Opening – Saturday 30 August 2025
With a music performance by the artist at 2.45pm

Open – Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm

‘Singing Threads: Songs and Stories of Ulster’s Mill Life’ features textile artist and musician Eimear Magee. It presents a new iteration of her graduate collection, an innovative body of work that combines contemporary textile art, traditional music and storytelling to honour the resilience of mill workers, transforming their lived experiences into rich, emotive art. Through this work, the artist creates a “living archive” that not only revisits and revives tradition, but invites reflection on community strength and cultural continuity.

About the artist
Eimear Magee is an emerging textile artist and traditional musician whose practice is a fusion of tradition and innovation, drawing inspiration from the rich tapestry of Irish traditional music, storytelling, and community engagement. A recent graduate of Ulster University’s Textile Art, Design, and Fashion programme, her work draws on the stories, songs, and rhythms of Ulster’s linen industry.

Exhibition supported by
‘Singing Threads’ is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (principal funder). The exhibition is part of the Linen Biennale, a festival celebrating linen, past, present and future, with initiatives across Northern Ireland by R-Space and other partner organisations. The Esmé Mitchell Trust supported R-Space’s work for this festival. https://www.linenbiennalenorthernireland.com

“Rapport” is an exhibition of work by three artists, Jo Going, Fiona Woods and Amanda Montgomery.

The three artists met at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, in 2002.

Fiona and Amanda had been awarded three month residencies with the Leighton Studios by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland respectively. Jo, an artist from Alaska, had a residency there at the same time.

The artists struck up a rapport that continued over 20 years. This is their second exhibition together. Their first exhibition, taking place in KAVA, Kinvara, in October 2023.

Sadly, Jo passed in January 2024.

This exhibition brings the three artists together again.

The works are diverse in media and approach. What connects them is a shared interest in looking beyond the surface of things, hinting at sacred spaces and complex narratives, invoking the emotions, sensations and longings that arise from the condition of being human.

The exhibition will be on display from Friday 1st until Friday 29th August 2025, and will include Saturday opening on 16th August.

For more information, please contact Larne Museum & Arts Centre on 028 28 262443 or e-mail marian.kelso@midandeastantrim.gov.uk.

Image: Artwork by Jo Going

Exhibition continues 2nd August – 30th August 2025.

This exhibition features a collection of book illustrations, artwork and new etchings by artist Shona Shirley Macdonald. An award-winning illustrator and author living in Co. Waterford, she specialises in children’s books and large-scale murals. Her debut picture book, ‘The Pooka Party’ was selected for the 2020 IBBY Honour List and received multiple award nominations. Her recent collaboration, ‘Girls Who Slay Monsters’, won the Children’s An Post Book of the Year Award 2022 and was nominated for the 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for illustration.
Exhibition runs untils 30th August.

Representing Nature – An Exhibition by Colin Watson RUA

ArtisAnn Gallery, 70 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast, BT5 5AE

Wed 2nd July to Sat 30th August

Late Night Opening: WED 2nd July from 6 to 8pm

Wed – Sat: 11am to 5.30pm

( Gallery closed Fri July 11th and Sat July 12th)

www.artisann.org

The paintings in the show all have great personal significance to Colin. These smaller paintings are more spontaneous that his larger works, but there remains a desire to infuse each picture with a certain degree of mystery.

Although the choices of subject are personal, the paintings, hopefully, are also universal and have meaning beyond the painter’s initial inspiration.

Alongside studies towards fully realised paintings this exhibition also presents stand alone, spontaneous, intuitive works that directly respond to observed natural phenomena. This selection of works represents a cross section of his working methods beyond the finished paintings.

Colin Watson lives and works in Belfast. He has held seven solo exhibitions in London, as well as in Dublin, Northern Ireland and Morocco. In October 2008, Colin was invited by HRH The Prince of Wales to accompany him on the Royal Tour of Japan, Brunei and Indonesia, as his official Tour Artist.

Colin Watson has exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, the Royal Ulster Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy, winning awards at the latter two including two gold medals at the Royal Ulster Academy, one awarded by the President of the Royal Academy, Sir Christopher Le Brun. He was also awarded the Ireland Fund of Great Britain Annual Arts Award in 1999. His work has been included in the BP Portrait Prize Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibitions and at the Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries in London.

Colin Watson’s work is held in collections worldwide, including the Royal Collection of His Majesty King Charles III and in the collection of the King of Morocco. He is also represented in a number of public collections, including the Ulster Museum, Moroccan Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Arts Council for Northern Ireland, the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, Limerick and the Royal Geographical Society, London with a portrait of Sir Wilfred Thesiger, the British explorer and travel writer.

At noon Sat 26th July, as part of EastSide Arts Festival, there will be a special British Sign Language event with BSL interpretation of a gallery tour by gallery owner Dr Ann McVeigh. This is free, with no booking required.

All artworks are available to buy.

You can also buy art from this exhibition through the Own Art scheme which gives you an interest-free loan over 10 months (and you still get to take the art home immediately the exhibition ends).

ArtisAnn Gallery, 70 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast, BT5 5AE
Wed – Sat: 11am to 5.30pm

INTERRUPTED (JOURNEYS)
Brain Injury Matters NI
8 July– 30 August
Explore Interrupted (Journeys), a large-scale collaborative installation inspired by aural histories from Limavady. It tells the story of the lost Ross Sea Party, part of Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition, highlighting courage, survival, and hope through an intricate origami display reflecting their perilous journey and determination.

EXHIBITION LAUNCH: Tuesday 8th July 2pm | Free Admission | All welcome
Brain Injury Matters (NI) was established in 2013 as an independent regional third sector organisation supporting, promoting and empowering those individuals and families affected by acquired brain injury.

For more information, please email ciara@braininjurymatters.org.uk or telephone 02890705125 or 07516629856

Opening Thursday 7 August at 7.00pm

This body of work explores the hand movements made during speech as a form of subconscious drawing. The series seeks to reconcile production in an abstract expressionist aesthetic with the desire to make work which contains and contributes to constructive narratives regarding cultural diversity and society. The work connects the artist’s definition of drawing as ‘to describe a path’ into the verbal field.

