R-Space at The Linen Rooms Lisburn

11/05/2026

Delighted that our upcoming solo show by Kim Coleman has been featured in Visual Arts Ireland this week.

‘Long Exposures’ is Kim Coleman's new expanded photography installation for R-Space Gallery which was developed from interviews the artist conducted with wo

08/05/2026

Long Exposures, Kim Coleman's solo exhibition at R-Space, opens in just over a week. We hope you can join us for the launch on Saturday 16 May, 2-5pm. Artist talk at 4pm.

The show is an expanded photography installation incorporating sound and light, developed from interviews with women who experienced a major European blackout in 2025.

Image: detail from Cables - red, 2026. Image courtesy of the artist.

02/05/2026

This is the last week to catch Re:New Wallace #9 which includes new soundscape installation by Matthew Whiteside as well as previous comissions from past years residencies.

Open 11.30 - 4pm TODAY and then next Tues/Wed/Thurs - due to staff stortages we're having to close a day earlier then planned, sorry for any inconvience, this is your sign to come sooner!


supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

26/04/2026

Kim Coleman @ R-Space soon!!

On this day in 1976, Tom's wife Andrea gave birth to twin daughters in the Lagan Valley Hospital, Lisburn, with Kim weighing in at 5Ib 3oz and Zoë at 5Ib 1oz.
Happy Birthday ladies, have a wonderful day.
📷 - The Herron / Coleman Collection.
With Kind Permission

22/04/2026

Long Exposures - Kim Coleman
Kim Coleman's new expanded photography installation for R-Space was developed from interviews the artist conducted with women in their late seventies who had experienced a major European blackout in 2025. These conversations became generative material for this new body of work, 'I began thinking of the women I spoke with as sensory archives: people who have lived through mass electrification and ecological transformation, and the steady brightening of night. Their accounts hold both a collective history and each woman's individual experience.'
The installation presents light and sound alongside new large-scale photograms made in the artist's flat, where photographic paper was placed beneath elements of the home that connect to wider infrastructures (internet cabling, routers, power cords, radiator pipes) and exposed to available domestic light (LEDs in sockets and routers, a mobile phone torch); in some instances, the subject exposing its own image.
Kim Coleman was born in Lisburn and lives in London. Her exhibitions, public commissions, and site-specific works have been presented at Nottingham Contemporary; Tom of Finland House, Los Angeles; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Frieze Projects for Frieze London (with Jenny Hogarth); the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (with Jenny Hogarth); Tate St Ives (with Susie Green); Granary Square, King's Cross, London; and MS Dockville, Hamburg. Recent projects include Night Walk at Orleans House, London, and Darkness in Urban Space for Richmond Council (with Harun Morrison).
Long Exposures opens Saturday May 16th, 2–5pm. All welcome for drinks locally afterwards
Artist talk: Saturday May 16th, 4pm
R-Space Gallery, 32 Castle Street, Lisburn BT27 4XE
Exhibition continues until 12 June 2026
This exhibition was funded by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation ().
Image: Cables (detail), 2026. Colour photogram on DP II matte darkroom paper. 20" x 24". Courtesy the artist.

17/04/2026

Pleasure to have Matthew Whiteside back in R-Space Gallery last week (it's the 4th time we've worked with him!) with his newly commised immesive audio work for the Re: New Wallace Collection #9: Ornament and Omission

This is the ninth of a series of successful residency projects offered by R-Space to artists to carry out research at the collection. These projects highlight Sir Richard Wallace’s historical and cultural legacy, and his connection with Co. Antrim and Lisburn in particular.

Matthew is a composer and Artistic Director of The Night With…, a concert production company and record label based in Glasgow. He won the SMIA Award for Creative Programming at the Scottish Awards for New Music in 2020 and was named One to Watch by the Scotsman.

Visit the exhibtion untill 8 May, Tuesday -Saturday, 11am-4pm.

A selection of original artworks for sale are also presented in the gallery created by talented artists comissioned to respond to the collection in previous years.

(Photos courtesy of the artist - thanks for sharing!)

01/04/2026

New exhibition!
🎧 Matthew Whiteside – Re Wallace #9: Ornament and Omission
📅 11 April – 8 May 2026
📍 R-Space Gallery
Opening: Saturday 11 April, 2–4pm; Artist Talk: 2.30pm
🎟 Free, all welcome
Presenting award-winning composer Matthew Whiteside’s immersive sound installation responding to the Wallace Collection.

His piece shifts focus to the voices often left out: the workers whose labour underpinned the wealth from which such collections emerged. Drawing on archival materials, artefacts and the sound of machinery, the work invites audiences to listen to what has been seen as significant enough to preserve, and notice what has been omitted.

31/03/2026

Coming soon in R-Space the wonderfull Alison Lowry glass pieces in responce to the Wallace Collection.

10/03/2026

✨’The Collectors: Unified Diversity’
📍 R-Space Gallery, Lisburn
📅 7 February – 6 March

BIG THANK YOU & HIGHLIGHTS

R-Space would like to thank the collectors Neil Harvey, Ian Pitt, Tara Simpson and David Turner for exhibiting a first class selection of works from their fantastic collections here at R-Space.

Thank you also to the many visitors who came to see this show. Your feedback was amazing!

If you have missed this show, here’s a short video with some highlights for you to enjoy.




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26/02/2026

NOT TO BE MISSED!✨ ‘The Collectors: Unified Diversity’ - Group Exhibition
📍 R-Space Gallery, Lisburn
📅 Until 6 March
This exceptinal exhibition brings together four passionate collectors based in Northern Ireland and presents a curated selection of artworks with international reach from their collections.

IMAGES featuring selected works from David Turner’s collection. David Turner is a Belfast-based artist and arts professional with a longstanding commitment to the visual arts. His collection ‘Small Is Beautiful’ focuses on small works and spans from fine art to street and graffiti pieces. It includes works by accomplished sculptor John Rainey, and talented painter Sophia Campbell.

🖱Find out more https://www.rspacelisburn.com/




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