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.

Fall in love with art this Valentine’s Day
Join us for the launch of four incredible local female artists bringing gothic lampshades, bold mixed-media, ceramics, sculpture and dreamy original artwork into the shop for a brand-new exhibition.
Featuring:
Aya Beatrice (Twilight Shades) – gothic lampshades
Fleur Jackson – paintings & sculpture
Jane Mawson (The School House Pottery) – ceramics
Kate Broderick – mixed-media art
Browse affordable prints, small pieces and statement originals — perfect for Valentine’s, Galentine’s, Mother’s Day or treating yourself.
From 2–4pm, enjoy a live performance by Ursula Burns plus drinks & nibbles!

We are pleased to announce an incredible solo-exhibition featuring Lorcan Cassidy. We are still working away on our new space- we’re nervous, we’re hopeful but most of all we’re excited. Here’s to our launch and an incredible artist:

Lorcan Cassidy is a visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from NCAD with a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art Sculpture and Expanded practices and is currently a member of BKB Visual Arts Studio in Glasnevin, Dublin.

Fall in love with art this Valentine’s Day
Join us for the launch of four incredible local female artists bringing gothic lampshades, bold mixed-media, ceramics, sculpture and dreamy original artwork into the shop for a brand-new exhibition.
Featuring:
Aya Beatrice (Twilight Shades) – gothic lampshades
Fleur Jackson – paintings & sculpture
Jane Mawson (The School House Pottery) – ceramics
Kate Broderick – mixed-media art
Browse affordable prints, small pieces and statement originals — perfect for Valentine’s, Galentine’s, Mother’s Day or treating yourself.
From 2–4pm, enjoy a live performance by Ursula Burns plus drinks & nibbles!

This exhibition is the first of two shows, a new body of work by Kirsty Bell that marks the end point in her Freelands Studio Fellowship at Ulster University. The Freelands Studio Fellowship is an annual programme that places eight artists in studios within partner universities across the UK, fostering a symbiotic relationship between teaching and artistic practice. The second show will be held within the University in March.

Opens Thursday 15 January, 6–8:30pm
Runs until 19 February, 2026

‘sing me to where silence weeps’ is a solo display of work by Patrick Hickey exploring portrayals of men within Irish visual culture.

Now in its ninth year, our annual Emergence exhibition provides a valuable and professional platform for recent graduates at a transitional stage in their career. Collectively, the selected works demonstrate the diverse range of talent and media explored at Belfast School of Art. Graduate artists are selected by QSS studio representatives.

Three artists, Sheena Devitt, Rozzi Kennedy and Rosalind Lowry, investigate their moment of illumination through the processes of painting, sculpture and installation.
Rooted in the lands across the three Counties of Antrim, Armagh and Down, and finding strength in the gentleness of slowing down, they present their life stages, their inspiration, and their works of ensoulment.
Embracing the slow rhythms of Winter as a productive time. Their choice to withdraw from the exterior world to focus on an inner world of creating, preparing, investigating, incubating, illuminating and evaluating.
An exhibition celebrating women, their rites of passage

Exhibition continues from 22/01/2026 to 21/02/2026.

Three artists, Sheena Devitt, Rozzi Kennedy and Rosalind Lowry, investigate their moment of illumination through the processes of painting, sculpture and installation.

Rooted in the lands across the three Counties of Antrim, Armagh and Down, and finding strength in the gentleness of slowing down, they present their life stages, their inspiration, and their works of ensoulment.

Embracing the slow rhythms of Winter as a productive time. Their choice to withdraw from the exterior world to focus on an inner world of creating, preparing, investigating, incubating, illuminating and evaluating.

Exhibition continues from 22/01/2026 to 21/02/2026.

Kim Montgomery is a visual artist whose work combines figurative representational drawing, painting and collage, with real and imagined autobiographical narratives.

She observes and gathers sources from life, personal photographs, and collected ephemera – exploring romanticism for the throwaway treasure, and the space between memory and aspiration.

Edel Murphy, CEO and Artistic Director says that ‘twixt takes its name from the notion of being in between, at an interval and interweaving. Recipients of our d/Deaf and Disabled Support Fund grant programme have used the funding to deliver new pathways towards their own goals, some artists pursuing experimental directions or new ambitions – each at their own stage of development and discovery between concept and realisation.

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.

Edel Murphy, CEO and Artistic Director says that ‘twixt takes its name from the notion of being in between, at an interval and interweaving. Recipients of our d/Deaf and Disabled Support Fund grant programme have used the funding to deliver new pathways towards their own goals, some artists pursuing experimental directions or new ambitions – each at their own stage of development and discovery between concept and realisation.