The work is initiated from hand movements taken from primary school Principal Mary Harbinson, describing ‘Different Journeys to the Same Place’, as an educational objective in the multi-cultural school. For other works the artist recorded his own hand movements as he described his consideration of the need to simultaneously respect and protect cultural diversity.

Michael Doherty paints in oils, in an expressive abstract aesthetic grounded in his drawing practice. His works are rooted in narratives around cultural diversity, society and the environment. While practicing as an architect he qualified from the Ulster University in 2023 with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art. The boundaries of perceived surfaces, and places where line and surface meet, are critical in his approach to the resolution of his drawings and paintings.

Throughout August, Ards Arts Centre will play host to the principle Creative Peninsula exhibition, featuring exclusive works by the finest Artists and Makers from the Ards and North Down Borough

This exhibition will feature unique pieces of art and craftwork in a variety of mediums, specially selected for display in Ards Arts Centre and created in our Borough. This exhibition is a celebration of the exclusivity and quality of the artwork produced by local artists and makers and a fantastic opportunity to purchase a beautiful piece of art.

The theme of this year’s exhibition is ‘Reflection’ with each work taking inspiration from this concept.

Artworks are for sale, and many artists accept commission work too.

Be sure to pick up a Creative Peninsula programme for more information on other events and activities taking place during the festival.

Exhibition Preview: Thurs 31 July, 7 – 9pm

Join us for this open reception and enjoy a glass of wine or soft drink as you view the artworks on display. Meet the artists and makers, and chat about their work.

This exhibition is part of the programme of events for Creative Peninsula 2025.

Exhibition continues from the 27th of July 2025 to the 31st of August 2025

Art + Soul, the International Art & Sculpture Exhibition, will showcase artwork and sculptures by some of the biggest names in international and Irish art from Sunday, 27th July to Sunday, 31st August 2025, in collaboration with Gormleys Fine Art and supported by Ards and North Down Borough Council.

The event, held over 5 weeks, will showcase over 350 artworks by some of the biggest names in international and Irish art, including Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Banksy, Julian Opie, and Salvador Dali. The highlight will be an outdoor display of over 100 sculptures carefully curated throughout the hotel’s private gardens.

On display within the hotel itself, there will be over 200 artworks by many leading Irish and international artists, including Peter Monaghan, Gordon Harris, Martin Mooney, John Redmond and Stephen Forbes.

Art and Soul is open to the public daily from 11am to 7pm. Why not enhance your experience and take a guided tour delivered by the experts at Gormleys each day at 12pm, 2pm and 4pm to learn about each sculpture and artwork on display.

Exhibition continues 5 June – 31 August 2025.

‘All in Colour’, an exhibition of new paintings by Louise French at Shankill Road Library. It is the eleventh of Flax Art Studios’ annual exhibitions in partnership with the library – an opportunity for an artist to present their work in a community setting.

‘All in Colour’ is a new series of paintings made on surfaces with pre-existing imagery. Through experimentation with materials and processes, the paintings explore colour and form. Referring to still life and domestic representations of nature, the exhibition reflects on the act of painting itself.

Opening: Thursday 5 June 2025, 6.00pm–7.45pm
Exhibition dates: 5 June–31 August 2025

Opening hours:
Monday and Tuesday: 9.30am–5.30pm
Wednesday: 1pm–5.30pm
Thursday: 12–6pm
Friday: 9.30am–5.30pm
Saturday: 9.30am–1pm

Louise French completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School, Australia, 2022. In March 2023 she joined Flax Art Studios (Belfast) Emerging Artist Programme. She has had solo exhibitions at Threshold Gallery, Belfast, and Ards Art Centre, Newtownards and group shows in Northern Ireland and London. In 2025 she was granted ACNI SIAP funding.

“Chomh bán le bainne /Chomh milis le mil / Chomh dearg le fuil.”
as white as milk/ as sweet as honey / as red as blood . (trans.)

(NFC, 0023 : 190)

(Anna Ní Fhathaigh, School’s Collection, Duchas c. 1920s. )

Joyce says that the soul of Ireland is trapped in a net; it is also collected there. To create ourselves we must reach into that fishing net, that lacework, that woven basket. Do our fingers catch in the gaps?

Owing a great debt to the scholarship of Martín Mac Con Iomaire, Bríd Mahon, Kevin Danaher, Jennie Moran and the thousands of voices woven into the Dúchas Schools collection, my art practice explores and reimagines the patchwork history of cooking culture in Ireland. It does so in the hopes of easing a painful cultural memory of famine, fasting, hunger strikes, institutionalization and food insecurity, which today manifests in the prevalence of disordered eating and Ireland’s disregard for the nutritional needs of those in our care.

Drawing on the aforementioned scholarship, persevering folklore, medieval Irish literature, traditional craft methods (patchworking, Irish lace, delft ceramics), as well as my love of cooking with my friends, the work develops a joyful visual language for Irish cooking. The artistic outcomes of my research into food history tend to root themselves in Irish craft traditions, such as Irish lace crochet, quilting and weaving, underscoring the idea that Irish cooking deserves to be revived with the same significance in our culture as the aforementioned crafts.

The exhibition opening will feature hand-drawn looping animations showing step-by step instructions of how to cook some traditional regional dishes which have fallen out of the culture as a result of colonisation, famine, etc.,

Knowing the level of destruction to people and culture caused by orchestrated famine, in Ireland historically and now as it happens in Gaza, I believe in the significance of reconstructing our food culture in a way which contradicts the individualistic and destructive philosophy of colonization. If the art of colonization is line and boundary, our art must be holding, gathering, sharing.

Lightbox Commission.

Flax is delighted to present our second Lightbox Commission, now illuminated at our Bedford Street site – Louise French’s ‘Scaling Structure’.

Like the paintings in French’s current exhibition ‘All in Colour’, this lightbox piece plays with colour saturation, layering and reversal. It draws on diagrammatic compositions, such as for Sogetsu ikebana, along with ongoing studio experiments with colour and form using a restricted palette and inventing rules for dividing space.

Louise French completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School, Australia, 2022. In March 2023 she joined Flax Art Studios (Belfast) Emerging Artist Programme. She has had solo exhibitions at Threshold Gallery, Belfast, and Ards Art Centre, Newtownards. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions including at RuptureXIBIT (London), R-Space (Lisburn), Arcade Studios and Catalyst, Belfast.

