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We’re delighted to have joined a session today with the young adults.
Today offered the participants an induction in the range of tools and facilities at Women’sTec, an introduction to the opportunities that Harland & Wolff create for women in construction, and an intro from our workshop coordinator into boatbuilding!
The 15 young women, and five alumni, will be building boats all week through the summer scheme. We’ll be back on Thursday and can’t wait to see how they get on!
The Boat Ball (Hello Sailor!)
Thursday 25 July, 6 - 10pm
SHOW SOME LOVE - GREEN HOUSE, 171-175 Victoria Street, BT1 4HS
Here it is - the mash up you didn’t know you needed! PS² x are joining forces to bring you an evening of craic, craft, cans and coxes as part of
We’ll be handcrafting headgear and dragging-up dinghy detailing in preparation for our River Celebration on Saturday 3 August.
Boat you better do! You better (WATER) WERK(S)! etc. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏁
Places are free but limited, and must be booked... link in bio!
TWO WEEKS TO GO!
Join us and partners on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 August, for a water-y weekend like no other!
On Sunday, the fifth annual Festival of the River is organised by LORAG, Market, Short Strand, and Ballynafeigh community partners, and will feature a programme of events including music, dance, sports, health, circus, crafts and a series of taster sessions with boating clubs including our partners
We’ve been so grateful to learn from our community partners over the past months – with guidance on everything from permissions to portaloos! - and hope that you’ll be able to join us for both Saturday and Sunday!
Both days will focus on the same area of the Lagan riverside: between Maysfield Basin (next to the Allstate building near Lanyon Place Station) and up to LORAG on Balfour Avenue.
Follow the link in the bio for more information on what they’ve got coming up…
Images courtesy of Catherine Devlin
We need 20 people, tomorrow (Saturday 20th) at 5pm Vault Artist Studios to help us turn a skiff!
This is a big moment in any boat construction, and there'll be a dram of celebratory whiskey in it for you!
To offer a hand, you can reply to this, or email [email protected]
Please share!
Lagan Currachs Belfast 2024 Maritime Mile Niamh Scullion
A reminder that we have three cool competitions running right now, with some super prizes 🤩
Pic 1: the delightful Sacha, owned by Department for Communities, who have offered a boat trip for one lucky winner 🛥️
Pic 2: yummy Orto .pizza who have donated a generous £50 voucher 🍕
Pic 3: our partners and extremely benevolent hosts who are giving THREE £50 vouchers away! 🛍️
Pic 4: who are offering a free family ticket to explore the visitor attraction 🕵️
Links in bio for the three age groups: under 10s, under 18s and 18s and over.
Deadline: Friday 26 July.
GOOD LUCK! 🤞
We’re here and all set up
Join us and get your boat on! 🛶⛵️🚤🛥️🛳️⛴️🚢🛟⚓️ here from 1pm to 3pm, today, tomorrow, next weekend and next-next weekend!
All the boats you build will contribute to our spectacular river celebration event on Saturday 3 August ✌️link in bio✌️
🔈ANNOUNCING… the series of powerful performances at the heart of our River Celebration on Saturday 3 August:
HIVE Choir, Emma Brennan, Janie Doherty, Rosie Mullin and trad musicians will join together in a symbolic celebration to cleanse the River Lagan and invite hope, prosperity and clean energy to flow through our city, and we’re inviting you to join us!
Coinciding with the Pagan celebration of Lughnasadh, and our votive offerings to the river in the form of thousands of boats, we are also honouring the river through the creation of a myth.
Through performance, song and dance, you will be guided in a procession which invites hope and the promise of new beginnings.
Bring a boat, carry a wave; walk, be guided and feel part of something bigger than yourself 🌊
🗺️ Join us at Mayfield Basin (near Lanyon Place Train Station) from 11.30am on Saturday 3 August to witness this new narrative unfold.
The river she,
bends just to me.
Her will to hone
Is mine alone.
The river she,
I bid her free
cast out the pain
that threatens she.
From my palm,
an offering ship.
Sail on steady,
don’t sway or dip.
An báidín saor
we send to float,
get rid, from she
her sufferin’ coat.
Emma Brennan, 2024
Link in bio for more information!
