Thanks to Dr Louise Wallace from the University of Ulster in Belfast for inviting me to give a lecture on the 30th October 2025.
What does it mean to have a painting practice? My work operates on a couple of different levels. I talked about my use of diptych formats and the dangers of binary thinking; how time and contingent response feature in my process; how ‘awkwardness’ can become a subject for painting; how the gimlet eye (as seen through Amy Sillman) informs the way we feel when looking at painting and how ambiguity, humour, and hesitation can be strengths - not flaws - in painting.
Difficult Joys at Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, Oct 2024
A HERmetics group show, paintings and drawings.
Messy Business at Queen Street Gallery, Belfast, 5th - 26th October 2023.
A HERmetics group show, paintings and sculptures.
Hyphen-Nations at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, 26 Nov - 18th Dec 2021
Solo show
I am a member of HERmetics in the Studio, a painting group.
Sinéad Aldridge studied at Camberwell and IADT Dublin. Her solo and group exhibitions include Belfast, Düsseldorf (Germany), and Sligo. She worked 12 years as a Fine Art Lecturer at the Institute of Technology, Sligo and today mostly lives and works in Germany. Patricia Doherty studied at Camberwell and at the Royal Academy where she was awarded a scholarship. She lives and works in Sligo and has had exhibitions in Germany, Wales, Ireland and N. Ireland. Louise Wallace has recently had a solo show Wallace at The Mac, Belfast. She is lead supervisor on a collaborative doctorate with the Ulster Museum and is one of the founders of Uncovered: Female Visibility in NI Art, a research project at the Ulster University. Wallace has been a lecturer in painting at the UU since 2007.