Exhibitions
NOVEMBER featured exhibition Nothern Landscapes by Susan McKeever & Catherine Gaston.
susan mckeever is an artist from North Belfast. She graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art from University of Ulster in 2000. Susan was a member of the Queen St Artists Studios collective for ten years and has exhibited her work in Ireland and internationally. Catherine Gaston is an artist living and working in North Belfast . She graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from University of Ulster . She has artwork in the collections of The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The University of Ulster, Arts Care, The Irish News and numerous private collectors. This exhibition focuses on exploring the Northern Irish landscape.
DECEMBER
assemblages A two person exhibition by artists Deirdre Mackel and Nuala Gregory. These two artists have worked collaboratively in an installation format under the broad theme of landscapes of the past. For this exhibition, Deirdre Mackel has produced an installation entitled ‘Accidental Gardens 2’. It consists of a child-like garden made from an enclosure of miniature barbed wire fences, and toy gardening tools, including elements of Nuala Gregory’s flower works and small wall sculptures or ‘shelves’, assembled together allowing for the combination and interplay of ideas and materials derived from two locations. Deirdre references her remembered landscapes of growing up in West Belfast throughout the conflict and Nuala responds with objects representing those commonly found in the earth- old bottles which she delicately embellishes with buttercups and daisies, resting them on lemonwood shelves to reference her current landscape of New Zealand. This assemblage of objects, symbolises the way things are thrown together in chaotic metropolitan space, forming accidental relations among which new possibilities might yet be glimpsed.
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