The Naughton Gallery

The Naughton Gallery The Naughton Gallery is located at the heart of Queen's University. More details at http://www.naughtongallery.org/silversounds/

Since 2001, The Gallery has become one of Belfast’s most sought after and exciting visual arts platforms, featuring a rolling programme of works from the University’s own collection, touring exhibitions and shows by local and international artists. The Naughton Gallery is a registered museum and is named after its benefactors Martin and Carmel Naughton. The Naughton Gallery presents up to eight ex

hibitions per year and also co-ordinates commissions of new art works for Queen’s University. The University’s extensive art collection comprises gifts, bequests and purchases since the foundation of Queen’s College in 1845. The wide range of works includes paintings, prints, works on paper, sculpture, furniture, metalwork and silver. The collection is on display throughout the University with an impressive hang of over forty portraits in the Great Hall. On semi-permanent display is Silver Sounds, our new interactive display of the Queen's silver collection, winner of the Times Higher Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts 2008.

Our brand new sports exhibition, NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS, is now open! Visit daily, 11am–4pm. Free admission. Image: ...
20/06/2026

Our brand new sports exhibition, NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS, is now open! Visit daily, 11am–4pm. Free admission.

Image: Sheena Rose

Huge thanks to artists JJ Guest, Grace McMurray, and Sheena Rose for telling us more about their work at this morning’s ...
19/06/2026

Huge thanks to artists JJ Guest, Grace McMurray, and Sheena Rose for telling us more about their work at this morning’s Art in the A.M. tour.

Be sure to visit our brand new sports exhibition. Open daily, 11am–4pm.

Launching tonight! Join us for the opening of our brand new sports exhibition, NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS!Bringing toget...
18/06/2026

Launching tonight! Join us for the opening of our brand new sports exhibition, NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS!

Bringing together an international selection of artists working across painting, photography, textiles, sculpture, comics, installation, and publishing, the exhibition examines sport not simply as entertainment or spectacle, but as a powerful cultural arena through which ideas of identity, politics, gender, aspiration, and belonging are continuously negotiated.

Thursday 18 June, 5.30–8pm. Free admission. All welcome.

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⚽️ 24 hours until the launch of NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS, the eighth instalment of our annual sports exhibition!🥊 Join...
17/06/2026

⚽️ 24 hours until the launch of NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS, the eighth instalment of our annual sports exhibition!

🥊 Join us in the gallery from 5.30–8pm. Thursday 18 June. All welcome!

Join us tomorrow for the launch of our brand new sports exhibition! Thursday 18 June, 5.30–8pm. All welcome. Free admiss...
17/06/2026

Join us tomorrow for the launch of our brand new sports exhibition! Thursday 18 June, 5.30–8pm. All welcome. Free admission. Refreshments provided.

NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS explores the high-stakes territory where art and sport intersect, bringing together an international selection of artists working across painting, photography, textiles, sculpture, comics, installation, and publishing. The exhibition examines sport not simply as entertainment or spectacle, but as a powerful cultural arena through which ideas of identity, politics, gender, aspiration, and belonging are continuously negotiated.

The works on display consider how sport shapes both personal and collective identities, functioning simultaneously as a site of visibility, pressure, exclusion, resistance, and release. Ultimately, the exhibition positions sport as far more than a game: a lens through which wider questions surrounding power, identity, community, and contemporary culture come sharply into focus.

Featuring works by:
Johann Andreu / Lottie Burns / Ella Garvey / Nieves González / JJ Guest / Takehiko Inoue / Amanda Larkin / Shane Lee Lyons / Radka Leitmeritz / Andrew McConnell / Grace McMurray / Kasper Nyman / Colin J. Radcliffe / Sheena Rose / Jansson Stegner / Chloé Wary / Gina Wynbrandt / Younguk Yi

Image: jansson stegner

No hocus pocus, just out of focus! All will be revealed when our brand new sports exhibition opens this Thursday, 18 Jun...
16/06/2026

No hocus pocus, just out of focus! All will be revealed when our brand new sports exhibition opens this Thursday, 18 June, 5.30–8pm.

Join us for the launch! All welcome. Free admission.

Join us at the c̶o̶t̶t̶a̶g̶e̶ gallery on Friday 19 June for an Art in the A.M. tour of our brand new sports exhibition, ...
15/06/2026

Join us at the c̶o̶t̶t̶a̶g̶e̶ gallery on Friday 19 June for an Art in the A.M. tour of our brand new sports exhibition, NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS, with artists JJ Guest, Amanda Larkin, Grace McMurray, and Sheena Rose.

Sadly, Ilya and Shane are unavailable.

Art in the A.M. | Friday 19 June | 10am–11am | Free admission | Tea and Coffee provided

Some more sneak peeks from NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS, our brand new sports exhibition launching this Thursday, 18 June,...
14/06/2026

Some more sneak peeks from NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS, our brand new sports exhibition launching this Thursday, 18 June, 5.30-8pm. All welcome!

Move over, Knicks.It’s Naughton in Five. 🏀Five days until our brand new sports exhibition opens at the Naughton Gallery....
13/06/2026

Move over, Knicks.
It’s Naughton in Five. 🏀
Five days until our brand new sports exhibition opens at the Naughton Gallery.
Thursday 18 June, 5.30–8pm. All welcome.

SCREEN/PRINT is back on Monday with a screening of 12 Angry Men (1957) to coincide with QFT’s new courtroom drama season...
12/06/2026

SCREEN/PRINT is back on Monday with a screening of 12 Angry Men (1957) to coincide with QFT’s new courtroom drama season, Objection!

Arguably the most radical courtroom drama in cinema history, 12 Angry Men is an electrifying snapshot of one tense afternoon in a sweltering jury room.

Attendees will receive a free specially-commissioned poster by illustrator .

Screening Monday 15 June, 6pm. Tickets on sale now from Queen's Film Theatre.

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1st Floor, Lanyon Building, Queen's University
Belfast
BT71NN

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 4pm
Wednesday 11am - 4pm
Thursday 11am - 4pm
Friday 11am - 4pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

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+44 (0) 28 9097 3580

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