Peacebuilding a shared Northern Irish society
“In my imagination, it was true”: Margins of Excess exhibition artist talk by Max Pinckers by Allan LEONARD 14 June 2019 As part of the Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast Exposed is hosting an exhibition of Margins of Excess, by Max Pinckers. The artist gave a talk about this project in the gallery, describing how he... Continue Reading →
Belfast Exposed exhibition talk: Post Truth: The new normal of the undefined, abstract, and make believe by Allan LEONARD 30 May 2019 Belfast Exposed is hosting a group exhibition displaying the work of graduate students of the MFA Photography programme at Ulster University (UU). The theme is “Post Truth”, which aims to explore how we... Continue Reading →
Book review — The Colour of Time (Dan Jones & Marina Amaral) by Allan LEONARD 26 May 2019 Released in hardcover in August 2018 and now available in paperback, The Colour of Time, by historian Dan Jones and artist Marina Amaral, is a collection of 200 colourised photographs taken between 1850 and 1960. With accompanying... Continue Reading →
Art in Trouble: Expressing Shankill’s story through creative participation by Allan LEONARD 28 March 2019 Billed as part of the Imagine! Festival, the Spectrum Centre hosted a European Arts Education Platform session, “Art in Trouble”, on how the people of the Shankill neighbourhood of Belfast have told their stories more recently, through a variety of... Continue Reading →
I enjoyed attending the launch event of this #art #exhibition that reflects upon #NorthernIreland internally displaced people during #TheTroubles. Here's my brief write up: https://mrulster.com/2019/04/11/burn-t-out-crimes-against-social-cohesion/ via @MrUlster
Burn/t Out: Crimes against social cohesion by Allan LEONARD 10 April 2019 One of the criticisms of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement is that it did not satisfactorily scope out mechanisms for dealing with the legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland; the focus was forging a consensus on exclusively non-violent means of pursuing politics.... Continue Reading →
ARTICLE: Decisive moments at Belfast City #Hospital: A #streetphotography #exhibition by Tuck GOH @ArtsCare21 @BelfastTrust @paula_mchugh @cplawlor #artsinhealth #photography #art #NorthernIreland https://mrulster.com/2019/01/18/decisive-moments-at-belfast-city-hospital/
Perhaps the best session of all at @ESRCFestivalNI . Great examples of participatory #art. Let's up our game locally. https://x.com/SharedFuture/status/1061557716215390208
ARTICLE: SEVERE: My interview with Martin SEEDS @MartinSeeds @PhotoFringe @SimonCRoberts #art #photography https://mrulster.com/2018/11/06/severe-interview-with-martin-seeds/
SEVERE: Interview with Martin Seeds by Allan LEONARD 5 November 2018 A new body of work by Belfast-born artist, Martin Seeds, has just been shown as part of the Brighton Photo Fringe. The works are an extension of Seeds’ application of landscape and allegory. Or put another way, our political landscape -- literally and figuratively.... Continue Reading →
The Lost Moment exhibition: The provocation of 1968 by Allan LEONARD 27 September 2018 In the year 1968, there were street protests and marches in Belfast, Berlin, Derry/Londonderry, Paris, Prague, Selma and beyond. Some of the most powerful captured images and video clips are on display at The Lost Moment exhibition at the Gallery of... Continue Reading →
Transforming memories of war into memories of peace: Imagine Peace by Allan LEONARD 18 September 2018 Imagine Peace is a photography exhibition launched at Belfast Exposed as part of Good Relations Week, featuring artists Ingrid Guyon and Antonio Amador with their Colombian peacebuilding subjects. The exhibition is part of a creative peace project called “FUTyoURES”,... Continue Reading →