Category: Interview
Interview with QSS artist Sinead McKeever in The Irish Arts Review
Sinead McKeever was recently interviewed by Brian McAvera for the Spring issue of the Irish Arts Review (IAR) Her practice engages with different modes of perception – the questioning of hierarchical systems of measuring, knowledge and history are interpreted through drawing, painting and site-oriented installation works. In the IAR interview, entitled ‘Reflected Distortions’, McKeever notes…
Painting by QSS artist Craig Donald featured in The Sunday Independent
‘Oswald Glitch’ is currently on show in the RHA Annual Exhibition in Dublin. In the article by Niall MacMonagle Donald notes that the painting began with a photo – he had a ‘semi-informed knowledge of Oswald’s life viewed through the lens of the Kennedy assassination. It’s one of those ‘whirlpools’ of history, it refuses to…
NVTV interview with David Turner
—
in InterviewLocal television channel NVTV have featured studio artist David Turner ahead of his exhibition at QSS Gallery.
Interview with Sinead McKeever in Irish News
—
in InterviewArts Q&A: Sinead McKeever on Blondie, Dickens and rocker Julian Cope
Interview with Zoë Murdoch
—
in InterviewFor The Arafudo Annual Festival of Art 2014, Tsuchiyo Onsen, Fukushima Zoë Murdoch lives in Belfast and has been based at QSS Studios since 2001. In 2012 she was elected as an Associate Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy. Murdoch has had two solo shows in the Queen Street Studios Gallery and a one person…
David Turner – Hama Bead and Lego Artist
—
in InterviewInterview with QSS member David Turner on Jung Katz “David Turner is a Belfast based artist who creates autobiographical work through toy mediums that reflect conflict, terrorism, and evoke critical commentary on present day violence and war. Growing up in turbulent Belfast, Turner was surrounded by violence and conflict. These events have had a direct influence on…
Fergus Jordan: Garden Estate
—
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
—
in InterviewArts Council of Northern Ireland produced TWO fantastic videos of QSS Studios and Gallery detailing our Official Launch and new studio spaces!
Gail Ritchie’s ‘Making Memory’ project
—
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…
Gail Ritchie at Rooftops Studios in Berlin
—
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…