Mollie Browne, a fine artist from Cookstown now living in Belfast, completed a First
Class BA Hons Degree in Fine Art at Ulster University (2023).

Awards include, ACNI SIAP General Art Award, QSS Graduate Bursary Award,
Engine Room Gallery Graduate Award, PS2 Graduate Award and The Thomas Devlin Fund, The Community Foundation for NI. ACNI’s Artist of the Month (December 2023). Shortlisted finalist for the Ingram Prize and the Global Design Graduate Show in collaboration with Gucci.

The main technique created by Browne, Acetone Manipulation on photographic images,
explores her state of mind, feelings of disconnect and anxiety. Her identity and others can be seen to dissolve, capturing a sense of existential crisis.

Clancy is a painter and lecturer in Fine Art Painting at Ulster University Belfast. In 2006 she gained her MFA and later completed a practice led PhD that examined ideas of gendered space through painting practice also at Ulster University (2012). She has exhibited in many group and solo exhibitions, most recently: John Moores Painting Prize Exhibition, Walker Gallery, Liverpool, (2025), Matter Out of Place (solo) Ulster University Gallery, Belfast (2025), Difficult Joys, HERmetics in the Studio, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh (2024), HOUSEHOLD editions, La Roche House, Belfast (2024) Structure (Solo) QSS Gallery & Studios, Belfast (2022). She presented her paper, ‘The Expanded Gesture: Painting Gender and Materiality after De Kooning’, at Painting in the Expanded Field: A Symposium, Crawford College of Art, Cork (2024).

Gail Ritchie studied art and design at Ulster University (BA Hons. 1991) and at Queen’s University (MA Arts Management 2013). In 2022  she was awarded a PhD in International Relations from Queen’s University. She has been a studio holder of Queen Street Studios (QSS) since 2003. Rewards received include Arts Council Ireland, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Cultural Relations Committee, the British Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. 

She has undertaken residencies at the Irish Cultural Centre Paris, Rooftop Studios Berlin, and the British School of Archaeology Ankara. Her work is in private and public collections throughout Ireland including National Museums Northern Ireland, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Government Collection and the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery Cork.

Currently she is researching the themes of time, technology, conflict and memory as part of the Art of Remembrance project at La Coupole Centre for History and Remembrance in Northern France.

Kate O’Neill is a Belfast-based artist, exploring space through drawing, sculpture, and installation. O’Neill has exhibited in Northern Ireland (Golden Thread Gallery, QSS, PS2, Bangor Walled Garden), England (HPAC, Leeds Playhouse, BCB 2025), Croatia and
Poland. O’Neill was awarded the Creative Bursary Award 2023 by Belfast City Council. Graduating from Fine Art at the Belfast School of Art, O’Neill specialised in Sculpture and Lens. She studied traditional sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art in Zagreb, Croatia.

Through an anthropological approach O’Neill explores the body’s place
within the socio-cultural landscape. She creates artworks which defy patriarchal classification in hopes of dismantling the sexual inequality embedded within visual language. O’Neill combines traditional practices and contemporary materiality to renegotiate the domestic space they fabricate. She manipulates tactile and visual
perception presenting familiar objects in unnatural materials, evoking uncertainty. Her artworks insist femininized handicrafts are a matter of generational and societal resistance.

Sharon Kelly works fluidly between 2 and 3D processes, incorporating drawing, painting, print, sculpture and video, exploring themes of fragility, resilience and transformation. She is concerned with the marking and mapping of human experience and her work mediates between memory and imagination.

Kelly graduated from Ulster University with MA Fine Art in 1989, and alongside her studio practice, she has collaborated in projects with children, teachers, poets, writers, dancers, choreographers, athletes and boxers. Kelly is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and fellowships, most recently the Major Individual Artist Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland 2023; Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, International Printmaking Residency 2023; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA, 2022. In 2020 she was awarded the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Fellowship at The British School at Rome, which she completed in 2023.

Alana is an Irish painter based in Belfast. Her work explores memory, identity and youth, often drawing from found and familial objects. Her work weaves familiar motifs and symbols, drawing from the compositional harmony of traditional painting.

Hannah Clegg is a visual artist based in Belfast. She understands painting as intuitive, kaleidoscopic prayer. In her practice, it is a threshold unto devotion, intimacy, and contemplative observation, where the Spiritual and the Emotional meet. For Hannah, painting directly translates internal narratives into fields of colour; colour is sanctum, womb-like. Painting in many thin layers, she hopes to build up a highly-chromatic, nuanced depth that might be stepped into or through. Hannah is interested in braiding borders: between abstraction and figuration, between the divine and the tangible. 

Hannah holds a studio at Queen Street Studios, Belfast. She graduated from Belfast School of Art in 2017 (BA Hons Fine Art, Painting), receiving the Dean’s List Award, the Royal Ulster Academy Award for Outstanding Students, and the RDS Visual Art Awards shortlist. Her work has featured in two solo exhibitions, a range of group exhibitions across Ireland, and several artist collaborations.  

