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.