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Alongside at Queens University Belfast
October 22, 2012 from 1pm to 3pm
Alongside is a two hour performance from international emerging talent. Coming together for a second time, Belfast based artists and international guest artists will work alongside each other in the Belfast Festival at Queen’s for a campus wide performance. This event is a development from a workshop with Jürgen Fritz and the Art of Encounter with Black Market International and Bbeyond, hosted by Queen’s University in May. Following from these workshops the Belfast based artists were invited to…See More
An event by Tonya McMullan was featuredAlongside at Queens University Belfast
October 22, 2012 from 1pm to 3pm
Alongside is a two hour performance from international emerging talent. Coming together for a second time, Belfast based artists and international guest artists will work alongside each other in the Belfast Festival at Queen’s for a campus wide performance. This event is a development from a workshop with Jürgen Fritz and the Art of Encounter with Black Market International and Bbeyond, hosted by Queen’s University in May. Following from these workshops the Belfast based artists were invited to…See More
Tonya McMullan posted an eventAlongside at Queens University Belfast
September 22, 2012 from 1pm to 3pm
Alongside is a two hour performance from international emerging talent. Coming together for a second time, Belfast based artists and international guest artists will work alongside each other in the Belfast Festival at Queen’s for a campus wide performance. This event is a development from a workshop with Jürgen Fritz and the Art of Encounter with Black Market International and Bbeyond, hosted by Queen’s University in May. Following from these workshops the Belfast based artists were invited to…See More
Tonya McMullan is attending PRIME Collective's event
A Creative Method at Holywood Arches Library
September 5, 2012 at 9am to September 30, 2012 at 1:30pm
Everywhere we look and everything we read right now seems to tell us that we are at a new juncture. We find ourselves in the midst of an unprecedented moment of change in the city of Belfast. In East Belfast a new landscape is appearing and the old fabric of the area and its neighbourhoods are changing at an enormously fast rate. Prime will use a creative approach to archive and document a building in East Belfast whose function is changing. The collective will make work in response to the…See More
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- In an attempt to expand the role of artist, audience, curator, host and performer Tonya uses her practice to promote participation, seeking to actively involve groups of artists, the public, and her own family
and encouraging the viewer and participant to consider the confines of our environment, using a broad range of media including video sculpture and performative practice. The attempt is to offer the viewer a clue or comment to the themes of the everyday and the trials, tribulations
and struggles we all go through in our desires to win and achieve. By playing with the subject matter/ audience and materials the work reveals the friction between actual everyday life and social expectations.
Co director at Catalyst Arts since July 2010, co founder of artist run initiative, echo, a member of the Belfast print Workshop and PRIME, new Belfast based arts collective. Currently PRIME are resident in the PS2 Storeroom
Artist Statement
In an attempt to expand the role of artist, audience, curator, host and performer Tonya uses her practice to promote participation, seeking to actively involve groups of artists, the public, and her own family and encouraging the viewer and participant to consider the confines of our environment - using a broad range of media including video sculpture and performative practice.
The attempt is to offer the viewer a clue or comment to the themes of the everyday and the trials, tribulations and struggles we all go through in our desires to win and achieve. By playing with the subject matter/ audience and materials the work reveals the friction between actual everyday life and social expectations.
Tonya is a co – director of Catalyst Arts, co – founder of Edinburgh based artist group echo and participant in Belfast based art collective, Prime.
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Opportunity - EMERGING ARTIST AWARD 2012
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 3:01 0 Comments 4 Likes
Siamsa Tíre
EMERGING ARTIST AWARD 2012
As part of an initiative to support developing and emerging artists, Siamsa Tíre is offering an Emerging Artist Award which recognises new undisputed talent and promise. The award of €2,500 will be offered to a recent graduating artist along with a solo exhibition space in the Gallery Programme in…
Continue Rise
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 14:13 4 Comments 0 Likes
Nearing completion is a new landmark for Belfast City, 'Rise' sits on the broadway Roundabout - a main
thoroughfare into the city - what are your thoughts on the new addition to the belfast skyline?…
Curator in Residence - 'Research Phase'
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:50 0 Comments 2 Likes
Curator in residence 'research phase' starts Monday 14th June - Partcipants: Ben Crothers, Charlotte Bosanquet, Rowan Sexton, Sinead O’Donnell, Lydia Holmes, Yvonne Kennan, Siraj Izhar, Susan Lynch, Tonya McMullan&Colm Clarke.
PS² will be arranged as an office for the participants, during this phase the curators should each or in a team work and develop two proposals, one for the project space and one for an outside location. Two proposals will be selected and realised in January…
Continue HERE YOU GO
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 15:39 1 Comment 0 Likes
To have a look at the progress of HERE YOU GO postcard project @ PS2 (part of give and take) please visit - http://ning.it/if85nv
Postcards detailing a map of the area surrounding PSsquared Gallery in Belfast were available for visitors to pick up between the 4th and 16th April 2011. People were invited to mark the spot on the map which they feel has a significance personally/politically/ etc.…
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