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As part of our 40th anniversary celebrations, we are delighted to be hosting our open studio day, Behind the Studio Door, featured as part of this years Belfast International Arts Festival. You can learn more about this event, alongside the vast array of other incredible events running from 16th October – 23rd November as part…

Form Follows Function is an exhibition of artworks and new commissions by Array Collective, Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, Lorraine Burrell, QSS member Majella Clancy, Ailbhe Greaney, Mark McGreevy, Jan McCullough, Tara McGinn, and Locky Morris. The opening takes place on Friday 9th August 6pm – 9pm at La Roche House (5a Windsor Avenue North, Belfast BT9 6EL).…

Collective and individual activism, political protest, and artistic labour are subjects that lie at the heart of Other Ghosts, opening on Friday, 3rd May from 7-9pm at Ormston House in Limerick. Featuring work by Ursula Burke and QSS studio artists Joy Gerrard and Jennifer Trouton, showing together at Ormston House for the first time, each…

QSS Studios & Gallery seek to recruit an experienced ‘Digital Media Officer’ (Freelance) As one of the largest studio providers and gallery spaces in Belfast, QSS is seeking an enthusiastic, organised and committed individual to work with us as a Digital Media Officer in a freelance capacity. You will work closely with the Membership &…

QSS would like to wish all visitors, audiences & patrons a very merry Christmas and a happy new year for 2024 We would like to thank all those who have supported us in 2023, either by visiting any of the 18 exhibitions we hosted in our two gallery spaces, visiting the launch of our Patron…

Huge congratulations to QSS artist Sharon Kelly on being awarded the ACNI Major Individual Award 2023. Sharon is one of 4 creatives honoured with Major Individual Awards in 2023, this years recipients include acclaimed writer, Jan Carson, poet, Stephanie Conn, and writer Gail McConnell. The prestigious awards are given in recognition of the contribution each…

Each year QSS select a recent graduate from Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, to receive our Graduate Bursary Award.  This award provides the artist with one year access to a 298sq foot professional studio space and inclusion in all QSS led opportunities. This year we are delighted to introduce Mollie Browne as our selected…

Congratulations to QSS artist Gail Ritchie who is the 2023 winner of the Basil Chubb Award. The award is made by the Political Studies Association of Ireland in recognition of an outstanding contribution to research focused on the politics of Ireland. Gail received this award for her practice based PhD research The im/material monument. Some…

QSS member, Sharon Kelly is undertaking a 5 week international Printmaking Residency 20th August – 22 September at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium. This is a wonderful opportunity to explore and extend printmaking processes, experimenting and integrating 2 and 3D aspects of her art practice. Sharon was awarded the Artist International Development Fund to…

QSS artist Hannah Clegg is among a group of 14 artists taking part in ‘Culture Connects’. Culture Connects is a creative placemaking study that investigates the connection between visual artists and place. Based across two places, Culture Connects explores the opportunities for artist support programmes, cross border mobility, shared workspace, and residencies. This pilot project involves…

Over the past few days QSS have had the absolute pleasure of working with a small group of budding artists from Year 13 Boys & Girls Model Secondary School, North Belfast on our Art_101 Portfolio Building Pilot. In collaboration with Ulster University Belfast School of Art, the QSS Art_101 Portfolio Building course has introduced the…

QSS artist Vasiliki Stasinaki is on an international residency with Morpho in Antwerp.  The residency is supported by ACNI, SIAP, Artist International Development Fund. The residency runs from 1/5/23-30/6/23. https://morphovzw.be/nieuws/new-residents-spring-2023 During her residency, Vasiliki will work on a research project that explores the industrial landscape of post-civil war Athens through the traditional, working class, male dance…

QSS artist Jennifer Trouton has been selected to represent Ormston House at Supermarket Art Fair in Sweden. 11-14 May 2023 ORMSTON HOUSE is a meeting place for the arts in the heart of Limerick City. Their programme is co-designed with artists and citizens, resulting in community partnerships, multi-annual projects and cultural events that are responsive…

Congratulations to QSS artist Clare French and 1968 Film Group on the selection of ‘The Clare French Film for the Tokyo International Short Film Festival 2023. Tokyo Film Festival is a place for unique and underrated films to be seen, films that experience with new methods of narrating their stories. The festival has two sections, namely…

QSS artist Kwok Tsui was selected to take part in Master Class hosted by Zabludowicz Collection London  Master Class is a Professional Development program that runs from 17 April–23 April Info- Eight early-career artists selected through a national open call are supported by this unique and free programme. The week-long intensive is developed in collaboration…

QSS are delighted to be in the position of inviting exhibition submissions from artists and curators at all stages of their career for a number of shows in our 2023/24 Gallery Programme.   We are interested in solo or group proposals in any fine art medium. Interested artists should submit (i) an exhibition proposal (250 words), (ii)…

Forgotten Spaces is a new project being led by QSS artist Meadhbh McIlgorm in partnership with the Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics. It calls on the public to take pictures of unloved spaces of Belfast which catch their attention and to imagine what they could become. It is an extension of McIlgorm’s Liminal [Space] Belfast project which began…