‘Scaling Structure’ is on view 24 hours a day at 29 Bedford Street, Belfast, BT2 7EJ until 31 August.

In parallel, ‘All in Colour’ at Shankill Road Library is on until 31 August 2025 and is the eleventh annual exhibition made in collaboration between @flaxartstudios and @librariesni

Louise French is grateful to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for their Support for Individual Artists grant.

Tá áiteanna sácráilte istigh sa talamh. Tá taibhsí sna háiteanna sin. Táimid i ndiaidh cur isteach orthu.
Tháinig gach pictiúr sa taispeántas seo chun cinn de thoradh oilithreachta pearsanta chuig áit shácráilte i dtírdhreach na hÉireann. Rinne mé taighde ar an bhéaloideas atá fite fuaite sna háiteanna sin, ina logainmneacha agus ina seandálaíocht. Tá baint phearsanta agam le go leor de na háiteanna ar tugadh cuairt orthu. Rinne mé machnamh chun na háiteanna a ‘shú isteach’, mar a dhéanadh na filí. Spreag mo chuid taighde agus físeanna machnaimh pictiúir nua.
Is ionaid chomhlínte iad ionaid shácráilte. Cumhdaíodh a n-oidhreacht faoi thionchar na Críostaíochta. Rinneadh a n-ainmneacha a ghalldú. Goideadh a dtaiscí seandálaíochta. Rinneadh damáiste dóibh go nádúrtha, ach loiteadh go leor eile, amhail Cnoc na Teamhrach, d’aon ghnó. Rinneadh roinnt acu a mhilleadh ag tionscadail a cheadaigh an Stát lena n-áirítear obair chairéalaithe ar Chnoc Alúine ag Roundstone Ltd. Tá an chuid is mó de na láithreáin ar thailte príobháideacha. Go minic tá foraoisí sprús Sitceach ar gach taobh dóibh. Spreagann siad cuimhní ar mo mhuintir dhúchais nach réitíonn leis an chineál saoil atá agam sa lá atá inniu ann, mar shampla mo sheanathair ag baint na móna ar Shliabh gCod – ní raibh ‘sleán’ i mo dhorn agam riamh.
Léiríonn mo chuid saothair na coimhlintí sin – tá cuid acu nár críochnaíodh mar is ceart nó atá folaithe ar bhealach d’aon ghnó. Leagtar móitífeanna físiúla ó thréimhsí éagsúla d’ealaín dhúchasach na hÉireann ar bharr a chéile – agus an teibíocht fite fuaite iontu.
Is ealaíontóir as contae Chill Dara é Rónán Ó Raghailligh a oibríonn le péint, scríbhneoireacht agus léirithe. Téann a chuid oibre i ngleic le Éirinn roimh theacht na Críostaíochta chun aghaidh a thabhairt ar ghníomhaíocht chomhaimseartha iarchoilíneach. Feidhmíonn an béaloideas, an stair agus an tseandálaíocht mar thús pointe don taighde. Tá sé ag foghlaim na Gaeilge arís agus é ina dhuine fásta agus téann an t-eispéireas sin i bhfeidhm go mór ar a chuid saothair.
Bhain Rónán céim amach ón Choláiste Ealaíne agus Deartha le céim mháistreachta sa Mhínealaíon in 2021 agus cuireadh saothar dá chuid ar taispeáint in Éirinn agus thar sáile. Is é ‘Turais Taibhsí’ an dara taispeántas aonair aige i mBéal Feirste, i ndiaidh dó ‘Vae Victis’ a thaispeáint in Platform Arts in 2022.

There are sacred places in the land. They hold ghosts. We have disturbed them.
Each painting in this exhibition is the result of a personal pilgrimage to a sacred place in the Irish landscape. I researched the folklore imbued in these places, their logainmneacha (Irish place names) and archaeology. I have a personal connection to many of the places visited. I performed meditations to ‘channel’ the places, like the filí used to do. My research and meditation visions formed a spring for new paintings.
Sacred places are sites of conflict. Their folklore has been overlaid by Christianity. Their Irish names have been translated. Archaeological finds have been removed. They are damaged naturally, but some have been purposefully vandalised like at the Hill of Tara. Some are destroyed by state-approved industry such as quarrying of the Hill of Allen by Roadstone Ltd. Most sites are on private land. They are often surrounded by Sitka spruce forests. They prompt ancestral memories at odds with my contemporary life such as my grandfather’s turf cutting on Church Mountain- I have never held a ‘sleán.’
My painting method mirrors these conflicts- some parts are deliberately unfinished and obscured. Visual motifs from various periods of vernacular Irish art are overlaid on top of each other, blended with abstraction.

Rónán Ó Raghallaigh is an artist from Kildare working with painting, writing and performance. His practice engages with pre-Christian Ireland as a means for contemporary postcolonial action. Folklore, history and archaeology rooted in the Irish landscape form a foundation for research. He is re-learning Irish as an adult which greatly informs his work.
Rónán graduated from NCAD in 2021 with an MFA Art in the Contemporary World and has exhibited his work in Ireland and abroad. ‘Turais Taibhsí’ marks his second solo exhibition in Belfast, having exhibited ‘Vae Victis’ in Platform Arts in 2022.

Is ealaíontóir teibí í Anna Marie Savage atá lonnaithe in Ó Méith, Contae Lú, agus a bhfuil go leor gradam buaite aici. Bhain sí céim sa Mhínealaín amach ag Ollscoil Uladh, áit inar shaothraigh sí Céim le Céad Onóracha in 2009. Cuireadh saothar dá cuid ar taispeáint ar fud na hÉireann agus an RA, agus bronnadh go leor leor gradam agus sparánachtaí uirthi.

