This project is funded by the Four Nations International Fund through Arts Council England, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council Wales, Creative Scotland and Wales Arts International.

For more information, and to book your ticket for the event, please see The MAC’s website.

Tickets can be purchased online, over the phone or at The MAC’s box office.

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Margaret Mathews is a retired dentist with a lifelong interest in art, but studied and practiced dentistry in her own practice for many years.

She is an Honorary Diploma holder in the Ulster Society of Women Artists and belongs to various Art Societies including the Pastel Society of Ireland, the Medical Art Society, East Antrim Artists and is a Friend of the Equestrian Art Society.

Equestrian art, life drawing, still life and portraiture are favourite subjects and her work can be found in exhibitions both here and abroad.

Some of Margaret’s work can be viewed here.

The team at Void Art Centre invite you to the launch of ‘Animale’, a solo exhibition by British-Finnish artist and composer Hanna Tuulikki that brings together new and existing film and sound works to explore how gendered identities are shaped through entanglements between humans and the more-than-human world.

The launch will take place on Saturday 4 July 2026, from 6-8pm at Void Art Centre. Refreshments will be provided, and we welcome BYOB!

For more information, click here.

Group exhibition with work from local artists. Showing paintings, mixed media, milllinery and felting artworks.

Exhibition runs 13/07/2026-12/09/2026.

For Christopher Steenson’s solo exhibition All I see is the present, the artist combines sound photography, installation and archival material to explore the ways in which moments from prehistory can be used as a gateway to the present. The exhibition is the first manifestation of the artist’s long-term engagement with research exploring the prehistoric past of the island of Ireland.

Síofra Minnis is a Belfast-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture and video, currently based at Queen Street Studios. Her practice investigates how archives, material culture, and systems of display shape our understanding of identity, with a particular focus on the colonial legacies embedded within the Irish landscape.

Sarah O’Brien is an Irish painter whose work explores material process, symbolic language and the relationship between making, repair and transformation. Born in Cork in 1980, she completed an MFA in Painting at NCAD in 2007 and now lives and works in Kinsale, Co. Cork.

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.

Exhibition continues from 19/06/26.

This exhibition is part of a self-initiated creative and educational programme by Lise McGreevy.

Currently NI and Ireland still have vast gender inequality across all aspects of society. At a time when the adult population in NI is a majority 52% female and 50.5% in Ireland. Inequality still reigns across all sectors of our community. This programme aims to support and promote female equality and diversity across race, religion, sexual orientations. Known for their emotion dexterity, by stripping away their differences, Lise has instead focused on the complex emotions that are felt by ALL females. With the aim of uniting us across NI.

Please note there is a £5 entrance fee into Belfast Cathedral.

The team at Void Art Centre invite you to the launch of ‘Animale’, a solo exhibition by British-Finnish artist and composer Hanna Tuulikki that brings together new and existing film and sound works to explore how gendered identities are shaped through entanglements between humans and the more-than-human world.

The launch will take place on Saturday 4 July 2026, from 6-8pm at Void Art Centre. Refreshments will be provided, and we welcome BYOB!

For more information, click here.

Exhibition runs 13/07/2026-12/09/2026.

For Christopher Steenson’s solo exhibition All I see is the present, the artist combines sound photography, installation and archival material to explore the ways in which moments from prehistory can be used as a gateway to the present. The exhibition is the first manifestation of the artist’s long-term engagement with research exploring the prehistoric past of the island of Ireland.

Seacourt Print Workshop is delighted to welcome back the renowned Master Etcher, educator and author Nigel Oxley (Hon RE) for a special celebration of his remarkable printmaking career.
Nigel is well known for his outstanding collaborative work with many significant artists but this retrospective exhibition “Into the Light” offers a rare opportunity to discover and examine in some depth his own distinctive printmaking journey and practice, with prints spanning from the early 1970s to the present day.
The exhibition opens on Thursday, 30th July at 6.00pm.

