What to do and see in South City Centre, Province of Leinster: The Best Art Galleries

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is a gallery and artists' studios complex located in the heart of Dublin and the Temple Bar cultural quarter. It is one of the first DIY artist initiatives in Ireland started by a group of artists and administrators in 1983. In the 1980's, TBG+S was instrumental in establishing Temple Bar's reputation as a place for cultural activities in Dublin and led to its regeneration as Dublin's Cultural Quarter in the early 1990's. At Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S), we place the artist at the heart of everything we do. TBG+S works to support professional visual artists and to connect as many people as possible, with the engaging dynamic of art. We do this by providing affordable studio space to over 40 artists annually and through our vibrant programme of exhibitions and events. The building is home to 30 artists' studios that provide artists with a warm and spacious working environment and allows them to be located within a creative community in the city. The gallery features art work by the most compelling Irish and International artists in five exhibitions annually. At TBG+S, all of our programmes are free and accessible to everyone with a curiosity about visual art. The Talks + Events series includes studio and gallery tours, lectures, critical discussions and film screenings for audiences. Our Education programme works with young people, families and schools in Dublin city. TBG+S is funded through annual funding from the Arts Council of Ireland. Dublin City Council is also a funder of TBG+S and the main corporate sponsor is Mason Hayes & Curran.

A venue packed full of surprises, tucked away in the historic cobbled streets of Temple Bar. Visit the place that helped to shape and to launch the careers of many Irish artists including: Gabriel Byrne, Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson, Jim & Peter Sheridan, and U2.With two theatres and a gallery Project Arts Centre offers a huge variety of events. The gallery exhibitions are free and tickets to performance range from €0-€25.

Art gallery selling the work of painter Graham Knuttel.

The Douglas Hyde Gallery, founded in 1978, became independent of Trinity College in 1984, and for some years afterwards we were the only publicly-funded gallery in Ireland that regularly exhibited contemporary art. Our exhibition programme was wide-ranging and eclectic, including shows by major international artists as well as by emerging Irish artists. More recently, the development of contemporary art exhibition programmes by other galleries and museums in Dublin has meant that the Douglas Hyde Gallery's role has changed. While our general direction remains the same, and although we still hold exhibitions by major figures in the contemporary art world, the programme has become more focused than before, frequently engaging with art that has been marginalized, and with artists, both from Ireland and abroad, who have not yet become well-known or who have been overlooked. We also regularly hold small exhibitions of ethnographic and craft artefacts in Gallery 2. The Douglas Hyde Gallery publishes small books and catalogues that are known and distributed all over the world, and occasionally hosts musical events.