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The Naughton Gallery The Naughton Gallery is located at the heart of Queen's University. More details at http://www.naughtongallery.org/silversounds/

Since 2001, The Gallery has become one of Belfast’s most sought after and exciting visual arts platforms, featuring a rolling programme of works from the University’s own collection, touring exhibitions and shows by local and international artists. The Naughton Gallery is a registered museum and is named after its benefactors Martin and Carmel Naughton. The Naughton Gallery presents up to eight exhibitions per year and also co-ordinates commissions of new art works for Queen’s University. The University’s extensive art collection comprises gifts, bequests and purchases since the foundation of Queen’s College in 1845. The wide range of works includes paintings, prints, works on paper, sculpture, furniture, metalwork and silver. The collection is on display throughout the University with an impressive hang of over forty portraits in the Great Hall. On semi-permanent display is Silver Sounds, our new interactive display of the Queen's silver collection, winner of the Times Higher Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts 2008.

Unfortunately the gallery will be closed for the next couple of days due to essential maintenance work in the Lanyon Bui...
07/10/2026

Unfortunately the gallery will be closed for the next couple of days due to essential maintenance work in the Lanyon Building which affects access to the gallery.

We look forward to welcoming you to the gallery from 11am on Saturday 10 September. Apologies for any inconvenience.

PLANET X continues at the gallery this week, showcasing some incredible local and international illustrators in celebrat...
22/09/2026

PLANET X continues at the gallery this week, showcasing some incredible local and international illustrators in celebration of UsFolk Illustration Agency’s 10th anniversary.

Visit daily, 11am–4pm. Free admission.

PLANET X – our new sci-fi inspired exhibition presented in collaboration with UsFolk Illustration Agency – is open all w...
18/09/2026

PLANET X – our new sci-fi inspired exhibition presented in collaboration with UsFolk Illustration Agency – is open all weekend, 11am-4pm. Visit the gallery to see some of the very best local and international illustration talent!

🚀 Touch down on Planet X at the Naughton Gallery – our brand-new sci-fi-inspired exhibition with UsFolk Illustration Age...
16/09/2026

🚀 Touch down on Planet X at the Naughton Gallery – our brand-new sci-fi-inspired exhibition with UsFolk Illustration Agency.

Bringing together over 25 illustrators from across the UsFolk roster, Planet X explores time in all its forms: memory and nostalgia, retro-futurism and science fiction, anniversaries and milestones, time travel and alternate realities, imagined futures and our ever-changing present.

Marking UsFolk’s 10th anniversary, Planet X is both a celebration and a snapshot — a record of where the agency is today, and an invitation to imagine where illustration, and the world around it, might go next.

Open daily, 11am–4pm, until Sunday 18 October. Free admission.

🤘🎸 JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS 😻🎶The outfits. The songs. The subliminal messaging. The Parker Posey of it all.Presented as p...
15/09/2026

🤘🎸 JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS 😻🎶

The outfits. The songs. The subliminal messaging. The Parker Posey of it all.

Presented as part of Cinema Rediscovered on Tour, SCREEN/PRINT returns to QFT with one of the great cult films of the early 2000s. Every ticket comes with a free illustrated poster by Canadian cartoonist
Michael DeForge (Michael DeForge), specially commissioned for the screening.

Small-town musicians Josie, Melody, and Valerie finally get their big break when they’re signed to a major record label. But as the Pussycats rocket to global stardom, they discover their catchy pop hits are being used as part of a sinister plan to control the youth of
America.

Saturday 19 September, 5.45pm
Tickets available now from Queen's Film Theatre

🎾 The US Open is in full swing — and there are just two days left to catch NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS!Today we’re highli...
05/09/2026

🎾 The US Open is in full swing — and there are just two days left to catch NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS!

Today we’re highlighting tennis-themed works by Johann Andreu and Radka Leitmeritz.

Johann Andreu is a Spanish illustrator and graphic designer whose vibrant, Mediterranean-influenced style combines bold colour, flowing compositions and dynamic figures. His works for the exhibition celebrate some of tennis’s greatest rivalries, featuring Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz, and Jannik Sinner.

Radka Leitmeritz is a Czech-born photographer and visual artist whose cinematic work spans fashion, portraiture, and sport. Her photographs in the exhibition turn the spotlight on rising star Victoria Mboko and Czech tennis legend Petra Kvitová, a two-time Wimbledon champion.

🎾 NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS continues at the gallery until Sunday 6 September. Open daily, 11am–4pm.

Johann Andreu 🎨 Illustration Radka LEITMERITZ

Visit NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS to see a selection of sports-themed artworks by an international range of contemporary ...
28/08/2026

Visit NO HOCUS POCUS, JUST FOCUS to see a selection of sports-themed artworks by an international range of contemporary artists.

Today we’re taking a closer look at the work of Sheena Rose (b. Barbados, 1985), a multidisciplinary visual artist working across painting, drawing, performance, new media, public art, and mixed media. A Fulbright Scholar, she holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Rose has exhibited internationally through biennials, museum and gallery exhibitions, art fairs, residencies, festivals, and public and private collections. Her work has also been widely featured in international media and cultural projects.

Through her company, Sheena Rose Inc., she develops large-scale public art and design projects and has received several honours for her contributions to art and culture, including the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Art in 2020. In 2022, she was recognised by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley for her cultural contributions, and in 2026 received the Anthony N. Sabga Awards for Caribbean Excellence in Arts & Letters.

Sheena Rose

Mark your cosmic calendars and/or cave walls…PLANET X is hurtling towards the Naughton Gallery this September!UsFolk is ...
28/08/2026

Mark your cosmic calendars and/or cave walls…PLANET X is hurtling towards the Naughton Gallery this September!

UsFolk is turning 10 years old, and to celebrate one whole decade of championing illustration, telling stories, and imagining worlds, we are taking you with us on a galactic odyssey forwards and backwards through space and time. Expect spacemen, cavemen, and omens for the future as prophesied in pencil and ink by UsFolk’s illustrators!

As UsFolk marks this milestone anniversary, PLANET X asks the simple yet profound questions: What does tomorrow look like today? And where
will the future take us?

Launching Thursday 10th September, 6–8pm. All welcome. Free admission.

Artwork: Jacky Sheridan

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1st Floor, Lanyon Building, Queen's University
Belfast
BT71NN

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Tuesday 11am - 4pm
Wednesday 11am - 4pm
Thursday 11am - 4pm
Friday 11am - 4pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

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