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Sunday, March 11, 2012

A brief History Of Art

February 12, 2011 at 6pm to April 2, 2013 at 7pm – Ulster museum Ever wondered if the ompressionists really starved in garrets? Or puzzled over what is romantic about Romanticism or new in Art Nouveau? Then this could be the course for you. Richly illustrated an… Organized by Ulster Museum | Type: course
ART AND SOCIAL DROP-IN

April 18, 2011 at 9am to June 27, 2012 at 9am – Jubilee Hall (green building) TSX the Art of Charity is running an Art and Social Drop-in every Wednesday 9am - 12, at Jubilee Hall (parking off Carrickfern Gardens) Greenisland. You don't have to be a budding Picasso to drop in… Organized by Rosetta Jallow | Type: art, and, social, drop-in
Shoreline

April 21, 2011 at 7pm to May 30, 2012 at 9pm – Strawberry fair an exhibition of new work by Joanna Martin. The title of this exhibition encompasses her passion for the wildlife found around the shores or Strangford lough and the north Antrim coast. Her main inte… Organized by sian maxwell | Type: exhibition, opening
Biospheres

April 23, 2011 to May 6, 2012 – Strangford Lough, Biospheres temporary sculpture floating on Strangford Lough commissioned by Strangford Lough and lecale partnerships. Artists Ngaire jackson and Clare lawson of Red apple arts. Viewable from Strangfo… Organized by *Ngaire Jackson and Clare lawson | Type: temporary, floating, sculpture
Entwined extended to 5th June

May 21, 2011 at 10am to May 5, 2012 at 5pm – Red Barn Gallery Final year Belfast Metropolitan College HND students Fine Art Extended to 5th June Organized by Red Barn Gallery | Type: fine, art, exhibition
a hand held

June 10, 2011 at 11am to June 13, 2012 at 5pm – Wild Strawberry Gallery, Strangford, Co Down Exhibition of Ceramics by Deirdre Hawthorne Delicate one-off sculptural vessels in paper-thin porcelain and red earthenware. My work and voice are rooted in the Irish landscape, in specific pla… Organized by Deirdre Hawthorne | Type: exhibition
JOKFACE SOLO EXHIBITION 'NOTHING FUNNY'

June 23, 2011 at 7pm to June 29, 2012 at 8pm – Creative Flux, First Floor Studio One week only. Organized by JOKFACE | Type: exhibition
Anything but a still life....

June 30, 2011 to July 16, 2012 – Red Barn Gallery Margaret Hamill’s dedication to bringing art into the community as a unifying force was as vibrant as her extraordinary paintings. A new exhibition of the late artist’s work at Belfast’s Red Barn Gal… Organized by Red Barn Gallery | Type: exhibition, of, paintings
nigel peake

July 16, 2011 at 11am to August 22, 2012 at 5pm – Srawberry fair Strangford Nigel Peake has a background in architecture. He creates drawings of everyday things that surround him. Most of his days are spent on commission work or self related projects and books. He provides i… Organized by sian maxwell | Type: exhibition, of, drawings
New part time HNC course in Fine Art Printmaking at BMC

September 19, 2011 to September 19, 2012 – Belfast Metropolitan College New Part time course in Fine Art Printmaking Starting 21st September at BMC CODE: C4056 / 101P This HNC in Fine Art Printmaking has been designed to meet the needs of those who wish to develop their… Organized by Dr. Josephine McCormick | Type: course
Catalyst Arts Membership

January 11, 2012 to December 31, 2012 – Catalyst Arts, Belfast Membership entitles you to: Attend and vote in our AGM’s – members input into the programming  and running of the organisation is welcomed and encouraged. Exhibit in the Annual Members Show. Join a… Organized by Rob Hilken | Type: membership
Blick Workshops and Courses

January 23, 2012 at 12pm to April 18, 2012 at 10pm – Blick Shared Studios Following on from the success of the Autumn semester of creative industry courses we can now offer you an exciting new line up of courses starting week beginning 23rd January. Industry professional… Organized by Blick Studios | Type: creative, courses
Drawing Together