Scrúdaíonn na saothair is déanaí léi, Uisce Salach agus Dríodar, na héifeachtaí tubaisteacha a bhaineann le dumpáil breosla mídhleathach ar éiceachórais áitiúla. Trína hanailís mhionsonraithe ar shamplaí uisce truaillithe ó Abhainn Átha Féan, Co. Lú, cuireann Savage ar ár súile dúinn na géarchéimeanna comhshaoil seo, rud a spreagann feasacht agus gníomhaíocht. An comhoibriú s’aici le hOllscoil Leeds ar an togra seo, a chuimsíonn teorainn Mheicsiceo chomh maith, cuireann sé gné idirnáisiúnta le hiniúchadh Savage ar an díghrádú comhshaoil. In Uisce Salach agus Dríodar úsáideann sí an ealaín chun an eolaíocht, an éiceolaíocht agus an gníomhaíochas a tharraingt le chéile.

Anna Marie Savage is an award-winning abstract artist based in Omeath, Co. Louth. She is a Fine Art graduate of the University of Ulster, where she received a First-Class Honours Degree in 2009. She has exhibited widely throughout Ireland and the UK and has been the recipient of numerous awards and bursaries.

“Braithim gur mór an phribhléid dom agus cuireann sé bród orm an saothar seo a chur ar taispeáint sa Chultúrlann. Mar dhuine a bhfuil grá agam don Ghaeilge agus a bhfuil muinín agam aisti, mothaím go bhfuil sé thar a bheith cuí taispeántas a chur i láthair in áit a ndéanann ár gcultúr agus ár n-oidhreacht a cheiliúradh. Tá na pictiúir seo fréamhaithe i dtalamh agus in uisce an oileáin seo – sin an áit is dual dóibh.” – Anna Marie Savage

Her latest body of work, Uisce Salach and Dríodar, explore the devastating effects of the illicit fuel industry and the dumping of its byproducts on local ecosystems. Through her meticulous collection and analysis of polluted water samples from the River Fane, Co. Louth Savage brings a visual language to these environmental crises, inspiring awareness and action. Savage’s collaboration with Leeds University on this project, which also spans the Mexican border, marks an international dimension to her inquiry into environmental degradation. Through Uisce Salach and Dríodar, she uses art to bridge science, ecology, and activism.

“I feel very privileged and proud to show this work at An Chultúrlann. As someone who loves and believes in the Irish language, exhibiting in a space that celebrates our culture and heritage feels incredibly fitting. These paintings are rooted in the land and water of this island—this is where they belong.” – Anna Marie Savage

Titanic Belfast has announced that in collaboration with the V&A it is set to host a free exhibition of the work of one of the foremost British artists of the 20th-century, Lucian Freud, from 2 May – 30 September 2025.

Belfast will be the first port of call of the Lucian Freud’s Etchings: A Creative Collaboration exhibition as part of a global tour. The world-leading visitor attraction is the only location on the island of Ireland that the artwork is being displayed.

Lucian Freud’s Etchings: A Creative Collaboration will feature highlights from a unique collection of etchings, many of which have never been previously exhibited. The trial proofs tell the story of Freud’s long collaboration with master printer, Marc Balakjian including one of his most contemplative and psychologically rich achievements in Donegal Man (2007). The sitter for Donegal Man was Pat Doherty, Chairman of Titanic Belfast, giving this exhibition a very special connection to the venue.

The pieces are on loan from the V&A, a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity. Its mission is to champion design and creativity in all its forms, advance cultural knowledge, and inspire makers, creators and innovators everywhere. This is the first time the exhibition has ever been seen outside of London.

Judith Owens MBE, Chief Executive of Titanic Belfast said: “It’s an honour to announce that Titanic Belfast will be the first venue to host Lucian Freud’s Etchings: A Creative Collaboration as part of a global tour. We are thrilled to display never seen before pieces from one of the world’s most renowned artists and bring yet another reason for people to visit Belfast. The exhibition is particularly special for Titanic Belfast given its links to our Chairman Pat Doherty and will be free for people to view, and we are delighted to enhance our visitor experience over the busy summer period.”

Gill Saunders, Curator of the V&A’s Lucian Freud’s Etchings exhibition said: “Made over a period of 25 years, Lucian Freud’s extraordinary etchings demonstrate his developing mastery of this challenging medium. Shown together for the first time, this unique collection of trial proofs offers fascinating insights into Freud’s working process, and shows us how his achievements in print depended on his close collaboration with the master printer Marc Balakjian.”

This exhibition has been sponsored by Loftlines, Northern Ireland’s first build-to-rent development located in Titanic Quarter, following a £150m investment by Legal & General.

Adam Burney, Senior Fund Manager, Asset Management at L&G said: “Lucian Freud’s Etchings: A Creative Collaboration celebrates artistry, collaboration and culture — values that sit at the heart of Loftlines and L&G’s vision for a vibrant new community.

“We’re proud to support this world-class exhibition alongside our closest neighbour, Titanic Belfast, and to celebrate the city’s growing cultural momentum whilst marking the beginning of the Loftlines journey which will redefine city centre living here in Belfast.”

Lucian Freud’s Etchings: A Creative Collaboration will be open to the public daily from 2nd May – 30th September. The free exhibition is located within the Andrews Gallery on Level 2 of Titanic Belfast.

Love is blindly reaching out rhizoids and anchoring them to a rock is the newest manifestation of the world of Xenophon, a collaborative world-building project by McGibbon O’Lynn.

Rooted in the fictional world of the Xenothorpians – a fluid species mutating across vegetal, human, and ecological entanglement – the exhibition activates a multispecies romance beyond the species and the sexual. The project expands ideas of intimacy and relations through flings, courtships, longings, and liaisons with the garden.

The artistic duo consider how the gamification of dating has shaped how humans relate to one another, from 1960s TV shows like The Dating Game to 1990s board games like Dream Phone, and today’s swipe-based apps like Tinder and Bumble. These formats reduce love to strategy, speed, and surface, often reinforcing transactional and disposable dynamics. This exhibition responds to that shift, questioning what we lose when intimacy becomes a game. it proposes a radical reimagining of connection – towards a more expansive, inclusive, and multispecies form of love and relationality.

The audience is invited into this multispecies dating game through ritual, material, and speculative storytelling. The project asks: what new intimacies arise when we love without species’ boundaries?

Maeve O’Lynn is a writer, filmmaker and researcher based in Belfast. Siobhán McGibbon is a visual artist and researcher based in Cork. They began world-building together as McGibbon O’Lynn in 2015.

This project is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council and Cork County Council.

