Category: Publication

  • Mollie Browne – Queer Assembly

    Mollie Browne – Queer Assembly

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    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,…

  • 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

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    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…

  • QSS and its artists featured in VAI News Sheet

    QSS and its artists featured in VAI News Sheet

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    QSS was invited to contribute to the May/June issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet, which included a regional focus on Belfast [click on the image below to view]. Also, included in this issue was a piece by Gerard Carson entitled Continuum: Belfast & Beyond and a profile on Amanda Coogan by Kate Antosik Parsons.

  • QSS member Jennifer Trouton mentioned in a review of the RHA’s Annual Exhibition by Cristin Leach

    QSS member Jennifer Trouton mentioned in a review of the RHA’s Annual Exhibition by Cristin Leach

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    The RHA’s 187th Annual Exhibition is currently on show in Dublin and was recently reviewed in The Irish Times by critic Cristin Leach who commented: ‘There are near-hidden gems, by Dorothy Smith and others, amid the selection of mostly monochrome or greyscale works in the Ashford Gallery. Do not miss ‘I Told My Mom I…

  • Unafraid Red review by Slavka Sverakova

    Unafraid Red review by Slavka Sverakova

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    Check out Slavka Sverakova’s review of the recent Unafraid Red exhibition at QSS Gallery curated by Colin Darke. This exhibition, the first in a series of four member’s shows, featured work by Amanda Coogan, Catherine Davison, Sinead McKeever, Gail Ritchie and Jennifer Trouton. Unafraid Yellow follows in August with works by Sean Campbell, Ashley Holmes, Clement…

  • New work by QSS artist David Turner featured in The News Letter

    New work by QSS artist David Turner featured in The News Letter

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    The News Letter has published an article on David Turner’s, latest body of work entitled ‘Space Cadet’. This new series includes representations of President Donald Trump, Nelson Mandela, Che Guevara and Lenin as unpoliticised teens. To view the full article click HERE.  

  • British Journal of Photography – What to see at Belfast Photo Festival

    British Journal of Photography – What to see at Belfast Photo Festival

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    [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

    Critical Military Studies Journal with Gail Ritchie

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    ‘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

    New edition of The Weary Blues with QSS artist Sean Campbell

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    QSS 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

    Sabina MacMahon. Studio visit

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    Sabina 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

    Presently

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    6 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…

  • Encouraging & Enabling

    Encouraging & Enabling

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    Visual Arts News Sheet – September 2014 Visual Arts Publication pdf

  • Shock and Awe – Contemporary Artists at War and Peace

    Shock and Awe – Contemporary Artists at War and Peace

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    Gail 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…

  • Wood and Trees: War and Remembrance

    Wood and Trees: War and Remembrance

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    Listen 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…

  • Sinead McKeever. Studio visit

    Sinead McKeever. Studio visit

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    Article 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

    Kindred Spirits

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    Artists 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…

  • Distributed through Space and Time

    Distributed through Space and Time

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    5 December 2013 – 19 January 2014. Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast Review by Slavka Sverakova Installation view Curated by Sarah McAvera the exhibition takes its title from one line in Canto 1 of Pale Fire(1962) by V Nabokov. The curator limited the number of artists to three, possibly in relation to the small size of the…

  • Something about Painting

    Something about Painting

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    Carissa Farrell explores the way in which Susan Connolly, Jennifer Trouton and Judy Carroll Deeley forge their own vision of oil on canvas at the Solstice in Navan.

  • Moments of Inception review

    Moments of Inception review

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    17 October – 16 November, 2013, QSS Studios and Gallery, Belfast Review by Slavka Sverakova See documentation of the exhibition Expanding the curatorial field Eoin Dara has chosen the unexpected.  Objects that may or may not be art, nonchalant debris of something else, birth of an idea made just about visible, or not. Dara describes his…

  • ‘Bit Part’ by David Turner at UNIT exhibition

    ‘Bit Part’ by David Turner at UNIT exhibition

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    17 October – 5 November 2013 at Platform Arts, Belfast David Turner is an artist who works in a variety of media. By using themes such as conflict and violence, Turner tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer…

  • Precursor at Catalyst Arts Gallery

    Precursor at Catalyst Arts Gallery

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    From original published on August 16, 2013, by Slavka Sverakova. Veni, vidi 81 artworks from 81 artists, one, John Ryan, invited, the rest all paying members of Catalyst Arts. It was founded twenty years ago, as Peter Richards puts it in an accompanying brochure, ‘homeless’, appropriating temporary spaces and site specific projects until in 1994…