Glimmers is a new body of work that explores abstraction as an embodied and responsive process whilst highlighting the artist’s use of colour, surface and gesture. Yasmine’s work explores painting as both a material process and a site for reflection, memory and perception. This show reflects her ongoing engagement with the physical and emotional possibilities of paint, as well as her intuitive approach to mark-making.

Seacourt Print Workshop presents “TROVE”, the premier solo exhibition by FRIZ, aka Marian Noone.
Friz is a Sligo native now living in Bangor, Co. Down. She is better known for her large scale mural work, where she explores history, myths and the folklore that shapes the cultural identity of a place. Her work has been showcased in the UK, Ireland, Colombia, Poland, France, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Turkey.
Friz has been dedicating time to her studio practice this past year. The culmination of which is ‘TROVE’, a new collection of paintings responding to archetypes and imagery found in religion, mythology and story telling.

Ten years after Brexit, EU citizens in Northern Ireland reflect on its lasting impact and invite the public to a “Stories of Hope” exhibition exploring identity, belonging and the power of shared voices.

Gathering around an exhibition to discuss how we live together in a time of overlapping crises: climate, social, political, & economic.

Join us for an inspiring event that brings together artists, researchers, and advocates working to transform conversations around reproductive health. From first periods to menopause, we’ll explore the challenges, social stigmas, and systemic gaps that shape experiences across life stages.

Annual exhibition and sale of works by members of Larne Art Club. Original works in a variety of mediums and genres.

Larne Art Club meets in the Education Room of Larne Museum & Arts Centre on the second Tuesday of each month (Sept to Nov and Feb to May) at 7.30pm. New members are always welcome.

The exhibition will be open to the public from Monday 9th until Saturday 28th March 2026 and includes Saturday opening on 28th March only. Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 10.00am – 4.00pm.

Echoes of Yesterday exhibition by Saffron Monk-Smith aims to explore the increasing importance of memory in her life. Her intimate paintings capture a visual diary; places of passing insignificance or of particular importance.

Late Night Opening: WED 4th March from 6 to 8pm

Exhibition continues from the 4th of December 2025 to the 29th of March 2026.

Each piece in the exhibition involves the artist intervening in some way on a found image. Although collage has long been part of Jeffers’ approach, both the disaster paintings and the intervention works differ from traditional collage: rather than cutting up found material for its colour or specific imagery, Jeffers uses the entirety of the original scene, adding a new element that completely alters the depicted narrative.

This exhibition gathers 53 artists from Palestine and its diaspora across time and borders to reimagine the missing works of Maroun Tomb, a Palestinian-Lebanese artist, whose 1947 exhibition in Haifa was lost amid the mass displacement and dispossession of the Palestinians during the Nakba. The works resurrect a moment that was nearly erased until it was discovered in archival documents.

This is a familiar concept; a religious story used to promote notions of beauty, wholeness and connection to the Divine, patriarchy, disobedience, and the introduction of sin and mortality.

During the Covid-19 pandemic the artist reevaluated, started a process, and became approved as a foster carer in May 2021. Clinton is interested in how fostering has influenced his art practice and how he can use the Arts to help support the children. In the artist’s practice he has subsequently made work examining opposing spaces of chaos and calm, and topics relating to homophobia.

Combining painting, poetry, and music, Rooms of the Unspoken invites audiences to reflect on expression, censorship, and emotional truth in a society that rewards constant disclosure but fears vulnerability. The exhibition offers a civic meditation on presence, empathy, and the quiet power of what remains unspoken, challenging ideas about strength, vulnerability, and communication, and proposing new ways to see emotional truth as both a personal and political act and questioning how censorship, shame, and social conditioning continue to shape our capacity to speak and be heard.

