Gallery 545 presents a new group exhibition at La Roche House, Belfast, bringing together original artworks by accomplished artists based in Northern Ireland within this striking modernist venue. The exhibition features a wide and exciting art selection, including atmospheric landscapes, nature-inspired paintings, vibrant abstracts and intriguing works on paper, alongside unique sculptures and exquisite textile and glass pieces. Together, the works reflect the richness and diversity of artistic talent in the region.

The title Iarmhaireacht — the hush of the early hours when the house has finally stilled—marks the threshold space in which these worlds are made. It is the time when thought loosens, when inner and outer landscapes dissolve, when the real world and the imagined one share the same light. The landscapes that appear here are familiar yet not entirely ours—Ireland, yes, but seen from a slight distance; this planet, perhaps, but tilted toward another possible version of itself. They are places just slightly out of reach, close enough to recognize, far enough to long for: the world we know, and the world we hope might yet be possible.

 Exhibition continues from 25/04/2026 to 30/05/2026.

Void Art Centre are excited to announce our upcoming project, Re-turning, which launches on Saturday 25 April 2026, from 6-8pm. This multifaceted project will consist of contributions from PhD student Ashab Arif Ahmad and research and output from previous and ongoing projects such as contributions from artists Daniel Godínez Nivon, Stéphane V Bottéro, Joey O’Gorman, and Barbara Steveni; researchers Matthew McAlister-Colacio, Oliver Hopkinson and Oileán Galligan, Roy Nelson and Kathryn Nelson; and our series of reading groups on institutional practice ‘Closing Circles’.

Award winning artist Paul Porter has been nationally recognised from a young age, winning the Kellogg’s Young Artist Competition at age 12. He went on to graduate from Ulster University and balance a career in graphic design with producing exceptional photo realistic fine art paintings.

Down Arts Centre is delighted to present ‘Mad as Birds’, a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings and sculpture by Joanna Cantillon.
Joanna is a contemporary artist based in Newcastle County Down. She has a BA (Hons) Degree in fine art specialising in oil painting.
This exhibition invites viewers to consider their relationship with the natural world and the consequences of ecological neglect.

A solo exhibition of new and retrospective paintings by Fermanagh artist Rachael Johnson.

Rachael was educated in Enniskillen. She left in 1980 to study Fine Arts and spent some years travelling and working abroad. When she returned to Ireland she worked as an illustrator and community artist in Dublin. Inspired by worldwide travels she began to develop and exhibit personal artwork.
Rachael is currently living and working in Derry.

Rachael uses mixed media to create collage paintings on canvas including paints, inks, pastels, charcoal, textured paper, organic material, fabrics & natural fibres, metal, stone, wood and glass.

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.

Gallery 545 presents a new group exhibition at La Roche House, Belfast, bringing together original artworks by accomplished artists based in Northern Ireland within this striking modernist venue. The exhibition features a wide and exciting art selection, including atmospheric landscapes, nature-inspired paintings, vibrant abstracts and intriguing works on paper, alongside unique sculptures and exquisite textile and glass pieces. Together, the works reflect the richness and diversity of artistic talent in the region.

Exhibition continues from 30th April 2026 to 6th June 2026

The Push and Pull brings together a series of works that reflect on motherhood through everyday moments of care, closeness, and connection. The work draws on time spent in the west of Ireland, where landscape and light shape a quiet, attentive way of looking and making.

Working with tactile materials, these pieces focus on small, often unnoticed exchanges between parent and child; holding, waiting, watching, returning. The work moves between ideas of nature, the body, and memory, where motherhood is understood as something lived and changing over time.

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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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.

The title Iarmhaireacht — the hush of the early hours when the house has finally stilled—marks the threshold space in which these worlds are made. It is the time when thought loosens, when inner and outer landscapes dissolve, when the real world and the imagined one share the same light. The landscapes that appear here are familiar yet not entirely ours—Ireland, yes, but seen from a slight distance; this planet, perhaps, but tilted toward another possible version of itself. They are places just slightly out of reach, close enough to recognize, far enough to long for: the world we know, and the world we hope might yet be possible.

Exhibition continues from 24/04/2026.

A former Irish National Foresters club in Dungannon, County Tyrone transforms into a multicultural community hub, revealing the untold stories of a town shaped by migration, identity, rumours, and chicken.

Set around Tropicana Café on Scotch Street, beside Dungannon bus station, this film frames a single building as a living record of the town.

Exhibition continues from 24/04/2026

Kwok Tsui’s quiet, process-driven paintings express belonging and liminality through materiality rather than overt narrative. His subtractive method – removing rather than adding paint – becomes a metaphor for diaspora identity, where absence, erasure, and memory coexist.

Working primarily through subtraction, paint is removed from the surface to reveal light and form, creating shadows within, an order and tension between presence and absence, belonging and disconnection. This push and pull opens a contemplative ‘in-between’ space that fee

Exhibition continues from 24/04/2026

Williams Gamaker revisits Merle Oberon’s life to expose early cinema’s racial politics, examining how her mixed heritage was erased by Hollywood hierarchies. Strange Evidence is a genre-bending Body Horror/Film Noir and collaborative installation. Co-commissioned by Matt’s Gallery, London & Offline, Glasgow. Supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts (Prism Charitable Trust), Bukhman Foundation, Creative Scotland, Arts Council England, British Academy, Kingston & Goldsmiths Universities, Bryan Robertson Trust & Associate Producers.

