La Catedral Studios & The Back Loft

La Catedral Studios is a space for the arts in a reclaimed Victorian industrial building located around the corner from NCAD at the heart of the Liberties, (Dublin 8), one of Dublin's oldest quarters. Named after a tango venue in Buenos Aires, La Catedral Studios now houses 24 artists' studios and an adjacent spacious multidisciplinary space (the Back Loft).

Established in 2005 by Antonella Scanu and Costanzo Idini, La Catedral Studios is a veritable labour of love by its founders and an army of friends who worked on the painstaking conversion of a run down industrial empty shell back to its former glory which now host a thriving artistic community in a space where art making and its creative process is as important as the finished work itself.