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Household, Belfast (2026)

03/07/2026

🔺 ON SILENT AIR : CHARYS WILSON 🔺

We are delighted to welcome Charys Wilson to the UPHOLD collection.

On Silent Air unfolds as a series of ten unique works that invite moments of stillness, attention, and quiet reflection. No. 1 is now live on our website and available to purchase.

https://www.upholdart.co.uk/shop/p/charys1

🌞 More works will be released throughout the summer.

On silent air is a new edition of works the size of a handheld tablet by Charys Wilson. They create domestic landscapes intended for the home, which, through recycled polarised TV screens, provide partly obscured glimpses of organic growth. On silent air speaks of a mediated, digitalised, and disembodied experience of accessing a rapidly fading, tactile natural world through a technological interface.

The plants and flowers featured in this edition of 10 individual works have been sourced from the immediate vicinity of The Living House, North Belfast; a collaboration between Household and MMAS Architects to inhabit and re-animate the building as a site for artistic and social exchange.

Charys Wilson’s practice centres on installation and small-scale sculptural works. Drawing on a background in printmaking, her attention is often directed towards alignment, layering and the subtle relationships between materials, light and space. Elements of the outside are brought indoors, creating quiet encounters through illusion, mimicry, light and shadow.

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.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland Belfast City Council Uphold Art

30/06/2026

🔺 NEW EDITIONS: JOEY O’GORMAN 🔺

We are thrilled to welcome Joey O’Gorman to the UPHOLD collection with 10 beautiful Riso prints.

Now live on our site — ready to explore
https://www.upholdart.co.uk/shop/filter-by-artist/joey-ogorman

Recently exhibited as part of Flesh and Stone at The Living House, these prints are drawings created through Joey O'Gorman's ongoing collaboration with users and organisers at Peas Park, an outdoor community garden near The Living House. For several years, O'Gorman has been building dead hedges that provide habitat and shelter for the park's non-human inhabitants, while also functioning as structures that organise the space and create boundaries. Developed as part of his embodied, multidisciplinary and interspecies sculptural practice, the drawings respond to the movements and activities of those who use the site. Constructed over time through a process that mirrors the making of the hedges, they reflect the slow, accumulative nature of the work. O'Gorman is currently expanding this practice through ecological interventions for non-human audiences alongside the continued development of his drawing methodology.

Joey O’Gorman creates work across drawing, sculpture, audio, video, and installation to explore different ways of understanding vital interconnections. Through improvisational processes, he engages experientially with more-than-human relationships, employing speculative modes of inquiry to examine how individuals, communities, and ecosystems co-create one another.

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.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland Belfast City Council Uphold Art

Images: Simon Mills

29/06/2026

🔺 NEW EDITIONS: JAN UPRICHARD 🔺

We are thrilled to welcome Jan Uprichard to the UPHOLD collection with her Deep Smelling Protocols.

Find out more via https://www.upholdart.co.uk/shop/p/janu

Deep Smelling is a meditative, experiential practice that brings attention to our sense of smell. It is inspired by renowned composer Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening. The Deep Smelling Protocols are a series of simple exercises to get us thinking about and engaging with our sense of smell. The cards have a sculptural quality while remaining working tools designed to be handled. Jan worked with Simon Goode at London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA) to create them. The stapled cardboard boxes housing the cards are the same as those used for nails and screws. Our aim was to negate the feeling of a ‘precious’ artwork, creating a more everyday, usable object. The matte finish, rough edges and staples keep the haptic in mind. This is continued through the inclusion of an ergonomic pencil and extra cards made from scrap at the LCBA workshop, allowing users to make notes, journal, or even create their own protocols.
Jan completed a practice-based PhD at Ulster University in June 2024, developing a method of Deep Smelling. She has since applied this through a series of smellwalks in Edinburgh and Belfast, including walks on Divis Mountain and in the Waterworks as part of Aisling O'Beirn's Right to the Night project with Household. In 2021, she created an installation and accompanying smellwalk podcast for CCA Derry~Londonderry, marking the first public iteration of this research. Jan has exhibited widely across Ireland, the UK and Europe, and has received funding from Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council England, British Council, and the Garfield Weston Foundation.

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

Jan Uprichard Arts Council of Northern Ireland Belfast City Council

23/06/2026

🏠 Be——————longing
🔺 Saturday 27th June (at 6pm)
📍 Meet at The Living House (489 Antrim Road, Belfast)

Be——————longing is a reading of work in process presented by Lyónn Wolf in their home in North Belfast. The event incorporates spoken word, newly produced ephemera, and archival footage from Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital FIlm Archive selected by artist Ellen Blair to explore how the domestic holds memory and produces q***r kinship. Lyónn Wolf’s research for this project centres on the concept of home as both a physical place and as an embodied, affective state; foregrounding how bodies and domestic environments undergo processes of transformation, care, and ongoing maintenance.

A limited-edition risograph print, produced in collaboration with Soft Fiction Projects, will be available for attendees to take home.

