PS² Freelands Artist Programme

September 2018 - December 2023

Cohort artists 1: Janie Doherty, Michael Hanna, Julie Lovett, Jan McCullough and Emily McFarland; Cohort 2 artists: BROWN&BRÍ, Jane Butler, Mitch Conlon, Jasmin Märker, Thomas Wells ; Cohort 3 artists: Myrid Carten, Phillip McCrilly, Helouise O'Reilly, Robin Price, Jonathan Ross; Cohort 4 artists: Jacqueline Holt, Susan Hughes, Dorothy Hunter, Tara McGinn, Christopher Steenson.

The Freelands Artist Programme was created to support and enhance collaboration between 80 emerging artists and four arts organisations from across the UK and to build and strengthen professional arts practice outside of London. As with all the Foundation’s initiatives to date, the programme was established following extensive research into the current landscape of post-university support for emerging artists in the UK. Partner organisations participating in the programme alongside PS² are Site Gallery, Sheffield, England; g39 in Cardiff, Wales, and Talbot Rice Gallery, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Open Communal Shared Drawing

January 2021 - April 2022

Tuesday online drawing sessions

All unnamed participants and Alastair MacLennan, Bronagh Lawson, James King, Tonya McMullan, Rachel Macmanus, Elaine McGinn, Sarah, ... and many others.

Open dialogues- Writing about contemporary art in Northern Ireland

March 2021 - July 2021

Jill Clerkin/Jasmin Märker;

This project wants to change the lack of critical writing about contemporary art in Northern Ireland by creating a programme of studio visits and conversations between students and emerging artists and by supporting related writing on these encounters.

PeasPark

April 2013

Outdoor community project in North Belfast.

PeasPark started as an open-gated community garden project on a derelict building site in 2013 as part of a temporary art project and as continuation of initiatives by local residents to green the area.

Walk and sketch in the park

June 2019 - September 2019

Series of free walking and sketching events in Belfast's parks with Sharon Kelly and Cilla Wagner

Temporary Places

April 2013 - August 2014

Art and community project at an interface in North Belfast

A collaboration between New Lodge Arts, PS² and Skegoneill & Glandore Common Purpose. Participating artists: Joanna Hopkins, Laura O’Connor, Mairead Dunne, Duncan Ross, Yvonne Kennan, Charlotte Bosanquet, Duncan Ross, Paddy Bloomer, Philip Hession, Anne-Marie Dillon

UP- Down. 4 community art workshops + 1 Village Fair

February 2011 - May 2011

Testing ideas and practices into rural cultural projects in the village of Ballykinlar, Co Down

RHYZOM

May 2009 - October 2010

Collaborative network for local cultural production and trans-local dissemination

Lead organization: aaa (Paris)
Co-organizations: cultural agencies, Istanbul; public works, London; Agency, Sheffield; PS², Belfast

city supplements

May 2009 - June 2009

An alternative urban survey and audio-visual biography of Donegall Street

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: aaa, Paris; Seamus Harahan, Belfast; Grace Weir, Dublin; Dave Beech, Manchester; Chris Murphy, Belfast; Mark Orange, New york ; Gillian McIver, London. With contributions from Biggy Bigmore, Daniel Jewesbury and Ruth Morrow

Space Shuttle

March 2006 - April 2007

Six projects of urban creativity and social interaction

Participating artists and groups- Mission1: Call Centre Collective [Aoife Ludlow; Doris Rohr; Ruth Morrow; Emma McClintock; Saoirse Higgins]; Mission 2: Sarah Browne & Gareth Kennedy; Mission 3: Aisling O'Beirn; Mission 4: Siraj Izhar ; Mission 5; Mick O’Kelly; Mission 6: Amy Russell

street archaeology

November 2005 - November 2005

street archaeology, an audio-visual biography of Donegall Street, Belfast.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: aaa, Paris; Seamus Harahan, Belfast; Grace Weir, Dublin; Dave Beech, Manchester; Chris Murphy, Belfast; Mark Orange, New york ; Gillian McIver, London. With contributions from Biggy Bigmore, Daniel Jewesbury and Ruth Morrow

Urban Clearance

July 2005 - August 2005

Urban Clearance 4 projects of urban intervention and public interaction, Belfast

atelier d’architecture autogeree (aaa), Paris; LUNA NERA London/Berlin; Daniel Jewesbury and Stephen Hackett, Belfast; Lois& Franziska Weinberger, Vienna