Visual Arts

Manifesta Ireland?
Representatives from Europe's largest contemporary art festival to consider Northern Ireland as 2014 host nation
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Why The Arts Matter: Nothing About Us...
New community artwork unveiled in the Shankill area
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Joker Tattoo Studio
Tattooing made easy, by Belfast tattooist Joe Mullan
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Rising Star: Alice Burns
DIY artist who arranges her own exhibitions and does her own fundraising
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The French Connection
A unique exhibition of classic Irish art at the Ava Gallery in Clandeboye. Watch an online exhibition with curator David Britton below
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Play Me, I'm Yours
Once there were cows, now there are pianos
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Arrivals/Jack Doherty
An inspired marriage of the old and the new at Ormeau Baths Gallery. Watch an online exhibition with education officer Ciara Hickey and Craft NI director Joe Kelly below
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August Craft Month 2010
The best in crafts in venues across the country
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Pocket Prints Postcards
They may be small, but it's what you do with them at Belfast Print Workshop
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Obituary: Ian Hill
The noted arts critic passes away aged 73
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My Cultural Life: Mark Scott
The documentary photographer on scooters, Tom Waits and 28mm fun
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Three x 3
The Glass Collective bring their alchemy to Craft NI
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My Cultural Life: Nicola Russell
The artist on painting Bill Clinton, the simple pleasures of friendly horses and finding inspiration in the memory of Mo Mowlam
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Brendan Jamison
71908 things to do with a ton of sugar and a commission from the London Festival of Architecture
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Matt Pritchett
Joe Nawaz meets the cartoonist with The Daily Telegraph
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INTERVIEW: Zandra Rhodes
Fashion designer Zandra Rhodes talks clothes, opera and sharp elbows over lunch with Tammy Moore
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2D Comics Festival Interviews
Watch video interviews with 2000AD founder Pat Mills, author of zombie horror novel Flu, Wayne Simmons, and the guys behind Berserker Comics
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2D Comics Festival 2010
Aaron Abernethy visits Derry for 'the most relaxed' comic con festival around. Click on the link below for video interviews with FLU author Wayne Simmons, 2000AD founder Pat Mills and the guys behind Berserker Comics
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Bernie Brown
Photographer Bernie Brown talks to Joanne Savage about capturing the landscape and mood of Strangford Lough with her wily lens
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TP Flanagan's Correspondences
The renowned landscape painter enters into a Correspondence with the Ormeau Baths Gallery
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Dr TP Flanagan
The iconic landscape painter honoured by the University of Ulster before opening new exhibition at Ormeau Baths Gallery
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Our View
Rita Duffy unveils new exhibition in Derry
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Lavery and the Glasgow Boys
Watch an online exhibition featuring art by Lavery and the lads at the Ava Gallery
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Deepa Mann-Kler
India meets County Down in Deepa Mann-Kler's new pen and ink on canvas art
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Material Worlds
Contemporary sculpture at its tactile best in the FE McWilliam Gallery in Newry. Watch a video below with curator Riann Coulter
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Resounding Rivers
Ghosts of Belfast rivers past can be heard around the city as part of PLACE's sound project. Listen to Matt Green below
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Land Of The Free
Stephen Schofield's Klingons, a wookie and a Star Fleet officer go to the Black Box
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RISING STAR: Paul Milne
The Bandwidth.com illustrator on the futility of art college, drawing caricatures and Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Jeremy Henderson
Big canvases and a big life. Patricia Martinelli remembers the internationally acclaimed abstract artist with Jenny Cathcart
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Ulster Artists
Renovated, relocated and revitalized: the Ava Gallery at Clandeboye Estate is back with an exhibition of important, and very expensive, Ulster Artists
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Deirdre Robb: Blue
Leading Belfast artist Deirdre Robb opens major solo exhibition inspired by Belfast’s waters. Watch an online exhibition below
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Ulster Museum
Joanne Savage is stupefied by beauty while perusing 20th century Irish art at the Ulster Museum
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A View From Napoleon's Nose
Curator of Northern Irish exhibition in Taiwan on the importance of promoting art on a global scale
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New Crumlin Road Sculpture
Mill workers depicted as part of the 'Renewing the Routes' programme
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Ulster Museum Art Collection
Masterworks go on show. Watch an online exhibition below, featuring Head of Art, Kim Mawhinney
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Kev Largey
Street art skills meet traditional techniques, with the Belfast artist's latest exhibition in Queen's Film Theatre
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Common Readings/Bad Faith
Shock tactics and the hollow men at The Golden Thread Gallery
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Rita Duffy
Rita Duffy fuses the historic story of the Titanic with the present in Legacy
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Davy Portrait Awards
The 'eyes' have it for Northern Irish artist Ian Cumberland's flaw celebrating self-portrait, currently exhibited in The Naughton Gallery at Queen's
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Sonya Whitefield: Journey of the Hysteretic Woman
The term hysteria was coined by Hippocrates, who believed it was caused by a woman's wandering womb
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INTERVIEW: Ben Allen Solo
Pop, button men and nouveau Belfast - Ben Allen explains his carnival of art to Joanne Savage
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Dillon and Reid
Joanne Savage reviews the clouds, castles and clowns of Reid and Dillon's work at the FE McWilliams Gallery. Watch an online exhibition below
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My Cultural Life: George H Smyth
The surrealist painter on inspiration, what makes an artist and having Fyfe Ewing turning up on his doorstep
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Mark Reihill
Cat Skills is the latest exhibition by Mark Reihill, the man with the mouse
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Raimi Gbadamosi
Bree Hocking discusses espionage and smart dust with Exchange Mechanism curator Raimi Gbadamosi
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Cartoonist Nick Brennan
Tammy Moore takes a walk with the acclaimed cartoonist at the Void Gallery
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Compositions
Creative Exchange exhibition coincides with the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival
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Substance by Andre Stitt
Take a walk through a performance artist's history at the Golden Thread with Belfast born artist Andre Stitt
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Graham Smith
Winner of the Lex Van Rossen Award for European Music Photographer of the Year on loving music first
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Vintage Arts Journalist
CNI's fashionista Tammy Moore travels back in time. Or her wardrobe does at least
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Play & Skinned Knees
A gilt grenade, a woman eating Indian Ink and a very naughty toilet are all on display in Catalyst Arts Gallery. Watch an online exhibition with curator Charlotte Bosanquet below
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Fishing for Ghosts
The sea provides a wealth of inspiration for installation artist Janet Crymble
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Rita Duffy
'Damien Hirst is a complete charlatan.' Belfast's busiest artist on makes good art, cultural courage and why it is more important to journey than arrive
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Majella Clancy
Sri Lanka and Leitrim meet in the artist's abstract photography at the Naughton Gallery at Queens
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UU Retrospective
A 'fast-track lesson in art history', courtesy of the Faculty of Art and Design
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Ashlar
Artist Tom Climent fuses the real and abstract in his exhibition at the Alley Theatre
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Arthur Campbell
Centenary exhibition of the artist and photographer's work at the Linen Hall Library
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Visual Arts in 2009
Joanne Savage on the deftness of John Sherlock and the daftness of Sean Scully
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Camargue
Joanne Savage appreciates the poetry in Ronan Walsh's equine paintings
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White Christmas
A sugarcube fireplace, porcelain shoes and paintings by Rhonda Paisley in the Naughton Gallery's Christmas show. Watch an online exhibition with the gallery's Anna Patrick below
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