In conjunction with Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, we are pleased to announce Joanne Reid as the recipient of the Paul Robinson Studio Award 2026.

The award was created in memory of Arthur Cox Partner Paul Robinson, who was a TBG+S Board Member from 2013 to 2017. He is warmly remembered with great fondness and respect for his many contributions to the organisation, his support of artists and engaging interest in contemporary art.

Joanne Reid, the recipient of the 2026 award, works primarily in sculpture. Her work often begins as an intuitive response to materials, objects and spaces that form our built environment. Reid’s material vocabulary draws primarily from the urban environment and construction sites, often using steel, plywood, timber, plaster, and concrete. Reid is interested in our desire to reproduce the natural world and the history of ornament in architecture and is influenced by art historical compositions, such as the still life.

Select exhibitions include: Residues of the Garden of Eden, The Complex, Dublin (2025); Thresholds to the Unseen, Solstice Arts Centre, Meath (2024); Sample Set, Studio 1, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (2023); Home Bodies, Glandwr, Dublin (2021); Dearly Beloved: ARTWORKS ,VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow (2019); Futures, Series 3, Episode 2, RHA Gallery, Dublin (2018).