Fake Body
If you find yourself around Belfast, it opens Saturday 13th of May from 13:00 – 18:00 and runs until May 27th Tuesday – Saturday in Platform Arts (Connswater shopping centre). FAKE BODY refers to a TikTok hashtag used to trick algorithmic moderators in order to avoid videos becoming flagged for containing partial nudity. The need to circumvent […]
Clothes SWAP/ Crafting SESH
✨community event✨ Platform Arts is happy to welcome you to our very first completely free clothes swap/ crafting sesh!! All sizes and genders welcome to come trade items, learn new crafts, or just sit on a comfy bean bag and be social while still being creative! Tickets are FREE but MUST be booked over the […]
Both,And
Natalie Pullen is an artist who makes paintings which are almost drawings, and drawings that are almost paintings. She worksin the mediums of oil bar, watercolour and oil paint on linen canvases, paper and panel. The abstract surfaces referencelandscape and organic forms, and are informed by her body’s relationship to the land during travel and […]
Independent Contractor
We are exited to announce that Beth Fox, Independent Contractor Exhibition opening 4th March come in and enjoy watchinh this exiting video piece, we are here till 6pm today based in Conswater Shopping Centre, Belfast, @bethsface Beth Fox is London based artist. She tells personal stories through video, using combination of appropriate footage and self-shot scenes. Immigration, […]
Christmas Art Market
We are having a Christmas Market! It will be opened for three days during our Member Show. Save the dates! We already have some artists and makers on board who are getting ready for the market. See you soon! Open on 16th, 17th and 18th of December Poster designed by Giovanna ChiarellaEvent curated by Katya […]
i n m a t e
i n m a t e is an exhibition of new performance by Hattie Godfrey. It is the performative culmination of a two-year project working with individuals living with chronic /& long-term health conditions. Conversations, photographs, notations, drawings and audio recordings were collated, analysed and transformed into a single durational enactment that presents a collective narrative and understanding of chronic illness.
Co-Directors Call-Out! 2023/2024
Hey all! We are delighted to announce a new Call Out for Co-Directors to join us in 2023/ 2024! We have updated the application form and now it is a short questionnaire, which helps us understand which practical skills are your strongest ones and how Platform Arts can help you develop as a co-director within […]
HOT GLUE
SOPHIE GOUGH & DAIRE O’SHEA CURATED BY SARA MUTHI 5th – 21st October 2022 Platform Arts, Belfast The German word Materialgerechtigkeit loosely translates to ‘material justice’. This principle holds that any material should be used where it is most appropriate and that its nature should not be hidden. This is a principle that is deeply […]
WE BROKE OUR BACKS YEARS AGO
3rd – 24th September 2022 Platform Arts, Belfast Hazel O’Sullivan and Phillip Rhys Olney present a collaborative show at Platform Arts, exploring so- cial-class and personal heritage with specific reference to labour and the home. Spaces once occupied and operated by those dependent upon its employment are transforming into corporate shells, managed and orchestrated by governing bodies which […]