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Household, Belfast (2026)

02/03/2026

📢 Call for Editions 📢

Household invites Northern Ireland–based artists to submit proposals for small-scale editions to sell through our UPHOLD platform.

We will select five artists whose edition proposals translate their practice into domestic-scale, sellable works. This may include existing ideas adapted to a smaller edition format, new work developed within the parameters of the invitation, or new experimental approaches.

Selected artists will receive:

£250 artist fee

£250 materials budget

80% of any future sales (sales not guaranteed)

*Please note that framing costs are covered separately

📝 How to apply:

Please complete the short application form via Google Form (link in bio) 👆

After completing the form, please email up to 5 images of relevant work with “UPHOLD Proposal” in the subject line.

Due to the expected volume of applications, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback.

*Closing date for applications 20th March 2026*

What happens next?

Five artists will be selected and invited to:

Take part in a 1:1 studio visit and curatorial support in the development of the edition

Editions should be ready for June 2026

Be featured on the UPHOLD platform Summer 2026

Contribute to the UPHOLD collection

The potential to be part of future exhibitions around the collection

UPHOLD is a not-for-profit initiative set up through Household for promoting and selling work by Northern Ireland based artists. 80% of the money from each sale goes straight to the artist while the remaining 20% is used for maintaining the project. The project is supported by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Art & Business.

If you have any issues filling out this form or require further information please get in touch: [email protected]

10/12/2025

❤️‍🔥 FINAL EDITION DROP OF 2025 ❤️‍🔥

We are thrilled to welcome Emily McFarland to the UPHOLD collection with five stunning limited-edition framed prints and five unframed prints.

They’re now live on our site — ready to explore.

Find out more via the link in our bio 🔺

These works are 16mm film stills developed by Emily McFarland, drawn from Pollanroe Burn (2025) and Haugheys Bog (2025), presented as part of her solo exhibition Pollanroe Burn at VOID, Derry (2025). Unfolding through new films and archival fragments, they form part of the artist’s long-term research into the shifting ecology of the Sperrin Mountains in West Tyrone, North Ireland, amid proposed industrial-scale gold extraction. Employing documentary forms, choreographed sequences, and sonic compositions, the works trace intersecting deep-time narratives and attend to hydrological and vegetal worlds as agents of collective folk memory, language, and resistance, imagining relations beyond the anthropocentric frame.

Emily McFarland works predominantly in film, exploring how shared cultural, social, geological, and ecological narratives are constructed and retold over time. Using techniques of slow looking and attentive listening, her recent work continues her research into the Sperrin Mountains under the shadow of global extractive pressures.

UPHOLD was developed by Household Belfast and made possible with the generous support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, and Arts and Business.

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10/12/2025

❤️‍🔥 FINAL EDITION DROP OF 2025 ❤️‍🔥

We are thrilled to welcome Emily McFarland to the UPHOLD collection with five stunning limited-edition framed prints and five unframed prints.

They’re now live on our site — ready to explore.

Find out more via the link in our bio 🔺

These works are 16mm film stills developed by Emily McFarland, drawn from Pollanroe Burn (2025) and Haugheys Bog (2025), presented as part of her solo exhibition Pollanroe Burn at VOID, Derry (2025). Unfolding through new films and archival fragments, they form part of the artist’s long-term research into the shifting ecology of the Sperrin Mountains in West Tyrone, North Ireland, amid proposed industrial-scale gold extraction. Employing documentary forms, choreographed sequences, and sonic compositions, the works trace intersecting deep-time narratives and attend to hydrological and vegetal worlds as agents of collective folk memory, language, and resistance, imagining relations beyond the anthropocentric frame.

Emily McFarland works predominantly in film, exploring how shared cultural, social, geological, and ecological narratives are constructed and retold over time. Using techniques of slow looking and attentive listening, her recent work continues her research into the Sperrin Mountains under the shadow of global extractive pressures.

UPHOLD was developed by Household Belfast and made possible with the generous support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, and Arts and Business.

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05/12/2025

❤️‍🔥 NEXT EDITION DROP ❤️‍🔥

Delighted to welcome six beautiful limited-edition stoneware works and homemade soaps by Tara McGinn to the collection.

Each piece is unique, and hand painted, now available through our site.

Discover more via the link in our bio 🔺

These stoneware ceramic pieces are created from a slipcast mould of a cherished set of dishes once belonging to the artist’s grandmother. By casting these inherited delftware forms, the artist preserves their familiar shape while reimagining them through their own contemporary practice. Each recreated dish becomes both an echo of memory and the beginning of a new story, perhaps even a future heirloom for someone else.

Tara McGinn’s cross-disciplinary, or non-disciplinary, practice explores the fabric of language in objects, architectural surfaces, and textures as texts, and vice versa. Their work deconstructs and re-collages sentimentality, tradition, q***r identity, bodily trauma, and the comforts found in shared spaces.

These series of soaps were made with the technical assistance and additional creative input of Tadhg Charles.

Tadhg Charles is an artist, designer, educator and PhD researcher at Northumbria University, exploring how digital tools can make architecture more accessible. Blending physical and digital design, he teaches across Europe on fabrication and emerging tech, helping creators bring ideas to life from screen to real world. At the heart of his work is a commitment to sharing, agency and storytelling.