February 8, 2012 at 6pm to March 30, 2012 at 4pm – Creative Exchange Studios, Portview Trade Centre, Belfast Description On Thursday the 2nd of February, Creative Exchange Artists present 'Drawing Together', a collection of new work by the collective, based on the concept of drawing, in it's widest sense. A… Organized by Creative Exchange Artist Studios | Type: drawing, exhibition
THEY ARE NOT ALBINOS at Mailbox 141 Melbourne

February 14, 2012 at 6pm to March 16, 2012 at 6pm – Mailbox141 A kangaroo drying his paws, a pelican statue, pap, a naked nymph, mix and match meat packs, UFOs, skylab, scrotum tobacco pouch, sexy celery, creepy ornaments, weird logos, puppies in windows, teeth… Organized by Johanna Leech | Type: exhibition
Interplanetary Revolution

February 16, 2012 at 6pm to March 24, 2012 at 4pm – Golden Thread Gallery The opening of Interplanetary Revolution may feature a cocktail bar, a chorus of ice cream vans, the introduction of another currency and a song by the factotum choir that they never quite cracked.… Organized by Golden Thread Gallery | Type: exhibition
Phil Hession: My heart is always trembling, afraid I might give in

February 16, 2012 at 6pm to March 17, 2012 at 7pm – Context Gallery, Derry Context Gallery is pleased to present Phil Hession’s solo-exhibition My heart is always trembling, afraid I might give in. During the opening event on 16 February, Hession will perform three renditio… Organized by Context Gallery | Type: opening, reception, and, performance:, 16, february, 2012, 6pm
Regressions

February 16, 2012 at 6pm to March 30, 2012 at 7pm – Belltable, Limerick Allan Hughes Exhibition opens Thursday, 16th February @ 5.30pm. Regressions For his solo exhibition Regressions at The Belltable, Belfast-based artist Allan Hughes presents two artworks, which invest… Organized by Allan Hughes | Type: exhibition
Sean Lynch Solo Show

February 23, 2012 at 7am to March 16, 2012 at 11pm – Catalyst Arts Gallery Sean Lynch 24 February – 16 March Opening to the public on Thursday 23 February, 7–9pm. Catalyst Arts presents the first solo show in Belfast by Irish artist Sean Lynch, showcasing an expanded vers… Organized by Catalyst Arts | Type: annual, solo, show, exhibition, art
Rita Duffy, Arctic Circus

February 25, 2012 at 10am to April 28, 2012 at 5pm – F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio This exhibition of new work’s by Rita Duffy is inspired by her three month residency in Norway and her travels to the Arctic Circle in 2010. The title of the exhibition, Arctic Circus, references bot… Organized by F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio | Type: exhibition
Robert Mercer 'An Irish Australian not looking for trouble'

March 1, 2012 to March 17, 2012 – Red Barn Gallery Robert Mercer An Irish Australian not looking for trouble. Robert Mercer recalls how his family left Portadown for Australia in 1958 with photographic clarity: he remembers sitting in a black cab wit… Organized by Red Barn Gallery | Type: photographic, multi, media, event
Irish Writers

March 1, 2012 to March 30, 2012 – Cavan http://tp://www.cavanarts.ie/Default.aspx?StructureID_str=6&guid=34 Organized by Ursula Burke | Type: exhibition
Belfast/New Belfast: Past, Present and Emerging

March 1, 2012 at 6pm to April 28, 2012 at 5pm – PLACE, 40 Fountain Street, Belfast BT1 5EE A bird’s eye view of the regeneration of Belfast. This exhibition goes into detail on developments in the city, providing a fascinating overview of the work by both the public and private sector, and… Organized by PLACE Architecture Centre | Type: exhibition
Commemorate

