As we enter 2025 we are pleased to present a series of exhibitions by Ulster University and Belfast School of Art staff and Alumni - Katherine Penney, Majella Clancy and Mark McGreevy.
21st January - 20th February 2025
Katherine Penney
Misaligned is a nod to a once-shared printmaking practice between Katherine Penney and her late father, Ulster University lecturer in Fine Art Print, Bill Penney. Death feels like a disjointed reality that is difficult to reconcile with - things simply don’t line up. An emotional disconnect that underscores the paradox of grief: the pain of loss alongside the enduring gift of love. A co-existence of presence and absence.
6th March - 10th April 2025
Majella Clancy
Curated by Dr. Louise Wallace
This body of work suggests internal landscapes held together by figurative fragments and semi familiar forms. Repeated motifs perform on the surface suggesting the carnivalesque and other worldly spaces. The materiality of making is held within the work where references to a stage-set or performed space is played out. Paper stencils integral to the making of her screenprints are reused as collage within the paintings. Here Clancy brings together painting and printmaking on one surface creating language which is ambiguous, tactile and slippery, where an expansion lives in the gendered, embodied mark. This fluid space of painting speaks to an out-of-place-ness and is at times unruly, untidy and unpredictable, it is matter out of place.
1st May - 29th May 2025
Mark McGreevy
Co-curated by Dr Louise Wallace and Feargal O'Malley
Mark McGreevy: Zona showcases a compelling new series of drawings and paintings created over the past five years, reflecting the artist's fascination with sentient landscapes as a repository for materials and ideas – sites which hold their own agency.
Through this new body of work, McGreevy summons a vivid terrain marked by borders, liminal boundaries, implausible structures, and sites resonating with ominous energy. The works guide viewers into an unrecorded zone of edgelands, dumps, burial grounds, and the remnants of a fantastical industrial collapse.
Keep an eye on Art Unwrapped (ulster.ac.uk) for more information.