The Artist Campus at the Flour Mills

Space to create

The Arts Council is proud to partner with Dublin Port Company to deliver an important piece of cultural infrastructure in Ireland. The Artist Campus will consist of 5,000sqm of workspace dedicated to artists working in all practice areas.

Artist Campus site at Dublin Port. © Ros Kavanagh. Courtesy of Dublin Port Company.

A focal point for national ambition

The Arts Council’s ambition is to work towards a secure and sustainable national infrastructure of artist workspaces. Our ambition is that The Artist Campus will be part of a network of critical workspaces in the five cities, where artists can connect, collaborate and create. This Campus reflects objectives set out in the Arts Council’s Making Great Art Work Strategy, Dublin Port’s Masterplan 2040 and Flour Mills Masterplan, and Government’s Project Ireland 2040.

Drawing of proposed Artist Campus site at Dublin Port

Artist Campus site at Dublin Port. Courtesy of Grafton Architects.

Flour Mills Artist Campus will:

Provide a community of artists with a welcoming, inspiring, and creative environment.
Provide high-quality shared facilities in a unique location, facilitating artists to make work of excellence, scale and ambition.
Improve the city centre’s cultural offering.
Deliver a space which is flexible and agile enough to support experimentation and development within and across artforms, and between artists and others.
Use innovative, high-quality design interventions to repurpose historic industrial buildings.

Warehouse at Dublin Port showing the empty space, metal ceiling supports, gates and a sign reading: TRITAMYL DEPARTMENT

Artist Campus site at Dublin Port. © Ros Kavanagh. Courtesy of Dublin Port Company.

Spaces will be adaptable to suit the way artists work, including individual practice, group engagement, community work and larger ensemble rehearsal.

Planned facilities include studios, sound-proof rehearsal spaces, fabrication spaces, specialist spaces and areas for cross-disciplinary practice.

Interior shot of Dublin port showing an empty warehouse with grey metal supports

Artist Campus site at Dublin Port. Internal main space. © Ros Kavanagh. Courtesy of Dublin Port Company.

In early 2024, a preliminary sector engagement process took place with site visits and workshops held for artists and arts practitioners from a range of artforms and practices. The insights we gained through this process provided us with invaluable insights which will be reflected in further phases of detailed design and planning application.

Read the sector engagement report