March 1, 2012 at 6pm to April 28, 2012 at 4pm – Space CRAFT, 9b The Fountain Centre The Craft & Design Collective's Annual Exhibition 2012 at Space CRAFT The Craft & Design Collective presents COMMEMORATE the Craft & Design Collective's Annual Exhibition 2012, at Space… Organized by Space CRAFT | Type: exhibition
Loci of Memory

March 1, 2012 at 7pm to March 31, 2012 at 9pm – Ards Arts Centre Loci of memory is concerned with the preservation of memory within spatial environments, enabling the retention, recovery and [re] telling of individual and collective memory. This work is concerned… Organized by Ards Arts | Type: exhibition
I was here. I lived. I loved. - New paintings by Clinton Kirkpatrick

March 1, 2012 at 7pm to March 24, 2012 at 9pm – Waterfront Hall, Belfast A new exhibition of painting by Clinton Kirkpatrick relating to a research trip to Kenya in May and June 2011. Clinton's painting takes of two distinctly different styles. His abstract painting is a… Organized by Clinton Kirkpatrick | Type: painting, exhibition
f(t)=xy²

March 1, 2012 at 7pm to March 31, 2012 at 4pm – Belfast Print Workshop This collaboration between the artists Sarah Gordon and Sarah Crooks, explores systems of transferal between a series of objects. An initial concern with the function of fiction led to an investigati… Organized by Belfast Print Workshop Gallery | Type: exhibition, opening
Littoral Zone by Ards Arts Collective.

March 2, 2012 to March 31, 2012 – Down Art Centre, The Ards Arts Collective have taken the littoral zone, an inter-tidal area of the shore affected by both water and light, as a subject for this exhibition. These twenty artists are all local to Stran… Organized by Sally Houston | Type: group, show
Turning Tides & Nests by Amanda Bradbury & Jennifer Brown

March 3, 2012 at 2pm to March 18, 2012 at 4pm – Castle Espie Art Gallery ‘Turning Tides’ by Amanda Bradbury Amanda has worked as a professional artist since 1997, but was drawing and observing animals and wild places from a very young age. She graduated from Bournemouth… Organized by maeve curran | Type: art, exhibition
Call for Submissions - Nice Exchange

March 3, 2012 at 6pm to March 15, 2012 at 1pm – Catalyst Arts Catalyst Arts, Nice Exchange in partnership with ''La Station''.Catalyst Arts would like to invite their membership to take part in an international project. An exhibition which will take place in La… Organized by Catalyst Arts | Type: call, for, submissions
International womens Day festival

March 5, 2012 at 6pm to March 12, 2012 at 7pm – Blck Box Book launch Black Box Tueday 6th 6-9pm Organized by IWD | Type: international, womens, day
International Women's Day

March 8, 2012 at 7pm to March 22, 2012 at 1pm – Eden Arts Centre A Bird's Eye View, Eden Arts Centre, Derry Exhibition Opening March 8th Closing March 22nd Showcasing Women Artists Organized by Pilots Row | Type: exhibition
Inside Art

March 9, 2012 at 3:30pm to March 30, 2012 at 5pm – The Playtrail Now taking Bookings for our next Comic Book Programme! Iniside Art will continue into March with a BaSH!...BooM!...and BaNG!... with some more exciting comic strip creation! Throughout the month of M… Organized by Claire Heaney-McKee | Type: comic, book, creation....
ReFound Pop-up Shop #6

March 9, 2012 at 6pm to March 31, 2012 at 6pm – 9 Wellington Place, Belfast Description The 6th ReFound pop-up shop returns to Belfast after a run in Glasgow and the environs of NI! Showing the latest collection of our unique brand of restyled found pieces & 'works of fu… Organized by Jill O'Neill | Type: shop, -, exhibition
Free Opening of Mount Stewart

March 10, 2012 at 10pm to March 11, 2012 at 5pm – Mount Stewart outside Newtownards Free opneing of Mount Stewart 10-5pm includes Hand book fair Organized by .Natonal Trust | Type: stately, home, visit