Platform Arts

Platform Arts

Founded 1999
Location Connswater Shopping Centre, 17-18 Bloomfield Ave, Belfast, BT5 5LP
Website platformartsbelfast.com

Platform Arts is an artist-led studio group and contemporary art gallery based in Belfast. Their role is to actively promote creative expression, presentation, and access to contemporary art practice through Exhibition, Education and Studio Programmes.

Platform has a number of studio spaces that are rented to member artists in order to support their professional development. Platform Arts is committed to widening access to contemporary art in Northern Ireland. ¹

Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions

2022, 18th – 31st March, Cathartic Heresy, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Eoin O’Dowd, Eleanor McCaughey, Richard Proffitt, Luxury Mollusc, Reija Meriläinen, Steve Maher, Switch Collective, curated by Eoin O’Dowd & Eleanor McCaughey.
2021, 2nd – 23rd December, Platform Members Show
2021, Nothing Alien is Human to Us, Tara McGinn
2021, 12th – 30th January, On The Brink Of A Double Bummer, Rustan Söderling
2019, 6th – 26th September, SpOre: Psychedelic Laughter, Col Self, Farvash Razavi, Fran Young, Joslyn Willauer, Mohammed Rowe, 011668 & vvxxii
2019, 5th – 26th April, A 7th Woman, Marta Dyczkowska
2019, 8th – 29th March, DISTORTION MAY VARY, Elise Beutner, Daniel Rode.
2018, 6th – 29th December, PXVIII // Platform Arts Members Show, Alex Brunt, Jane Butler, Hannah Casey-Brogan, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Gerard Carson, Aoife Earley, Hayley Gault, Andrew Glenn, Chris McCambridge, Damian Magee, Iolanda Rocha
2018, Transcendental, Sinéad Keogh
2018, Death in Geological Time, Amanda Rice
2018, Semazen, Stephen Gunning
2018, 8th – 30th June, The Valley, Simon Mills
2018, 7th – 30th June, Life on Land, Steve McCullagh, curated by Emer Lynch.
2018, 1st – 22nd February, STOP. STOP. STOP. Colin Darke, Peter Richards and Peter Spiers
2017, 7th – 22nd April, “Th’ whole worl’ is in a terrible state o’ chassis”, Dervla Baker, Andrew McSweeney, David Mathuna, Kevin O’Shea, Niamh Cooney, curated by Emily O’Flynn
2017, 3rd – 25th March, Making Scenes, Rachel Rankin
2016, 4th – 24th November, WalkThrough, Iain Griffin, Alice Clark
2016, 2nd-24th Sept, The Digital Gaze | T/PACS #2, Killian O’Dwyer, Darren Kirwan, Miguel Martin, Curated by Emily O’Flynn
2016, 3rd June – 23rd July, Electroscapes, Arnold Koroshegyi
2016, 8th – 23rd April, Nimbus, Jonny McEwen
2016, 4th – 23rd March, Terra Incognita, Catherine Barrgary, Emma Houlihan, Kathryn Maguire, curated by Deirdre Morrissey.
2016, 5th – 20th February, Knowledge and other myths, Avril Corroon, Eimear Walshe, Kerry Guinan, Renèe Helèna Browne, Saoirse Wall and Tara McKeon.
2015, 4th – 19th December, PXV, Platform Members Show, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Hannah Casey, Liam Crichton, Erin Hagan, Michael Hanna, David Mahon, Miguel Martin, Hannah McBride, Hugh O’Donnell, Iolanda Rocha, Catherine Roberts
2015, 6th – 25th November, The Present Instant, Richard O’Sullivan & Matilde Meireles
2014, 7th – 26th November, Seasonal Integration IV, Nicole Weniger
2014, 3rd – 24th October, Downtown 2, WhittyGordon Projects
2014, 3rd – 24th October, When they put their hands out like scales, Emma Campbell
2014, 5th – 26th September, Nothing Great is Easy, Lisa Stansbie
2014, 7th – 28th August, Keyframe, Colin Martin
2014, 6th – 28th June, …taking back bearings, Craig Donald & Jacqueline Holt
2014, 3rd – 5th April, Intermingle, Enda Burke (IE), Ella Bertilsson (SE), Chloe Brenan (IE), Sylvia Callan (IE), Aileen Drohan (IE); Luz Estrada (MX), Marco Gutierrez (ES), Pierre Jolivet (FR), Ulla Juske (EE), Philip McGuinness (IE), John Murphy (IE), Catherine O’ Keeffe (IE), Atoosa Pour Hosseini (IR), Fernanda Teta, (IT) and Paul Terry (IE).
2014, 12th – 26th April, PHOSHOW, as part of Belfast Photo Festival Youth Edition ²
2014, 7th – 22nd March, PROXY SPECIAL, Laura Duran, Daniel Lichtman, Laura Morrison, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Benjamin Orlow, Elaine Reynolds and Eoghan Ryan. With an accompanying text by Nathan Witt. ³
2014, 7th – 22nd March, SHIFT, Karine Talec
2014, 3rd – 10th October, Fabric, DAS Residents, curated by Digital Arts Studios. ⁴
2013, 6th – 16th June, Ripped, Chiseled and Rock Hard, Brian J Morrison, as part of the 2013 Belfast Photo Festival.
2013, June 6th – 16th, BeSpectacleD, Portraiture from the general public
2013, 17th – 25th May, 81E01, University of Ulster MFA, Aoife Brady, Pamela Byrne, Elizabeth-Anne Curistan, Cathy Droney, Andrew Glenn, Erin Hagan, Jade Magee, Jonny McEwen, Rosanna McKenna, John Robinson, Katrina Sheena Smyth
2013, February, Come to the Reading Room, Come Outside, Rachael Campbell-Palmer
2012, 20 September-10 October, The What-Ifs, Fiona Ní Mhaoilir ⁵
2012, 2nd – 10th March, Abluō, Jenny Keane
2012, 6th – 21st January, Nepotism + 1, Peter Richards, Kim McAleese, Victor Sloan, Jurgen Schneider, Conor McEely, Pascale Steyen, Philip Napier, Dougal McKenzie, Willie McKeown, Fergal O’Malley