For more information visit CCADLD.org/exhibitions

Representing Nature – An Exhibition by Colin Watson RUA

ArtisAnn Gallery, 70 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast, BT5 5AE

Wed 2nd July to Sat 30th August

Late Night Opening: WED 2nd July from 6 to 8pm

Wed – Sat: 11am to 5.30pm

( Gallery closed Fri July 11th and Sat July 12th)

www.artisann.org

The paintings in the show all have great personal significance to Colin. These smaller paintings are more spontaneous that his larger works, but there remains a desire to infuse each picture with a certain degree of mystery.

Although the choices of subject are personal, the paintings, hopefully, are also universal and have meaning beyond the painter’s initial inspiration.

Alongside studies towards fully realised paintings this exhibition also presents stand alone, spontaneous, intuitive works that directly respond to observed natural phenomena. This selection of works represents a cross section of his working methods beyond the finished paintings.

Colin Watson lives and works in Belfast. He has held seven solo exhibitions in London, as well as in Dublin, Northern Ireland and Morocco. In October 2008, Colin was invited by HRH The Prince of Wales to accompany him on the Royal Tour of Japan, Brunei and Indonesia, as his official Tour Artist.

Colin Watson has exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, the Royal Ulster Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy, winning awards at the latter two including two gold medals at the Royal Ulster Academy, one awarded by the President of the Royal Academy, Sir Christopher Le Brun. He was also awarded the Ireland Fund of Great Britain Annual Arts Award in 1999. His work has been included in the BP Portrait Prize Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibitions and at the Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries in London.

Colin Watson’s work is held in collections worldwide, including the Royal Collection of His Majesty King Charles III and in the collection of the King of Morocco. He is also represented in a number of public collections, including the Ulster Museum, Moroccan Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Arts Council for Northern Ireland, the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, Limerick and the Royal Geographical Society, London with a portrait of Sir Wilfred Thesiger, the British explorer and travel writer.

At noon Sat 26th July, as part of EastSide Arts Festival, there will be a special British Sign Language event with BSL interpretation of a gallery tour by gallery owner Dr Ann McVeigh. This is free, with no booking required.

All artworks are available to buy.

You can also buy art from this exhibition through the Own Art scheme which gives you an interest-free loan over 10 months (and you still get to take the art home immediately the exhibition ends).

ArtisAnn Gallery, 70 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast, BT5 5AE
Wed – Sat: 11am to 5.30pm

INTERRUPTED (JOURNEYS)
Brain Injury Matters NI
8 July– 30 August
Explore Interrupted (Journeys), a large-scale collaborative installation inspired by aural histories from Limavady. It tells the story of the lost Ross Sea Party, part of Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition, highlighting courage, survival, and hope through an intricate origami display reflecting their perilous journey and determination.

EXHIBITION LAUNCH: Tuesday 8th July 2pm | Free Admission | All welcome
Brain Injury Matters (NI) was established in 2013 as an independent regional third sector organisation supporting, promoting and empowering those individuals and families affected by acquired brain injury.

For more information, please email ciara@braininjurymatters.org.uk or telephone 02890705125 or 07516629856

Exhibition continues 5 June – 31 August 2025.

‘All in Colour’, an exhibition of new paintings by Louise French at Shankill Road Library. It is the eleventh of Flax Art Studios’ annual exhibitions in partnership with the library – an opportunity for an artist to present their work in a community setting.

‘All in Colour’ is a new series of paintings made on surfaces with pre-existing imagery. Through experimentation with materials and processes, the paintings explore colour and form. Referring to still life and domestic representations of nature, the exhibition reflects on the act of painting itself.

Opening: Thursday 5 June 2025, 6.00pm–7.45pm
Exhibition dates: 5 June–31 August 2025

Opening hours:
Monday and Tuesday: 9.30am–5.30pm
Wednesday: 1pm–5.30pm
Thursday: 12–6pm
Friday: 9.30am–5.30pm
Saturday: 9.30am–1pm

Louise French completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School, Australia, 2022. In March 2023 she joined Flax Art Studios (Belfast) Emerging Artist Programme. She has had solo exhibitions at Threshold Gallery, Belfast, and Ards Art Centre, Newtownards and group shows in Northern Ireland and London. In 2025 she was granted ACNI SIAP funding.

In December 2017, artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen (b. 1969, London, UK) made an artwork in response to the fire that took place earlier that year on 14 June at Grenfell Tower, North Kensington, West London. 72 people died in the tragedy. Filming the tower before it was covered with hoarding, McQueen sought to make a record.

Following the fire, a Government Inquiry ran from September 2017 until September 2024. The resulting recommendations are yet to be implemented, meaning a similar tragedy could happen again. There is an ongoing criminal investigation, with potential charges including corporate manslaughter. No trials are expected until 2027 at the earliest, over a decade since the fire.

Grenfell was first presented in 2023 at Serpentine in London’s Kensington Gardens, following a period of private viewings, prioritising bereaved families and survivors. Following its presentation at Serpentine the work was placed in the care of Tate and the London Museum’s collections.

Please note screenings of Grenfell will take place at set times. Doors open fifteen minutes before the screening time and the screening will commence promptly. This work is intended to be seen from the start, so unfortunately latecomers cannot be admitted. The film is 24 minutes long.

The film contains close-up imagery of the tower six months after the fire. Please let a member of our team know if you need space to pause, rest and reflect afterwards.

Filming or photography is not permitted in the gallery space. Please ensure your phone is on silent.

This national tour is being coordinated by Tate in collaboration with the partner venues and is made possible thanks to public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England and from Art Fund.

Throughout August, Ards Arts Centre will play host to the principle Creative Peninsula exhibition, featuring exclusive works by the finest Artists and Makers from the Ards and North Down Borough

This exhibition will feature unique pieces of art and craftwork in a variety of mediums, specially selected for display in Ards Arts Centre and created in our Borough. This exhibition is a celebration of the exclusivity and quality of the artwork produced by local artists and makers and a fantastic opportunity to purchase a beautiful piece of art.

The theme of this year’s exhibition is ‘Reflection’ with each work taking inspiration from this concept.

Artworks are for sale, and many artists accept commission work too.

Be sure to pick up a Creative Peninsula programme for more information on other events and activities taking place during the festival.

