A L T A R Launch
A L T A R Launch, DABF, Dublin Art Book Fair, at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Sunday 1st December at 4pm.
This launch is a free two-part event. Booking is required for each part of the launch:
Clodagh Emoe and Donal Lally discuss their recent project A L T A R and same titled publication with curator and art historian Catherine Marshall. Following this, Jessica Foley will read her specially commissioned essay for A L T A R, ‘A Place so Beautiful’ which threads through and across multiple generations, reflecting on intimacy, care and the legacy of collective endeavour.
The proceeds from A L T A R publication go to Médecins Sans Frontières.
A L T A R publication is realised and edited by Clodagh Emoe and Donal Lally, and designed by Alex Synge, working under the studio name The First 47. Through image and text, A L T A R presents the processes used to create this temporary artwork for Goldenbridge Cemetery—an infrastructure to encounter and reflect on the vibrancy of life in a place of death.
This publication brings writing that has inspired A L T A R and has emerged from the process of realising this work, including essays by writer Jesscia Foley, artist/educator Mick Wilson, author Lucy Jones, architectural historian Dr. Livia Hurley, plant folklorist Charlotte Salter Townshend, weaver and plant-dye specialist Kathy Mooney, artist/perfumer Erin Quinn and Siobhán Geoghegan of Common Ground. A L T A R features photographs by Kate-Bowe O’Brien and David Conway and film stills by artist/filmmaker Jenny Brady and Barry Lynch.
A L T A R was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, Architecture Project Award in 2022 and supported by Common Ground, Dublin Cemeteries Trust and IMMA.