'Absorbing' Troubles Art exhibition reflects decades of tension and turmoil
Over 40 works from National Museums NI's collections create an account of the conflict that's heartbreaking and hard to forget
Eddie Rafferty: The Pursuit of Happiness
South Africa's people and places are captured with colour and invention in this career-spanning showcase bringing intrigued masses to Banbridge
Janet Mullarney: My Minds i
Multi-disciplined artist confronts a gamut of emotions in a twisted fantasy of sculptures, shadows and illustrations at the F.E. McWilliam Gallery
Future Artist-Makers: The Exhibition
This exciting showcase of works created using new skills in digital technology titillates the imagination with its sense of eye-pleasing, interactive wonderment
MAC International
With works by 18 artists from around the world, the biennial exhibition rewards its visitors with an experience as rich as its grand prize
Enough, and More
Jon Plunkett and wife Lindsay Turk explore the impact various naturally-occurring moments can have on our lives in a joint series of paintings and poems
David Hockney: I draw, I do
Ireland's first exhibition of the influential artist's work is a fascinating insight into his life-long consistency and passion for getting the world down on paper
Late Night Art Digest: August 2016
John Higgins takes a tour of studios and spaces across Belfast to drink in some of the key exhibitions currently on display
The Three Stories Are Flattened
Katrina Palmer challenges the notion of sculpture in a demanding yet enthralling exhibition which gradually makes its viewers participants
Gerard Dillon: Painter, Dreamer, Clown
The great Belfast artist's centenary retrospective will have you leaving the Ulster Museum with a spring in your step, expecting to fly
Art in the A.M.
Naughton Gallery and Town Square café team up for a morning of coffee, conversation and soul-baring comic strips in the first of a stimulating new talk series
Pig Shop
Anchored by the bygone boom of Limerick pork, Simon Fennessy Corcoran questions society's regard for living things with an arresting collection recalling Damien Hirst
Collected Works at Castle Coole
Spring showcase at the Fermanagh estate's unique new basement exhibition space highlights the area's breadth of artistic talent
Beyond Maps and Atlases
Bertien Van Manen unearths the spectral beauty of rural Ireland in a collection of photographs offering something new with every viewing
Spring Exhibitions at The MAC
Emma Patterson takes in a triumvirate of international collections the Belfast arts venue has brought to Northern Ireland for the first time
MASKparade
Vincent McDonnell's unusual exhibition re-writes Enniskillen's past from under the guise of a biblical discovery
This Place
Felix Gonzalez-Torres' mournful works find a new context while encouraging public participation in The MAC's posthumous exhibition
Out There, Thataway
Derry's Centre for Contemporary Art blurs the line between the physical and mental and the difficult and playful in Star Trek-inspired group show
I Will Go There, Take Me Home
Curated by Derry's Gregory McCartney, The MAC’s latest group exhibition challenges visitors to consider the dangers of ignoring new political, social and economic realities
Belfast Exposed Archive Prompts Complementary Exhibitions
Works by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin reveal how different artists interpret the photography archive in radically different ways
The Belonging Project
Photographer Laurence Gibson's staged portraits of migrants living in Northern Ireland are full of humanity but frustratingly inaccessible to anyone without a smartphone
Alternate State / Alternative States
Poets Colin Dardis and Geraldine O'Kane interpret the work of artist Brian Kielt in an exciting and refreshingly challenging exhibition at the Duncairn Centre
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Group show in Derry's Centre for Contemporary Art, named after the 1994 Pavement album, features a range of works inspired by nature and marked by lush weirdness
John Gledhill and Samuel Irwin
Painter and poet collaborate on multimedia exhibition at Strule Arts Centre revealing a shared concern for natural history and conservation and fascination with City life
Snaring Bewildered Birds
Graduate artist Mark Healy satirises world leaders on tracing paper at Enniskillen's Higher Bridges Gallery
Myths, Memories and Mentiras
Lisa Gingles uses collage and pencil to explore issues of beauty with a fantastical exhibition at the Waterfront Hall
The Art of Superstition
A range of Illustrators approach the brief with Python-esque wit, skill and vision at Ards Art Centre
Agloe
Sara Morrison creates a visual history of a dead town at the new Framewerk gallery
Nomad Kyrgyz People
Turkish academic Yavuz Ozer reveals a fascinating insight into the lives of Central Asia's nomads
Exploring Spaces
Group show at the Roe Valley Arts Centre inspires new perspectives
A New Chapter
Former female prisoners open their hearts with hand bound book exhibition at the Linen Hall Library
Civil Rights
Void's timely and pertinent exhibition shows that racial equality is yet but a dream in modern America
MAC International
Joanne Savage appreciates flashes of brilliance at The MAC but hopes for greater thrills in future
World Press Photo
Famine, war, family and more – Belfast hosts the international photojournalist exhibit for the first time
From Bolshoi to Belfast
The evolving aesthetics of Russian theatre revealed at Crumlin Road Gaol
Royal Ulster Academy
After 133 years, the annual exhibit of art by members and non-members continues to astonish
Make Every Show...
