Sample-Studios

We’re having a ball at Sample-Studios Gallery: The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion to celebrate ‘PlaySpaces’ by ! We have on hand bringing the tunes and the children are having a ball 🕺💃

This exhibition forms part of the city-wide trail of PlaySpaces commission and produced by . The exhibition runs until 28 June so drop by, have a dance, and pick up a map to the rest of the kid-friendly, child-designed PlaySpaces around the city!

🎉 Good News Day! We're so grateful to Business to Arts for hosting a wonderful event at the Royal Irish Academy of Music to celebrate our colleague Dr Matthew Whyte as he completed the 2-year Business to Arts Fundraising Fellowship Ireland. We extend our warmest thanks to the incredible team at Business to Arts, to the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport for supporting the programme, and to Eamonn Carroll, Festival Director at Blackwater Valley Opera, and Andrew Hetherington, Head of Audience Development & Stakeholder Engagement at National Gallery of Ireland, who offered their invaluable support to Matthew and our organisation during the Fellowship.

In the role of Development & Communications Coordinator, Matthew raised over €250,000 for Sample-Studios over the 2-year fellowship - a significant sum invested back into the work we do to support art, artists, our community, and the cultural sector. He has led on many successful grant applications, worked with our existing community partners to increase their support, and engaged significant new corporate and community partners to support our work. We're thrilled that Matthew will continue his work with Sample-Studios with the new title of Development Manager! 🥳

Photos by Conor McCabe Photography