Accessing Architecture Exhibition

University of Atypical
Ground Floor, Cathedral Quarter Workspaces,
109-113 Royal Avenue,
Belfast BT1 1FF

The work, created by D/deaf, Disabled and Neurodiverse artists, is the culmination of a two-year project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project delivered a series of creative workshops, lectures, research opportunities, disability awareness training, and a film archive collaboration with Northern Ireland Screen. A documentary film on the project will be released in January 2022.

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December 10, 2021

Friday 10th December, 2021

A new exhibition that opens in Belfast on Friday (10th December) will showcase artistic work reflecting disabled people’s experiences of the built environment.

Opening at The University of Atypical for Arts and Disability Gallery on Royal Avenue, the Accessing Architecture exhibition reflects on contemporary attitudes and artistic interpretations to access and inclusion in urban design and architecture.

ISL Promotional video

BSL Promotional video

The Exhibition runs until Friday 27 January 2022 at the University of Atypical Gallery at 109-113 Royal Avenue, Belfast.

Below is a virtual tour of the exhibition:

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Photograph of an abstract painting in pinks, reds, yellows and blacks. It is painted onto the corner of a wall. The painting depicts long wavy lines and abstract renderings of characters, long flowing limbs, hands and feet. In the middle distance, a white sculpture hangs from thin white limbs to form a large sphere.

Tender Ruins Textile Installation by Artist in Residence Susanne Horsch

About the Exhibition ‘Tender Ruins’ is a new immersive soft-sculpture installation that explores the tension between trust, care, and the shifting experience of maternal indispensability. Rooted in fictional storytelling, the

What Lies Within

The work is eclectic and diverse. Each artist has worked independently on their own pieces. There is a common thread of exploration and discovery – uncovering what is seldom seen,

Anna Vidamour – ANIMA (The Un-redacted Daughter)

ANIMA (The Un-redacted Daughter) is an exhibition combining installation, painting and photography in search for the feminine parts of our psyche which we all hold buried amongst our consciousness.

Tender Ruins Textile Installation by Artist in Residence Susanne Horsch

What Lies Within

The work is eclectic and diverse. Each artist has worked independently on their own pieces. There is a common thread of exploration and discovery – uncovering what is seldom seen,

Anna Vidamour – ANIMA (The Un-redacted Daughter)

ANIMA (The Un-redacted Daughter) is an exhibition combining installation, painting and photography in search for the feminine parts of our psyche which we all hold buried amongst our consciousness.

Intangible Bodies – Paul Moore

Intangible Bodies presents a projection mapped audio-visual installation, that treats the gallery as an interface, where perception, attention, and internal sensation are made spatial and shareable. The work is encountered through movement and proximity, part screen, part stage, part signal field.