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Craft artists listen to Northern Ireland's past and talk to its future in Film | Makers exhibition
Footage from NI Screen's Digital Film Archive provides the source material to inspire contemporary works 'of enormous interest and beauty' -
Watch This R-Space
Co-director Robert Martin on how the personable Lisburn gallery came to be and carrying forward the city's linen-based legacy -
Rita Duffy's Soften the Border Project Cushions the Blow of Brexit
The renowned artist's eye-catching textile installation is a colourful commentary on freedom of movement across the Irish divide -
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 -
Tony Hill Exhibit Spans Five Decades of Artistic Diversity
Career retrospective brings highlights from the multi-talented artist's immense body of work together for the first time at Banbridge's F.E. McWilliam Gallery -
Jill Todd Photographic Award Exhibition Comes Home
Though tinged with sadness, this annual celebration of new young talents remains bold and provoking in its Northern Ireland debut -
A Riot of Colour in Greater Shantallow
Part of the Communities United festival, Joe Campbell's latest exhibition embodies a new hub of creativity hidden in Derry's industrial outskirts -
Changing Perceptions at Belfast Children's Festival
Visionary artists Cleary Connolly lend a fresh pair of eyes with high-tech helmets designed to simulate how different creatures see the world -
Where Art and Science Intersect
Aislinn Cassidy's fusion of both fields stems from systematic constraints in education and disconnect between areas of study -
Going into Business with Art
Meabh Nichol and family on opening the Ormeau Road's new Hallows Gallery and the visual works making it a viable venture -
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 -
Future Artist-Makers in Derry
Major European touring exhibition opens at Nerve Visual gallery comprising works which embrace the latest digital fabrication technology -
Michael Is The Hero We Deserve
Vice illustrator Stephen Maurice Graham on 'elevating the ordinary to a fantastical place' with his online comic series and its not-so-super protagonist -
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 -
Better Than the Real Thing: Daniel Nelis
We profile the young Donegal artist whose work earned him last year's Royal Ulster Academy Portrait Prize -
MAC International Returns
The biannual exhibition centered around Ireland's richest arts prize is back in Belfast, with Slovenia's Jasmina Cibic its newly-named winner -
Ulster Museum the Site for Captivating Poppy Display
Weeping Window sculpture will be installed as part of next year's Belfast International Arts Festival and ongoing First World War commemorations -
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 -
Susan MacWilliam Conducts Modern Experiments
The Belfast artist's most comprehensive exhibition to date channels spectral phenomena with beautifully eerie installations, images and sculptures -
Unseen Troubles Photos at Nerve Visual
Gilles Caron's never before exhibited images of the Battle of the Bogside in Derry~Londonderry are now on display at the former Turner Prize gallery -
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 -
Art in the Right Place: Sinead Smyth
Having returned to her native Inishowen and taken her craft full-time, the painter is finally at home with putting her colourful life on canvas -
The Draw of David Hockney
Senior Curator at the MAC, Hugh Mulholland, on the enduring artist's widespread appeal and bringing his works to Belfast in a fascinating new exhibition -
Seeing Stars at Linen Hall Library
Photography exhibition will capture astronomical beauty from Northern Ireland viewpoints and features talks on how to shoot the night sky -
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 -
Deconstructing Anne Tallentire's Shelter
Major art project co-commissioned by Nerve Centre and 14-18 NOW lays bare a century of basic survival necessities using only the materials required -
Stretcher Bearers of the Somme
Artist Leslie Nicholl uses raw materials from the WWI battlefields to explore humanity amidst the horror in his current Linen Hall Library exhibition -
From Here to the White House
Ulster American Folk Park celebrates its 40th year with an exhibition of Frank McKelvey portraits tracing the local links of US presidents -
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 -
Drawn to the Sea
Fusing fashion with intricate illustration and Irish mythos, artist/designer Sara O'Neill is taking her unique, coastal style to the international stage -
Turner Prize Gallery Reopens with 'Shelter'
Anne Tallentire marks the First World War Centenary with a major new work at Derry's Ebrington Parade Ground, co-commissioned by the Nerve Centre -
