First published in the VAN (Visual Artists News Sheet) 15 March 2023. Ann McVeigh and Ken Bartley, the team behind ArtisAnn Gallery, are no strangers to the NI Science Festival or indeed science for that matter – Ken has a degree in physics. Every February sees...

Somebody turned to me and said: “It’s like when you see a gallery opening in an American film; it looks a bit like this.” We were three floors up, not quite a New York loft, rather a high-spec office block, with metallic flooring, industrial lighting, and whitewashed...

First published in the VAN (Visual Artists News Sheet) 9 September 2022. Back in late-nineties Belfast, a loose agreement was formed between several like-minded artists in the east of the city to organise a group exhibition in a local venue. Said venue cancelled...