Exhibition Preview: Thurs 31 July, 7 – 9pm

Join us for this open reception and enjoy a glass of wine or soft drink as you view the artworks on display. Meet the artists and makers, and chat about their work.

This exhibition is part of the programme of events for Creative Peninsula 2025.

Craig Jefferson is a Scottish born artist now living in Bangor, Northern Ireland with his wife and three children. He began his creative career at Leith School of Art, Edinburgh, in 2002 and continued his studies at Edinburgh College of Art where he graduated with an Honours degree in Drawing and Painting.

Craig is currently represented by the Stafford Gallery in London and the Contemporary Six Gallery in Manchester. As a member of the New English Art Club, he exhibits annually at the Mall Galleries and with associated galleries across the UK. He has taken part in several Academy group shows in the UK and Ireland and had work included in prestigious prize exhibitions such as the Columbia Threadneedle Prize and the Lynn-Painter Stainers Prize. His work features in private collections in Europe and the United States.

Craig was one of our first Studio Members at Seacourt, where he has a space overlooking Central Avenue on the second floor. Since being here he has immersed himself in printmaking focusing on screen printing, mono print and tetra pak collographs.

This exhibition will be the first time Craig has shown prints alongside his paintings. The cross pollination of these processes has brought a freshness to the artist’s approach and application as he comments,

“Engagement in printmaking has had a huge effect on how I paint. It’s a whole new way of thinking. A new realm of ideas and possibilities has been opened to me.”

Come and see Craig’s work in person on the opening night of this show – Thursday 31st July 6-9pm. Exhibition continues until the 19th September.

“Rapport” is an exhibition of work by three artists, Jo Going, Fiona Woods and Amanda Montgomery.

The three artists met at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, in 2002.

Fiona and Amanda had been awarded three month residencies with the Leighton Studios by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland respectively. Jo, an artist from Alaska, had a residency there at the same time.

The artists struck up a rapport that continued over 20 years. This is their second exhibition together. Their first exhibition, taking place in KAVA, Kinvara, in October 2023.

Sadly, Jo passed in January 2024.

This exhibition brings the three artists together again.

The works are diverse in media and approach. What connects them is a shared interest in looking beyond the surface of things, hinting at sacred spaces and complex narratives, invoking the emotions, sensations and longings that arise from the condition of being human.

The exhibition will be on display from Friday 1st until Friday 29th August 2025, and will include Saturday opening on 16th August.

For more information, please contact Larne Museum & Arts Centre on 028 28 262443 or e-mail marian.kelso@midandeastantrim.gov.uk.

Image: Artwork by Jo Going

Lightbox Commission.

Flax is delighted to present our second Lightbox Commission, now illuminated at our Bedford Street site – Louise French’s ‘Scaling Structure’.

Like the paintings in French’s current exhibition ‘All in Colour’, this lightbox piece plays with colour saturation, layering and reversal. It draws on diagrammatic compositions, such as for Sogetsu ikebana, along with ongoing studio experiments with colour and form using a restricted palette and inventing rules for dividing space.

Louise French completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School, Australia, 2022. In March 2023 she joined Flax Art Studios (Belfast) Emerging Artist Programme. She has had solo exhibitions at Threshold Gallery, Belfast, and Ards Art Centre, Newtownards. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions including at RuptureXIBIT (London), R-Space (Lisburn), Arcade Studios and Catalyst, Belfast.

‘Scaling Structure’ is on view 24 hours a day at 29 Bedford Street, Belfast, BT2 7EJ until 31 August.

In parallel, ‘All in Colour’ at Shankill Road Library is on until 31 August 2025 and is the eleventh annual exhibition made in collaboration between @flaxartstudios and @librariesni

Louise French is grateful to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for their Support for Individual Artists grant.

Tá áiteanna sácráilte istigh sa talamh. Tá taibhsí sna háiteanna sin. Táimid i ndiaidh cur isteach orthu.
Tháinig gach pictiúr sa taispeántas seo chun cinn de thoradh oilithreachta pearsanta chuig áit shácráilte i dtírdhreach na hÉireann. Rinne mé taighde ar an bhéaloideas atá fite fuaite sna háiteanna sin, ina logainmneacha agus ina seandálaíocht. Tá baint phearsanta agam le go leor de na háiteanna ar tugadh cuairt orthu. Rinne mé machnamh chun na háiteanna a ‘shú isteach’, mar a dhéanadh na filí. Spreag mo chuid taighde agus físeanna machnaimh pictiúir nua.
Is ionaid chomhlínte iad ionaid shácráilte. Cumhdaíodh a n-oidhreacht faoi thionchar na Críostaíochta. Rinneadh a n-ainmneacha a ghalldú. Goideadh a dtaiscí seandálaíochta. Rinneadh damáiste dóibh go nádúrtha, ach loiteadh go leor eile, amhail Cnoc na Teamhrach, d’aon ghnó. Rinneadh roinnt acu a mhilleadh ag tionscadail a cheadaigh an Stát lena n-áirítear obair chairéalaithe ar Chnoc Alúine ag Roundstone Ltd. Tá an chuid is mó de na láithreáin ar thailte príobháideacha. Go minic tá foraoisí sprús Sitceach ar gach taobh dóibh. Spreagann siad cuimhní ar mo mhuintir dhúchais nach réitíonn leis an chineál saoil atá agam sa lá atá inniu ann, mar shampla mo sheanathair ag baint na móna ar Shliabh gCod – ní raibh ‘sleán’ i mo dhorn agam riamh.
Léiríonn mo chuid saothair na coimhlintí sin – tá cuid acu nár críochnaíodh mar is ceart nó atá folaithe ar bhealach d’aon ghnó. Leagtar móitífeanna físiúla ó thréimhsí éagsúla d’ealaín dhúchasach na hÉireann ar bharr a chéile – agus an teibíocht fite fuaite iontu.
Is ealaíontóir as contae Chill Dara é Rónán Ó Raghailligh a oibríonn le péint, scríbhneoireacht agus léirithe. Téann a chuid oibre i ngleic le Éirinn roimh theacht na Críostaíochta chun aghaidh a thabhairt ar ghníomhaíocht chomhaimseartha iarchoilíneach. Feidhmíonn an béaloideas, an stair agus an tseandálaíocht mar thús pointe don taighde. Tá sé ag foghlaim na Gaeilge arís agus é ina dhuine fásta agus téann an t-eispéireas sin i bhfeidhm go mór ar a chuid saothair.
Bhain Rónán céim amach ón Choláiste Ealaíne agus Deartha le céim mháistreachta sa Mhínealaíon in 2021 agus cuireadh saothar dá chuid ar taispeáint in Éirinn agus thar sáile. Is é ‘Turais Taibhsí’ an dara taispeántas aonair aige i mBéal Feirste, i ndiaidh dó ‘Vae Victis’ a thaispeáint in Platform Arts in 2022.