Bag of Excuses, an immersive installation blending textile work, soundscapes, film and everyday objects by Gemma Mae Halligan & Sinead O’Neill-Nicholl that explores the eight recognised stages on the femicide timeline, revealing how violence can grow from seemingly ordinary moments. Halligan, specialising in devised theatre and O’Neill-Nicholl, a sound installation artist have been exploring the research around femicide by Professor Jane Monckton-Smith. The installation is inspired by source material obtained from the BBC Sounds Assume Nothing podcast Femicide:Eight Steps to Stop a Murder.

Ulster University presents ‘The Shapes of Change’, an exhibition bringing together paintings by Joseph McWilliams (1938–2015) and his son Simon McWilliams, two artists whose work captures different moments of transformation in Northern Ireland’s recent history.

Both have strong links to the University: Joseph taught for many years as a lecturer in Fine Art, shaping generations of emerging artists, while Simon studied at Ulster University as an undergraduate before continuing his training at the Royal Academy Schools in London.

The life and work of Barbara Steveni (1928–2020), who described herself as an artist–activist, embodied an archive and pioneered a diffused art practice that resists clear definition.  The importance of Steveni’s role in the Artist Placement Group (APG) was often marginalised by gender-inflected terms such as ‘honorary secretary’, her practice is rarely recognised as having a value in its own right. This exhibition intends to redress this imbalance and encompass her life’s work, drawing together her practice and her experimentation with materials, media and strategies across a career spanning more than seventy years.

Exhibition continues from the 4th of December 2025 to the 29th of March 2026.

Each piece in the exhibition involves the artist intervening in some way on a found image. Although collage has long been part of Jeffers’ approach, both the disaster paintings and the intervention works differ from traditional collage: rather than cutting up found material for its colour or specific imagery, Jeffers uses the entirety of the original scene, adding a new element that completely alters the depicted narrative.

The life and work of Barbara Steveni (1928–2020), who described herself as an artist–activist, embodied an archive and pioneered a diffused art practice that resists clear definition.  The importance of Steveni’s role in the Artist Placement Group (APG) was often marginalised by gender-inflected terms such as ‘honorary secretary’, her practice is rarely recognised as having a value in its own right. This exhibition intends to redress this imbalance and encompass her life’s work, drawing together her practice and her experimentation with materials, media and strategies across a career spanning more than seventy years.

This exhibition gathers 53 artists from Palestine and its diaspora across time and borders to reimagine the missing works of Maroun Tomb, a Palestinian-Lebanese artist, whose 1947 exhibition in Haifa was lost amid the mass displacement and dispossession of the Palestinians during the Nakba. The works resurrect a moment that was nearly erased until it was discovered in archival documents.

Exhibition continues from 30/01/2026 to 08/11/2026.

To celebrate our 75th anniversary, the Lyric presents this new exhibition that showcases our rich history. A history which includes an art gallery (The New Gallery, 1963–1969), a literary magazine Threshold (1957–1990), a dance centre, a drama school, Belfast’s first music academy, and of course, a theatre.

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An exhibition exchange between Belfast and Boston that looks at how place affects how we see art and each other. The exhibition invites people to think about difference, understanding, and shared experience through prints, collage, animations, drawings, sculptures and videos. Curated by Sam Toabe and Sarah McAvera, it asks if artworks can change meaning when shown in different countries and cultures. The works by artists connected to the University of Massachusetts Boston explore themes such as identity, work, migration, time, and loss. The exhibition encourages open thinking, empathy, and conversation across borders.

Exhibition continues from 14/02/2026 to 02/05/2026.

Crawford Art Gallery and F.E. McWilliam Gallery announce an exciting collaboration on a new exhibition of contemporary Irish art. Constellations: Selected Work from Crawford Art Gallery brings artworks from the Crawford Collection to the F.E. McWilliam Gallery in Northern Ireland. It is an exciting moment for both galleries to collaborate and connect audiences with contemporary Irish art. Featuring the work of 14 artists based on the island of Ireland, Constellations highlights the depth and richness of Crawford Art Gallery’s
contemporary holdings within Ireland’s National Collection.

