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Dublin city centre arts organisation that supports professional visual artists.

Fire Station Artists' Studios provides 10 subsidised combined living and working studios for Irish visual artists, large scale sculpture workshop facilities and training opportunities. The Fire Station training program has expanded to include digital and film training and we continue to host technical training and master classes which incorporate critical reflection. A key policy of the Fire Stati

on is to contribute to the debate on collaborative and socially engaged arts practice, through a commissioning process that incorporates critique.

10/08/2026

Join us for our next International Curator talk with Zoé Samudzi zoé samudzi 🔥🔥🔥

Wednesday 19 August, 5pm – 6pm.

Zoé Samudzi is a postdoctoral scholar in African-American and Africana Studies at Ohio State University. She holds a PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her work also contends with genocide memory and registers of denialism, political mythologies of the nation-state, and visuality. She uses curatorial methodologies as a visual-material extension of her research. As well as an art critic and writer, Samudzi is an associate editor with Parapraxis Magazine, a popular magazine dedicated to psychoanalytic thinking.

Zoé Samudzi’s curator talk will explore the conceptual and ethical dimensions of her research and curatorial practice. She will engage the politics of two of her exhibitions: a 2024 show in Dresden that she withdrew, and her 2025 show at Project Arts Centre, “Sibathontisele / Let’s drip on them / Braon ar bhraon orthu,” and the related arrest of the artist, Owen Maseko. As each incident represents both an obstacle to and the necessity of the work’s realization, Samudzi poses questions of politically responsible and engaged independent curation in the face of denialisms and repression

The talk is free and no booking is required! ✨

09/08/2026

Fire Station Artists’ Studios is collaborating with Chronic Collective for the fourth year of Chronic Connections: Networking for sick and disabled artists 🧡🩷

Disabled and chronically ill artists often cannot network in the same way as their peers; this programme tries to bridge the gap and invites curators and programmers to have a conversation with disabled and chronically ill artists about their work. This programme involves two events, the first is a ‘speed curating’ networking event (artists will have 15 minutes with each of our curators to introduce themselves and their practice) and the second event will be a one-to-one studio visit or meeting with a selected curator.

Intro to 2026 Curators: Beulah Ezeugo

Beulah Ezeugo is a curator and writer who works between Ireland and Britain. Her practice engages with national identity and memory and expands outward through critical writing, exhibition-making, and public programming. Beulah was curator of the 23rd edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and is a cofounder (with Joselle Ntumba) of Éireann and I, a community archive and memory project. She is currently a curator at Peer, a non-profit arts organisation in East London.

Previous residencies and awards include Platform Commissions, 41st EVA International (2025), SIRIUS Critic-in-Residence (2024), and 11:11 x Iniva Residency, Stuart Hall Library, London (2024). She was a Research Associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry (2022-24) and a recipient of Glasgow International’s Black Curators Collective Bursary (2021). Her writing has appeared in The Irish Times, as well as in publications by Douglas Hyde Gallery, Durty Books, and Bloomers Magazine.

For full details on the Open Call for applications to Chronic Connections, go to firestation.ie. Deadline for applications is Monday 17th August at 5pm.

Image description: A woman sitting on a wooden bench surrounded by lush green plants in a greenhouse.

06/08/2026

Fire Station Artists’ Studios is collaborating with Chronic Collective for the fourth year of Chronic Connections: Networking for sick and disabled artists 🧡🩷

Disabled and chronically ill artists often cannot network in the same way as their peers; this programme tries to bridge the gap and invites curators and programmers to have a conversation with disabled and chronically ill artists about their work. This programme involves two events, the first is a ‘speed curating’ networking event (artists will have 15 minutes with each of our curators to introduce themselves and their practice) and the second event will be a one-to-one studio visit or meeting with a selected curator.

