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With support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Queen Street Studios (QSS) provide affordable studios for professional artists in Belfast. Our artist members deliver a diverse range of public facing activities locally, across the UK and internationally, all supported by their-studio centred practice. Closer to home our artists foster links with the wider community via a range on in-house e

vents; from guided tours and workshops through to exhibitions and open days. Follow us on Twitter
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28/05/2026

QSS artists Alana Barton, Amanda Coogan, Angela Hackett, Daniel Coleman and Grace McMurrary have been selected to be part of this year’s annual RHA exhibition 👏

Now in its 196th year, Ireland’s largest and longest-running showcase of visual art, the RHA Annual Exhibition, returns in association with McCann FitzGerald.

25/05/2026

Gallery 545 Group Exhibition – 'Contemporary Art of Northern Ireland’
Friday 29 May – Saturday 6 June
Opens: Friday 29 May, 6-8.30pm

Gallery 545 will present a new group exhibition at La Roche House, featuring QSS artists Majella Clancy, Ashley B. Holmes, Sharon Kelly, Sinéad McKeever and Anushiya Sundaralingam ⭐️

The exhibition features an exciting art selection, including atmospheric landscapes, nature-inspired paintings, vibrant abstracts and intriguing works on paper, alongside unique sculptures and exquisite textile and glass pieces. Together, the works reflect the richness and diversity of artistic talent in the region.

21/05/2026

The Push And Pull – Family Workshop
Saturday 6 June, 10am–12pm
Free, pre-booking required

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As part of – join artist Katie Moorie for a family-friendly workshop exploring the parent-child connection. After a short look at the artworks in the gallery, families will be invited to take part in a creative making session together.

Using simple materials, participants will create small artworks inspired by ideas of holding, nurturing, and connection. This hands-on workshop encourages imagination, sharing stories, and making together in a supportive and welcoming space.

Book your spot here: https://www.queenstreetstudios.net/events/family-workshop-the-push-and-pull-making-together/

20/05/2026

'Which One Are You' – Gallery 1
MFA Year 1 Students

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'Which One Are You' ends tomorrow, don't miss it! QSS is open today and tomorrow 10am–5pm.

Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, videography, ceramics, and conceptual practices, Which One Are You? invites viewers into a space of questioning—of recognition, insight, and materiality of evolution.

The title acts as both provocation and reflection. It suggests a multiplicity of self, asking not only who we are, but how we are seen, how we present ourselves, and how we shift across contexts. In a time shaped by rapid cultural, social, and technological change, identity feels increasingly fluid—constructed, performed, and constantly revisited. This exhibition embraces that sense of instability rather than resolving it.

Exhibiting Artists: Aoife Kearney, Anna McKinstry, Alex Sheridan, Alex Plunkett, BENCOLE, Georgia Esler, Janice Cherry, Jonathan Pratt, Madison Henry, Ronan Lunney, Surbhi, Tanya Troughton

Documentation: Simons Mills

This exhibition was made possible through the support of

14/05/2026

The Push and Pull – Katie Moore ()
On display until 6 June, Gallery 2

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The Push and Pull brings together a series of works that reflect on motherhood through everyday moments of care, closeness, and connection. The work draws on time spent in the west of Ireland, where landscape and light shape a quiet, attentive way of looking and making.

Working with tactile materials, these pieces focus on small, often unnoticed exchanges between parent and child; holding, waiting, watching, returning. The work moves between ideas of nature, the body, and memory, where motherhood is understood as something lived and changing over time.

This exhibition invites a slower way of looking, and a space to consider what it means to nurture; to hold, and to be held.

⭐️ As part of , join a free, family-friendly workshop Saturday 2 June, 10am–12pm exploring child & parent connection. After a short look at the artworks in the gallery, families will be invited to take part in a creative making session together. Find more info and book through our bio 🔗

This exhibition was made possible through the support of

13/05/2026

Which One Are You? – MFA Year 1 Students
30 April – 21 May, Gallery 1

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Which One Are You? brings together a cohort of first-year MFA students from Belfast School of Art, presenting a dynamic and exploratory body of work that reflects the culmination of creative and academic development they have undertaken thus far.

Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, videography, ceramics, and conceptual practices, Which One Are You? invites viewers into a space of questioning—of recognition, insight, and materiality of evolution.

The title acts as both provocation and reflection. It suggests a multiplicity of self, asking not only who we are, but how we are seen, how we present ourselves, and how we shift across contexts. In a time shaped by rapid cultural, social, and technological change, identity feels increasingly fluid—constructed, performed, and constantly revisited. This exhibition embraces that sense of instability rather than resolving it.

Exhibiting Artists: Aoife Kearney, Anna McKinstry, Alex Sheridan, Alex Plunkett, BENCOLE, Georgia Esler, Janice Cherry, Jonathan Pratt, Madison Henry, Ronan Lunney, Surbhi, Tanya Troughton

Documentation: Simons Mills

This exhibition was made possible through the support of

06/05/2026

Traces of a Traumatic Future – Frédéric Huska
Lower Gallery, Golden Thread Gallery
Running until Saturday 20 June

QSS artist Frédéric Huska's latest solo exhibition will be open tomorrow night for Late Night Art, alongside Sharon Kelly who is exhibiting in the Upper Gallery! Look at our members go! ⭐️

'Huska explores the relationship between personal experience, history and landscape. This new exhibition features a series of black and white analogue photographs of Taiwan’s coastline, seen as places shaped by political tension and uncertainty. The project focuses on fourteen beaches identified as possible landing sites in the event of invasion. Starting at the sea and moving inland toward the mountains, the photographs follow the shape of the land. The images hold a quiet tension, moving between distance and closeness, presence and absence.

The photographs suggest futures that may never happen, yet still influence how we see the present. Using analogue photography, Huska reflects on time, memory and how images carry traces of both past and future.'

05/05/2026

In-Person Visual Artist Ireland Helpdesk
🗓️ Wednesday 13 May
🕣 2pm– 4:30pm

Book an in-person session with Brian Kielt, Visual Artist Ireland’s Advocacy & Advice NI Officer at QSS.

Do you have an area in your practice you need help with or would just like some advice on where to go next? Artists can book in for a free one-to-one appointment to discuss any aspects of their professional careers.

Sessions are free of charge for both VAI members and non-members.

Receive support on:
✏️ Funding applications
✏️ Proposals
✏️ Artist statements, bios and CVs
✏️ Signposting to relevant arts organisations and contacts
✏️ Signposting on topics relating to social welfare, tax and finance.
✏️ Strategic planning
✏️ Website and social media
✏️ Networking

Find out more information here: https://www.queenstreetstudios.net/events/vai-in-person-help-desk/

03/05/2026

Gallery Closure – QSS with be closed Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th of May 🔻

We will reopen Wednesday – Thursday, 10am–5pm! Come check out our two new brand new exhibitions; 'Which One Are You?' – Gallery 1 and 'The Push and Pull – Gallery 2

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Image Credit: Anna McKinstry

01/05/2026

Disposal of Fullness – Sharon Kelly
Saturday 2 May – Saturday 20 June
Opens Saturday 2 May, 1pm

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QSS artist new solo exhibition opens tomorrow at – don't miss it!

'In this new body of work, Kelly reflects on what remains hidden or unnoticed and how such absences shape our sense of identity and connection to the world around us. Through the use of vintage sewing patterns, and other delicate materials, Kelly delves into the emotional complexities of concealment and burden, uncovering traces of past lives and contemplating what is missing or left unfulfilled. Pockets become quiet repositories, holding secrets, forgotten memories, or unseen places offering a space where the precious and the heavy coexist. In this excavation of personal history, Kelly explores themes of intimacy, emotional weight, and inherited burden, particularly through the lens of female experience.'

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Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm

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