Golden Thread Gallery.

ADVENTURE: CAPITAL SEAN LYNCH. This exhibition was stange, different and usual in many ways. The journey mainly consisted of various rooms in darkness as motion pictures and sound narrated the journey. Various instillations sat dominant in various positions throughout. he Pavilion of Ireland at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia –…

St.Georges Market.

Upon my recent visit to St.Georges market, there were a few artists that particulary caught my eye. One of which was Mark Graham. This local artist studied visual communication at Belfast School of art and worked as a graphic designer for 15 years specialising in book cover design.   Self taught in painting he paints…

ANDREW COOMBES.

“Living outside Newtownards, County Down next to Strangford Lough I paint mainly in acrylics on paper my thoughts and memories. I returned to painting in 2009 having not picked up a paint brush for twenty years and have been exhibiting throughout Ireland since. Amongst others I am represented by The Arboury Gallery, Bangor.” I stumbled…

Imagine and Make.

Art is about personal response. Primary school children responded to the 2016 RUA exhibition by using words from a selection of books that had been discarded by their previous owners. Using the books the children choose a word or words from a page that triggered something they knew about. The drawings that led on from…

Vera Klute

‘self portrait, lara, mum” video animation. 00.03.00 This video triptych depicts women from three generations within the artists family. The self portrait is set beside portraits of the artists mother and the artists 5 year old daughter. Drawings, photographs, and video footage are merged together into a collage like animation. The subjects are all sitting…

WILLOW DRAGONS.

These stunning willow dragons were created by Bob Johnston, basket maker at the Ulster Folk and transport museum, Cultra. Based in Bangor, County Down, Bob Johnston has been creating traditional and contemporary willow baskets, sculptures and living structures since 2000. Initially trained as a textile weaver, Bob has since studied with master basket makers in…

ROYAL ULSTER ACADEMY OF ARTS.

The Royal Ulster Academy is an artist led organisation which aims to celebrate, enrich and expand contemporary approaches to the visual arts. It was originally founded as The Belfast Rambler’s Sketching Club in 1879, became the Ulster Academy of Arts in 1930, and finally the Royal Ulster Academy in 1950. There are four categories of…

THE NEW PAST Irish art 1800-2016

Drawn largely from the Ulster Museum collection, THE NEW PAST gives us an overview of Irish art from 1800 to 2016. Covering years between the act of the union, 1800, and the centenary of the easter rising, 2016, the exhibition identifies four themes which have helped shape Irish art. INVENTION focuses on the celtic revival…

STOP LOOKIN’ AT PHOTOGRAPHS!

I recently visited The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s, where the exhibition ‘STOP LOOKIN’ AT PHOTOGRAPHS’ by Locky Morris was being held. The exhibition comprises a series of small scale assemblages from recent years by Derry-based artist Locky Morris. Featuring a range of new and unseen work, the exhibition focuses, in part, on an almost obsessive…