This event is part of Flesh and Stone, an exhibition and public programme exploring histories of art production and the relationship between domestic space, the body, and the built environment in Belfast. Bringing together artists and archival research by Household, it takes place at The Living House, a new site for artistic and social exchange developed by Household and MMAS Architects.

Follow the link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/belonging-a-reading-by-lyonn-wolf-tickets-1990949961931
Booking for this event is essential and free but capacity is limited.

Audience age: 18+

Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland through The National Lottery & Digital Evolution Awards Programme, Belfast City Council, Paul Mellon Centre, Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive, & Belfast Fleadh Fringe 2026.

Images: courtesy of the artist

22/06/2026

🔺REUBEN BROWN - ARTIST TALK + NEW EDITION🔺
🪩 Friday 26th June 5pm
📍 The Living House (489 Antrim Road, Belfast)

As part of our current exhibition Flesh and Stone, Reuben Brown will present an artist talk providing insight into his ongoing research project, club [construction]. We are also delighted to launch a new scarf edition to coincide with the project. Comprising fifteen custom, digitally knitted football scarves, the edition creates an object that tangibly links to his ongoing research.

👆Link in bio to book for the talk: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/club-construction-reuben-brown-tickets-1990949324023

🔺New edition: https://www.upholdart.co.uk/shop/p/reubenbrownscarf

Emerging in response to the precarity of nightlife infrastructures and shifting cultural conditions across Ireland, and within wider European contexts, Reuben’s ongoing research project and club-collective, club [construction], positions the club as a critical site of both preservation and generation. Working through a post-club methodology, he approaches the q***r club archive, not simply as a site of excavation, but as a site to be actively constructed within. His artistic praxis is research-driven and trans-disciplinary in nature, working across experiential installation, sculpture, dance and performance, experimental film, sound and participatory practices often situated within and produced through nightlife environments. Through the combination of archival inquiry, with autoethnographic reflection, fieldwork and critical writing practices, his work engages the club-space as a site of embodied knowledge production in order to think about memory as a collective and lived condition, and to consider what this might reveal about q***r futurity, inheritance, failure, legacy and utopian possibility.

Reuben Brown (b. 2001) is a visual artist, club-creative and researcher based between Belfast and Dublin, Ireland. He is currently completing an MRes in Fine Art by Practice at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, having graduated from Belfast School of Art in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include In the dusk… at Alexanderplatz Bahnhof Culterim Galerie, Berlin (2026); DANSTOPIA! at PS2, Belfast (2025); €URODANC€ at Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin (2025); White Knuckle Forever at The Backshop, Culterim Galerie, Berlin (2025); and Propagate at Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2025).
Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland through The National Lottery & Digital Evolution Awards Programme, Belfast City Council, Paul Mellon Centre, Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital FIlm Archive, & Belfast Fleadh Fringe 2026.

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Images: simon + courtesy of the artist

17/06/2026

🔺 NEW EDITIONS: DAN SHIPSIDES 🔺

We are thrilled to welcome Dan Shipsides to the UPHOLD collection with a new limited-edition framed print, currently part of Flesh and Stone exhibition at The Living House (489 Antrim Road)

They’re now live on our site — ready to explore https://www.upholdart.co.uk/shop/p/danshipsides1

Playing with the unreliable unfurling of flags, Dan Shipsides explores the fragile contingency of language and the unknowable success of partial utterances. Drawing on his own experience of stammering, the work considers whether partially unfurled words might carry other, more magical and generative potentials. It also centres laughter and the spontaneous guttural voicing of joy and pain as part of the creative energy animating the human and non-human universe. ‘Ha ha’ is also Bosse-de-Nage’s pataphysical measure of time, space and creativity in Jarry’s seminal Dr. Faustroll.
In this image, the synchronicity of the two flags unfurling in the wind at the precise moment the camera shutter was released represents a syzygetic event—a moment of portent.

Dan Shipsides is an artist based in Belfast and Course Director of the MFA Fine Art programme at the Belfast School of Art. His work has a distinct geographic lean—a form of creative geography rooted in an embodied fascination with the outdoors. Mountains, crags, waterways and coastlines hold a particular attraction, though woodlands are equally valued. His practice is hybrid and cross-disciplinary, encompassing drawing, print, video, sculpture, sound and diverse forms of making and doing.

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.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland Belfast City Council Dan Shipsides

Artwork: SUMMIT STAMMER (SLIEVE BEARNAGH) - ha ha, Dan Shipsides, 2026, Framed archival giclée print on hahnemühle paper mounted on dibond, 23.8cm x 31.4cm x 3.4cm

Installation shot by Simon Mills & other images courtesy of the artist.

17/06/2026

🔺 NEW EDITIONS: DAN SHIPSIDES 🔺

We are thrilled to welcome Dan Shipsides to the UPHOLD collection with a new limited-edition framed print, currently part of the Flesh and Stone exhibition at The Living House (489 Antrim Road)

Five of them are now live on our site and for sale — ready to explore.