The last plank is about to go on the skiff! 🍾
Still plenty more to do, but what a moment! From three massive boxes of plywood to a real boat-shaped boat. Amazing hard graft from and her trusty crew of volunteers.
Next week, we’re going to be turning the skiff, so will need all hands on deck (🥁🥁). It’s not as heavy as you might think, but needs careful manoeuvring in
Let us know if you want to lend a hand!
Closing event: mother tongue
Date: 18 July 2024
Time: 6pm
Duration: 90 mins
Location: Tall and Upper Gallery
Free, but booking is essential. Link in bio!
Join us on Thursday 18 July, 6pm - 7.30pm for a special event to mark the end of mother tongue, our current exhibition curated by Ciara Hickey and Alissa Kleist
Janie Doherty , Tara McGinn , Thomas Wells , Jacqueline Holt and Phillip McCrilly work with performance as part of their artistic practice. Over the course of the evening each artist will respond to their work in mother tongue through a series of short talks, readings and performances.
The phrase mother tongue denotes a first language learned from birth and still understood. For this exhibition, the term is expanded outwards in order to connect with methods of communication that shape a sense of personal and collective identity. These methods include the written and spoken word; private and public creative expression and the relationships it shapes; and languages of the body, be this human or terrestrial.
The event is free, but booking is essential.
Link in bio!
🛎️ COMPETITION TIME!
We’ve got three opportunities for you:
* under 10s: design a boat for the river Lagan!
* under 18s: create a zine about the river Lagan!
* 18s and over: document the river Lagan!
Deadline for all is Friday 26 July, so don’t dilly-dally!
We’ve got some lovely prizes c/o .pizza Maritime Belfast Trust and 🥰
📣 SPEED BOAAATS! 📣
Sunday, 7 July 2024, 12pm - 3pm
Led by
Right. So we have (at a rough count), around 2,500 boats. But we need your help to get to 10,000!
We’re holding a marathon making session in 2 Royal Avenue on Sunday 7 July from 12pm - 2pm to help you get your boat on.
From 2pm - 3pm, we’ll be hosting a competition! We’re looking for six people who think they can fold A LOT of boats, REALLY, REALLY FAST. Sound like you? Email [email protected] to sign up.
There will be prizes! 🏆
🙋CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!🙋
We are looking for volunteers to get involved with our river celebration event on Saturday 3 August. We are looking for greeters, guides and general assistants to join our team and help us make the launch of our bazillions of boats (big and small) a memorable and exciting day for everyone 🥰
What’s involved…
A day of your time on Saturday 3 August. The event is entirely outdoors, so please be mindful of ☔ weather when you are considering signing up (though we seriously hope not!). You may be required to be on your feet for a few hours ⚓
The surface of our procession route is smooth, tarmacked, and accessible throughout. There are occasionally grass verges and small areas of cobbles that are avoidable. Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements.
To read more about our plans, click below (Facebook) or visit the link in our bio (Instagram)
https://www.waterworks.site/10000-boat-corso
What we offer…
Stipend for subsistence and travel 🍕
Free hat! 🫅
Experience working with our team to deliver a large event 🎉🟣🟡
To sign up, please email [email protected] by 5pm on Wednesday 10 July. We will host an intro session for you all on the afternoon of Friday 26 July at 3pm.
‘I’ll forever link the Farset with the recently-departed and much-missed poet Ciaran Carson. Gazing into it as a child, into the river’s ‘dark exhausted water’ somewhere at the bottom of Waterville St, Carson saw ‘a bottomless bucket. The undercarriage of a pram. A rusted spring mattress’. Béal Feirste he tells us, in a short prose piece entitled ‘Farset’ (in his collection Belfast Confetti) means the mouth of the (river) Farset. But Carson goes much further. Feirste comes from fearsad, a sandbank. However, the word can also refer to ‘a shaft; a spindle; the ulna of the arm; a club; the spindle of an axle […] a deep narrow channel on the strand at low tide; a pit or pool of water; a verse, a poem’, a wallet, an axis, etc., etc. He teases out the word’s multiple meanings. He renatures Farset, reducing it to a semantic puddle. He also quotes Ward, Lock & Co.’s Guide to Northern Ireland which pokes fun at Belfast’s civic coat of arms, specifically its bell – a ship’s bell we are told – that is a ‘feeble pun’ on the ‘Bel-’ in Belfast. I’m relieved the crest’s designer did not attempt to apply the same graphic punning with the second syllable – adding perhaps cartoon speed lines on either side of the bell to indicate rapid tolling…’.