UPHOLD was developed by Household Belfast and made possible with the generous support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, and Arts and Business.

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04/12/2025

❤️‍🔥 NEW EDITIONS DROP ❤️‍🔥

We are thrilled to introduce Amanda Rice and her three bold, limited-edition prints to the UPHOLD collection.
They’re now live on our site — ready to explore.

Find out more via the link in our bio 🔺

These works are part of Amanda Rice's new series of digital prints, ‘Breakthrough’, which draws from research material related to her 2023 film ‘The Flesh of Language’. This body of work is composed of scanned and layered materials from reel to reel tapes, microphones, recording devices and books related to the subject of electronic voice phenomena (EVP), sounds found on electronic recordings that are interpreted as spirit voices.

Amanda Rice is an artist based between Belfast and London, working primarily with moving image and sound. Her practice explores material histories connected to ecological and geological subjects, extending into the politics of land use, mineralogy, and the speculative or obscured histories embedded within landscapes and extracted matter.

UPHOLD was developed by Household Belfast and made possible with the generous support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, and Arts and Business.

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02/12/2025

Explore the rest of the UPHOLD collection while you wait for our new editions to drop. ✨

UPHOLD was developed by Household Belfast and made possible with the generous support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, and Arts and Business.

.sean

19/11/2025

🎄✨ That time of year again! ✨🎄

Elevate your Christmas gifting with contemporary art from . From prints and limited editions to original works, our online shop offers thoughtfully curated pieces perfect for adding a distinctive touch to any stocking this holiday season. 🌟

1. pkt of old holborn, Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl, 2025, Emerald Green Frosted Perspex™ with laser engraving £96.00

2. Proposals for Q***r Bodies in Public Space (Flag), John Rainey, 2025, Recycled RPET Material 110gsm £96.00

3. Jennifer in Paradise, Jennifer Mehigan, 2022, Custom printed mug, £35 (Check out the rest of the series of 20 unique mugs illustrated by the artist)

4. We have our own flowers. Do it Yourself, 2021, Soft Fiction Projects, Risograph Print on Favini Alga Carta, £60

5. Yellow uh oh, Michael Hanna, 2022, Handmade vacuum form (High Impact Polystyrene), £50

6. Set of postcards, 2022, Alex Synge, Hot foiled in one colour onto 540gsm Colorplan card £50

7. it seems I’ve scratched a two-hundred year-old itch, Phillip McCrilly, 2021, Screenprint (unframed)

8. Bishop’s Knotweed, Array Collective, 2024, Tea Towel: Digital print on Cotton/Linen Blend, £36

When you shop with us, you're not just buying art, you’re championing the incredible talent, and supporting local art practices here in Northern Ireland.

UPHOLD was developed by Household Belfast and made possible with the generous support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, and Arts and Business.

**While our small team works hard to dispatch your items promptly, shipping times may be impacted by high demand during the holiday season or unexpected carrier delays.**

11/11/2025

🔺New Editions — Coming Soon 🔺
Get ready: new editions are about to drop at
Fresh works. Limited runs
Stay close: these editions won’t wait around.

UPHOLD was developed by Household Belfast and made possible with the generous support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, and Arts and Business.

18/08/2025

🔺 FINAL 2 EDITIONS : SINÉAD O’NEILL-NICHOLL 🔺

The last two laser-engraved Perspex works by Sinéad, are now available through the site!

🔺Follow the link in our bio 🔺

This work comes from the artist's deep dive into language and her research along North Belfast's Antrim Road. She gathered insights through interviews with local families and experiments with audio and sound. The result is a poetic piece that connects with sensory memories of a different time and place. By exploring language construction and the area around the Antrim Road through family conversations, walking, and sound mapping, Sinéad has crafted poetic compositions. These pieces link to shared sensory memories from another time and place.

Sinéad O’neill-Nicholl has a research based practice and works predominantly with sound and light to create installation and performance art. With a focus on manipulating sound recordings using mixing skills and audio editing software techniques, Sinéad examines language in the context of justice and investigates the connection between communication channels and identity bias.

Shop at to support local and sustain art practices here in Northern Ireland.

UPHOLD was developed by Household Belfast and made possible with the generous support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, and Arts and Business.

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18/08/2025

🔺 FINAL 2 EDITIONS : SINÉAD O’NEILL-NICHOLL 🔺

The last two laser-engraved Perspex works by Sinéad, are now available through the site!

🔺Follow the link in our bio 🔺

This work comes from the artist's deep dive into language and her research along North Belfast's Antrim Road. She gathered insights through interviews with local families and experiments with audio and sound. The result is a poetic piece that connects with sensory memories of a different time and place. By exploring language construction and the area around the Antrim Road through family conversations, walking, and sound mapping, Sinéad has crafted poetic compositions. These pieces link to shared sensory memories from another time and place.

Sinéad O’neill-Nicholl has a research based practice and works predominantly with sound and light to create installation and performance art. With a focus on manipulating sound recordings using mixing skills and audio editing software techniques, Sinéad examines language in the context of justice and investigates the connection between communication channels and identity bias.

Shop at to support local and sustain art practices here in Northern Ireland.

UPHOLD was developed by Household Belfast and made possible with the generous support of the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, and Arts and Business.

Website design by
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