Nigel will also be talking about his work on Friday, 31st at 3–5pm.

A new three-person exhibition from Martin Wedge, Alastair MacLennan & Éanna Mac Cana – featuring a vast collection of A4 Drawings and video work from the artists. These compelling works on paper are the result of countless plein-air drawing sessions which the artists have undertaken in recent years in Botanic Park, Belfast. ‘Fós’ is the convergence of the artist’s shared relationship, a subconscious criss-crossing of personal and universal ideas. All work presented together – each with it’s own respective personality – will form part of a larger abstract, one singular textured expression within the gallery.

Inspired by Palaeolithic artefacts, this three-dimensional body of work considers the hand-made marks left by Homo sapiens. Modelled in porcelain and stoneware clay by hand, the ceramic bodies retain vitrified anatomical imprints. Fragments of shell, flint and stone debitage are interwoven into some of the pieces. These have been retrieved from the floor of the Bann Estuary and Lough Foyle at low tide, connecting the viewer with Irelands ancient history. The receptacles feature engraved cryptic messages and texts bound up within paper scrolls. Sealed behind glass, these curated, mixed-media displays represent hidden knowledge.

Margaret Mathews is a retired dentist with a lifelong interest in art, but studied and practiced dentistry in her own practice for many years.

She is an Honorary Diploma holder in the Ulster Society of Women Artists and belongs to various Art Societies including the Pastel Society of Ireland, the Medical Art Society, East Antrim Artists and is a Friend of the Equestrian Art Society.

Equestrian art, life drawing, still life and portraiture are favourite subjects and her work can be found in exhibitions both here and abroad.

Some of Margaret’s work can be viewed here.

Sarah O’Brien is an Irish painter whose work explores material process, symbolic language and the relationship between making, repair and transformation. Born in Cork in 1980, she completed an MFA in Painting at NCAD in 2007 and now lives and works in Kinsale, Co. Cork.

Síofra Minnis is a Belfast-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture and video, currently based at Queen Street Studios. Her practice investigates how archives, material culture, and systems of display shape our understanding of identity, with a particular focus on the colonial legacies embedded within the Irish landscape.

Group exhibition with work from local artists. Showing paintings, mixed media, milllinery and felting artworks.

This exhibition, by visual artist, Karen Hamilton, translates the intangible phenomenon of light—the force that enables us to see and engage with our environment—into tangible woven textiles. Showcasing work developed throughout the artist’s undergraduate degree and new experimental weaving, Hamilton explores the characteristics of light, both artistically through colour and form, and scientifically.

In this exhibition Claire French explores how both form and surface of a vessel can embody a personal narrative and energy, enabling exploration of human memory and experience. While the surface encompasses artistic expression, it also acts as a canvas extending the narrative within the form. Eroded, scraped surfaces will metaphorically reflect how time wears down body and mind, transforming alluring, smooth textures into dry, skins that are not what they seem.

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.

Future Stars of the Arts World to Exhibit at ArtisAnn Gallery in Belfast.

A group exhibition featuring recent graduates:

Áine Crawford
Holly Hooks
Hayley McGinnis
Winifred Otowa

Late Night Opening Wednesday 2nd September 6pm to 8pm.

All Welcome and No Booking Necessary.

Wed – Sat: 11am to 5.30pm

ArtisAnn is proud to present this exceptional group show featuring exciting artists from this year’s art college graduates.

Irish artist and poet Maria Noonan-McDermott brings her touring solo exhibition Time-lapse to Strule Arts Centre, Omagh.
Inspired by her mother, Maisie, who lived with Alzheimer’s, the exhibition explores time, memory, loss and enduring love. Paintings and original poetry are presented alongside personal archival items, including sketchbooks and clothing from Maisie’s fashion design studies at the Paris Academy in London around 1959. Since first touring in 2022, Time-lapse has grown from a deeply personal tribute into a shared reflection on identity, legacy and the enduring threads that connect us through time.