Find out more via the link in our bio 🔺or go see the work in person!

Playing with the unreliable unfurling of flags, Dan Shipsides explores the fragile contingency of language and the unknowable success of partial utterances. Drawing on his own experience of stammering, the work considers whether partially unfurled words might carry other, more magical and generative potentials. It also centres laughter and the spontaneous guttural voicing of joy and pain as part of the creative energy animating the human and non-human universe. ‘Ha ha’ is also Bosse-de-Nage’s pataphysical measure of time, space and creativity in Jarry’s seminal Dr. Faustroll.
In this image, the synchronicity of the two flags unfurling in the wind at the precise moment the camera shutter was released represents a syzygetic event—a moment of portent.

Dan Shipsides is an artist based in Belfast and Course Director of the MFA Fine Art programme at the Belfast School of Art. His work has a distinct geographic lean—a form of creative geography rooted in an embodied fascination with the outdoors. Mountains, crags, waterways and coastlines hold a particular attraction, though woodlands are equally valued. His practice is hybrid and cross-disciplinary, encompassing drawing, print, video, sculpture, sound and diverse forms of making and doing.

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.

Artwork: SUMMIT STAMMER (SLIEVE BEARNAGH) - ha ha, Dan Shipsides, 2026, Framed archival giclée print on hahnemühle paper mounted on dibond, 23.8cm x 31.4cm x 3.4cm

📸 Installation shots by & other images courtesy of the artist.

15/06/2026

👣DEEP SMELLING WALK👣
🗓️Saturday 20th June (1pm - 2:30pm)
📍Meet at The Living House (489 Antrim Road, Belfast)

As part of Flesh and Stone, join artist Jan Uprichard for a guided walk through North Belfast, responding to The Living House and the surrounding Antrim Road area.
Using Jan Uprichard's Deep Smelling Protocols, participants are invited to slow down and experience the environment through smell, shifting sensory perception away from the predominantly visual and towards the olfactory.

The Deep Smelling Protocols act as a guided tool for observation and exploration, encouraging a more attentive relationship with place and atmosphere.
Participation in the walk is free, and attendees will also have the opportunity to purchase a limited-edition Deep Smelling Protocols box at the event-exclusive price of £30.

Created by Jan Uprichard in collaboration with Simon Goode at London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA), the box is an artwork containing 25 Deep Smelling Protocol cards, offering both a collectible artwork and a practical tool for future smell explorations.

Follow link to book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-smelling-protocol-tickets-1990947296960

Capacity is limited.

Jan is a Belfast based artist. She recently completed a PhD at Ulster University developing a method of Deep Smelling. As an artist and researcher Jan works with smell as a device to re-programme how we perceive our surroundings, whilst themes of friendship fuel her curatorial practice. Jan’s art practice oscillates between participatory events and obsessive research, using smell, walking, archives, mapping, food, sound, film, bookmaking, botany, and interventions as tools. She has undertaken projects and residencies nationally and internationally. These include mapping city neighbourhoods in terms of smell, sound and light, hosting sound ecology walks and botany walks in for example, Paris, Athens, Edinburgh, Belfast and Derry.

Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland through The National Lottery & Digital Evolution Awards Programme, Belfast City Council, Paul Mellon Centre, Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital FIlm Archive, & Belfast Fleadh Fringe 2026.

29/05/2026

🫀FLESH AND STONE 🫀
11–28 June 2026
Opening: 11 June, 7–8.30pm
📍The Living House, 489 Antrim Road

Flesh and Stone creates a public moment to contextualise our recent research into building an archive that transmits histories of art production in response to the domestic in Belfast. The exhibition is inspired by Richard Sennett’s book of the same name, which explores the relationship between the built environment and bodily experience.

The exhibition and accompanying public programme include contributions from artists Reuben Brown, Sinead O’Neill-Nicholl, Joey O’Gorman, John Rainey, Dan Shipsides, Jan Uprichard, Charys Wilson, and Lyónn Wolf, alongside archival research undertaken by Household.

The works in the exhibition explore, in different ways, affective relationships between the private and the public, and how these connections can be actualised, experienced, and shared.

Flesh and Stone will be hosted at The Living House, 489 Antrim Road. The Living House is a collaboration between Household and MMAS Architects to inhabit and re-animate the building as a site for artistic and social exchange. Situated within this new neighbourhood context, it brings together MMAS's socially engaged, community-focused architectural practice and coffee kiosk, Parakeet.

The artworks in the exhibition have been editioned and will be available to order on our online selling platform UPHOLD in the coming weeks.

More details coming soon…..👀

Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland through The National Lottery & Digital Evolution Awards Programme, Belfast City Council, Paul Mellon Centre, Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital FIlm Archive, & Belfast Fleadh Fringe 2026.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland Belfast City Council Northern Ireland Screen Fleadh Cheoil

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]

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