✨ BASIC TALKS October 2025 to January 2026 ✨

🌟Announcing the lineup for the next series of BASIC TALKS in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery 🌟

BASIC TALKS is a series of informal talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is an open platform for lectures, workshops, presentations and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers and critics who generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art.

We are delighted to announce our next four speakers – Rhea Dillon, Kian Benson Bailes, Christopher Steenson and Shane Malone-Murphy. All talks take place at 1pm and are free to access – no booking necessary!

For the months of November, December 2025 and January 2026, Hugh Lane Gallery & Basic Space are delighted to have the BASIC TALKS programme hosted by the TU Dublin School of Art & Design, Grangegorman, Dublin 7. Our October talk will be online.

These talks are presented as part of the HLG Explore & Learn offsite programmes during the Gallery’s period of temporary closure.

Pop the dates in your calendar now and join us for another exciting season of BASIC TALKS and do keep an eye on our social media for more details on each of the speakers 🙌

3rd October - Rhea Dillon (online)
7th November - Kian Benson Bailes
5th December - Christopher Steenson
16th January - Shane Malone-Murphy

Image credits
Image 1/Rhea Dillon : Clifford Prince King
Image 2/Kian Benson Bailes: courtest of the artist
Image 3/Christopher Steenson : Louis Haugh
Image 4/ Shane Malone-Murphy : courtesy of the artist