Exhibition of new work by Jonathan Brennan. Taking Belfast’s rivers as a point of departure, I have been developing a new body of work looking at: issues around ecology (how we experience/manage rivers in urban areas); river ownership/maintenance (rivers...
Belfast Buildings Trust (BBT) is delighted to announce the second instalment of its ongoing ‘Engaging Art’ series, a project in collaboration with Vault Artist Studios in the former Carlisle Memorial Church, from Thursday 30 May, to Sunday 2 June 2024 with the work of...
‘Star Factory' is a collection of new work by Jonathan Brennan created in 2022-23. All works in the current show are woodblocks, i.e. the matrix used to create woodblock prints, yet here the pieces exhibited are the blocks themselves, coated in enamel paint to...
‘Sense of Place’ opens Friday 14 October, 6-9PM (all welcome) and continues until 30 October (Fri-Sun 12-5PM or by appointment: info@jonathanbrennanart.com) at Vault Artist Studios. A new exhibition by multi-disciplinary artist Jonathan Brennan opens in the...
'Host – an 8-steps journey from the outside in'“When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.” ― Friedensreich HundertwasserEight artists, four Dublin-based and four Belfast-based, came together to create...
Jonathan Brennan, Charys Wilson, Chris Wilson.Preview 1.10.20. Continues until 29.10.20. Queen Street Studios (QSS) Belfast is delighted to present a three-person exhibition with Jonathan Brennan, Charys Wilson and Chris Wilson. All three artists are concerned with...
In association with Galway City Arts Office, Engage Art Studios brings an exciting programme for these cold months ahead - WINTER PAPERS - This season the new gallery in Salthill showcases visual artists featured in Ireland’s leading arts anthology, Winter Papers. The...
‘Alleys and Rivers of the East’ is a series of artworks by artist Jonathan Brennan on the theme of alleyways, greenways and rivers in East Belfast. Comprising works on paper and unique multi-photograph compositions, the exhibition will also feature Brennan’s short...
A group exhibition featuring work by Lucy Turner, Eamonn McCrory, Linda McBurney, Penny Brewill, Jonathan Brennan and Judtih Logan. I exhibited some works from my #NorthbyNorth2018 series of works (Mountsandel Ferns, Nook of the Ferns, Lunula, Ballymoney and Bronze...
The Belfast Print Workshop have spruced up their studio walls and print browsers with beautiful new work from our artist-members and now they would like to show it off. Tucked away on the top floor of the Cotton Court Building on Waring Street, BPW is a hidden gem...
In a constant state of flux, let us see practice as process. In orbit we accentuate the transient, the never ending and the non-conclusive . Pushing towards a point of collapse we can capture the avenues of the inbetween. Now in its 26th year, Catalyst Arts is seeking...
Holding a discarded object in a junk shop, exploring its contours, feeling the patina it has acquired over time and use, one feels that the object could tell a story. Imagining that story is fanciful, yet tempting and inevitable.In an increasingly digital world, we...
Vault Artist Studios began as the Belfast Bankers in late 2016. Adam Turkington received a mysterious email that contained an extraordinarily generous offer: would he be able to make use of an old Ulster Bank building in East Belfast for a year? ‘Yes’ was his...
Annual group show at Framewerk - I showed works from my Guadalupe & Other Hallucinations, North by North, and Alleys of the East series.
The exhibition will feature framed prints by BPW members - both the new and those who have been with the workshop since the beginning - working across range of techniques. Included were a selection of etchings, monoprints and screenprints, some from my North...
An exhibition by emerging and established artists: an amazing array of wonderful artworks by artists you know and love, as well as those you may have yet to discover, and all for less than 250 pounds. A number of my works were included including Oranges (on the...
Belfast Print Workshop in partnership with Prism Print International are pleased to present this exhibition showcasing ambitious and excellent work from across the spectrum of printmaking techniques. My work 'Mountsandel Ferns' (a screenprint) was chosen for...
North by North is an exhibition of new work by multi-disciplinary artist Jonathan Brennan created specifically for the Riverside Theatre in Coleraine. Working in pen and ink, print, photography and digital, Brennan has been travelling around the ‘Causeway Coast &...
‘Mandala’ is an exhibition of screenprints resulting from a collaboration with the Indian vocal group Siri and multidisciplinary artist Jonathan Brennan. Brennan attended several of the group's rehearsals: recording sound and image, discussing the music and words with...
A comprehensive exhibition and series of participatory events: highlighting the extraordinary range of technique, imagery and vision of both past and current printmaking community. 40 Years, 40 Prints, 40 Printmakers is a testament to BPW’s printmaking facilities,...
Delighted to have a work selected (Pink Knives) for this survey exhibition. 2017 year marks the 40th year of BPW, celebrations begin with an exhibition of over 50 selected prints from the membership and the BPW archive including work in lithography, etching,...
Delighted to have 2 works accepted in this show: 'Sowing Teeth' and 'Polluting the Rivers with Severed Body Parts' (part of the 'Guadalupe & Other Hallucinations' series). The 'Impressions Open Biennale' is an exhibition that represents all that is happening in...
‘Alleys of the East’ is a collection of recent images of alleys or entries in the east of Belfast by Jonathan Brennan. Is it also a video and a ‘zine. I think when you move to a new place, there’s a learning curve in terms of fitting in and adapting, however, on...
‘Guadalupe & Other Hallucinations’ is an exhibition of 12 new linocut prints by artist Jonathan Brennan based on the book 'Guadalupe & Other Hallucinations' by the artist's brother. “In 2016, my brother Dylan – a poet, academic and long-term Mexico City...
Winter Artworks was a "extra special Xmas exhibition of winter themed artworks by established and emerging artists". I was in good company - see the artists included: Brian Ballard RUAJonathan BrennanCatherine DavisonCarol Graham RUATrina HobsonJoe...