Category: News

  • We Are Hiring! – Freelance Digital Media Officer

    We Are Hiring! – Freelance Digital Media Officer

    QSS Studios & Gallery seek to recruit an experienced ‘Digital Media Officer’ (Freelance) As one of the largest studio providers and gallery spaces in Belfast, QSS is seeking an enthusiastic, organised and committed individual to work with us as a Digital Media Officer in a freelance capacity. You will work closely with the Membership &…

  • Happy Holidays from QSS

    Happy Holidays from QSS

    QSS would like to wish all visitors, audiences & patrons a very merry Christmas and a happy new year for 2024 We would like to thank all those who have supported us in 2023, either by visiting any of the 18 exhibitions we hosted in our two gallery spaces, visiting the launch of our Patron…

  • Sharon Kelly Awarded ACNI Major Individual Award 2023

    Sharon Kelly Awarded ACNI Major Individual Award 2023

    Huge congratulations to QSS artist Sharon Kelly on being awarded the ACNI Major Individual Award 2023. Sharon is one of 4 creatives honoured with Major Individual Awards in 2023, this years recipients include acclaimed writer, Jan Carson, poet, Stephanie Conn, and writer Gail McConnell. The prestigious awards are given in recognition of the contribution each…

  • Mollie Browne – Queer Assembly

    Mollie Browne – Queer Assembly

    QSS Bursary artist Mollie Browne will be published in Queer Assembly,  a catalogued exhibition of Queer expression from 25+ artists throughout Northern Ireland. Spanning across multiple disciplines and mediums this book is a role call of all those who impact the culture of the Northern Irish art world through their medium and perspective. Connor Mills,…

  • Welcome Mollie Browne – 2023/24 Graduate Bursary Awardee

    Welcome Mollie Browne – 2023/24 Graduate Bursary Awardee

    Each year QSS select a recent graduate from Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, to receive our Graduate Bursary Award.  This award provides the artist with one year access to a 298sq foot professional studio space and inclusion in all QSS led opportunities. This year we are delighted to introduce Mollie Browne as our selected…

  • Gail Ritchie – Basil Chubb Award Winner 2023

    Gail Ritchie – Basil Chubb Award Winner 2023

    Congratulations to QSS artist Gail Ritchie who is the 2023 winner of the Basil Chubb Award. The award is made by the Political Studies Association of Ireland in recognition of an outstanding contribution to research focused on the politics of Ireland. Gail received this award for her practice based PhD research The im/material monument. Some…

  • THE A TO Z OF CONFLICT -a tri-lingual artists’ book by ten Sri Lankan contemporary artists, including QSS artist Anushiya Sundaralingam

    THE A TO Z OF CONFLICT -a tri-lingual artists’ book by ten Sri Lankan contemporary artists, including QSS artist Anushiya Sundaralingam

    THE A TO Z OF CONFLICT Book Launch, Friday 11 August 2023, of ‘The A to Z of Conflict’ commissioned and published by Raking Leaves in 2019 with Abdul Halik Azeez, Muhanned Cader, Arjuna Gunarathne, Nina Mangalanayagam, Nillanthan, Anomaa Rajakaruna, T.Shanaathanan, Anushiya Sundaralingam, Chandraguptha Thenuwara and Kamala Vasuki ‘The A to Z of Conflict’ is…

  • Sharon Kelly – International Printmaking Residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium

    Sharon Kelly – International Printmaking Residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium

    QSS member, Sharon Kelly is undertaking a 5 week international Printmaking Residency 20th August – 22 September at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium. This is a wonderful opportunity to explore and extend printmaking processes, experimenting and integrating 2 and 3D aspects of her art practice. Sharon was awarded the Artist International Development Fund to…

  • Hannah Clegg – Culture Connects

    Hannah Clegg – Culture Connects

    QSS artist Hannah Clegg is among a group of 14 artists taking part in ‘Culture Connects’. Culture Connects is a creative placemaking study that investigates the connection between visual artists and place. Based across two places, Culture Connects explores the opportunities for artist support programmes, cross border mobility, shared workspace, and residencies. This pilot project involves…

  • Art_101 Portfolio Building with QSS & Ulster University

    Art_101 Portfolio Building with QSS & Ulster University

    Over the past few days QSS have had the absolute pleasure of working with a small group of budding artists from Year 13 Boys & Girls Model Secondary School, North Belfast on our Art_101 Portfolio Building Pilot. In collaboration with Ulster University Belfast School of Art, the QSS Art_101 Portfolio Building course has introduced the…

