Category: Past Event
Plaster Casting Workshop with Model Citizen
We had hoped to have people in the gallery to take part in a one-off plaster casting session with architect/maker John Donnelly of ‘Model Citizen’ but we can’t right now!
Sooo we thought we would bring the workshop to you!
Register to take part in John’s workshop, and we will send you everything you will need to join us on Zoom. You will be sent all the ingredients needed to take part, apart from water and an old bowl. Each kit will be delivered in a cardboard box and your model will be made using a special non-toxic material that picks up a greater level of detail than standard gypsum.
We are grateful for the support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund in funding this programme.
National Lottery Heritage Fund Northern Ireland
Please Click below to register before the 25th of October 2020
Model making kit will be provided via post. Workshop will take place on Zoom.
Brian Kielt – Confessional
Titled Confessional, this solo exhibition features portraits and landscapes which combine found and original imagery. The shifting perspectives of these paintings prompts the viewer to – physically – take a position on these events, as we alter our stance to understand everything we are seeing and what it is trying to tell us.
Drawing on historical documents – particularly those from events of national and international shame such as genocide, war and famine – can teach us how to understand ourselves. Kielt weaves figures, objects and landscapes from these pictures into a painted tapestry alongside personal archive material: images of figures, objects and landscapes from his own life.
Acupuncture for Artists
Mental ill-health amongst artists is three times the national average. To coincide with Confessional’s themes of trauma and anxiety, we are offering free acupuncture sessions for artists in partnership with Extern. 24 places are available and will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Please note: this is auricular (ear) acupuncture rather than whole body. Auricular acupuncture treatment decompresses the nervous system to produce calmness. It detoxifies and balances the body energy channels.
This will be supported with acupressure techniques (which do not involve needles) and complimentary therapies massage – head, hands, full body, reflexology – as well as reiki.
Gillian O’Hagan & Helen Sloan – Missing Voices
Over a five week period, Helen and Gillian worked with a group of nine adolescent girls from four schools across Belfast. Using smartphones, the girls produced a series of 34 photographs, giving a powerful and moving insight into their lives inside and outside of the mainstream school environment.
Led by Gillian O’Hagan and Helen Sloan, this discussion will delve deeper into the focus of the Missing Voices project which aims to amplify the adolescent female voice of ASD. The panel will look at the importance of creative expression in helping girls with ASD to allow parents, teachers, friends and others to understand their experience of the world around them.
They will also discuss the chronic problem of misdiagnosis in female ASD, asking why practitioners continue to use male-led diagnostic criteria that leaves countless young girls unseen, unheard and unrepresented.
Alma Haser – Pseudo
Pseudo is a series that plays on what’s real and what’s not. In a world where we are constantly told about Fake News, not to believe the first thing you read or are told. And where social media and the internet toy with our beliefs and acceptances. Alma explores the idea of the fake and the real and the in-between with everyday plants. Here she uses techniques of paper-layering, cutting and manipulation by hand to create multiple images that confuse the eye by contorting reality, similar to a Chinese whisper effect, or the more recent ‘Fake News’ phenomenon.