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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…

QSS artist Vasiliki Stasinaki has been included in The Irish Times 50 people to watch in 2023: Ireland’s brightest young talent. What an amazing lineup of rising stars, and a very well deserved place on the list to our Vasiliki. The list includes actors, musicians, activists, foodies, models, athletes and artists who are all set for…

QSS artist Sharon Kelly is currently settling into her residency at the British School at Rome. The residency is funded through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland British School at Rome Fellowship. Sharon will be there from January to March 2023 (part deferred from 2020) and while there her main focus of research is: Human…

QSS artist Reuben Brown has been awarded the project development funding, Individual Artists Digital Evolution Award by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, supported by The National Lottery. The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has announced funding of £40,000 to support five individual artists from Northern Ireland in the creation of a number of exciting,…

QSS would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year and thank you for all your support in 2022. 2022 has been a year of growth for QSS with the introduction of a second gallery space and 12 more artist studio spaces, taking us to a…

Congratulations to QSS artist Jennifer Trouton on the acquisition of her work ‘In Plain Sight 1’ to the Arts Council of Ireland Collection. Since 1962, the Arts Council of Ireland has been buying art from working artists. The Collection that evolved tells the story of modern and contemporary Irish visual art in a unique and…

QSS artist Anushiya Sundaralingam is one of 12 artists to receive the Artist Career Enhancement Scheme (ACES) from Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Twelve artists from Northern Ireland have been announced at the latest recipients of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Artist Career Enhancement Scheme (ACES). Worth up to £7000 each, the National Lottery…

QSS artist Joy Gerrard  has been selected to The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation 2023 Residency Programme. This one-of a-kind artist residency for artists working in paint has been running since 2012 and is based in central New York just several hundred yards from the Golden Artist Colors manufacturing facility. Over 600 artists from around…

QSS artist Jennifer Trouton is one of 5 acclaimed artists to have been awarded the Major Award from Arts Council of Northern Ireland.  This prestigious award is given in recognition of the contribution each of the artists has made to creative life in Northern Ireland, and makes it possible for them to undertake a substantial,…

QSS artist Jennifer Trouton was awarded the Drawing Prize at this years Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition.  She was awarded the prize for her drawings of her great and great great grandmothers house in Co. Armagh. The Drawing Prize is sponsored by Bradbury Art, Belfast. Congratulations Jennifer, very well deserved.

QSS artist Craig Donald  was awarded the Portrait Prize at this years Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition.  His winning painting was ‘Marinus van Der Lubbe’, oil on canvas, 2020. The Portrait Prize is sponsored by Ross’s Auctions, Belfast Congratulations Craig, very well deserved.

ReView was a unique, environmentally conscious exhibition and gathering which took place in Hunting Brook Gardens, Blessington on September 10th and 11th 2022. It was a Glass Society of Ireland (GSoI) project, curated by QSS artist and curator Meadhbh McIlgorm, featuring the work of 14 female artists. The exhibition used minimal resources and the inspirational…

Studio Expansion – Variety of Studio Spaces Available.   QSS are excited to announce that due to an expansion we are in the privileged position to invite applications for a further 11 studio spaces in our Bloomfield Avenue location. Our studios are located on the second floor of The Arches Centre, 11-13 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast,…

QSS member Dr. Majella Clancy has been invited to present a paper at the International Congress of Contemporary European Painting, University of Porto, Portugal on Tuesday 21st June. Clancy’s paper, ‘The Act, The Idea and The Thing: Painting as Research’ considers painting research through the lens of painting as action, agency, and object. It considers the work of…

On Thursday 23rd June a portrait of Professor Carol McGuinness by QSS artist Jennifer Trouton will be unveiled at Queens University, Belfast. This is a collaborative event between the School of Psychology and Queens Gender Initiative.  Queens Gender Initiative , established in 1999, is a female-focussed entity that works to enhance the participation and visibility…