There are sacred places in the land. They hold ghosts. We have disturbed them.
Each painting in this exhibition is the result of a personal pilgrimage to a sacred place in the Irish landscape. I researched the folklore imbued in these places, their logainmneacha (Irish place names) and archaeology. I have a personal connection to many of the places visited. I performed meditations to ‘channel’ the places, like the filí used to do. My research and meditation visions formed a spring for new paintings.
Sacred places are sites of conflict. Their folklore has been overlaid by Christianity. Their Irish names have been translated. Archaeological finds have been removed. They are damaged naturally, but some have been purposefully vandalised like at the Hill of Tara. Some are destroyed by state-approved industry such as quarrying of the Hill of Allen by Roadstone Ltd. Most sites are on private land. They are often surrounded by Sitka spruce forests. They prompt ancestral memories at odds with my contemporary life such as my grandfather’s turf cutting on Church Mountain- I have never held a ‘sleán.’
My painting method mirrors these conflicts- some parts are deliberately unfinished and obscured. Visual motifs from various periods of vernacular Irish art are overlaid on top of each other, blended with abstraction.

Rónán Ó Raghallaigh is an artist from Kildare working with painting, writing and performance. His practice engages with pre-Christian Ireland as a means for contemporary postcolonial action. Folklore, history and archaeology rooted in the Irish landscape form a foundation for research. He is re-learning Irish as an adult which greatly informs his work.
Rónán graduated from NCAD in 2021 with an MFA Art in the Contemporary World and has exhibited his work in Ireland and abroad. ‘Turais Taibhsí’ marks his second solo exhibition in Belfast, having exhibited ‘Vae Victis’ in Platform Arts in 2022.

Opening Thursday 7 August at 7.00pm

This body of work explores the hand movements made during speech as a form of subconscious drawing. The series seeks to reconcile production in an abstract expressionist aesthetic with the desire to make work which contains and contributes to constructive narratives regarding cultural diversity and society. The work connects the artist’s definition of drawing as ‘to describe a path’ into the verbal field.

The work is initiated from hand movements taken from primary school Principal Mary Harbinson, describing ‘Different Journeys to the Same Place’, as an educational objective in the multi-cultural school. For other works the artist recorded his own hand movements as he described his consideration of the need to simultaneously respect and protect cultural diversity.

Michael Doherty paints in oils, in an expressive abstract aesthetic grounded in his drawing practice. His works are rooted in narratives around cultural diversity, society and the environment. While practicing as an architect he qualified from the Ulster University in 2023 with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art. The boundaries of perceived surfaces, and places where line and surface meet, are critical in his approach to the resolution of his drawings and paintings.

For the first time in over thirty years, the powerful and deeply personal work of Dutch photographer Frits de Ridder (1954–1994) will be showcased in an exhibition, opening on August 7, 2025, at Belfast Exposed. Frits de Ridder: Staring at the Sun presents an unflinching portrait of life, illness, and resistance during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

This landmark exhibition, realised with the full support of de Ridder’s family and unprecedented access to his archive, marks the first public presentation of his photographic estate since his passing. Curated by José Neves, the exhibition draws from the extensive collection of De Ridder’s work held by the International Institute of Social History (IISH/IISG) in Amsterdam.

De Ridder’s work provides a powerful visual documentation of his experience living with HIV/AIDS, while also reflecting the broader struggle for dignity, visibility, and justice that characterised the experiences of those affected by the virus in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His photographs depict a period marked by stigma and fear, but also by resilience and political awakening. By opening his previously unseen archive to the public, the exhibition seeks to encourage reflection, activism, and collective remembrance. Moreover, it places de Ridder’s legacy in a current context, as the aim of eliminating new HIV transmissions by 2030 remains achievable but increasingly at risk.

“Chomh bán le bainne /Chomh milis le mil / Chomh dearg le fuil.”
as white as milk/ as sweet as honey / as red as blood . (trans.)

(NFC, 0023 : 190)

(Anna Ní Fhathaigh, School’s Collection, Duchas c. 1920s. )

Joyce says that the soul of Ireland is trapped in a net; it is also collected there. To create ourselves we must reach into that fishing net, that lacework, that woven basket. Do our fingers catch in the gaps?

Owing a great debt to the scholarship of Martín Mac Con Iomaire, Bríd Mahon, Kevin Danaher, Jennie Moran and the thousands of voices woven into the Dúchas Schools collection, my art practice explores and reimagines the patchwork history of cooking culture in Ireland. It does so in the hopes of easing a painful cultural memory of famine, fasting, hunger strikes, institutionalization and food insecurity, which today manifests in the prevalence of disordered eating and Ireland’s disregard for the nutritional needs of those in our care.

Drawing on the aforementioned scholarship, persevering folklore, medieval Irish literature, traditional craft methods (patchworking, Irish lace, delft ceramics), as well as my love of cooking with my friends, the work develops a joyful visual language for Irish cooking. The artistic outcomes of my research into food history tend to root themselves in Irish craft traditions, such as Irish lace crochet, quilting and weaving, underscoring the idea that Irish cooking deserves to be revived with the same significance in our culture as the aforementioned crafts.

The exhibition opening will feature hand-drawn looping animations showing step-by step instructions of how to cook some traditional regional dishes which have fallen out of the culture as a result of colonisation, famine, etc.,

Knowing the level of destruction to people and culture caused by orchestrated famine, in Ireland historically and now as it happens in Gaza, I believe in the significance of reconstructing our food culture in a way which contradicts the individualistic and destructive philosophy of colonization. If the art of colonization is line and boundary, our art must be holding, gathering, sharing.