To read the full post ‘Not Finding The Farset’ by , see link in bio : ‘Streams Of Consciousness Research Residency by Jonathan Brennan.’
Jonathan is currently undertaking an Artist Career Enhancement Scheme award.
It's the last chance to see the PS² Graduate Award Show. The last day to catch it is tomorrow (sat 29th june).
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Last weekend, our WATER WORKS selfie boards went on a grand tour around the city centre taking in a range of sights/sites.
Thanks to our intrepid artists and and photographer who braved the uneven surfaces and intermittent drizzle!
We commissioned these boards from artists and (more info on ‘Oh We Do Like to be Beside the Lagan’ in our bio) to encourage people to think about the riverside in the way that we do the seaside. Stick yer bake in the board and see for yourself!
We’ll do this again in the run-up to 3 August as well as on the day of our river celebration, so if you spot us out and about, take a pic and share it on Instagram, tagging us and we’ll re-share 🤩
We’ve been telling you about our river celebration on and along the Lagan for a while now… but are you ready for MORE INFO?? (You shout ‘yeaaaah!’)
We thought so 🥰 here are some things that are now FACTS:
· When? Saturday 3 August, 11.30am – 2.30pm
· What? 10,000 boats – big and small! Processions, performances, paddling pools! Music, waves, boatbuilding, ropemaking, bubble-blowing, face-painting, info and education stalls, refreshment stalls, boat clubs, water safety… water-way to have a good time! 🥳
· Where? Starting at Maysfield Basin (near Lanyon Station, aka the Allstate Amphitheatre), processing to McConnell’s Weir (aka the ‘two wellie boots’!)
· How? Ideally, we would like you to meander your way to the Lagan by navigating your way along some of the 12 tributaries that flow into it. We’ll be building momentum for our project finale by marking the paths of all the rivers that exist in our city but have been covered over. Rediscover these little rivers and find your way to us 🗺️
· Why? Because - in this city built on water - we all care about our rivers: their power, their vulnerability, and their visibility. The risks of rising sea levels and flooding, versus the major environmental efforts that mean we’ll be able to swim in the river Lagan in 20 years’ time. The boats we’ve been building are (literally and figuratively) vessels that focus our attention on the water.
We want to demonstrate care for our major river through the offering of gifts in the form of boats, and a myth (which it doesn’t currently have) that is crowdsourced from the reflections and aspirations of Belfast’s citizens.
We really hope that you can join us to celebrate our waterways and the creativity of people in the city’s community groups, schools, residential homes, artists’ studios, shopping centres, sheds and kitchen tables.
Last week we were *GENUINELY THRILLED* to deliver our first boat hat workshop - care of the incredible - to the engagement, Culture, Events and Marketing teams. Look at these beauties (both the staff and their boat hats)!
Alongside our ongoing boat-building workshops, we’re now expanding to boat-hat-building sessions so that we can all look the part (in our boatfits? boutfits?) - bobbing along on dry land during our 10,000 boat procession on Saturday 3 August 🥰🫡⛵️
Thanks to the BCC crew for being such good models/sports/guinea pigs!
We have a few spaces left on Sunday’s riso printing workshop with , which will be followed by one-to-ones with more info below…
You must be able to attend both sessions. This programme aims to offer practical support to eight artists based in Northern Ireland who are low-or-no-waged. Participants will receive a stipend of £75 each, which is intended to cover costs including access, travel, childcare etc. This project is supported by Belfast City Council’s Small Grants scheme.
🔵Link to Google Form in bio!! 🔵
Part one: What a Way to Make a Living Riso Print Workshop
Sunday 23 June, from 12.30pm
Soft Fiction Projects printing studio, first floor, PS2, Property House, 11 Rosemary Street, BT1 1QA
During the workshop, you will become familiar with the basics of the Risograph printing process and have the chance to produce a small run of prints.
