The work draws on the language of navigation systems, biometric readouts, and mediated memory, translating lived experience of neurodiversity and invisible disability, into tempo, glare, delay, and drift. Rather than illustrating a narrative, the installation asks the audience to move, reorient, and tune in, noticing how the body makes sense of unstable information in real time.

About the artist:

Paul Moore is a Belfast-based interdisciplinary artist working across Audio Visual installation, performance, and digital media. His practice explores embodiment and endurance, often using the aesthetics of surveillance, interface design, and data visualisation to examine how bodies are mediated through technology. Underlying his approach to his practice is a belief that access and attentiveness are creative tools. His practice asks how technology might become more himan, messy, affective, capable of expressing difference and empthy rather than control. Moore has exhibited widely across Ireland, the UK, Europe, and the US, with exhibitions including Torrance Art Museum, Golden Thread Gallery, IMMA, CCA Derry, Platform Arts, and The MAC Belfast. He has been supported through multiple arts awards and development programmes, and maintains a studio practice at PS ² , Belfast.
Paul Moore was the recipient of the University of Atypical Digital Innovation Award 2024 funded by the Santander Foundation and would also like to express his thanks to the Guesthouse, particularly Mick O’Shea and Irene Murphy.

About the exhibition:

Edel Murphy, CEO and Artistic Director says that the group exhibition ‘twixt takes its name from the notion of being in between, at an interval and interweaving. Recipients of our d/Deaf and Disabled Support Fund grant programme have used the funding to deliver new pathways towards their own goals, some artists pursuing experimental directions or new ambitions – each at their own stage of development and discovery between concept and realisation.

‘twixt showcases the work of some of our twenty d/Deaf and Disabled Artists Support Fund 2025 (DDASF) awardees, including Darlene Corry, Elly Makem, Emma Brennan, Eve Belle, Finn Nichol, Hana Abri Smith, Indigo Azidahaka, Jamie Baker, Jayne Cherry, Kate Guelke, Brian McAvera, Abby Oliveira and Liam Devlin. The exhibition includes ceramics, painting, textiles, music, photography, digital art, spoken word and sculpture.

Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 14 January – Wednesday 25 February 2026
Late Night Art opening – Thursday 5 February from 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday 21 January 1:30 – 2:30 pm

About the award:

The d/Deaf and Disabled Artists Support Fund (DDASF) is a dedicated individual artist development initiative supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland through National Lottery Funds. The awards enable and support d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists to develop their professional practice across all artforms. The award provides important funding for artists to produce new, high-quality work; to receive training: mentoring; or to buy creative time to practice their artform.

New name – same fund.

The DDASF fund will be renamed as Atypical Generation Fund and will be opening for applications in February 2026. The fund will remain the same – just a fancy new name. To apply, check out our website or social media or call the Atypical Gallery to find out more.

“The DDASF scheme has been incredibly valuable to me. As a disabled artist, opportunities like this allow me to work at a professional level and connect with producers and collaborators who help bring my work forward.”
(d/Deaf and Disabled Support Fund recipient 2025)

about the artist:

Charys is an Irish visual artist working primarily in installation. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Aberystwyth University, and an MFA from Ulster University. Her immersive, contemplative works explore light, space, and time and often draws on natural elements. She has exhibited widely across Ireland, the UK, Germany, and Japan, with solo exhibitions in Berlin, Belfast, and Derry-Londonderry.
Charys often creates installations using light as a medium. She is deeply passionate about the climate crisis, our connection to the natural world, and the impact of this connection/disconnection on our mental health. She focuses on creating immersive works that minimise impact and that are created using recycled or biodegradable materials with the climate crisis in mind. Every installation is dismantled or recycled, reflecting her commitment to sustainability and addressing the growing disconnect between humanity and nature.

About the exhibition:

The work is inspired in part by the practice of forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku: a Japanese tradition of spending quiet, mindful time among trees. Research shows that this kind of intentional time in nature can reduce stress, improve mood, and even boost the immune system.
For many of us this kind of immersive experience can feel out of reach, especially during the colder months or in urban environments. This installation is a way to bring some of those benefits indoors: a moment of calm, light, and quiet connection.
At a time when the climate crisis is making rhythms of nature more fragile and unpredictable, this piece also serves as a gentle reminder of what we might be losing, and what we still have time to protect.
This installation is about reconnection with nature, the passing of time, and our role in sustaining the environments we depend on. It doesn’t aim to shock or overwhelm, but instead to gently remind, and soothe the viewer, offering a visual respite in a busy overstimulating world.

The boats’ delicate frameworks echo the human skeleton—structures that support yet fracture, heal, and hold history. This duality invites viewers to contemplate how displacement shapes the body and psyche alike.

Passages reflects the fluid, often fragmented nature of migration—marked by disorientation, resilience, loss, and transformation. It is a layered, evolving dialogue about crossing boundaries, carrying histories, and the ongoing work of remembering and rebuilding. The exhibition is a meditation on movement as both physical passage and emotional journey—a shared, universal story.

About the artist: Anushiya is a multidisciplinary artist from Sri Lanka, now based in Belfast, working across printmaking, painting, sculpture, textiles, installation, mixed media, and performance. Her practice explores migration, cultural memory, identity, and belonging, shaped by my move from Sri Lanka to Northern Ireland in 1989. A graduate of the University of Ulster (1998), she exhibits locally and internationally, with work in public and private collections. Based at Queen Street Studios and Belfast Print Workshop, she also works as an arts facilitator. Her work seeks to build cultural understanding and create spaces for shared stories and meaningful connections through art.
A pivotal moment in her personal and artistic journey was returning to Sri Lanka from the UK in 1995, during the height of the civil war. That journey—marked by travel across land and sea, including small boats—left a deep emotional imprint. It underscored the complex

interplay between danger and safety, loss and reconnection, which continues to inform the emotional terrain of her work.

Exhibition times:

Late Night Art opening event: 6:00 – 9:00 pm on Thursday 2 October
Exhibition: Thursday 2 until Friday 24 October by normal opening hours (Tuesday to Friday 10:00 am – 5:30 pm)
Bounce weekend opening: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm on Saturday 4 October, and 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm on Sunday 5 October
Artist Talk: Friday 3 October from 2:00 – 3:00 pm in the Atypical Gallery (free, no booking required)