Is ealaíontóir teibí í Anna Marie Savage atá lonnaithe in Ó Méith, Contae Lú, agus a bhfuil go leor gradam buaite aici. Bhain sí céim sa Mhínealaín amach ag Ollscoil Uladh, áit inar shaothraigh sí Céim le Céad Onóracha in 2009. Cuireadh saothar dá cuid ar taispeáint ar fud na hÉireann agus an RA, agus bronnadh go leor leor gradam agus sparánachtaí uirthi.

Scrúdaíonn na saothair is déanaí léi, Uisce Salach agus Dríodar, na héifeachtaí tubaisteacha a bhaineann le dumpáil breosla mídhleathach ar éiceachórais áitiúla. Trína hanailís mhionsonraithe ar shamplaí uisce truaillithe ó Abhainn Átha Féan, Co. Lú, cuireann Savage ar ár súile dúinn na géarchéimeanna comhshaoil seo, rud a spreagann feasacht agus gníomhaíocht. An comhoibriú s’aici le hOllscoil Leeds ar an togra seo, a chuimsíonn teorainn Mheicsiceo chomh maith, cuireann sé gné idirnáisiúnta le hiniúchadh Savage ar an díghrádú comhshaoil. In Uisce Salach agus Dríodar úsáideann sí an ealaín chun an eolaíocht, an éiceolaíocht agus an gníomhaíochas a tharraingt le chéile.

Anna Marie Savage is an award-winning abstract artist based in Omeath, Co. Louth. She is a Fine Art graduate of the University of Ulster, where she received a First-Class Honours Degree in 2009. She has exhibited widely throughout Ireland and the UK and has been the recipient of numerous awards and bursaries.

“Braithim gur mór an phribhléid dom agus cuireann sé bród orm an saothar seo a chur ar taispeáint sa Chultúrlann. Mar dhuine a bhfuil grá agam don Ghaeilge agus a bhfuil muinín agam aisti, mothaím go bhfuil sé thar a bheith cuí taispeántas a chur i láthair in áit a ndéanann ár gcultúr agus ár n-oidhreacht a cheiliúradh. Tá na pictiúir seo fréamhaithe i dtalamh agus in uisce an oileáin seo – sin an áit is dual dóibh.” – Anna Marie Savage

Her latest body of work, Uisce Salach and Dríodar, explore the devastating effects of the illicit fuel industry and the dumping of its byproducts on local ecosystems. Through her meticulous collection and analysis of polluted water samples from the River Fane, Co. Louth Savage brings a visual language to these environmental crises, inspiring awareness and action. Savage’s collaboration with Leeds University on this project, which also spans the Mexican border, marks an international dimension to her inquiry into environmental degradation. Through Uisce Salach and Dríodar, she uses art to bridge science, ecology, and activism.

“I feel very privileged and proud to show this work at An Chultúrlann. As someone who loves and believes in the Irish language, exhibiting in a space that celebrates our culture and heritage feels incredibly fitting. These paintings are rooted in the land and water of this island—this is where they belong.” – Anna Marie Savage

Exhibition continues 2nd August – 30th August 2025.

This exhibition features a collection of book illustrations, artwork and new etchings by artist Shona Shirley Macdonald. An award-winning illustrator and author living in Co. Waterford, she specialises in children’s books and large-scale murals. Her debut picture book, ‘The Pooka Party’ was selected for the 2020 IBBY Honour List and received multiple award nominations. Her recent collaboration, ‘Girls Who Slay Monsters’, won the Children’s An Post Book of the Year Award 2022 and was nominated for the 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for illustration.
Exhibition runs untils 30th August.

Exhibition continues from the 27th of July 2025 to the 31st of August 2025

Art + Soul, the International Art & Sculpture Exhibition, will showcase artwork and sculptures by some of the biggest names in international and Irish art from Sunday, 27th July to Sunday, 31st August 2025, in collaboration with Gormleys Fine Art and supported by Ards and North Down Borough Council.

The event, held over 5 weeks, will showcase over 350 artworks by some of the biggest names in international and Irish art, including Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Banksy, Julian Opie, and Salvador Dali. The highlight will be an outdoor display of over 100 sculptures carefully curated throughout the hotel’s private gardens.

On display within the hotel itself, there will be over 200 artworks by many leading Irish and international artists, including Peter Monaghan, Gordon Harris, Martin Mooney, John Redmond and Stephen Forbes.

Art and Soul is open to the public daily from 11am to 7pm. Why not enhance your experience and take a guided tour delivered by the experts at Gormleys each day at 12pm, 2pm and 4pm to learn about each sculpture and artwork on display.

Exhibition continues from the 13th of June to the 4th of January 2026

An exhibition of rarely seen artworks by internationally important Japanese war photographer Akihiko Okamura, documenting his relationship with Ireland during the Troubles. 

From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Japanese war photographer Akihiko Okamura (1929-1985) created a powerful and largely unseen collection of photographs in Ireland, both north and south. 

After covering the Vietnam War, Akihiko Okamura visited Ireland in 1968 drawn by the connection to John F. Kennedy’s family roots. A year later, he moved to Ireland with his own family and stayed until his sudden passing in 1985. During that time, he captured everyday life with his family and the conflict in Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles.

Okamura’s photographs have rarely been seen before, and show a unique artistic view of Ireland at this time. What makes his work stand out is that he chose to make Ireland his home. Among all the international photographers working at that time, Okamura stood out for his commitment to the history of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Since he became so closely connected to what he was photographing, Okamura created innovative images in both his own style and how the Troubles were shown through photography. His profound, personal relationship with Ireland allowed him to develop a new method of documenting conflict: poetic and ethereal moments of peace in a time of war.

Akihiko Okamura: The Memories of Others is now open in Art Gallery 4, Ulster Museum. No booking needed. 

The Memories of Others is a Photo Museum Ireland touring exhibition. Curated by Pauline Vermare, Seán O’Hagan, Masako Toda, Brendan Maher and Trish Lambe, with the support of the Estate of Akihiko Okamura, it premiered at Photo Museum Ireland in 2024. It opened in Belfast during Belfast Photo Festival.

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