Ulster Museum Art Gets Westerosi Rework
Newly-unveiled piece re-imagines famous Northern Ireland painting with signature creatures from the Game of Thrones world -
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 -
Terry Bradley Exhibit Set for Omagh
One-off showcase at the Crosshill Gallery on June 17 presents the second only ever opportunity to see the Belfast artist's collected works in Northern Ireland -
The Presence of Absence
Pete Irvine documents Ireland's forgotten buildings in gritty photo series on display at the Playhouse, Derry, until August 28 -
Late Night Art - August 6
Belfast's public galleries open to 9pm on the first Thursday of the month with exciting artist talks, exhibition launches and more -
Breathtaking Drone Footage Teases Derry Urban Arts Festival
Soaring promo clip shows Ebrington Square like never before as graffiti artists prepare to Release the Pressure -
Derry’s Engage Offers Free Photography Workshops
New creative start-up engages global experts to educate aspiring and professional photographers in concept, portrait, food, wedding, fashion photography and more -
Arts Sector Etiquette: The Private View
If you're lucky enough to be invited, and given access to the free booze, you should be aware of the dress code and the unusual art of Working the Room -
Naughton Gallery Celebrates Spanish Poet Góngora
Watch video from prestigious Queen's University exhibition charting the Baroque lyric poet's career and influence, featuring first edition books, audio readings and more -
Connor Maguire, Drawings & Woodcuts
Award-winning Belfast-based artist on the ethos behind his new exhibition at the Down Arts Centre until May 30. 'I want to show the method behind each composition' -
Submit to Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition
Artists working in all disciplines invited to enter up to three works for consideration to be displayed in the Ulster Museum from October 2015 -
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 -
Creating Andrew's Comic
Kevin Logue of Uproar Comics on helping Belfast-born comic book fan and cancer sufferer Andrew Fitzsimmons tell his story for the benefit of future generations. 'He was a fighter' -
Cartoonist Martin Rowson on His Four Favourite Works
Having satirised government for decades, the award-winning journalist and illustrator appraises his own work ahead of a visit to the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival -
Art Loves Carrie Neely
Award-winning art consultant on setting up business as a single parent during the recession, the hard slog of the jet set lifestyle and rebranding for the global market -
Buzz Logan – Shankill and Beyond at Red Barn Gallery
Red Barn Gallery founder Frankie Quinn introduces new retrospective exhibition of work by photographer and photojournalist Buzz Logan – view a selection of images -
Pop-Up Exhibition Invades Derry
Foyleside, Café Del Mondo, LegenDerry Warehouse and other venues host works by over 50 young artists and designers as part of UK-wide project ‘somewhereto_framed’ -
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 -
George Callaghan, The Last Minstrel
Having written his autobiography, the expat painter and musician discusses his style, aversion to religious sloganeering and relationship with the land of his birth -
Acorn Fund Legacy Grants
Public urged to apply for two new rounds of grant programmes that will help support community arts and culture projects across County Derry -
Attempt at Normality
During World Autism Awareness Week, Sync Space in Bangor hosts photographic exhibition revealing the everyday experiences of children on the autism spectrum -
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 -
Jim Fitzpatrick at The Wicker Man
Belfast craft shop exhibits original artwork and prints by Ireland's foremost Celtic art specialist and creator of that iconic two-tone Che Guevara portrait -
Users Support #SaveCultureNI Campaign
Our users have rallied to tell the Arts Council of Northern Ireland how and why they use our website and associated digital platforms - read what they have to say -
RUA President Supports #SaveCultureNI Campaign
Colin Davidson, president of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts and portrait artist to the stars, labels Culture NI 'an increasingly vital and hugely supportive website' -
Arts Council Announce £1.38m Funding Cut
List of Annual Funding Programme awards for 2015/16 now available to view, with Culture Northern Ireland, Blackstaff Press, Musical Theatre 4 Youth and others losing core funding -
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
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