Exhibition continues from 24/09/26.

A series of strange objects and works on paper conjure imagined places and lives. Combining found, made, and fabricated elements from shoreline wanderings and imaginative meanders; Stuart’s work reflects a deep relationship with landscape and material culture.

Stuart Cairns is an Irish artist exploring liminal environments—hinterlands, tidelines, and fringe spaces—through walking, photography, drawing, and collecting.

Stuart’s work is held in major public collections, including the Ulster Museum and National Museum of Ireland.

Preview: Thu 24 Sept, 7pm
FREE

Exhibition continues from 24/09/26.

The Body Remembers is a solo exhibition exploring memory, trauma, and embodiment through porcelain clay and thread.

Drawing on personal experiences of brain surgery and mental health, it examines how the body retains experience. Combining fragile porcelain with thread, the work creates sculptural and immersive installations that invite reflection, empathy, and connection. Interconnected pieces explore resilience and healing, with thread linking forms as a living presence.

Workshop: Wellbeing with Clay, Sat 10 Oct, 10am – 1pm, £30 (booking required)

In 2025 Leo Boyd curated the exhibition Time of the Signs in Atom Gallery in London.
This October Leo is bringing a new version of the exhibition to Belfast under the title Time of the Signs: Border Crossing.
With over 40 artists from across the island of Ireland with some selected international artists this exhibition explores the theme of the sign as a border.
Time of the Signs: Border Crossing will be a truly multidisciplinary spectacle with art forms ranging from street art to sculpture, sound art to printmaking and illustration to painting.
You will never look at a street sign the same way again.

This is a work-in-progress curation of Jenni’s Motherhood Places project work.

Previously described as a landscape painter, during the pre-school years she made art in bits and pieces as time allowed. Much of that was in-situ wherever she was paused with free hands, and eventually her sketchbooks no longer contained just landscapes, but the wider scope of places. Some domestic, featuring objects and ideas – these fragments chart the building of a childhood and in assembling the collection, ask questions about identity and heritage to be answered in future work.

Bounce Arts Festival – Resident Artists and Exhibition – Tender Ruins

Throughout September, Suiss born artist, Susanne Horsch, will reside in the Atypical Gallery for her Bounce Residency.
Her exhibition, Tender Ruins, opens for Late Night Art on Thursday 1st October at 6:00 pm.
The Gallery is open Tuesday – Friday, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm.

“Tender Ruins” is a new immersive soft-sculpture installation that explores the tension between trust, care, and the shifting experience of maternal indispensability.

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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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.

This is a work-in-progress curation of Jenni’s Motherhood Places project work.

Previously described as a landscape painter, during the pre-school years she made art in bits and pieces as time allowed. Much of that was in-situ wherever she was paused with free hands, and eventually her sketchbooks no longer contained just landscapes, but the wider scope of places. Some domestic, featuring objects and ideas – these fragments chart the building of a childhood and in assembling the collection, ask questions about identity and heritage to be answered in future work.

Between Cloud and Ground marks a new body of work from ceramic artist Ciara Campbell-Crawford, introducing new forms that reach beyond the vessel into open space. Inspired by the vast, dramatic skies of Ireland, where light shifts in an instant and clouds gather with dramatic intensity, these pieces capture a landscape in constant motion.

At the heart of the work are birds in flight: fleeting, purposeful, free. Rendered in clay, they carry the weight of longing and the lightness of escape in equal measure. The Irish landscape below is felt rather than mapped, elemental, abstract, and intimately familiar.

Golden Thread Gallery presents NEW WORK, a major new exhibition by internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary artist John Carson.

Originally from Northern Ireland and now based in Pittsburgh, USA, Carson’s practice spans film, sound, installation and public art. Combining humour, research and personal narrative, his work explores themes of history, identity, place and belonging.

The exhibition brings together three new film projects that examine cultural connections between Ireland and the United States through Carson’s distinctive blend of storytelling, historical inquiry and wit.

Paul Seawright revisited and photographed the sites of Sectarian attacks during the 1970’s close to where the artist grew up in Belfast. The texts accompanying each photograph are from newspaper reports at the time and document the murders of innocent civilians, killed for their perceived religion. Reference to Protestant or Catholic background was removed from the text.
Seawright is best known for his alternative visual analysis of locations and subjects dominated by mainstream media. His photographs are devoid of obvious drama but loaded with implicit tension.

Opening Evening: Thursday 24 September 2026, 6pm – 9pm.

Exhibition continues: 24 September – 21 November 2026.

Sarah Lee-Byrne (aka Ayeen) will be showcasing a new body of work in the form of small scale etchings as well as screenprints at Seacourt Print Workshop, Co. Down, this Autumn. “Reflections” is as the name suggests, a reflection of life seen through exploring and discovering quiet moments in nature. Sarah’s small scale artwork invites you to take a closer look and appreciate the often seemingly small and overlooked moments.

An exhibition not to be missed, by one of our members and studio holders, Ayeen. A series of brand new intricate etchings, monotone screen prints and some old favourites too. Opening as part of Late Night Art Bangor on the 24th September from 6-9pm.
Sarah will also be talking about her work and leading a demo of her printing process on Friday 23rd Oct 5pm.

