Author: Aoife Earley
NVTV interview with David Turner
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in InterviewLocal television channel NVTV have featured studio artist David Turner ahead of his exhibition at QSS Gallery.
Interview with Sinead McKeever in Irish News
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in InterviewArts Q&A: Sinead McKeever on Blondie, Dickens and rocker Julian Cope
Family Art Tour & Workshop with Young at Art
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in NewsEnjoy an exclusive free tour and workshop around one of Belfast’s most exciting artist’s studios, QSS Bedford Street. Discover art with your family through a free guided tour of the current QSS Studios exhibition ‘Print Salon – #buythedozen’ followed by a parent & child art workshop with Jane Butler. The exhibition is created in collaboration…
Studios Available to Let at QSS
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in NewsQSS invites applications for two studio spaces commencing in 2016. First space: Second floor studio is 202.25 sqf and the rent per month is £55.59 Second space: Third floor studio is 115.17 sqf and rent per month is £32.52. This is a short-term project space for a minimum of three months/maximum 6 months let. This…
Short Term Studios Available to Rent at QSS Bedford Street
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in NewsQSS has two short-term studio spaces available to let, commencing in September 2015. One studio at 6 month let (140sqf) and one studio at 10 months let (308sqf). Located within a large studio complex in Belfast City Centre, which also houses QSS Gallery. The studio application is open to established and emerging artists. We also…
British Journal of Photography – What to see at Belfast Photo Festival
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in Publication[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text] What to see at Belfast Photo Festival Written by Gemma Padley Red Bus – Zoe Murdoch Cosmic Surgery Series – Alma Haser All images © Jordan Hutchings, courtesy Belfast Photo Festival Back for its third edition, this year’s edition of Belfast Photo Festival pulls out all the stops with a packed…
Critical Military Studies Journal with Gail Ritchie
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in Publication‘Looking for Frank’ – A Photo Essay by Gail Ritchie About the Journal: ‘Critical Military Studies (CMS) is an interdisciplinary sub-field which intersects with political science, international relations, sociology, anthropology, human geography, media and cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, and science and technology studies, among others. Critical Military Studies includes scholarly work by academics,…
New edition of The Weary Blues with QSS artist Sean Campbell
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in PublicationQSS Studio member Sean Campbell is included in the Visual Arts section of the recently released 7th edition of The Weary Blues.
Sabina MacMahon. Studio visit
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in PublicationSabina MacMahon is interested in how narratives translate into pictures and how, very often, there are several stories behind one image or object. She works from her studio at her home in Dublin. Sabina works mostly with found objects which she reinvents to form completely new stories and histories. These found objects exist in many…
Presently
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in Publication6 February – 29 March 2014 Exhibition at Millennium Court Arts Centre Presently showcases new work from eighteen emerging contemporary artists in Northern Ireland. The exhibtion ranges from sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and film to installation and multidisciplinary work. Presently is accompanied by a new limited edition publication, with an introductory essay by Ciara Hickey. Artists: Gordon…
European Heritage Open Day
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in NewsOur building will be included in this years European Heritage Open Day. Built circa 1875. Formally JF Haig’s Emerald Shirt Factory Warehouse. The building is now occupied by QSS charitable organisation. QSS is an artist studio provider, providing studio space for 23 visual artists.
Dougal McKenzie at The MAC International
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in NewsQSS Studios member Dougal McKenzie was shortlisted for The MAC International 2014 award. Exhibition open from Friday 31st October, through to Sunday 18th January 2015. “I think of painting not simply as a self-contained world of depiction, but rather as a surface that connects to other surfaces. I am interested in the proposition that if the…
Encouraging & Enabling
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in PublicationVisual Arts News Sheet – September 2014 Visual Arts Publication pdf
Interview with Zoë Murdoch
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in InterviewFor The Arafudo Annual Festival of Art 2014, Tsuchiyo Onsen, Fukushima Zoë Murdoch lives in Belfast and has been based at QSS Studios since 2001. In 2012 she was elected as an Associate Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy. Murdoch has had two solo shows in the Queen Street Studios Gallery and a one person…
Shock and Awe – Contemporary Artists at War and Peace
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in PublicationGail Ritchie, QSS artist, has been invited to exhibit work as part of Art, Memory and the Aftermath of War at the Royal West of England Academy. Part of a series of exhibitions curated by Professor Paul Gough, Ritchie will exhibit one of her tree ring drawings in ‘Shock and Awe’ Contemporary Artists at War and…
David Turner – Hama Bead and Lego Artist
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in InterviewInterview with QSS member David Turner on Jung Katz “David Turner is a Belfast based artist who creates autobiographical work through toy mediums that reflect conflict, terrorism, and evoke critical commentary on present day violence and war. Growing up in turbulent Belfast, Turner was surrounded by violence and conflict. These events have had a direct influence on…
Wood and Trees: War and Remembrance
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in PublicationListen on BBC Radio, Free Thinking programme. 45 min From Paul Nash paintings of blasted tree stumps in the first world war to today’s commemorative planting: Paul Gough, Gabriel Hemery and Gail Ritchie join Samira Ahmed to explore woods in war and peacetime. The 100th anniversary of World War I is being marked by the…
The Place of Painting – A Painting Symposium
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in NewsThe MAC’s inaugural symposium for arts practitioners, students and artists will explore current conditions related to contemporary painting practice. There are markedly pluralistic approaches to how painting can be thought of today; new attitudes towards figuration and abstraction work alongside ever increasing methods of ‘expanded’ practice and new technological media. Narrative concerns, history, socio-political stances,…
Sinead McKeever. Studio visit
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in PublicationArticle by Slavka Sverakova. Sinead McKeever (MFA, 2008, University of Ulster) is based at Queen Street Studios, Belfast, in the new spaces at Bedford Street. She described her art practice thus: My practice is process lead; through experimentation and rigorous editing I explore the possibilities of found industrial and domestic materials. Ockhams’s Razor, the principle…
Kindred Spirits
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in PublicationArtists from Ireland and China find parallels in their lives and art in a series of exhibitions. Belle Taylor follows the Irish Wave. An exhibition bringing together artists from Ireland and China not only sparks a dynamic visual conversation but also demonstrates the global bond between artists. Convergence is one of several exhibitions being staged in…
Lord Mayor’s visits QSS
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in NewsThe Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, stopped by QSS Artists’ Studios & Gallery to take a look at our new location on Bedford Street and see the QSS Christmas Salon exhibition. The Lord Mayor also got a chance to chat with the QSS Board and a number of studio members! In regards to his visit…