Engine Room Gallery
The Engine Room Gallery
The East Belfast Arts Collective is a group of visual artists whose purpose is to promote contemporary art for the general public and to encourage and work with young people who have an interest in art. The collective has for 21 years run the Engine Room Gallery organising and hosting at least 12 contemporary art exhibitions each year and working with individual artists, studio groups, print workshops, schools, colleges, university and community groups presenting a wide range of contemporary art. All the work and programmes of exhibition are carried out by a team of volunteers and are free to the artists involved and to the general public. The gallery receives no funding and is a registered charity
Exhibitions open (almost always) on the first Thursday evening of each month. and in 59 North Street there are 2 large exhibition areas with a third area opening soon. The gallery is open 5 days per week, Tuesday to Saturday, from 10:30 to 4pm.
See the Current Exhibition section below for more details
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Interview
Here is a link to NVTV's Mo McDevitt's interview with Cliff Brooks, long-standing and very respected artist and the director and curator of the Engine Room Gallery. Well worth a viewing for background to Cliff, the East Belfast Arts Collective and the Engine Room Gallery
Gallery Re-opening
The gallery board are pleased to announce that the Engine Room Gallery will re-open on the first Wednesday in August (Aug 5th).
Initially the plan is to open for three days each week (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) from 10:30am to 4:00 pm each day. The three current exhibitions will continue until the last Saturday in August - (Jack Pakenham’s ‘'A Broken Sky Re-visited', ‘Evidence of Making’ and ‘Gallery Artists’).
Our volunteer staff will be on hand to extend a friendly welcome to visitors and will ensure that sensible hygiene precautions are carried out (disinfecting banisters and other hard surfaces for instance) for the protection of all. Obviously we would ask visitors to observe social distancing and other Covid19 guidelines.
We will be launching a regular programme of exhibitions in September, although we won’t be able to host our usual Thursday evening openings until we are more confident that they won’t expose patrons and staff to risk of contracting or spreading Covid19 infection. We will keep this under review and publicise any changes to policy as they are decided. We will also publicise details of the new programme of shows as they are scheduled.
Stay well and take care.
FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
We will publish future exhibitions as they are confirmed.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
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