  • Vasiliki Stasinaki – International Residency with Morpho, Antwerp

    Vasiliki Stasinaki – International Residency with Morpho, Antwerp

    QSS artist Vasiliki Stasinaki is on an international residency with Morpho in Antwerp.  The residency is supported by ACNI, SIAP, Artist International Development Fund. The residency runs from 1/5/23-30/6/23. https://morphovzw.be/nieuws/new-residents-spring-2023 During her residency, Vasiliki will work on a research project that explores the industrial landscape of post-civil war Athens through the traditional, working class, male dance…

  • Jennifer Trouton – Supermarket Art Fair, Sweden – Ormston House

    Jennifer Trouton – Supermarket Art Fair, Sweden – Ormston House

    QSS artist Jennifer Trouton has been selected to represent Ormston House at Supermarket Art Fair in Sweden. 11-14 May 2023 ORMSTON HOUSE is a meeting place for the arts in the heart of Limerick City. Their programme is co-designed with artists and citizens, resulting in community partnerships, multi-annual projects and cultural events that are responsive…

  • The Clare French Film selected for inclusion in the Tokyo International Short Film Festive 2023

    The Clare French Film selected for inclusion in the Tokyo International Short Film Festive 2023

    Congratulations to QSS artist Clare French and 1968 Film Group on the selection of ‘The Clare French Film for the Tokyo International Short Film Festival 2023. Tokyo Film Festival is a place for unique and underrated films to be seen, films that experience with new methods of narrating their stories. The festival has two sections, namely…

  • Kwok Tsui – Zabludowicz Collection Masterclass 2023

    Kwok Tsui – Zabludowicz Collection Masterclass 2023

    QSS artist Kwok Tsui was selected to take part in Master Class hosted by Zabludowicz Collection London  Master Class is a Professional Development program that runs from 17 April–23 April Info- Eight early-career artists selected through a national open call are supported by this unique and free programme. The week-long intensive is developed in collaboration…

  • QSS Exhibition Open Call – 2023/24 Gallery Programme

    QSS Exhibition Open Call – 2023/24 Gallery Programme

    QSS are delighted to be in the position of inviting exhibition submissions from artists and curators at all stages of their career for a number of shows in our 2023/24 Gallery Programme.   We are interested in solo or group proposals in any fine art medium. Interested artists should submit (i) an exhibition proposal (250 words), (ii)…

  • Forgotten Spaces – Imagine! Belfast Festival – Meadhbh McIlgorm

    Forgotten Spaces – Imagine! Belfast Festival – Meadhbh McIlgorm

    Forgotten Spaces is a new project being led by QSS artist Meadhbh McIlgorm in partnership with the Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics. It calls on the public to take pictures of unloved spaces of Belfast which catch their attention and to imagine what they could become. It is an extension of McIlgorm’s Liminal [Space] Belfast project which began…

  • Vasiliki Stasinaki – The Irish Times 50 people to watch in 2023

    Vasiliki Stasinaki – The Irish Times 50 people to watch in 2023

    QSS artist Vasiliki Stasinaki has been included in The Irish Times 50 people to watch in 2023: Ireland’s brightest young talent. What an amazing lineup of rising stars, and a very well deserved place on the list to our Vasiliki. The list includes actors, musicians, activists, foodies, models, athletes and artists who are all set for…

  • Sharon Kelly – British School at Rome

    Sharon Kelly – British School at Rome

    QSS artist Sharon Kelly is currently settling into her residency at the British School at Rome. The residency is funded through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland British School at Rome Fellowship. Sharon will be there from January to March 2023 (part deferred from 2020) and while there her main focus of research is: Human…

  • Reuben Brown Awarded the Individual Artists Digital Evolution Award from Arts Council Northern Ireland

    Reuben Brown Awarded the Individual Artists Digital Evolution Award from Arts Council Northern Ireland

    QSS artist Reuben Brown has been awarded the project development funding, Individual Artists Digital Evolution Award by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, supported by The National Lottery. The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has announced funding of £40,000 to support five individual artists from Northern Ireland in the creation of a number of exciting,…

  • Happy Holidays from QSS

    Happy Holidays from QSS

    QSS would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year and thank you for all your support in 2022. 2022 has been a year of growth for QSS with the introduction of a second gallery space and 12 more artist studio spaces, taking us to a…

  • Jennifer Trouton – ‘In Plain Sight 1’ selected for acquisition by Arts Council Ireland Collection

    Jennifer Trouton – ‘In Plain Sight 1’ selected for acquisition by Arts Council Ireland Collection

    Congratulations to QSS artist Jennifer Trouton on the acquisition of her work ‘In Plain Sight 1’ to the Arts Council of Ireland Collection. Since 1962, the Arts Council of Ireland has been buying art from working artists. The Collection that evolved tells the story of modern and contemporary Irish visual art in a unique and…