What started out as a hobby for Dawn Demain, owner of Carnlough-based Antrim Rain Natural Soap Co., has turned into a successful brand, gift shop and tourist experience. Initially making soap to pass the time…
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‘Carved at the Castle’ offers a variety of unique traditional craft courses, giving you the chance to learn how to create something distinctive in limestone that is 74 million years old. Run by The Rock…
Mid and East Antrim ceramic workshops for you with Potter and Bunny By Jade Hamill If you’re looking for a creative pursuit or hobby, then you have come to the right place. The next time…
Belfast is blessed with an abundance of wonderful art galleries which showcase the very best in local and international talent. This December, why not take some time out and visit one of the many exhibitions…
With winter fast approaching and night stretching longer into the day, we all need a burst of vibrancy in our November. Thankfully, The MAC has arranged an array of fabulous events to attend this month. …
Wondering what’s on? Look no further: your fix for artistry comes directly from Northern Irish talent Anne Tallentire with her exhibition ‘But this material…’, hosted at the MAC. Anne Tallentire is a modern artist famed…
Some of you may know The Golden Thread Gallery as simply that – a gallery. But did you know it hosts a wide variety of contemporary art exhibitions and participatory events by a mix of…
One week to go until thought provoking installation opens at Writers’ Square With just one week to go before a very different Culture Night Belfast this year organisers are emphasising to visitors that “it’s definitely…
Culture Night Belfast is back this year with a new format and new approach thanks to the support of Belfast Harbour. Last month the creative team behind this year’s Culture Night Belfast installation revealed ambitious…
Zipporah (Zippy) Reynolds is a 28-year-old Freelance Artist from Banbridge, specialising in street art/illustration. For the past 9 years, she has been working as a Textile Artist for film and TV after studying Fashion Design…
Creative lead unveils thinking behind Ogham Grove This year’s Culture Night promises a spectacular structural, lighting and sound experience designed by Belfast artist Gawain Morrison around the ancient Druidic language Ogham. Promising to be both…
Damian Mills from Lisburn is a PhD Candidate in Music for the Performance Without Barriers research team in Queen’s University Belfast and is also a bandleader for Beatndrum Samba in Belfast. He is this year’s…
The Cathedral Quarter Business Improvement District (BID), Destination CQ, has formally launched its Business Plan for the next five years as it enters balloting on re-establishing the improvement district for a further five years. Damien…
Tomàs FitzGerald is a Lighting Designer and Co-owner of Stage Lighting Centre. Originally from Dublin, Tomàs’ love for stage lighting sparked at an early age when he helped out backstage at his father’s shows –…
As the conversation around climate change heats up ahead of COP26 in November, the team behind Culture Night Belfast 2021 have stated their ambitions for an “almost 100% sustainable event” this year. Partnering with artist…
Perched just a couple of hundred yards from The Gobbins Cliffs, Audrey Kyle offers a unique art workshop, helping people learn the skills of painting as well as connecting with nature. Folklore and the landscape…
Graduates to exhibit as part of exiting creative team in Makers House Ulster University graduates from Belfast School of Art are set to showcase their work in Makers House at The Designerie in Bushmills. This…
Northern Ireland’s leading contemporary artist Willie Doherty opens his international exhibition at the Ulster Museum. Running from the beginning of July will be available to view until 12th September. Twice Turner Prize nominee Willie bases…
The ArtisAnn Gallery on East Belfast’s Bloomfield Avenue is to play host to a new selection of work from one of Ireland’s most eminent artists, Neil Shawcross. The exhibition – Kinky and Friends – will…
Belfast’s Black Box is hosting a free online exhibition from inter-disciplinary artist Emma Brennan throughout July, each evening from 6-7pm. Emma’s work is predominantly in performative practices, including multi-media installation, moving images and collaborative processes….
There is still time to see Yan Wang Preston’s exhibit showcasing three series from her work produced in the last decade. Presented by Belfast Exposed, this current Street View showcases the artist’s earlier performance work,…
Belfast’s Golden-Thread Gallery is premiering the installation of Suzanne Lacy’s Across and In-Between which outlines the voices and experiences of border residents during Brexit negotiations until August 14. The installation uses words, imagery, sound and…
The pandemic has revived a love of painting in many. Explore the history of heroic women artists and a study of the life and work of visionary female artist Hilma Af Klint with two great…
With more than 30 years-experience making jewellery and teaching others, Heather McFadden’s Gobbins Crafts offers the perfect opportunity to learn a new skill. Gobbins Crafts gives visitors the chance to learn to make their own…
Home to Belfast’s most innovative and cultural spaces, the Cathedral Quarter is host to a whole host of festivals, art exhibitions and cultural events. With restrictions beginning to ease, now is the perfect time to…
Hobbycraft, the UK’s largest arts and crafts retailer, is pleased to announce the opening of its store in Boucher Shopping Park, Belfast, on Tuesday 20th July. To celebrate this new store, Hobbycraft is also hosting…
Belfast City Council announced an open call to all street artists to submit a proposal for creating a new co-designed piece of street art in the city that reflects on the people and the communities…
Northern Ireland, 15 June, 2021: Today, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the 51 talented finalists, from across the UK, for the 11th nationwide BAFTA Young Game Designers (YGD) competition….
