Dublin Art Book Fair 2025

In 2025, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios presented the fifteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF). DABF is Ireland's leading art book fair and a centre for contemporary artist books, featuring limited edition books made by artists and designers. The Fair also champions creative, small and independent publishers, both Irish and international. It includes newly published and unusual publications on art, design, visual culture, and select literature and poetry.

In 2025, DABF Guest Curator Dr Selina Guinness presented her theme Flock. She designed a themed programme of talks and selected books she had nominated along with her invited readers. Across her programme, Guinness examined all things pastoral: humans and beasts as herding creatures; the relational arts of shepherding; the impact of flocks on habitats; and how wary scapegoats too may flock to survive predation.

The visual identity was inspired by the style and aesthetic of the wild, gestural paint markings on a flock of sheep. Large-scale window vinyl maximised the venue's prominent street-side location in Dublin's Temple Bar, while a large-scale wallpaper panel on the interior wall was also visible from the street. Riso-printed bookmarks, posters, tote bags and other printed collateral were also produced to promote the fair.