Echoes of Yesterday exhibition by Saffron Monk-Smith aims to explore the increasing importance of memory in her life. Her intimate paintings capture a visual diary; places of passing insignificance or of particular importance.

Late Night Opening: WED 4th March from 6 to 8pm

Ulster University presents ‘The Shapes of Change’, an exhibition bringing together paintings by Joseph McWilliams (1938–2015) and his son Simon McWilliams, two artists whose work captures different moments of transformation in Northern Ireland’s recent history.

Both have strong links to the University: Joseph taught for many years as a lecturer in Fine Art, shaping generations of emerging artists, while Simon studied at Ulster University as an undergraduate before continuing his training at the Royal Academy Schools in London.

Intangible Bodies by Paul Moore opens in the Atypical Gallery from 5 March until 28 April 2026. Artistic Director Edel Murphy is excited to present this new exhibition in response to our Digital Exhibition Open Call. Paul utilises digital technology to explore themes and attitudes to disability in a most sensory way.

The exhibition opens on Thursday 5 March with a Late Night Art opening from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm.
Keep an eye on our social media for news about the artist talk.

Annual exhibition and sale of works by members of Larne Art Club. Original works in a variety of mediums and genres.

Larne Art Club meets in the Education Room of Larne Museum & Arts Centre on the second Tuesday of each month (Sept to Nov and Feb to May) at 7.30pm. New members are always welcome.

The exhibition will be open to the public from Monday 9th until Saturday 28th March 2026 and includes Saturday opening on 28th March only. Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 10.00am – 4.00pm.

Rooted in personal experience, this exhibition draws connections between language, culture and selfhood. The paintings visualise the aftermath of genealogical research and an emotional response to discovering a hidden familial history. Themes of identity and cultural belonging are explored through symbolic overlaying as processes include building layers of paint and marks to suggest time, generational memory, and obfuscation.

Studio 35 gathers five artists; Kate O’Neill, Reuben Brown, Mollie Browne, Claire Ritchie and Síofra Minnis, who have each been the recipient of the QSS Artist Studios & Gallery Graduate Bursary. Since its establishment in 2019, the Bursary has been awarded to a graduate of Belfast School of Art annually, providing them with studio provision and supporting their transition from university into professional practice. Over the course of five years, Studio 35 has hosted five different artists, each leaving their mark on the space before passing it onto the next recipient.

The exhibition marks the first time these artists will be shown together, highlighting the range and variety of practices that have emerged from a shared site of production. From the earliest, now five years into their career, to the most recent, who recently began their studio journey, Studio 35 presents a spectrum of approaches and trajectories, reflecting not only on individual practice, but also on the role of QSS Artist Studios & Gallery in supporting early-career artists in Belfast. Rather than advancing a single narrative, the exhibition traces how this shared studio has acted as a grounding force, anchoring and propelling the distinct practices each artist continues to pursue today.

Belfast artist Farhad O’Neill, known for his sculptures, drawings, and public monuments, is proud to present at this exhibition a presentation of abstract paintings. These works, based upon both Nature and Culture, represent a new adventure in Art. Tá an t-ealaíontóir as Béal Feirste, Farhad O’Neill, a bhfuil cáil air as a dhealbha, a líníochtaí agus a shéadchomharthaí poiblí, bródúil as cur i láthair de phictiúir teibí a chur i láthair ag an taispeántas seo. Léiríonn na saothair seo, atá bunaithe ar an Dúlra agus ar an gCultúr araon, eachtra nua san Ealaín. Is é téama an taispeántais ná go bhfuil bunús na hEalaíne sa Dúlra.

Exhibition continues from 12/03/2026 to 16/04/2026.

Studio 35 gathers five artists; Kate O’Neill, Reuben Brown, Mollie Browne, Claire Ritchie and Síofra Minnis, who have each been the recipient of the QSS Artist Studios & Gallery Graduate Bursary. Since its establishment in 2019, the Bursary has been awarded to a graduate of Belfast School of Art annually, providing them with studio provision and supporting their transition from university into professional practice.