Intro to 2026 Curators: Aoife Banks

Aoife Banks is an Irish curator, writer, researcher, and lecturer working across contemporary visual art. Her practice is informed by q***r and decolonial perspectives, exploring the intersections of visual culture, social history, and political discourse through collaborative, research-led exhibition making. Working closely with Irish and international artists, she develops solo and group exhibitions that examine the cultural narratives, social conditions, and structures of power that shape contemporary experience. Central to her approach is a commitment to artist-centred methodologies, critical inquiry, and meaningful public engagement.

Since 2022, Banks has served as Curator and Programming Coordinator at Luan Gallery, where she has curated and delivered an ambitious programme of exhibitions, commissions, publications, and public events, fostering dialogue between artists, audiences, and contemporary social concerns. Banks holds a joint BA in Fine Art and Visual Culture (2018) and an MA in Visual Culture: Art in the Contemporary World (2020) from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD).

For full details on the Open Call for applications to Chronic Connections, go to the link in our bio! Deadline for applications is Monday 17th August at 5pm. ✨

31/07/2026

Some pictures from the third annual Fire Station Artists’ Studios resident’s exhibition! 📸

FSAS Presents Incubator curated by Niamh Darling took place from 24 June – 2 July 2026. ✨

Participating artists included: Lucy Andrews, Mark Buckeridge, Kian Benson Bailes, Cóilín O’Connell, Aideen Farrell, Paul Hallahan, Day Magee, Sorcha McNamara and Alice Rekab.

Incubator presented works in the public, communal and workshop areas of Fire Station Artists’ Studios, celebrating the studios as a crucial site of creative production against the current backdrop of eroding arts infrastructure across the city.

In parallel with this show, Kian Benson Bailes had an open studio tilted Nymph to mark the end of his residency with Fire Station Artists’ Studios.

📸 Evanna Devine Evanna Devine

30/09/2025

This week we are delighted to welcome curator Tendai Mutambu to FSAS for a 2-week residency in our expanded International Curator Residency programme.

Tendai Mutambu is a writer, editor, and curator based in London and Barcelona. His work centres on contemporary artists’ moving image, experimental cinema, and the essay film, with a focus on Black and diasporic practices.

He was most recently Development Editing Fellow for Logic(s), a q***r Black and Asian technology magazine at Columbia University’s INCITE Institute, and an associate producer of Aura Satz’s feature-length documentary Preemptive Listening (2024).

Previously, Tendai held curatorial and public programming roles at Spike Island, Bristol, where he contributed to projects and events with several artists and scholars, among them, Peggy Ahwesh, Eric Baudelaire & Alvin Curran, Gail Lewis, Zinzi Minott, Imran Perretta, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and the estate of Pacita Abad; at LUX Moving Image and the British Council, where he curated touring programmes of contemporary artists’ moving image screened in over fifteen countries; and at institutions including Te Uru, Govett-Brewster/Len Lye Centre, CIRCUIT Artists Moving Image, Artspace Aotearoa, the BFI London Film Festival, and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. In 2022 he co-curated, with Sara Greavu, the first solo exhibition in Ireland by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. He’s a regular contributor to Art Monthly UK, and a contributing editor for Ocula Magazine.

25/09/2025

Out of Sight: A Dive into the Archive of Fire Station Artists’ Studios

As part of Open House Dublin, we will be hosting tours in Friday, 17 and Saturday 18 October:

Friday 17 at 2:30PM and 3:30PM
Saturday 18 and 10:30AM and 11:30AM
Drop-in, no booking required.

From an iconic Fire Station built in the late 1800s, to a repurposed hub of artistic production since 1991, Fire Station Artists’ Studios has lived many lives. Whether hosting firefighters’ families for most of the 20th century, providing shelter with Simon Community in the 80s, or hosting visual artists to live and work for the past 30+ years, this building has played a pivotal role in the north inner city of Dublin for over a century.

Exclusively, FSAS is opening to the public its emerging archive and invites visitors to delve into the past of this emblematic building. Join us for a presentation of the nascent archive and tours of the building, reminiscing the past while looking at the present use of the building.