Image: M. Williams Gamaker, Strange Evidence 2026 by Sarah Howe. Courtesy of artist & Matt’s Gallery.

 Exhibition continues from 25/04/2026 to 30/05/2026.

Void Art Centre are excited to announce our upcoming project, Re-turning, which launches on Saturday 25 April 2026, from 6-8pm. This multifaceted project will consist of contributions from PhD student Ashab Arif Ahmad and research and output from previous and ongoing projects such as contributions from artists Daniel Godínez Nivon, Stéphane V Bottéro, Joey O’Gorman, and Barbara Steveni; researchers Matthew McAlister-Colacio, Oliver Hopkinson and Oileán Galligan, Roy Nelson and Kathryn Nelson; and our series of reading groups on institutional practice ‘Closing Circles’.

Exhibition continues from 30th April 2026 to 6th June 2026

The Push and Pull brings together a series of works that reflect on motherhood through everyday moments of care, closeness, and connection. The work draws on time spent in the west of Ireland, where landscape and light shape a quiet, attentive way of looking and making.

Working with tactile materials, these pieces focus on small, often unnoticed exchanges between parent and child; holding, waiting, watching, returning. The work moves between ideas of nature, the body, and memory, where motherhood is understood as something lived and changing over time.

Tatyana Feeney is a Meath based author/illustrator. She is originally from the US but has made Ireland her home for more than twenty years.
Tatyana grew up in North Carolina, in a rural area, surrounded by woods. Her home in Ireland has fewer trees, but Tatyana has brought the trees of her imagination and childhood into her artwork.
She is the author/illustrator of many picture books for children.
The art displayed here is from her recent book: Crann na nGuíonna, an Irish language story which has been printed with fluorescent inks.
As someone who moved to Ireland from elsewhere, Tatyana was fascinated by the idea of wishing trees.

What links our creative consciousness? What feeds our collective output? Away from modern life and the onslaught of global information, our minds draw inspiration from the spaces around us as well as the spaces within. As Illustrators the members of Illustrators Ireland make a living from being creative. Often within the confines of a work week. This means being able to switch creativity on between the hours of nine and five, Monday to Friday.

A solo exhibition of new and retrospective paintings by Fermanagh artist Rachael Johnson.

Rachael was educated in Enniskillen. She left in 1980 to study Fine Arts and spent some years travelling and working abroad. When she returned to Ireland she worked as an illustrator and community artist in Dublin. Inspired by worldwide travels she began to develop and exhibit personal artwork.
Rachael is currently living and working in Derry.

Rachael uses mixed media to create collage paintings on canvas including paints, inks, pastels, charcoal, textured paper, organic material, fabrics & natural fibres, metal, stone, wood and glass.

Sharon Kelly’s work explores memory, experience, and imagination through a range of art forms, including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation. In this exhibition at the Golden Thread Gallery, Kelly focuses on what is hidden or overlooked and how it shapes identity and connection to the world. Using worn clothing, old sewing patterns, and delicate materials, she explores.

Golden Thread Gallery is presenting a new body of work by French artist Frédéric Huska, who is based in Northern Ireland. Working with photography, Huska explores the relationship between personal experience, time and landscape. This new exhibition features a series of black and white analogue photographs of Taiwan’s coastline, seen as places shaped by political tension and uncertainty.

Award winning artist Paul Porter has been nationally recognised from a young age, winning the Kellogg’s Young Artist Competition at age 12. He went on to graduate from Ulster University and balance a career in graphic design with producing exceptional photo realistic fine art paintings.

Down Arts Centre is delighted to present ‘Mad as Birds’, a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings and sculpture by Joanna Cantillon.
Joanna is a contemporary artist based in Newcastle County Down. She has a BA (Hons) Degree in fine art specialising in oil painting.
This exhibition invites viewers to consider their relationship with the natural world and the consequences of ecological neglect.

ANIMA (The Un-redacted Daughter) is an exhibition combining installation, painting and photography in search for the feminine parts of our psyche which we all hold buried amongst our consciousness. ANIMA is a genderless concept introduced by Carl Jung exploring the masculine and feminine that each of us possess. ANIMA is our ‘soul’, our creative emotional parts.

Ade is an Aberdeen based artist whose artwork reflects a deep interest in ecology mixing motifs and symbols which reflect his Nigerian culture, love of landscape and science fiction.
Ade is best known for linocuts, often large scale and with a dreamlike quality which combine striking visual beauty with sharp political and environmental commentary.
Ade will be talking about his work & showing examples of some plates & working materials on the 15th May at 2pm.

‘Long Exposures’ is Kim Coleman’s new expanded photography installation for R-Space Gallery which was developed from interviews the artist conducted with women in their late seventies who had experienced a major European blackout in 2025. Opening reception: Saturday 16 May, 2–5pm. Artist Talk at 4pm. FREE. All welcome.
This exhibition is funded by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation.