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PS² is an art initiative with studio spaces and a project space for experimental, multidisciplinary, site specific projects and cultural activities.
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06/11/2026

⭐️You can do it!
⭐️ Grace Fairley
⭐️ PeasPark, Skegoneill Avenue, North Belfast

A dreary day but a sunny sentiment Suzi Miller with the new siteboard by our PP artist-in-residence GRACE FAIRLEY

Grace is an artist based in North Belfast - a literal resident! Her work focuses on exploring disability and accessibility in big and colourful ways. She will be making work in response to PeasPark and the context of North Belfast throughout the year, funded by Esme Mitchell Trust.

Focusing on the intersections between art, environment and wellbeing, we will soon announce a series of workshops that support positive mental health funded by the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland through the Openreach Community Fund 2026 round.

As with all of our siteboard imagery, Grace’s work will remain on-site until it is reclaimed by the elements.

PS² is supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council’s Artists’ Studio and Makerspace Organisational Grant, Arts & Business NI’s Blueprint Investment Grant, and Dormant Assets NI through The National Lottery Community Fund.

05/11/2026

Our next exhibition opens NEXT WEEK, not tonight!

Low Tech Soft Touch
Ronan Smyth

* Opening: Thursday 12 November 2026, 6pm - 9pm
* Late Night Art : Thursday 3 December 2026
* Closing: Saturday 12 December 2026
* Opening hours: 12pm to 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday

Low Tech Soft Touch is a new body of research by Ronan Smyth that embraces amateur, lo-fi and recreational approaches to craft production.

Referencing fringe culture, fine art history, childhood play and memory, Low Tech Soft Touch incorporates a range of media - including hand-made objects, drawing, sculpture and video – explore the complex social positioning and q***r agency of sci-fi props, folk relics, educational toys, dioramas, souvenirs, domestic trinkets and excavations.

Ronan Smyth is a visual artist and researcher currently based in Belfast. In 2025, he completed a practice-based PhD with Ulster University, exploring the sociopolitical role of DIY, hobbyist and amateur craft through class-conscious perspectives of q***r shame in Ireland. Based at Flax Art Studios, he works across various disciplines including sculpture, textile and drawing.

30/10/2026

It’s official - the lights are off and nobody’s home on Rosemary Street!

We’ve been there since February 2020 (an auspicious month for lots of reasons) and managed to wring six years out of a month-to-month rolling contract.

Thank you to EVERYBODY who generously gave us time, energy, hands and wheels. Whilst our new place on High Street is only two minutes’ walk away, that somehow made it worse.

We so appreciate all of the artists who turned enthusiastic painters and decorators, and all of you who schlepped our stuff, risking your toes, sanity and other people’s vehicles along the way.

We hope you’ll join us at our next exhibition, Low Tech Soft Touch by Ronan Smyth, which opens on Thursday 12 November from 6pm.

📷 1: the last of our sh*te
📷 2: LEGENDS, ALL (apologies if we couldn’t find all of your insta handles!)
📷 3: obligatory up-skirt of Davy Wong

28/10/2026

CALL FOR BOARD MEMBERS

Deadline: 5pm, Sunday 22 November

More information and a short Google Form to register your interest are available on our website, link in bio!

We’re looking for three or more new Trustees to join us as we embark on a new phase for PS², with a new building, more spaces for studios and membership opportunities, a dynamic exhibitions and events programme, new and ongoing offsite projects, and a range of national and international partnerships.

We’re particularly interested in hearing from you if you have expertise in the following areas:

* Built and natural environment disciplines, e.g.: architecture, sustainable development, environmental activism and ethics, or other social and spatial practices

* HR, change management and people development

* Financial oversight responsibility, e.g.: fundraising and business development for public/private sector

* Cultural sector (outside of visual art), e.g.: film, television, journalism

At PS², we design programmes and spaces which acknowledge and support those who experience intersectional barriers to the arts. This call for Board members also prioritises those with lived experience of being politically minoritised or marginalised.

22/09/2026

🎙️ ALSO OPENING THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER
⚫️ Late Night Art
🔴 heavy, direct, quick
⚪️ Emma Quin

‘heavy, direct quick’ draws together ideas around power relations, labour, and dance, to consider the social, cultural and political structuring of bodies within the social environment.

“It is the body that is at issue - the body and its forces, their utility and their docility, their distribution and their submission…The body is directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it, mark it, train it, torture it, force it to carry out tasks, to perform ceremonies, to emit signs”
Michel Foucault, 1975

By acutely focusing on representation of both leisure and labour within the Northern Ireland Screen & Film Digital Film Archive, this work highlights the ways in which humans have always and will always use dance and leisure to follow their intuition and interest, an innate human desire that capitalism, try as it might, cannot rewrite.

The exhibition is complemented by a Performance Art Workshop. More information and booking details in bio 👆 
About the artist:
Emma Quin emma is a self-taught artist and curator based in Belfast, working with collage, sculpture, photography and found materials.
She initiates projects which consider how power is distributed across society, in search of a more equal, shared future. With a background in sociology, her work combines sociological thought and collaborative, artist-led approaches.
She is the founder of artist-led initiative and Co-Founder of performance art collective rehearsal_space_belfast

The exhibition is generously funded by the Fenton Arts Trust and Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and supported by Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive.

21/09/2026

TWO NEW SHOWS KLAXON!

Join us on Thursday 1 October for two Late Night Art openings. First up:

Revenant
Richard Davis

Revenant is a sculptural installation exploring the performance of voice through movement and interactive technology.

Melancholic, intimate and curious, Revenant brings together sculpture, interactive technology and original vocal composition to reflect on presence and absence, the physical body and digital representation.

The audience does not simply observe or listen; movement becomes a performative part of the artwork. Each visitor enters into a relationship with the sculptures and voices. No single participant completely controls the sound. Instead, the choir emerges through human-computer interaction and a shared exchange between audience members.

Richard Davis is an artist, animator and musician based in Belfast. Originally trained in animation, he has created hand-made 2D animated work for music, film and television, including projects for Snow Patrol, BBC NI, and Historic Royal Palaces.
Alongside his visual practice, Richard writes and performs original music under the name Heliopause

This project was kindly funded by the Individual Artists Digital Evolution Awards, supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Richard Davis

20/09/2026

🟢Announcing PeasPark artist-in-residence: Grace Fairley!

🟢September 2026 - August 2027

🟢 PeasPark, Skegoneill Avenue, North Belfast

Grace is an artist based in North Belfast - a literal resident!

Her work focuses on exploring disability and accessibility in big and colourful ways. She has just completed a Masters in Disability Studies, Rights and Inclusion with the University of Leeds, and graduated from Belfast School of Art in 2019 with a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration.

We’re excited to see what work Grace will make work in response to PeasPark throughout the year, funded by Esme Mitchell Trust.

She will also undertake a series of workshops (more details to follow!) focusing on the intersections between art, environment and wellbeing.

With funding from the Openreach Community Fund, we will work with local organisations who provide su***de prevention initiatives and the promotion of positive mental health.

GRACE FAIRLEY
Suzi Miller

19/09/2026

PeasPark pop-up at PS²
*HIGH STREET*

Friday 25 September

6.30pm - 9pm

PeasPark - a ‘6-week temporary project’ - is still going strong after thirteen years! Community gardening and art are still building community on a former interface.

We’re bringing a little bit of our North Belfast corner to PS² on High Street for this one-night only pop-up. Join us, residents, gardeners, and artists for a look back at our (first?) 13 years.

Someone had the bright idea of planting a few spuds and peas one summer. Dazzled by the sun we said YES! and all these years later we have gathered a range of films, paintings, prints and words that tell our story to share.

Introducing a new film by Michael Morrissey and Chris McSherry, alongside an archive documentary from the early years by Caroline Magowan and many contributions from the people of PeasPark down through the years, and featuring artwork by Duncan Ross, Laura Nelson, Fiona Lovely, Lightbox Willie and many others who have made PeasPark what it is today.

Not a bad innings for a temporary project! Refreshments will be served 🥂please share with your networks.

Archive images courtesy of Suzi Miller Callie Persic

17/09/2026

🌌CULTURE NIGHT 2026🌌

Make and print your own Polaroids

Friday 18 September, 5pm - 8pm

Take a snap of the city on Culture Night, and join us to print them as Polaroids - we’ll have printers and sticky paper available all evening so you can add them to our CNB wall!
You’ll also be able to visit our current exhibition Hiraeth, by Eslam

We also have the latest reflections from Arts or Storage by Neal Campbell and on the continuing precarity for our city’s art spaces.

Culture Night Belfast
MayWe
Belfast City Council
Linen Quarter
Cathedral Quarter Belfast

11/09/2026

For those of you following Paddy Bloomer’s upper Bann adventure, he’s now en route to Portadown (Shillington’s Quay). Please don’t ask us where this is or how long he’ll be there, we simply don’t know either 🥰

Address

11 Rosemary Street
Belfast
BT11QA

Opening Hours

Tuesday	12pm - 5pm
Wednesday	12pm - 5pm
Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 5pm
Saturday	12pm - 5pm

Telephone

+442890235912

Website

http://www.pssquared.org/

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