Bryony Dunne’s exhibition and walking tour of Dublin

The trackmaker was a sluggish mover
Exhibition and walking tour

Thursday 26 March from 4pm, beginning at the Irish Architectural Archive

Join for an exhibition tour and guided walk around Dublin, to celebrate Bryony Dunne’s residency and exhibition at the Irish Architectural Archive. 

Following a tour of the archive’s exhibition spaces, enjoy a walk around Merrion Square and its surrounds to explore the urban history encountered in Dunne’s year-long engagement with the neighbourhood. Working with the extensive holdings of the archive and finding ways to speak to the fragile environments we inhabit have been key themes to the artist’s research and newly-commissioned artworks in The trackmaker was a sluggish mover. Ranging from architectural ornamentation, extensive masterplans for buildings, and the stone, soil and footprints beneath us, the event will, in Bryony’s poetic words, ‘bring geological trace, archival image, and personal memory into dialogue, considering architecture as a place where deep time, lived experience, and material transformation meet’.

The Irish Architectural Archive celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2026, and holds the most significant body of historic Irish architectural drawings in the world, with a mission to collect and preserve material of every kind relating to the architecture of the entire island, making it freely available to the public. Since 2019, Askeaton Contemporary Arts have partnered with the IAA to create a bespoke artist-in-residence programme within this vast resource, and publicly present newly-commissioned artworks investigating the social and cultural context of the built environment, finding new possibilities to dwell in authentic and resilient ways.