The Breathing Wall marks the first solo exhibition by artist Daniel Godínez Nivón in the UK and north of Ireland. The exhibition is an invitation to dream with a place, and the many forms of life and memory it holds. Daniel’s practice investigates dreaming as a shared space for encountering other forms of life and sparking collective imagination. Bringing together ecological relationships and different forms of knowledge, his work explores the possibility of an ecosystem of dreams: a territory shared by humans, plants, stones and other beings.

Launches: Saturday 26 September 2026, 6-8pm

Exhibition continues from 24/09/26.

A series of strange objects and works on paper conjure imagined places and lives. Combining found, made, and fabricated elements from shoreline wanderings and imaginative meanders; Stuart’s work reflects a deep relationship with landscape and material culture.

Stuart Cairns is an Irish artist exploring liminal environments—hinterlands, tidelines, and fringe spaces—through walking, photography, drawing, and collecting.

Stuart’s work is held in major public collections, including the Ulster Museum and National Museum of Ireland.

Preview: Thu 24 Sept, 7pm
FREE

Exhibition continues from 24/09/26.

The Body Remembers is a solo exhibition exploring memory, trauma, and embodiment through porcelain clay and thread.

Drawing on personal experiences of brain surgery and mental health, it examines how the body retains experience. Combining fragile porcelain with thread, the work creates sculptural and immersive installations that invite reflection, empathy, and connection. Interconnected pieces explore resilience and healing, with thread linking forms as a living presence.

Workshop: Wellbeing with Clay, Sat 10 Oct, 10am – 1pm, £30 (booking required)

Bounce Arts Festival – Resident Artists and Exhibition – Tender Ruins

Throughout September, Suiss born artist, Susanne Horsch, will reside in the Atypical Gallery for her Bounce Residency.
Her exhibition, Tender Ruins, opens for Late Night Art on Thursday 1st October at 6:00 pm.
The Gallery is open Tuesday – Friday, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm.

“Tender Ruins” is a new immersive soft-sculpture installation that explores the tension between trust, care, and the shifting experience of maternal indispensability.

Within the present backdrop of late capitalism and austere technological advancement, All Manner of Things Shall Be Well explores how humankind navigates this alienating and dissociative landscape.

How do we connect to the natural world? How do we forge relationships and maintain them? What moments do we witness, recognise as beautiful? How do they resonate in our memory?

With work from visual artist/filmmaker, Éanna Mac Canna and sound artist, Nathan Harper, they acknowledge the gentle moments and details of everyday existence holding such profound weight, which arguably surpass domineering technological forces, if we listen closely.

In 2025 Leo Boyd curated the exhibition Time of the Signs in Atom Gallery in London.
This October Leo is bringing a new version of the exhibition to Belfast under the title Time of the Signs: Border Crossing.
With over 40 artists from across the island of Ireland with some selected international artists this exhibition explores the theme of the sign as a border.
Time of the Signs: Border Crossing will be a truly multidisciplinary spectacle with art forms ranging from street art to sculpture, sound art to printmaking and illustration to painting.
You will never look at a street sign the same way again.

Coláiste Feirste to showcase their artwork in Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich. This exhibition gives us an insight into the young people in our community and the subjects that inspire them to create their art. This exhibition is now a yearly event which showcases the immense talent coming out of the Coláiste Feirste art room. The pieces will include work by A-Level and GCSE students across a range of mediums. We are delighted to celebrate the fantastic artistic ability in our community courtesy of budding young artists.

Liminal Spaces – Interpretations of Samhain

Belfast artists: Farhad O’Neill, Andrew Whitson, Deirdre Mackel, Hugh Clawson, Vicky Visser, Leah Davis, Patricia Mooney, Niamh Mooney.

Seoladh taispeántas/Opening Night Thursday October 1, 7pm
Closing Party October 31, 7pm

All works for sale via Hotel staff.

Acclaimed Father and Daughter To Exhibit Together at ArtisAnn in Belfast

Graham and Lisa Gingles.

Wednesday 7th to Saturday 31st October

Late Night Opening WED 7th October 6 to 8pm

All Welcome and No Booking Necessary

Wed – Sat: 11am to 5.30pm

Graham Gingles is internationally renowned for his complex, intricately built boxes. These contain scenes which comment on his major themes of life and death From happiness to trauma, travel and autobiography the dioramas and scenes reveal something new on each viewing.

The Drawing Journal is a collaborative art collective. It has been active since 2019 and its membership recently expanded to include thirteen artists based across Ireland and the UK, with five of its members based at QSS. Members are: Tamzin Ashcroft, Niamh Clarke, Hannah Clegg, Daniel Coleman, Craig Donald, Julia Entwistle, Sarah Horton, Bernie McAdams, Sharon McKeown, Claire Penketh, Joanne Proctor, Alannah Robbins and Doris Rohr.

BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!! is a new, transdisciplinary body of work by Reuben Brown, developed over the course of his Master of Research (MRes) in Fine Art by Practice at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. The research, Club [Construction]: Evidence, Ephemera and the Temporary Architectures of Queer Nightlife, interrogates the queer club-space as a site of counter-cultural archiving, asking how absence and fragmentation might become productive material, and what this, in turn, might reveal about the complexity and multiplicity of queer experience in Ireland, alongside the precarious state of cultural infrastructure across the island