H/ND2

Participating artists:

Ben Reid

Ciarrai McShane

Eimear O'Caoilte

Joseph Archer

John Forde

Naomi Stevenson

Deidre Gallagher

Lyndsey McConnell

Teresa Godfrey

Ambrose Donnelly

Geraldine Cooper

Cathy Scullion

Karen Greene

Friday May 30th to Thursday June 5th 2014

 

This year saw the return of Belfast Metropolitan College HND Fine Art students to the Engine Room Town Gallery for their end of year exhibition. The show featured work in a range of media including painting, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture by both graduating and returning students.

A reception was held on the evening of May 30th to open the exhibition and was well attended, along with a late opening on the final day, Thursday June 5th, again with a good turnout including the Late Night Art bus tour calling at the venue.

The management, teaching staff and students at Belfast Met wish to express their thanks to the Engine Room Gallery for hosting the end of year show for a second time, giving students the opportunity to exhibit their work in one of the city's prime contemporary art spaces. It provides an excellent showcase for the HND course, a level 5 program that allows students to work in a variety of media such as Painting, Printmaking, Ceramics, Sculpture, Installation Art and Digital and Video Art combined with units that teach the application of these as practicing artists such as Fine Art Professional Practice and Organisation of Exhibitions. Partnerships such as this are an invaluable aspect of the relationship between the College and commercial Fine Art practice.

 

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Written by John Forde

Encounters - Ben Groves & Susanna McConville

The Engine Room Gallery welcomed Ben Groves and Susanna McConville for an exhibition during May 2014. 

Ben Groves was born in South Yorkshire and studied Fine Art at the University of Ulster. He completed a residency at the University and has exhibited widely throughout Northern Ireland. 

Groves's practice concerns themes around repetition and familiarity. He uses a range of media from paint, video, photography, dioramas, installation, text and sound and draws on an expansive repository of imagery, such as television and film, appropriating material which, for him has a certain resonance. 

Susanna McConville was born in Newtownards and studied Fine Art at the University of Ulster, where she was awarded the Laura Irvine Memorial Prize for Painting and Experimentation in Colour. She has since completed a residency at the University and has exhibited her work throughout Northern Ireland.

She paints 'stories' about her life, faith and doubt by combining childish motifs with painterly sophistication and considers her painting to be abstract narratives.

The exhibition continues until Saturday 31st May 2014.