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.

Gerry Devlin

Gerry Devlin
Gallery 1 Survey Selected Works 1999 - 2012
Gallery 2 New Work 2013/14

The Engine Room Gallery is delighted to host a solo show of work by Gerry Devlin. Gallery 1 features a survey of work selected by the artist spanning from 1999 to 2012, and Gallery 2 features new work from the past 2 years. 

Gerry Devlin was educated at the Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster and Syracuse University, New York. He has exhibited widely through Ireland and the USA and had solo shows at the Fenderesky Gallery Belfast, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery Cork and Halycon Gallery Baltimore. 

His work is held in private and public collections including the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The Office of Public Works Dublin and the Munsen-Williams-Proctor Institute in New York. Devlin is a member of Queen Street Artist’s Studios and lectures in painting at the Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster.

We would like to thank all those who attended the preview to support Gerry and the Engine Room Gallery on a very busy evening for Late Night Art! The exhibition continues until Saturday 29th March 2014.

Denise Robinson & Cheryl Bleakley

The Engine Room Gallery was delighted to welcome Denise Robinson and Cheryl Bleakley for a two woman show on Thursday 6th February 2014.

Denise Robinson is a recent Fine Art graduate from the Art College in Belfast. Her work focuses on the archaeology and landscape of the Ards Peninsula, particularly Nendrum, Inch Abbey and Greyabbey, exploring themes of memory and place.

Denise Robinson 'Layers of the Landscape' oil pastel on paper

Denise Robinson 'Strangford Series' oil on aluminum £150 each

Denise Robinson 'Layers in the Landscape, Downpatrick' £550

Cheryl Bleakley has a background in psychology which informs her work, has exhibited widely across Ireland and has shown with the Engine Room several times. The show featured recent work including pieces that were influenced by her time spent in Manhattan.

Cheryl Bleakley 'Soul Threads' oil & mixed media on canvas £550

Cheryl Bleakley 'Wire Form Tripych' oil on canvas £396

Cheryl Bleakley 'Regressed Form' oil on canvas £750

The exhibition continues until Saturday 1st March so please call in over the next few weeks and check out this beautiful show. 

Christmas Exhibition 2013

The Engine Room Gallery is delighted to host the annual Christmas Exhibition, a much anticipated highlight of the gallery year. 

Alick Knox, Cheryl Bleakly, Jim Millar and Jack Pakenham, sculpture by James Mercer and William Green.

We held a preview on Thursday 5th December which was well attended by many artists, friends and visitors, including a group from Belfast Art Tours who were visiting a number of galleries and studios in East Belfast.

'Tauto 2' by Mark Chambers

Nearly 40 artists took part in the exhibition, featuring a wide range of artistic style and medium, including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and two fantastic works making use of light.

Cliff Brooks, Colin Corkey and Ray Duncan

Bill Penney and Patrick Colhoun

Jan Powell

Alick Knox, Cheryl Bleakly and Jim Millar

Jack Pakenham, Colin Davis, Peter Mooney and James Mercer

'Rogue' by Rosemary McMillen

The participating artists are: Cheryl Bleakly, Marjorie Bloch, Marcus Blockson, Cliff Brooks, Mark Chambers, Patrick Colhoun, Colin Corkey, Jill Corkey, Richard Darling, Colin Davis, Ray Duncan, Sam Fleming, Ivan Frew, Liam de Frinse, J. Gildea, William Green, Ashley B Holmes, Joanne Jamison, Alick Knox, John MaCormac, Mary Martin, Susanna McConville, Colin McGookin, Rosemary McMillen, James Mercer, James Millar, Peter Mooney, Leslie Nicholl, Jake Pakenham, Jan Powel, Denise Robinson, Duncan Wallace and Frederick Woodhead

The exhibition continues until Saturday 21st December 2013.

Creative Exchange presents Art in the Eastside

Myra Jago, All this has happened before and it will all happen again

The Engine Room Gallery is currently exhibiting a selection of the original artwork submitted for the Art in the Eastside billboards project, the largest outdoor exhibition in Ireland which takes place annually across East Belfast. Much of the artwork has been created specially with East Belfast in mind, and reflects the social, cultural and political diversity that makes this area so unique.

We had a fantastic turn out for the opening reception on Thursday 5 September, which was preceded by a walking tour of the billboards led by The Forum for Alternative Belfast. The exhibition continues until Saturday 28 September.

The exhibition features work by: Colin Davis, Liam Campbell, Valeria Giannandrea, Ruth Moore, Aoife McGee, Myra Jago, Gerry Gleason, Joanne McMahon, Lauren Osbourne, Ray Duncan, Karen Day Hutchinson, Helen Paisley, David Fox, Breandan Clarke, Colin Darke, Barbara Craig, James Robert Moore, James Millar, Clinton Kirkpatrick, Victor Sloan, Alice Maher, Colin McGookin, Deirdre Robb, Jennifer Brown, Brooke-Valentine Menown, Ian Fleming, Katie Brown, Angela Anderson, Victoria J Dean, Ciara O'Malley, Patricia Vallely, Susan McWilliam, Michael Hart, Derick Hegarty, Olywn Colgan, Ramona Burke, Aisling O'Beirn, Emma Donaldson, George Robb, Ivan Frew, Jim Melin, Lisa Ballard, Robert JE Simpson, Heather J Ferguson, Patrick Colhoun, Maura O'Rourke, Rachel McBride, Aidan Butler, Stephen Millar, Andrew Haire, Margaret Woods, Mike Connor, Rachel Coote and Lesley Cherry.