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MAKING SPACE

A Dialogue Between Seven Contemporary Irish Artists

FEXA 2026

1–18 OCTOBER

FUMBALLY EXCHANGE · DUBLIN

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01 / EXHIBITION

Making Space is the inaugural edition of FEXA. It brings together six visual artists and one literary work.

At the core of the approach is collaboration — the artists in conversation with each other. Title, exhibition and programme were developed by the group.

The title is somewhat literal. A room in a working building is cleared, whitewashed and given over to art for eighteen days. Space is made — for the work, and for the artists.

Making Space reaches beyond the room and into the neighbourhood. Spaces across Blackpitts and the Liberties open for a day or two — a talk, a satellite work, an evening — making space in turn

Making Space is the inaugural edition of FEXA. It brings together six visual artists and one literary work.

At the core of the approach is collaboration — the artists in conversation with each other. Title, exhibition and programme were developed by the group.

The title is somewhat literal. A room in a working building is cleared, whitewashed and given over to art for eighteen days. Space is made — for the work, and for the artists.

Making Space reaches beyond the room and into the neighbourhood. Spaces across Blackpitts and the Liberties open for a day or two — a talk, a satellite work, an evening — making space in turn

"Making Space, rather than a traditional collaboration, offers a kind of crown shyness effect. The artworks, equally tall, speak to one another across the gap of juxtaposition. It's synaptic, almost, the viewer making the connections."

— Patrick Chapman, An Adventure in Art and Space

ABOUT FEXA

FEXA — Fumbally Contemporary — is a new annual visual arts initiative in Blackpitts, Dublin 8. Making Space is its inaugural edition.

FEXA exists to give serious contemporary work the room it needs: artists making rigorous, critically engaged work who are not fully served by the commercial gallery system, or who simply deserve to be seen more widely. Selection is artist-led.

It is rooted in the Fumbally Exchange, which has been making space since it began — a shared workspace and creative community in the Liberties, home to makers, designers and artists. The Exchange offered the room and backed the project from the start.

FEXA is a not-for-profit initiative and intends to grow — a regular fixture in the Dublin calendar, with a widening programme, deeper partnerships, and a publication accompanying each edition..

"With every new event such as this, a space is made, an idea is aired, a possibility is grasped."

ARTISTS

Frances Donnelly Jung

Painter

Natasha Conway

Painter

Stephen Dunne

Painter, draughtsman & moving image artist

Conor Horgan

Photographer & visual artist

Caroline McCambridge

Painter, sculptor & curator

David Newton

Visual artist

Patrick Chapman

Writer

THE VENUE

Fumbally Exchange is a creative co-working space in the Liberties. The Hackett Room at the entrance of FEx is being transformed for FEXA / Making Space

FUMBALLY EXCHANGE
BLACKPITTS, DUBLIN 8

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OPENING DATES

2–18 OCTOBER 2026

SUN & MON, 15:00-18:00 | TUE – SAT 10:30–18:00 | THURSDAYS UNTIL 19

EVENTS

THU 1 OCTOBER · 18:00 — OPENING RECEPTION

SAT 10 OCTOBER · 12:00 — ARTIST TALKS

SAT 10 OCTOBER · 14:15 — POETRY READING, PATRICK CHAPMAN

SUN 18 OCTOBER · 15:00 — FINISSAGE

NOTES

January 1

Workshop Announcement

October 10

Artist Talks & Poetry Reading

October 1

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MAKING SPACE

MAKING SPACE

ABOUT FEXA

ARTISTS

Frances Donnelly Jung

Natasha Conway

Stephen Dunne

Conor Horgan

Caroline McCambridge

David Newton

Patrick Chapman

THE VENUE

VISIT

NOTES

Workshop Announcement

Artist Talks & Poetry Reading

Opening night at Fumbally Exchange