Presenting composer Matthew Whiteside’s immersive sound installation responding to the Wallace Collection – through its archives as much as its objects, tracing the systems of labour, wealth, and administration that sit beneath the museum’s refinement. The piece turns attention towards those largely absent from its narratives: the workers whose labour underpinned the wealth from which such collections emerged. In bringing together the language of record-keeping with the machinery of production, we invite audiences to listen to what has been seen as significant enough to preserve, and notice what has been excluded from those records.

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

SHIFT
Reflections of unknowing.

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

We are delighted to present this body of paintings and drawings by Simon Carter. Spanning more than a decade, the works bear witness to his sustained and intimate engagement with the diminishing salt marshes of the North Essex coastline. The threshold where land meets water will resonate with Irish landscape enthusiasts, yet Carter approaches this terrain with a finely judged balance of abstraction and figuration. Simon Carter is a co-founder of the British Contemporary Painting platform, and is represented by Messum’s Gallery in London.

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 14/03/2026 to 09/05/2026.

SHIFT
Reflections of unknowing.

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

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.

Presenting composer Matthew Whiteside’s immersive sound installation responding to the Wallace Collection – through its archives as much as its objects, tracing the systems of labour, wealth, and administration that sit beneath the museum’s refinement. The piece turns attention towards those largely absent from its narratives: the workers whose labour underpinned the wealth from which such collections emerged. In bringing together the language of record-keeping with the machinery of production, we invite audiences to listen to what has been seen as significant enough to preserve, and notice what has been excluded from those records.

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’.

Led by artist, researcher and designer Rachel Fitzpatrick, this exhibition features a new site‑specific installation co‑created with Brain Injury Matters NI.

Audiences can expect an immersive installation made from intricate paper crafts, exploring journeys of rehabilitation, reconnection and identity, and revealing often‑unseen narratives of life after acquired brain injury through collaborative making and storytelling.

A solo exhibition by Lisa Ballard.

This exhibition, by Donaghadee based visual artist Lisa Ballard, is an exploration into the processes used in her landscape painting, processes that serve to represent the blurred memories we have of places and allows the creation of a new imagined landscape. These landscape paintings will look beyond the physical to draw on emotional experience and memory of place, pushing towards abstraction.

Travelling has been vital in Lisa’s personal exploration of painting as a medium. This exhibition will feature a selection of new work inspired by past locations she has visited, both near and far.

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.

We are delighted to present this body of paintings and drawings by Simon Carter. Spanning more than a decade, the works bear witness to his sustained and intimate engagement with the diminishing salt marshes of the North Essex coastline. The threshold where land meets water will resonate with Irish landscape enthusiasts, yet Carter approaches this terrain with a finely judged balance of abstraction and figuration. Simon Carter is a co-founder of the British Contemporary Painting platform, and is represented by Messum’s Gallery in London.

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.