Meadhbh McIlgorm is a mixed-media artist/maker from Dublin, she has been living and working in Belfast since 2015.. In 2013 she graduated with honours from Craft Design and History of Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, specialising in glass. She received DCCoI Future Makers Student Award (2013) and has shown work in several national group exhibitions including: RDS Craft Awards, Sculpture in Context (2014), ‘Solas’ (Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Waterford, 2015/16) and The Ireland Glass Biennale (2019-20). In 2020 she held a solo exhibition, ‘Rituals of Preservation’, at Pollen Studio & Gallery. Recent projects include Liminal [Space] Belfast (2020)which she curated/produced.  

Her work is influenced by phenomena that move beyond the tangible – in particular the ephemeral nature of light, shadow and reflection. The unique qualities of glass, including its fragility, lend themselves to creating a narrative around these phenomena through sculptural objects, installation and photography. 

Jennifer Trouton is a figurative painter who uses tools and materials of the past to subtly express ideas around gender, class and identity within Irish history; combining an interest in the mythological, the historical and personal narrative with meticulous technique and aesthetic appeal. 

Graduating from the University of Ulster in the mid-nineties Trouton’s work has been extensively exhibited Nationally and Internationally.  

Throughout her career Trouton’s work has garnered numerous awards, including the Golden Fleece award (2016), the Clare Morris Open Exhibition, Adjudicators Award, the RHA Annual Exhibition, Keating/McLaughlin award and the RUA Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award.  

Trouton’s work is held in numerous public and private collections including: Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Queens University Belfast ,The University of Ulster, Belfast HSC Trust, ESB Ireland, Office of Public Works, Allianz Insurance, XL Insurance, N.I Department of Finance & Personnel and David Roberts Foundation London. 

Darcy Patterson graduated with a BA Hons Degree in Fine Art, Belfast School of Art and has been a member of Queen Street Studios since Sept 2022. She specialises in multi-media sculpture and installations, working primarily with found objects. Her work revolves around the theme of home and the mutual experiences of everyday life. 

She hopes the shared experience of viewing her work leads the viewers to regard their own experience of dwellings; by conveying a sense of familiarity, comfort and security a home can provide within the unfamiliar gallery setting.  

Doors are a recurring theme. Using doors –everyday objects familiar to everyone – Patterson aims to make the familiar unfamiliar.  

Susan Connolly currently lives and works in Belfast and is a member of QSS Artist Studios. 

Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Kunsthaus Dalhem, Berlin (2020), Platform Arts Belfast (2018), The Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin and QSS Belfast (2017), The Lab, Dublin and dlrLexicon, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin (2015). 

Group exhibitions include Penumbra, FE McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge (2020); MAKing Art: PAINTing, Draiocht Art Centre, Dublin; Archive of Paint, Ulster University, Belfast; After an Act, The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; Art Car Boot Sale, Russborough House, Wicklow; 188th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin; Made in Paint, Golden Foundation, New York (2018); Unafraid-White, QSS Belfast; Fully Awake, Glasgow; OPW exhibition, Armagh/Dublin; Nasty Women, Pallas Studios, Dublin; Peripheries, Gorey School of Art and 187th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin (2017). 

Jonathan Conlon (b.1998 Belfast) lives and works in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Graduated from Belfast School of Art in 2020 with a First-class BA in Fine Art. 

Previous exhibitions include ‘Fine Art Graduate Show’ at The MAC Belfast 2020, ‘Emergence IV’ at QSS Gallery 2021.; 

Jonathan’s paintings assimilate historical approaches to imagery, frequently incorporating elements to invite. His paintings are portrayed in an obscure manner by depicting a scene without superficially explaining it. Occasionally the art is influenced by an ambiguous composition or the subject matter itself, themes are created from the work but feed as little information as possible.  

Amy Higgins has a BA Hons and Masters of Fine Art awarded by the Ulster University. Higgins received a distinction for her Masters degree wherein she developed ideas around Barbara Creed’s Monstrous Feminine and Hannah Arendt’s notions around the Human Condition. Her work has made a recent shift into the idea of a metaphysical place and the awareness of position in viewing the artwork. Hannah holds a studio at Queen Street Studios, Belfast. She graduated from Belfast School of Art in 2017 (BA Hons Fine Art, Painting), receiving the Dean’s List Award, the Royal Ulster Academy Award for Outstanding Students, and the RDS Visual Art Awards shortlist. Her work has featured in two solo exhibitions, a range of group exhibitions across Ireland, and several artist collaborations.  

Her work is influenced by phenomena that move beyond the tangible – in particular the ephemeral nature of light, shadow and reflection. The unique qualities of glass, including its fragility, lend themselves to creating a narrative around these phenomena through sculptural objects, installation and photography. 

Mark McGreevy is a graduate of Ulster University, Belfast. He has exhibited at The MAC, Belfast; VISUAL, Carlow; The Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin; The F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge; The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; RHA, Dublin; Fendersky Gallery, Belfast; The Lab Gallery, Dublin; The Third Space Gallery, Belfast; The Crawford Gallery, Cork; Katzen Art Centre, Washington, DC; Draiocht, Dublin; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; The Glucksman, Cork, among others. He has received many awards including the Suki Tea Prize, various Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Awards, and Arts Council NI SIAP award. He has been shortlisted for prestigious art prizes such as The AIB Award and BOC Emerging Artist Award and has participated on artist residency programmes at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo. His work is held in both public and private collections.