and Renn’s faces close up. Renn is making peace signs with their fingers and their big lovely eyes looking up towards Tara. Tara’s head is above Renn’s. They’re making a pouting face.
Image 6: Photo of Eimear and Tara posing in front of a painting of Former President Mary Robinson.

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