Author: Aoife Earley
Distributed through Space and Time
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in Publication5 December 2013 – 19 January 2014. Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast Review by Slavka Sverakova Installation view Curated by Sarah McAvera the exhibition takes its title from one line in Canto 1 of Pale Fire(1962) by V Nabokov. The curator limited the number of artists to three, possibly in relation to the small size of the…
Something about Painting
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in PublicationCarissa Farrell explores the way in which Susan Connolly, Jennifer Trouton and Judy Carroll Deeley forge their own vision of oil on canvas at the Solstice in Navan.
Fergus Jordan: Garden Estate
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in InterviewPhotographer and researcher Fergus Jordan talks about his exhibition Garden Estate featuring a series of night scenes captured on the Dunclug Housing estate in Ballymena. The exhibition was presented in association with Belfast Exposed, and Fergus hopes to further develop the work and apply his research to other areas of the UK. From 4th September…
ACNI – In Focus: Launch of QSS Studios videos
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in InterviewArts Council of Northern Ireland produced TWO fantastic videos of QSS Studios and Gallery detailing our Official Launch and new studio spaces!
Moments of Inception review
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in Publication17 October – 16 November, 2013, QSS Studios and Gallery, Belfast Review by Slavka Sverakova See documentation of the exhibition Expanding the curatorial field Eoin Dara has chosen the unexpected. Objects that may or may not be art, nonchalant debris of something else, birth of an idea made just about visible, or not. Dara describes his…
Behind the Scenes at the New QSS Studios
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in NewsImage: The Moments of Inception Exhibition includes this piece by artist Grace McMurray Queen Street Studios have been home to a number of successful artists since its development in 1984 when it was set up to satisfy a growing need for artist studio spaces in Northern Ireland. Almost thirty years later Queen Street Studios are…
‘Bit Part’ by David Turner at UNIT exhibition
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in Publication17 October – 5 November 2013 at Platform Arts, Belfast David Turner is an artist who works in a variety of media. By using themes such as conflict and violence, Turner tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer…
Precursor at Catalyst Arts Gallery
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in PublicationFrom original published on August 16, 2013, by Slavka Sverakova. Veni, vidi 81 artworks from 81 artists, one, John Ryan, invited, the rest all paying members of Catalyst Arts. It was founded twenty years ago, as Peter Richards puts it in an accompanying brochure, ‘homeless’, appropriating temporary spaces and site specific projects until in 1994…
Turning Outwards
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in PublicationVisual Arts News Sheet – July/August 2013 Visual Arts News Sheet pdf
Dougal McKenzie – Art & Opportunity
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in PublicationDougal McKenzie on balancing preparedness with understanding the importance of the ‘lucky break’ in his art career. Dougal McKenzie Things of This World mixed media & collage on paper If one thing is true in the life of an artist (whatever stage of your studies or career) it is that no matter how much you think…
QSS is now at Bedford Street!
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in NewsAs of May 2013, Queen Street Studios is now located on Bedford Street! Be sure to stop by and say hello! Our new address is 31 – 33 Bedford Street Belfast BT2 7GH
QSS members in GLUE exhibition
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in Publication11 April – 3 May 2013 QSS artists Gail Ritchie, David Turner and Brendan O’Neill are currently exhibiting work at the Hardman Hall Gallery, Mercer University, Georgia (USA) as part of the GLUE exhibition curated by Brendan Jamison. The exhibition will travel to the 4Most Gallery, University of Florida in March 2014 and was previously exhibited…
Gail Ritchie’s ‘Making Memory’ project
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in Interview[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text] International artist Gail Ritchie chats about her ‘Making Memory’ project in the GLUE collage show, an IMPACTICA touring exhibition. Utilising collage as a mind-mapping technique, artist Ritchie recreates her studio wall, with the corner of the gallery transformed into a grid of historical photographs, dates, drawings, notes and timelines. Entitled ‘Making Memory’, Ritchie inserts…
Inspired By Opera
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in PublicationBelfast-based artist Craig Donald, whose upcoming exhibition opens at Queen Street Studios on December 6, cheerfully admits that he’s a bit of an inspirational magpie: anything and everything is grist for his artistic mill. ‘It’s been years,’ says the 25-year-old, ‘since I’ve bought or been given something that didn’t inspire my art in some way.…
The vanishing present
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in PublicationWith the accelerated pace of contemporary life, brought about by urbanisation, new technologies, cheap travel or what has been termed globalisation, space is expanding whereas time is shrinking. Svetlana Boym suggests this has led to a contemporary nostalgia that is not only about the past but ‘the vanishing present.’ Rather than a longing for place,…
An Activist Alphabet
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in Publication15th April 2011 Abstract Title: An Activist Alphabet: Landscape Art and Peace building in Northern Ireland is part of the Paper Session: Geographer- artists: creative practice as research tool? 3: Participating Author(s): Lia D Shimada, PhD* – University College London Abstract: “Post-conflict” Northern Ireland offers rich material for visual artists to explore the politics of peace…
Gail Ritchie at Rooftops Studios in Berlin
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in Interview“Although no longer working in the field as an archaeological excavator, my work plays with the traditions and conventions of both visual art and archaeology, allowing both procedures to interlink and interfere with each other. There is a scientific element to the work reflecting a quest into the truth about death and decay. The visual…
Craig Donald’s Untitled
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in PublicationSlavka Sverakova review. A small number of exhibits manifest a noticeable homology between experimenting in art and the political elite facing crisis and aporia. Alone, unsupported, and watched with apprehension by monochrome paintings and drawings huddled on the other two walls, Craig Donald’s Untitled, June 2010 reminds me of Feuchtwanger’s Aesop standing at the edge…
The Black Mountain
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in PublicationText by Emma Cowan In the true tradition of the people of these islands I will tell a story, my story of the relationship with the mountain, from afar and then close up. I lived last year in North Belfast, Workman Avenue to be precise – off the Shankhill Road, next to the Springfield/Workman separation…
Locus Of Control
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in PublicationText by Eddie Molloy for Locus Of Control exhibition. 13th – 22nd January 2009. Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Read full catalogue. Prelude As Belfast continues to travel the seemingly inexorable road toward ‘normality’, ‘stability’ and ‘peace’, the past dies. Or, more accurately, it becomes delocated. Delocation does not destroy the past but rather shifts it, sanitises…