‘’Longing for Home’’, presents a collection of artworks that explore Slovak folk identity and memory through narrative retelling and reclaim. Drawing from personal female experiences while reflecting on the historical traditional years of Slovakia and the women that have lived it. Living away from my motherland leaves me with a persistent sense of longing. I frequently struggle with where I fit and feel torn between two different countries, attempting to reconnect with my heritage. Every piece of work reflects longing for a place familiar yet distant and its history.

This exhibition transforms the gallery into an immersive environment of paintings and embroidered texts which narrate the horrific story of Bridget Cleary, a young woman from rural Ireland who was brutally murdered in 1895 after being accused of witchcraft. The work is presented in a mapping fashion, connected by a trail of red ribbon that weaves though the space, with dates and locations inviting us to trace the events that led to Bridget’s death. The work attempts to reclaim Bridget’s silenced voice, turning domestic craft into acts of storytelling and resistance.

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.

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.

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.

Neil Shawcross is well known for his love of books, with a long running series of paintings based on the covers of the iconic penguin books. This exhibition features a selection of these works from across the years. This festival of books and art, includes the covers of well-known classics by Emily Bronte and Andy Warhol and others.

Eminent Authors – An Exhibition by Neil Shawcross RHA RUA MB

Late Night Opening: WED 3rd June from 6 to 8pm

Northern Ireland Photographic Association – Annual Exhibition
Founded in 1967, The Northern Ireland Photographic Association (NIPA), is committed to the advancement of photography in all its forms, for and on behalf of its member societies, groups and associated bodies. The NIPA print exhibition brings together the best of local club photography.
This exhibition, consisting of approximately 100 prints, is selected from over 500 entries, from members of the 24 local camera clubs that form NIPA . Selection is made by three distinguished photographers. Subject matters vary, from landscape to portrait, sport to architecture and nature, guaranteeing there will be something to excite everyone!

Exhibition continues from 25/04/26

Colin McGookin: Expulsion from Paradise – A Modern Twist on a Classical Piece
For over forty years Colin McGookin has centred his art around conveying traditional mythologies rooted within a Northern Irish perspective. His artwork conveys an ongoing exploration of mythology, identity and the human condition. Millennium Court are delighted to have on display this innovative new exhibition, in which McGookin reimagines the story of Adam and Eve, through a contemporary lens. Visitors can expect a thought-provoking journey through paradise, exile, conveying the reality of the world that we inhabit today.

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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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 25/04/26

Colin McGookin: Expulsion from Paradise – A Modern Twist on a Classical Piece
For over forty years Colin McGookin has centred his art around conveying traditional mythologies rooted within a Northern Irish perspective. His artwork conveys an ongoing exploration of mythology, identity and the human condition. Millennium Court are delighted to have on display this innovative new exhibition, in which McGookin reimagines the story of Adam and Eve, through a contemporary lens. Visitors can expect a thought-provoking journey through paradise, exile, conveying the reality of the world that we inhabit today.

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.

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.

Neil Shawcross is well known for his love of books, with a long running series of paintings based on the covers of the iconic penguin books. This exhibition features a selection of these works from across the years. This festival of books and art, includes the covers of well-known classics by Emily Bronte and Andy Warhol and others.

Eminent Authors – An Exhibition by Neil Shawcross RHA RUA MB

Late Night Opening: WED 3rd June from 6 to 8pm

A drop in becoming is a living exhibition, transforming over the course of a month in response to the temporal world we inhabit. Featuring the works of Annie Hogg and Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe, sculptures dissolve, absorb, and digest in an ever-changing encounter. The artists employ sustainable techniques and hand-harvested materials in intimate communication with their natural surroundings that question our changing relationship to the earth. Audiences are invited to become participants in the gallery space as the works engage all five of their senses.

Northern Ireland Photographic Association – Annual Exhibition
Founded in 1967, The Northern Ireland Photographic Association (NIPA), is committed to the advancement of photography in all its forms, for and on behalf of its member societies, groups and associated bodies. The NIPA print exhibition brings together the best of local club photography.
This exhibition, consisting of approximately 100 prints, is selected from over 500 entries, from members of the 24 local camera clubs that form NIPA . Selection is made by three distinguished photographers. Subject matters vary, from landscape to portrait, sport to architecture and nature, guaranteeing there will be something to excite everyone!

Belfast’s Trailblazing Visionary Returns: A New Chapter of  A House of Play Explores Alice Berger Hammerschlag’s Groundbreaking New Gallery
The Lyric Theatre is delighted to present  The Return: Alice Berger Hammerschlag and the New Gallery, a new exhibition within its major anniversary show, A House of Play. This latest chapter revisits the bold legacy of the Lyric’s New Gallery (1963-1969) and its singular Curator and Director, Alice Berger Hammerschlag (1917-1969), bringing renewed focus to a remarkable and often overlooked moment in Belfast’s cultural history.