Meeting Point: Foyer of FSAS through front entrance on Buckingham Street Lower

16/09/2025

We’re delighted to share that the participating artists of this year’s Chronic Connections networking programme are: Jessica Conway, Anthony Cullen, Helen Horgan, Claire McAteer, Martina O’Connor, Venus Patel, James Wellwood and Indigo Woolfrey.

The 2025 Networking Programme curators are: Diana Bamimeke, Eve Woods, Mark O’Gorman and Mary Conlon.

About Chronic Connections: Networking for sick and disabled artists
Chronic Collective () and Fire Station Artists’ Studios have gathered a panel of nationally recognised curators who have a close interest and practice in inclusion and access to participate in the speed curating event and in studio visits with up to 8 visual artists with disabilities/chronic illnesses in 2025.

10/09/2025

New Course: 3D Scan to Print
2 days, Saturday 4 & 11 October
€150

In this hands-on introductory course on 3D technologies, participants will acquire practical knowledge on the techniques and processes of 3D scanning, 3D modelling and slicing, and 3D printing, creating and modifying their own objects with dedicated software.

Artists who want to register for the course will need to:
- Be computer literate and reasonably comfortable with the digital 3D environment.

- Bring an object to scan that is larger than 10cm, solid, opaque, and with simple geometric lines

- Install the necessary software in advance of the course

About the Tutor:
Tadhg Charles is a visual professional and educator with a background in architecture and computation. His recent work examines the hybridisation of digital tools for the purposes of accessibility and representation.

As a tutor, he has facilitated courses on hybrid fabrication and emergent technology in institutions across Europe, designing and implementing workflows that allow for the easy realisation and transference of content between the physical and digital realms while assisting visual artists to achieve their project goals.

Register for your place now at the link in our bio or at firestation.ie

27/08/2025

Event: Wednesday, 3 September, 5pm, Project Space @ FSAS

Join us in conversation with Sara Sassanelli visiting FSAS as part of the 2025 International Curator Residency programme.

Curator and producer Sara Sassanelli traces their journey from London’s DIY dance, music and club scenes into institutional contexts and, more recently, independent producing. Inspired by Michael Clark, whose practice fused ballet, punk, fashion, q***r nightlife, Sassanelli reflects on how early encounters with skill, collaboration, and friendship shaped their approach to dance and curatorial work.

They situate their beginnings in resourceful, collective experimentation, working closely with artists on commissions, workshops, and live performances. At the ICA (2019–2024), Sassanelli re-established the experimental dance programme, developing hybrid formats that blurred boundaries between performance, exhibition, rave, and live music. Projects included commissions with choreographer Eve Stainton (Dykegeist, IMPACT DRIVER) and large-scale all-night events that expanded conventional performance frameworks.

Last year Sara founded Alice Agency with Jared Davis, producing international projects that support experimental dancers and musicians. As a producer and curator they work with artists including Eve Stainton, Billy Bultheel, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Jack Hogan and Florence Sinclair.

Through their work, Sassanelli examines how curating and producing can create conditions for liveness and experimentation, even amid diminishing institutional support. Sara will introduce their Fire Station project, focusing on ‘groupwork’ in choreographic practices.

Main image: photo by Jack Hogan

02/07/2025

We are delighted to present the second annual Fire Station Artists’ Studios residents exhibition, FSAS Presents The Home That Held Us, curated by Clara McSweeney.

Participating artists: Emily Waszak, Kian Benson Bailes, Alice Rekab, Evelyn Broderick, Paul Hallahan, Samir Mahmood, Mieke Vanmechelen, Day Magee and Sorcha McNamara.

This exhibition of works takes place across the public, communal spaces of Fire Station Artists’ Studios, celebrating the building’s long held function of providing home and shelter to it’s residents.

Curated by Clara McSweeney, the exhibition opening reception will take place on Wednesday 16 July at FSAS from 6pm. The exhibition will be on view daily until Tuesday, 22 July.

More details at link in bio.

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