What we provide:
Paper, access to A3 RISO printer and scanner with three inks (black, blue, fluorescent orange), stationary, access to a laptop with Photoshop.
What to bring:
We encourage participants to bring 2D visual materials and ideas for a print design. This can be (but not limited to): a text, a series of images, textures or patterns, drawings. It is preferable if images are printed in B&W on A3-size or A4-size white paper. If you don’t have access to a printer, just share your files via email to [email protected] by Friday 21 June.
If you are unsure about what to bring, don’t worry, you will still be able to attend the workshop and develop your own print design.
Part two: One-to-ones with Ciara Hickey
Thursday 4 July, Friday 5 July, 10am – 12pm both days
PS2 Project Space, Property House, 11 Rosemary Street, BT1 1QA
In these half-hour sessions, curator and co-initiator Ciara Hickey will spend time with each artist to explore the specifics of your practices, the editions you have begun to develop, and next steps towards selling your work.
Image: Soft Fiction Projects
It didn’t belong to any of us and it belonged to all of us, 2021, Risograph Print Dyptic on Favini Alga Carta.
We went to see the Studio show
Not just because we’re in it, alongside Freelands Artist Programme’s and (PS² studio holder) … but because STUDIOS ARE VITAL ARTS INFRASTRUCTURE and they should be recognised and funded as such and it’s important to take every opportunity to see others advocating for this. It’s a hill we will die on 💁🏼♀️
Boatbuilding for Creatives Part II: 🚨We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat!🚨🦈
Saturday 15 June, 12pm - 4pm
(Marlborough House) led by &
📯 Free! Drop in! All materials provided!
Everybody loved the last workshop and lots of people said they were extremely sad face to miss it. Now we’re super-excited to be able to do it again, and bigger this time!
Boatbuilding for Creatives Part II: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat is a 4-hour long drop-in workshop taking place downstairs at Vault’s city centre Gallery | Project Space and facilitated by artists Leo Boyd & Laura Nelson.
We made the duration longer to allow more time to get creative and expand our minds 🪬 The workshop is open to everyone and is absolutely free.
So come along, drop-in, build your first boat or your 100th, a surrealist skiff, a cubist coracle or DADA tall ship and then we’ll see if they float in the inflatable paddling pool 🛶⛵️🚤🛥️🛳️⛴️🚢🛟⚓️🌊
It seems there is not a lot you are officially allowed to do on Annadale Embankment next to the River Lagan. Stickers on a noticeboard prohibit activities. They are hard to make out, the decals cracked and peeling like old Letraset, the whole piece of signage to which they still cling blackened by flames (it would seem lighting fires was not one of the prohibited activities). The schematic diagrams in red strikethrough circles seem to say: no drinking beer from dimple-glass tankards, no four-legged animals, no gifting of flowers, no queasy attempts at sexy dancing like John Cusack in High Fidelity when Jack Black takes to the stage – no hang on, no, it’s golf, no golfing… although given the large quantity of golf balls I found on my last attempt at ‘Lagan-larking’, it seems this one at least is being ignored….
To read the full post ‘We Just Called It All Grass’ by , see link in bio : ‘Streams Of Consciousness Research Residency by Jonathan Brennan.’
Tagging some friends who are named or alluded to…
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Jonathan is currently undertaking an Artist Career Enhancement Scheme award.
On Thursday and Friday of last week, we were delighted to welcome expert boatbuilder John Wilkinson of who delivered a coracle-building workshop with and Men’s Sheds groups from around Belfast.
Coracles are small traditional boats suitable for one person. John took participants through each step of the build, as well as sharing the history of these fascinating watercraft, used for centuries all over the world. Alongside the practicalities of wood bending, and stitching the canvas to the frame, John also taught the men how to paddles them.
We can’t wait to see them all on the river Lagan as part of our 10,000 boat corso on Saturday 3 August!
Thanks to John Barry , all the men who took part, and to our fabulous hosts
All photographs care of Catherine Devlin
Thanks to all who joined us this afternoon at PeasPark for a series of readings which support ’s research and photographic series This Unending Story. Readings included extracts from authors Tim Robinson, Ursula LeGuin, and Robert MacFarlane, as well as an essay by the artist about the interweaving threads that inspire her.
