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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.

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.

19/06/2025

We are delighted to announce the 2025 FSAS Grad Award recipients.

In continuing our commitment to supporting the professional development of visual artists and the creation of new work, Fire Station Artists’ Studios is awarding 6 residencies to recent graduates from 3 Third-Level Institutions (IADT, NCAD and TUD).

This year’s awardees in Sculpture and Digital Media are: Ciara Davitt (Sculpture, NCAD), Lauren Haughey (Digital Media, NCAD), Róise McGath (Sculpture, IADT), Megan O’Carolan (Digital Media, TUD), Vicky Ochala (Sculpture, TUD) and Anastassia Varabiova (Digital Media, IADT).

We loon forward to welcoming out Grad Awardees to FSAS in the coming months.

12/06/2025

Playgrounds and Cobblestones is a community arts project led by socially engaged artist Evelyn Broderick in collaboration with the SAOL Project and FSAS.

Taking place from January to May 2025, Playgrounds and Cobblestones was an exploration and celebration of play and games with three groups of women over 14 weeks. The participants met with the artist, sharing stories of play and games from their childhood, which resulted in the creation of a publication in a zine format. Sessions also included attending FSAS for making sessions in the Sculpture Workshop making and painting clay tiles. The project culminated in a ‘Games Event’ hosted at FSAS and an exhibition in the Project Space last month where they presented their work.

This project was funded by Dublin City Council Arts Office.

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