Now in its ninth year, our annual Emergence exhibition provides a valuable and professional platform for recent graduates at a transitional stage in their career. Collectively, the selected works demonstrate the diverse range of talent and media explored at Belfast School of Art. Graduate artists are selected by QSS studio representatives.

Opens Thursday 15 January, 6–8:30pm
Runs until 19 February, 2026

‘sing me to where silence weeps’ is a solo display of work by Patrick Hickey exploring portrayals of men within Irish visual culture.

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.

IT’S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE draws on archival material and lens-based media to explore how images are shaped by time, technology and the act of looking. The exhibition considers the gallery as a space where narratives shift and meaning is continually re-formed. Archives are unearthed and disrupted, environments seep into the gallery space, and obsolete technologies are reanimated. Across photography and film, the works reflect on technological change, environmental crisis and questions of belonging, presenting images as unstable, partial and often elusive.

Three artists, Sheena Devitt, Rozzi Kennedy and Rosalind Lowry, investigate their moment of illumination through the processes of painting, sculpture and installation.
Rooted in the lands across the three Counties of Antrim, Armagh and Down, and finding strength in the gentleness of slowing down, they present their life stages, their inspiration, and their works of ensoulment.
Embracing the slow rhythms of Winter as a productive time. Their choice to withdraw from the exterior world to focus on an inner world of creating, preparing, investigating, incubating, illuminating and evaluating.
An exhibition celebrating women, their rites of passage

A Bridge Between Times is not merely an exhibition; it is a living archive, a whispered conversation between the past, present, and future of Fort Dunree. Begun in 2023, this body of work emerges from a deep, collaborative engagement with a site poised on the cusp of permanent transformation. As artists rooted in Inishowen, we felt an urgent need to document not just the physicality of the fort, but the intangible layers of memory, identity, and quiet resilience that resonate within its fabric, before they are reshaped by significant investment and a new public narrative.
Please check with Cultúrlann directly about daily opening times.

“Past tense: f r a g m e n t e d” tackles our personal loss of innocence as we transition through life and, inevitably, our inability to reclaim it. It also focuses on the loss of memory as one ages or, in some cases, develops dementia and often reverts to childlike tendencies – this time with a layer of decay as opposed to innocence. While these stages are universal experiences, they can be entirely isolating moments.

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 22/01/2026 to 21/02/2026.

Three artists, Sheena Devitt, Rozzi Kennedy and Rosalind Lowry, investigate their moment of illumination through the processes of painting, sculpture and installation.

Rooted in the lands across the three Counties of Antrim, Armagh and Down, and finding strength in the gentleness of slowing down, they present their life stages, their inspiration, and their works of ensoulment.

Embracing the slow rhythms of Winter as a productive time. Their choice to withdraw from the exterior world to focus on an inner world of creating, preparing, investigating, incubating, illuminating and evaluating.

Exhibition continues from 22/01/2026 to 21/02/2026.

Kim Montgomery is a visual artist whose work combines figurative representational drawing, painting and collage, with real and imagined autobiographical narratives.

She observes and gathers sources from life, personal photographs, and collected ephemera – exploring romanticism for the throwaway treasure, and the space between memory and aspiration.

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.

Click here to view the full programme

This exhibition is the first of two shows, a new body of work by Kirsty Bell that marks the end point in her Freelands Studio Fellowship at Ulster University. The Freelands Studio Fellowship is an annual programme that places eight artists in studios within partner universities across the UK, fostering a symbiotic relationship between teaching and artistic practice. The second show will be held within the University in March.

Artists and Scientists Celebrate Maps for Science Festival Show.

A Group Show Celebrating the Use of Maps.

Part of NI Science Festival.

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

Maps have always been the foundation of how humans understood their surroundings. Historians and Artists make use of the science of maps to interpret and comment on the world.

The artists and scientists in the show use maps in different ways to highlight how the earth and space can be underst

We are pleased to announce an incredible solo-exhibition featuring Lorcan Cassidy. We are still working away on our new space- we’re nervous, we’re hopeful but most of all we’re excited. Here’s to our launch and an incredible artist:

Lorcan Cassidy is a visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from NCAD with a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art Sculpture and Expanded practices and is currently a member of BKB Visual Arts Studio in Glasnevin, Dublin.

Our annual members group show.

Opening: Saturday 7 February, 2-4pm
Talk and Q&A session ‘Collecting contemporary art’ at the opening, 2.30-3.30pm

‘The Collectors: Unified Diversity’ brings together four passionate collectors based in Northern Ireland – Neil Harvey, Ian Pitt, Tara Simpson and David Turner. This exhibition presents a curated selection of works from their collections, showcasing their unique voices and collecting journeys. Emerging artists from Northern Ireland – Ian Cumberland, Alana Barton, Jane Rainey among them, are shown alongside internationally renowned artists Banksy, Phil Frost, Barry McGee and other established names.