Hope to get along to this next week:
The School of Art and Design - the founding school of the University of Ulster marks its 160th anniversary this year. To celebrate this landmark, the University has staged a series of events during 2009 culminating in this major retrospective exhibition at the Ormeau Baths Gallery, running until 30th January 2010. The exhibition and accompanying publications by Mike Catto and Professor Liam Kelly will present a comprehensive visual and contextual history of the School from its foundation in 1849 as the Belfast Government School of Art to the present day as the Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environment at the University of Ulster, York Street.
The exhibition recreates the atmosphere of significant periods across the School’s history. From the life drawing rooms of the early 1900’s as recorded in the photographs of Alexander Robert Hogg, the flamboyant interior and architectural designs dating from the 1960’s by internationally renowned architect Max Clendinning to evocative works from recent times including Willie Doherty’s most recent commission ‘Buried’ shown at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery earlier this year and getting its first screening in Northern Ireland at this exhibition.
This is a unique opportunity to see the work of a range of artists drawn from private collections and arts institutions across Ireland never before exhibited together.
The exhibition celebrates the achievements of some of Northern Ireland’s most prominent artists and designers who have been associated with the School of Art and Design throughout its long history.
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