Listings for: Northern Ireland – Belfast
18th May 2012 – 1st June 2012 | Opening 17th May 2012 | 239 Lisburn Road Belfast | “I am drawn to the temporal in the landscape, experiences such as the constantly changing light, the seasons, waiting for a grey sky to clear or the fleeting light of dawn and twilight. I try to capture how it is to be in that moment and place. I am obsessed with colour and light, in particular the juxtaposition of colours, how colours affect and influence one another. I use the landscape around me to explore this, looking to colourful tree blossom, twilight skies, and dark storms with light breaking through. I look through the landscape, simplifying the image, exploring the negative space, searching for what I can use in my painting. I often lean towards abstraction, but try to hold on to the figurative elements”. | www.mullangallery.com
16th May – 16th June 2012 | Opening Sat 19th May 2pm – 4pm | R-Space 32 Castle Street, Lisburn, BT27 4XE | ‘Things That Fall In Between’ | MAK 9 a group of artists and makers have invaded the R-Space Gallery with site specific works that have fed off the rich history of the dilapidated Georgian rectory attached to the newly renovated gallery. The work on show ranges in scale and impact, getting under the skin of the building and drawing out its stories and character | www.rspaceatthelinenrooms.org.uk
11 May – 15 June 2012 | Opening Thursday 10 May, 7-9pm | ‘Open Shutters Iraq’ curated by Eugenie Dolberg. Belfast Exposed is pleased to present Open Shutters Iraq. This exhibition involves a series of photographic essays and texts by women from Baghdad, Basra, Falluja, Kirkuk and Mosul. It presents a view of everyday life experienced through conflict and behind news headlines. The women who have taken part – none of whom were photographers or writers – felt compelled to tell their story, for themselves and for their children. These stories of human experience, of endurance and perseverance, of love and friendship are explored through a range of emotions from intimacy and humour to frustration, fear and grief. And through the work we are granted a rare insight into the private and public lives of women living in Iraq today. Continuing its interest in supporting participatory and socially engaged photography, Belfast Exposed will facilitate a series of talks, screenings and workshops to accompany the exhibition. An additional series of talks focused on the experience of war in art is being developed in collaboration with the Golden Thread Gallery and will take place between 12th and 15th June 2012 | www.belfastexposed.org
Opening: Thursday the 3rd May 6-8pm | Dates: 23rd April – 19th may | An exhibition of new works by Laura Graham(Scotland), Jacqueline Holt (London) and Emmanuelle Nègre (France), curated by the Digital Arts Studios. www.digitalartsstudios.com/press-release-audio-video-lego/
4 May – 29 May | Opening: 3 May, 5-7pm |
David Hughes has spent the last year in his studio recreating the process of rust printing, that he discovered accidentally. A flood in a storeroom caused the bottoms of his filing cabinets to rust. He now presses the filing cabinets onto wet canvas creating ‘rust prints’. Some of the prints are coloured with printer inks. He will show a selection of these rust prints during the exhibition and will also recreate the process of flooding and rusting as a live event producing new rust prints during the exhibition itself. The appeal of the prints is their ability to offer the viewer many different and shifting images – faces, objects, animals, human bodies in dramatic scenarios. Artists frequently tell us that they want their audience to make their own interpretations of works of art. In the case of the rust prints, this literally becomes the case. | www.adf.ie | www.dhbricolage.net
Opens on Thursday 3rd May 7.00 – 9.30 pm until 26 May. The Engine Room Gallery presents work by Fionnuala D’Arcy, Alacoque Davey, David Feeley, K.K. Godsee and David Quinn.|
3rd – 17th of May | Opening: 3rd of May 7pm |
Following the recent exhibition of work by three University of Ulster graduates selected by Catalyst at The Joinery in Dublin, this May Catalyst will host work by two recent graduates from the Crawford College of Art and Design (Cork) and NCAD(Dublin) chosen by The Joinery. Works by Richard Forrest and Emanuel Rohss will be re-exhibited in Catalyst, providing the artists with an opportunity to show in a different context and to a new and broader audience. www.catalystarts.org.uk
23 April – 19 May 2012 | Opening Thurs 3rd May 6-8pm | York Street, Belfast | The Digital Arts Studios presents ‘Audio, Video, Lego’, an exhibition of new works by previous artists in residence at the University Gallery, Belfast. This exhibition follows Digital Arts in the Gallery: New Media Showcase, which took place at Catalyst Arts in October 2011, and extends the Digital Arts Studios’ commitment to showcasing work that exists in the intersection between visual art and digital technologies. The exhibiting artists are Laura Graham (Scotland), Jacqueline Holt (London) and Emmanuelle Nègre (France) | www.digitalartsstudios.com
2nd May – 25th May | Public Record Office NI, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Belfast | The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is to host the UK premier of Ground Zero 360°, an exhibition which uses harrowing visuals, chilling audio clips and a unique panoramic installation to depict the startling aftermath of one of the most tragic events in American history – ‘9/11′ | www.proni.gov.uk
4 May – 29 June | Opening Thurs 3rd of May 7-9pm | An exhibition of original prints from Brian and Lisa Ballard created during a residency at Belfast Print Workshop. Lisa has been working on a new series of work that looks to represent the different seasons and transient light in the landscape, inspired by looking at Japanese print makers. Brian has been concentrating on print techniques, mono type and screen print which lend themselves beautifully to his recognizable style of painting. Together their work creates a haven of landscape and still-life you can escape into when entering the gallery | www.bpw.org.uk