Endlessly inventive conceptual artist Ryan Gander exhibits in Derry~Londonderry
Ulster Society of Women Artists
Lisburn's Island Arts Centre hosts annual mixed media exhibition
Doppelgänger
Peter Liversidge's Symbolist exhibition at The MAC is a psychosexual Where's Wally?
Crossing the Water
Jeffrey Morgan exhibits 40 years' worth of canvases capturing his wife, author Patricia Craig, in thought
The Starry Messenger
Derry's Void gallery exhibits a cross-section of video works shot on 16mm film
Beyond Measure
Concepts of time and space inspire a range of artists including Patrick Pye at the Strule Arts Centre
Magic Touch
Five artists explore how technology impacts on creativity at the Centre for Contemporary Art
Where Are They Now?
Bill Kirk traces the trajectory of Belfast residents originally photographed in the 1970s and 80s
Laoch Na Laochra
Dara Vallely and Réamonn Ó Ciaráin tell the story of the warrior king Cú Chulainn at Ulster Museum
Arts Council Crafts
Enniskillen's Higher Bridges Gallery displays works from the ACNI Acquisitions Collection of Applied Art
Hidden Agenda
Subversion and irony abound in works from the Crafts Council collection by Grayson Perry and others
Year Zero
University of Ulster undergraduates exhibit glimpses of their artistic vision at SpaceCraft
Palimpsest
An inventive contemporary musing on the fraught nexus between past and present at the Golden Thread Gallery
Where There Are People
Eamon O'Kane uses a derelict greenhouse in Denmark as a metaphor for man's desire to tame nature
Hung by the Hawthorn
Miriam de Búrca exposes societal divisions using folklore, draftsmanship and installation in Enniskillen
Kin
Richard Gorman's meaningless abstract paintings with a Japanese bent leave Joanne Savage flabbergasted
NI Night
Former fabric designer Kevin Collins paints a 'delicate and luminous' version of Northern Ireland under the stars
Idir Dhá Aigne
Michael Doherty and John Stewart present two very different visions of Belfast at An Culturlann
Curious Beasts
John Higgins visits the Ulster Museum as an unusual collection from the British Museum packs up for Hull
Art of the Troubles
Jane Hardy considers the role of art in our understanding of man's inhumanity to man
The Lost & Found Office
Jenny Cathcart visit Seamus Dunbar's immersive exhibition at the Higher Bridges Gallery
Abstract Armature
Simon McWilliams focuses on Belfast's architectural rebirth in his first show in the city for two decades
Babochka
Multifarious objects and marvellous minutiae fill the Higher Bridges Gallery in Enniskillen in memory of the Chernobyl disaster
Kara Walker
Californian multi-disciplinary artist confronts American slave history with this endlessly inventive exhibition at The MAC
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