R-Space delivers an annual programme of contemporary art and craft exhibitions, public talks and participatory workshops.
R-Space Gallery’s exhibition programme is generously supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Principal Funder)
Current Exhibition
Rachel Gomme
‘Forest Lisburn: A Celebration of Trees’
26 April - 23 May 2025
Opening Saturday 26 April, 2-4pm
Artist talk Saturday 26 April, 2.30pm
Drop-in workshop - Saturday 26 April 3-4pm
Open - Tue-Sat 11am-5pm
‘Forest Lisburn: A Celebration of Trees’ is an exhibition with an environmental theme featuring the work of multi-disciplinary artist Rachel Gomme. It brings together large-scale drawings, alternative maps, mixed-media objects and interactive works to celebrate the urban forest in Lisburn and beyond.
COMING UP
‘Creative Communities’
28 May - 7 June 2025
Opening - Wednesday 28 May, 12.30-2.30pm
Open - Tue-Sat 11am-5pm
R-Space presents ‘Creative Communities’, a celebration of the artworks and achievements of groups across communities in Lisburn who took part in our outreach programme supported by the Halifax Foundation. A variety of pieces will be on display - from paintings, to prints and textile pieces, reflecting participants’ interests, identity and connections with the city.
Gary Shaw
‘memeOrising’
14 - 27 June 2025
Opening Saturday 14 June 2-4pm
Gary Shaw returns to R-Space Gallery with selected work developed since 2019, a period that covers the collapse of political institutions, UK withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit), the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, and the centenary of Northern Ireland in 2021. All are referenced throughout the exhibition and contribute to his ongoing intent of illuminating the narratives of post-conflict malaise and political ineptitude in visual ways that are comical, profound and despairing.