HLG OFFSITE: BASIC TALKS – KIAN BENSON BAILES

BA Fine Art and TU Dublin School of Art & Design are delighted to host Basic Talks programme in cooperation with Basic Space and Hugh Lane Gallery for months of November, December 2025 and January 2026. The first talk by Kian Benson Bailes is taking place during Dublin Gallery Weekend as part of the Hugh Lane gallery Explore & Learn Off Site programme. 

Kian Benson Bailes is an Irish artist from the northwest of Ireland and currently based in Dublin. His multifaceted practice explores rural Ireland, visual language and identity. Recent exhibitions include ‘Culchie boy, I love you / Grá mo chroí thú, mo chábóigín féin (21 Angels and Then Some…)’at Mermaid Arts Centre 2025, and ‘Staying with The Trouble’ at IMMA 2025.
Free, book your place here or come on the day subject to availability.

Basic Talks is a series of talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is a platform for lectures, workshops, presentations, and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers, and critics who will generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art. BASIC TALKS is a collaboration between Basic Space and the Hugh Lane Gallery, exploring alternatives in the dissemination of contemporary art and its discourses.