It was slightly soggier than forecasted, but we were undeterred and had a lovely time!
Huge thanks to and
Yvette Monahan: This Unending Story
Installed at PeasPark, as part of Belfast Photo Festival, 8-30 June 2024
Join us on Sunday 9 June at 2pm for a special event, where will give insight into her work and share her diverse research through a series of readings within the park. Botanical refreshments will be served.
This singular, evocative image is from her ongoing series This Unending Story, with which she explores resonance and consciousness through space, soundwaves, ancestry, and octopuses. The work is an epic meditation on our ability to sense and understand our environment and the ways we are connected to it.
The theme for this 10th edition of is ‘Divergence’: delving into how contemporary photographers are interpreting the complexity of our polarised world, aiming to shine a light on the importance of nuance, critical thought, and interpretation, while offering antidotes for survival.
PS² Graduate Award show
Mollie Browne, Eiméar Harkin, Anya Nicholl, Andrea Murray López, and Éabha Campbell.
opens: Thursday 6 June (Late Night Art), 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition closes: Saturday 29 June
All graduates of Belfast School of Art in 2023, the five artists present a selection of painting, sculpture and print that they have developed in their first year out of college.
Anya Nicholl’s sculptures are non-bodily representation of primal human needs such as warmth, their form reflecting the metamorphosis of objects and tools over time. Mollie Browne’s manipulated photographs are born of feelings of disconnection and anxiety; a sense of dissolving referenced by the picture surface. Eimear Harkin paints scenes of urban dereliction in oils – a dichotomy of value and tradition. Éabha Campbell also works in oils amongst other media. The paintings in this exhibition explore themes of decay, abjection, and visceral experiences from a q***r perspective. Andrea Murray López’s imagined and deconstructed spaces are rooted in sentiments of displacement and metaphorical longing for both place and time.
The PS² Graduate award is an initiative funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland that supports creative and professional development for graduating artists based in Northern Ireland, and fosters long term relationships and collaborations between emerging artists and arts organisations.
Boatcha Kucha
Thursday 4 July, 7pm - 9pm
The American Bar, 65 Dock Street, BT15 1LF
Calling all storytellers!
Boatcha Kucha has the same simple, quick-fire format as the name of the presentation style that we ripped off – presenters show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. That means just 6 minutes and 40 seconds of showboating per person.
Through our project WATER WORKS, we’ve discovered that there are A LOT of boat-themed puns and idioms, and we’ve certainly been using our fair share.
This is an opportunity for you to get them all out of your system through a water-y topic of your choosing: whether you missed the boat, muddied the waters, burned a bridge, are waiting for your boat to come in, or rocked the boat. Whatever floats your… (🥴 sorry, we can’t help it).
To participate, email [email protected] by Friday 28 June with a very brief overview - max. 10 words - of your proposed topic. We have 10 spots available.
We’ve just pressed send on another massive Mailchimp missive, but we forgot to include one very important thing 😭
* Have you joined us for a boatbuilding open day, event or workshop? Two?? More???
* Have you been a returning member of the skiff build crew with and ?
* Maybe you were in the audience for the incredible performance-drawing by .
* Are you a boatbuilding creative who attended Boatbuilding for Creatives with and ?
* Did your primary or secondary school pupil participate in our 38 (to date) schools sessions?
* Maybe you’re a partner or an artist that we’ve commissioned and you’ve forgotten to click the links we sent you 🤨😂
Whatever your level of engagement with our WATER WORKS project, we would love it if you used the QR code to share your thoughts and experiences with us.
It’s really important to us to prove that small organisations with low levels of investment can do big things really well 💪🏚️ plus we need to keep up with the rich tapestry of other projects that form this year of culture.
You can find a range of links in our Linktree (in bio).
