PS² = Paragon Studios / project space [pssquared], is a small artist collective, with studio space in the centre of Belfast. Alongside the studio space, PS² uses a former shop, project space, on the ground floor of the building as a platform for art projects and cultural activities which often include fringe sites in the […]
Yvonne Kennan is an artist and works in PS² as curatorial assistant. For ‘Temporary Places’ she curates the Culture Shop. Culture shop, located in an empty shopfront, experiments in new forms of artist residency within a community setting. Key aspects are participation, local skills and interests and creative empowerment.
Phil Hession is an artist who works in video and performance. He was born in Omagh in 1978 and now lives and works in Belfast. He graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in 2001. Since then he has consistently exhibited video works and made performances, including: Elective Perspective, April […]
Paddy Bloomer, who describes himself as ‘artist, inventor, explorer and plumber’, often uses recycled materials in his sculptural work, from a mobile disco to a gondola. Bicycles and all possible hybrid forms and functions of it return again and again in his work, re-worked into fascinating machines and moving objects.
Mairead Dunne (Offaly, 1982) is a visual artist based in Belfast. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and received a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Ulster Belfast. Her practice investigates the playfulness and strangeness of childhood where the work often adopts an unsettling child’s fantasy environment. Inspiration […]
Laura O’Connor is a video artist.
Joanna Hopkins is an Irish born artist born in 1984. She works predominantly in video, photography and installation. For more information see: http://www.joannahopkins.com/
Young Person’s Newspaper Participants: Youths from the neighbourhood and close- by areas Time: Wednesdays’, 7-9pm Where: Container hub next to the garden Lead artist: Duncan Ross This project and it’s participants/ journalists will produce a local newspaper and make it available to the community through a specially designed dispenser. The paper’s […]
The Centre for Creative ideas. Participants: Everyone interested Time: Monday- Friday, 11am-4pm- till 23 August 2013. Where: Container hub next to the garden Lead artist: Charlie Bosanquet The Centre for Creative Ideas is a space where ideas are formed and discussed, a creative space for excellent ideas to happen. During the month […]
Anne-Marie Dillon is an artist and activist. With a large family to look after, she studied art as a mature student and completed an MA in 2009. Her socially engaged work is centred round the small rural community of Ballykinler, Co Down, where she organizes events, from mother and toddler meetings to Bingo for pensioners. […]