Six creative practitioners from the Causeway Coast & Glens and Mid & East Antrim Borough Council areas have been successful in their recent application to the “Northword Creative Practitioners Call”. Each will receive funding to…
Following the ease of restrictions, Belfast Galleries have reopened their doors to welcome art-loving visitors. Here’s our list of 7 art exhibitions not to be missed in June. Naughton Gallery This months theme at Naughton…
Reimagine, Remake, Replay, the organisation focusing on connecting young people through creative media and the latest tech, Zeppo Arts and LUMI, Queens Film Theatre, which has been screening the best of independent cinema in Belfast…
The Black Box Belfast introduces this months’ online exhibition featuring Gabriel Hyra, the young Brazilian artist. Drawing from personal experiences, Gabriel’s key themes explore sexuality, politics of intimacy, suffering, capitalism, mixed media and LGBTQIA +….
Representing the region’s past and present political and religious divisions, murals have become symbols of Northern Ireland. Anyone who ever visited the city knows that Belfast and its walls are covered in art. These pieces…
Gobbin’s Crafts, a jewellery studio owned by goldsmith and designer Heather McFadden, is the 11th business in Northern Ireland to be granted Économusée status. Today (May 13th) Causeway Coast & Glens Heritage Trust invited guests…
Nuala Convery (Wee Nuls) is a 28year old street artist & illustrator from Belfast. Her street art career started via an unusual route, the events industry . She started off creating murals of her illustrations for…
Natasha Swan, a 27 year old artist from Islandmagee, creates handmade pottery using traditional making on the pottery wheel. After extensive training both in Northern and southern Ireland she launched her business in 2018 addressing…
Joanne Campbell (47) is an Artist from Whitehead. She started in the industry in 2013 when she turned 40, although she has been drawing and painting most of her life. What genre / style do…
Belfast gallery ArtisAnn is presenting an online exhibition, Creative Undoing, by Carol Graham RUA until Saturday 1st May. Carol Graham is a well-established and critically acclaimed artist whose work is held in many important collections….
Lucy Craig is a 27 year old Textile Artist, working in the community doing projects and running workshops. She is from Ballymena, but now lives in Ahogholl. Her professional practice preserves our heritage onto textiles, combined with…
John Cooney (64) is an artist from Carrickfergus. He paints in watercolour and oil. He started painting while teaching in primary school. John had to give teaching up as he became more successful as an artist. …
Winner of the 2020 RCSI Art Award, Artist Colin Martin will be taking part in an online conversation and Q&A as part of the online conversation series presented by ArtNetdlr Artist Talks. The talks aim…
Jordain Molloy Gillen is a 26 year old artist and designer from Ballymena. Graduating in Fine Arts in 2017, was the starting point for Jordain’s career as an artist. He recalls his time at uni…
Rory Shearer (67) and Helen Shearer (65) from Ballymena run Studio Potter together. After graduating from Art College Rory worked as a studio assistant with Forge Pottery Antrim. What genre / style do you create…
Leanne, the 25 year old Freelance Illustrator from Magherafelt, lives in Belfast. She started in the industry by constantly going to gigs from when she first started university. As she met various musicians Leanne started to…
In Resonance is the first solo exhibition by exciting new artist Saffron Monks-Smith. Saffron’s inaugural solo exhibition will take place online and ‘focuses on life that could have been, depicting a contrast between abandoned rural…
Sebastian K Akehurst is a 28 year old Photographer/Digital Creative from Armagh. He has started in the industry in 2014. Let’s get to know him better, shall we? What genre / style do you create in?…
With contemporary dance based on the theme of hope, a ‘part Lord of the Flies, part Animal Farm’ theatre performance set in a post pandemic future, and an exhibition that explores the magic of everyday…
Louis is a 65 year old Artist from Carrickfergus. Let’s find out more about her, shall we? How did you get started in the industry? Art College, Advertising and Design Agencies. What genre / style…
Aaron Hickland is a 27 year old Actor and Clown from Loughinisland, County Down. Aaron first got his love for acting when his drama teacher, Siobhan O’Toole cast him as Private Gar in the school’s…
Under a Christmas Sky features Northern Ireland’s finest musicians, actors, poetry and story-telling, filmed live at the Ulster Folk Museum. From traditional to contemporary everything you will see and hear has one thing in common….
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