Located in St Andrews Community Centre on the South Circular Road, studio 468's intention is to promote professional artistic practice in an active community centre within a vibrant and diverse community.  The Rialto community benefits by being offered an opportunity to engage with the resident artist, both potentially responding to community life as they understand or experience it. Artists are asked to identify a community group in the Rialto area that they propose to engage with during their residency award. To date artists have worked with; Rialto Community Drug Team, Ferrini Youth Club, Fatima Homework Club, Rialto Day Care Centre and Rialto Youth Project.

Art makers often turn things on their head, ask questions about who we are and where we live and offer different ways of communicating what we know about ourselves.  For twenty years artists have moved in and out of the Rialto area, met and worked with its citizens, left their mark and sometimes caused controversy.  At different points during those years there were public and private highs and lows marking the wonderful and the tough.

All change has a cause and effect and very little takes place in isolation.   While Dublin changed in the 90's the number of artists who were seeking opportunities to develop their work differently grew.  studio 468 was a local development response to the benefits of arts and cultural work that took place in Rialto area over the last two decades.   Since it opened in December 2003 studio 468 has become a rich resource within the community of Rialto for citizens and artists alike.  It has opened up possibilities for artists and the immediate community to respond to their place and the issues that may affect them on a daily basis.  Artists often reflect on our contemporary world in ways that we could never have imagined.  Many artists have shifted from working in isolation to the collective.  They are interested in making art with different communities of interest that challenges and takes risks, work that describes cultural rights and entitlement as opposed to just tokenistic public participation.

studio 468 is managed by the studio team whose members are:

• Siobhan Geoghegan - Director of Artistic Programme
• Sheena Barrett - Dublin City Council Arts Officer - South City
• Chris Maguire - local artist and member of Rialto Development Association
• Kieran Doyle O'Brien - local artist
• Logan Sisley - part time studio support and development

studio 468 is funded through Common Ground's annual Arts Council revenue funding