Please haaaalp to get our evaluation response numbers up! 🫤
Big boats, little boats, cardboard box boats…
We have downloadable templates for you to build a boat at home, just follow the ‘Build a boat!’ link in our bio. (Unbelievable that the Blue Peter theme tune isn’t available on Insta music 😤)
You can also freestyle with a bunch of floating boating materials, all found at home:
* Blue bin: paper, cardboard and tin
* Brown bin: egg shells, walnuts, coconuts and peels
* Try: natural and/or biodegradable materials like sticks, leaves, clay, willow, wool, and cork 📦🪵🌿🐚🥥
More templates and video guides coming sooooon
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Last month we welcomed 8 curators and members of the @anartistsinfo to Northern Ireland to visit studios, exhibitions, spaces and individual artists. Huge thanks to the a-n team who made this happen, and to the curators for joining us 🥰 thanks too to all of you who welcomed us to your spaces @ccadld @voidartcentre @museumfreederry @catalystarts @themacbelfast @qssartstudios @vaultartistsni and the 24 individual artists who cleaned their studios (and bought lovely buns!) for the curators. There are too many of you to tag here, but we hope you all had great experiences and fruitful discussions! Thanks to the wonderful @jan.mccullough for this video.
Hard to believe that it’s a week since @anushiyaartist made this incredible work, Constructed Journeys, here in the Titanic Drawing Office. If you missed it, (and you definitely missed out!), then you’ll have a chance to see the work as part of our 10,000 boat corso and procession on Saturday 3 August. We’re also cooking up some exciting plans for showing the work later this year and hope to announce details soon. Follow @anushiyaartist for more info. Thanks to @maritimemile for providing this inspiring space, and to @belfast2024 for supporting this important work. You can read about the inspiration for the work, and Anushiya’s personal journey, through the link in our bio.
✨ Silk Scarf and Dance, a choreographic laboratory with Lillian Ross~Millard and Anne White ✨ Expressions of interest for collaborators: Friday 15 March, midnight 🗓 Workshop runs 19-20 April 2024 As part of upcoming project ‘Silk Scarf and Dance’, we’re inviting you to join us in a temporary ensemble of interdisciplinary artists 🤝 ‘Silk Scarf and Dance’ is a choreographic laboratory exploring– quite literally– how lost objects move us. Collectively we will survey the intertwined experience of material and loss through movement. The sessions involve physical and vocal warm-ups and devising techniques made up of games, writing exercises, and movement exploration ✍️ 💌 To form part of the ensemble and attend the laboratory, please send a short expression of interest to [email protected] introducing yourself and why you wish to form part of the collaboration - maximum 200 words. This can be in bullet points, a voice note or video. Please send this by 15 March, midnight. ⏰ A form to share your availability can also be found at the link in our bio to ensure we find a time for the workshops that works for everyone. To be part of the temporary ensemble, you do not need to identify as an artist or dancer. We are interested in gathering a diverse group of practitioners. More information can be found at the link in our bio 🔗 ~~ Above: a writing exercise by Lillian Ross~Millard, thinking through text generation as a way to devise movement. ~~ ‘Silk Scarf and Dance’ marks the final project as part of Grace Jackson and Cecelia Graham’s Curatorial Residency at PS2. The duo were Curators in Residence 21-23.
Save the date, London friends! Betwixt 17 – 23 February 2024 Exhibition Preview & Publication Launch: 6–9pm, Friday 16 February 2024 Betwixt is a celebration of emerging artistic practices across the UK by Freelands Foundation @freelandsfoundation, taking place across four sites in central and north London in February 2024. It brings together works by 20 artists from Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Sheffield in a vibrant week-long event. Four distinctive cultural spaces and venues each host a group exhibition focused on a unique theme: inching towards, beneath, beyond and held. These exhibitions fall within an easily accessible 1.5 mile radius and will be activated by screening programme, special performances and workshops. Artists: Alaya Ang @perennial_evergreen, Beau W. Beakhouse @beauwbeakhouse & Sadia Pineda Hameed @sadiaph, Crystal Bennes @crystalbennes, Theresa Bruno @tee_bruno, Kedisha Coakley @kedishacoakley, Phoebe Davies @phedavies, Jacqueline Holt @whereiamishere, Gail Howard @gail.howard1, Susan Hughes @susandorothyhughes, Dorothy Hunter @dorothy__hunter, Maria de Lima @m.de.lima, Tara McGinn @just_the_heifer, Zara Mader @zaramader, Tyler Mellins @tylermellins, Adebola Oyekanmi @komidashi, Thulani Rachia @thulani_rachia, Kirsty Russell @k_russelll, Christopher Steenson @chris_steenson.wav, Rian Treanor, Adele Vye @adelevye. Partners: PS2 @pssquaredbelfast, G39 @g39cardiff, Talbot Rice @talbotricegallery and Site Sheffield @sitegallery
