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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 -
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 -
'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 -
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 -
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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