Exhibition continues from 12/03/2026 to 16/04/2026.

Watching a sunset 8.49 pm explores how a moment in time can take years to describe. The work explores perception, memory and time. This is reflected in the different times attributed to each successive exhibition in a sequence of six that begins at QSS in Belfast. Each subsequent exhibition features works that are assigned a different moment in time, from 20.49pm through to 20.54pm.

This is a familiar concept; a religious story used to promote notions of beauty, wholeness and connection to the Divine, patriarchy, disobedience, and the introduction of sin and mortality.

During the Covid-19 pandemic the artist reevaluated, started a process, and became approved as a foster carer in May 2021. Clinton is interested in how fostering has influenced his art practice and how he can use the Arts to help support the children. In the artist’s practice he has subsequently made work examining opposing spaces of chaos and calm, and topics relating to homophobia.

Combining painting, poetry, and music, Rooms of the Unspoken invites audiences to reflect on expression, censorship, and emotional truth in a society that rewards constant disclosure but fears vulnerability. The exhibition offers a civic meditation on presence, empathy, and the quiet power of what remains unspoken, challenging ideas about strength, vulnerability, and communication, and proposing new ways to see emotional truth as both a personal and political act and questioning how censorship, shame, and social conditioning continue to shape our capacity to speak and be heard.

Exhibition continues from 14/03/2026 to 09/05/2026.

SHIFT
Reflections of unknowing.

The paintings are in the hidden language of change and their numerous manifestations, and are an assimilation of that process in all its mystery. Sometimes the sources are known, sometimes they are not, but either way they become part of the painting. They are a visual diary with markers or indicators that occur naturally working with a mix of intention and intuition. Colour is used to heighten sensation and with the aim of a raw dynamic, they come into being sequentially and organically. They are an interpretative filtering of the world and universe around us.

Bag of Excuses, an immersive installation blending textile work, soundscapes, film and everyday objects by Gemma Mae Halligan & Sinead O’Neill-Nicholl that explores the eight recognised stages on the femicide timeline, revealing how violence can grow from seemingly ordinary moments. Halligan, specialising in devised theatre and O’Neill-Nicholl, a sound installation artist have been exploring the research around femicide by Professor Jane Monckton-Smith. The installation is inspired by source material obtained from the BBC Sounds Assume Nothing podcast Femicide:Eight Steps to Stop a Murder.

In A Fig for a Kiss, Naomi Litvack focuses on organic worlds, reflecting on memory, observation, and the fleeting act of looking – seeking to transform passing impressions through painting. The work explores materiality and process, with paintings that engage as much with the medium of paint itself as with image. Litvack explores the natural world using paint combined with print, collage and drawing to create layered surfaces filled with forms, scribbles, layers and loops.

Join us for an inspiring event that brings together artists, researchers, and advocates working to transform conversations around reproductive health. From first periods to menopause, we’ll explore the challenges, social stigmas, and systemic gaps that shape experiences across life stages.

Gathering around an exhibition to discuss how we live together in a time of overlapping crises: climate, social, political, & economic.

Ten years after Brexit, EU citizens in Northern Ireland reflect on its lasting impact and invite the public to a “Stories of Hope” exhibition exploring identity, belonging and the power of shared voices.

Seacourt Print Workshop presents “TROVE”, the premier solo exhibition by FRIZ, aka Marian Noone.
Friz is a Sligo native now living in Bangor, Co. Down. She is better known for her large scale mural work, where she explores history, myths and the folklore that shapes the cultural identity of a place. Her work has been showcased in the UK, Ireland, Colombia, Poland, France, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Turkey.
Friz has been dedicating time to her studio practice this past year. The culmination of which is ‘TROVE’, a new collection of paintings responding to archetypes and imagery found in religion, mythology and story telling.