Have you booked your free ticket yet? Link in bio
Fifth & final edit @ ps2 // I hope my screen based entities ((pink gals)) return someday Maybe falling off screen and into the space next? // It’s been fun xx Giz a follow 4 more from these pink gals >> @fnioagrdn
Fifth & final edit @ ps2 // I hope my screen based entities ((pink gals)) can return sometime Maybe falling off screen and into the space next? // Is been fun xx Giz a follow 4 more from these pink gals >> @fnioagrdn
Fifth & final edit @ ps2 // I hope my screen based entities ((pink gals)) return sometime Maybe falling off screen and into the space next? // It’s been fun xx Giz a follow 4 more from these pink gals >> @fnioagrdn
compartmentalised // glitched // abstracted ((soap meets bod // bod meets soap)) v early experimentation @fnioagrdn
Last 2 days to watch ‘FREE RADICALS’ by Robin Price- this year (plus a week after Christmas). Bath in a massive soundtrack and colour pool and react. @dr_robin_price
We are excited to announce our fourth cohort of artists to take part in the Freelands Artist Programme 2022-23; Jacqueline Holt, Susan Hughes, Dorothy Hunter, Tara McGinn and Christopher Steenson. More information on each of the artists and the Freelands Programme can be found on our website (link in bio) @whereiamishere @susandorothyhughes @the_happy_heifer @dorothy__hunter @chris_steenson.wav @freelandsfoundation
New adventures and challenges ahead of me. @dorota_borowa #processbasedart #markmaking #contemporaryart #waterpatterns
Nathan Crothers Standing up Work in progress performance: Thursday 30th 5pm - 6pm - 7pm @pssquaredbelfast (across from fresh garbage) #nathancrothers #shortresidency #ibuiltawall
short residencies- 2021/22 14 artists, 14x5 days Part 1: 27 September- 13 November 2021 Are we in an overdrive? Or are the artists? 14 artists, selected through an open call, will each use our project space for a 5 day residency, short enough for an intense creative sprint and long enough to explore and communicate their visual practice? That has to be seen. But it seems that the imposed Covid home retreat, tightened for many artists an inner spring, now full of energy, to be released on a bigger scale. From ice painting to concrete casting, women and queer focused projects, to collaborations by artists and one artist family, to craft and performance, the sequence of short residencies promises a broad and colourful spectrum of creative positions of 14 artists. To make this tumble digestible, the short residencies come in two parts: Part 1: 27 September- 13 November 2021 Part 2: 28 May - 25 June 2022 For PS²- and the public- the series offers the chance to encounter new artists and new work, fast-paced and in quick succession. Which, we hope, is an exciting accelerator to get the art ecology flowing again, fuelled by our curiosity and the imagination of the artists. Each residency will be open to the public- at some stage, depending on the work method of the artists. Please check the website and social media for information. Participating artists: Dorota Borowa, Ella de Burca, Greig Burgoyne, Nathan Crothers, Stephanie Gaumond, Fiona Gordon, Meadhbh McIlgorm, Niamh Seana Meehan, Stacey Mulligan, Kate McSharry, Jill Quigley, Karolin Reichardt/Ben Craig/Finnegan/Yorek, Cathy Scullion, Vasiliki Stasinaki/ Ronan Smyth Opening hours: changing, please check website. Covid regulations are in place. No prebooking necessary For more information see https://www.pssquared.org/projects/short-residencies-2021-2022 This project is supported by The National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Irelan
👉👉 APPLICATION DEADLINE! Submit your application to the PS² Freelands Artist Programme by this Saturday (18th September). We will select five re/emerging NI based artists to participate in the programme for 2 years. Each artist will receive an annual fee of £5000 plus curatorial, practical and financial support for creative and professional development along with opportunities to exhibit their work in London and at PS². @freelandsfoundation #freelandsartistprogramme #emergingartists #visualartistsnorthernireland
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