Flesh and Stone creates a public moment to contextualise some of our thinking and recent research around building an archive that transmits histories of art production in response to the domestic in Belfast. The exhibition is inspired by Richard Sennett’s book of the same name, which explores the relationship between the built environment and bodily experience.
The exhibition and public programme of related events includes contributions from artists Reuben Brown, Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl, Joey O’Gorman, John Rainey, Dan Shipsides, Jan Uprichard, Charys Wilson, and Lyónn Wolf, and archival research undertaken by Household.
Works in the exhibition (11-28 June 2026) and events in the public programme (11 June – 23 August 2026) including an artist talk (Reuben Brown, 26 June ), Deep Smell Protocol walk (Jan Uprichard, 20 June), performance event in a domestic space (Lyónn Wolf, 27 June), published interviews (Household, July) and audio work (Sinéad O’Neill Nicholl, 21-23 August) will in different ways explore affective relationships between the private and the public, and how these connections can be actualised and shared.
Flesh and Stone will be hosted at The Living House at 489 Antrim Road. The Living House is a collaboration between Household and MMAS architects to inhabit and re-animate the building. Within this new neighbourhood setting and context, alongside MMAS’s socially engaged and community focused architectural practice and coffee kiosk Parakeet, Household will host an artist residency space and programme, and eventually a ‘living archive’ that connects with the creative potential of the domestic and the city’s past, present and future. The Living House will function as a ‘third place’, a creative space and a new ecology that fosters gathering, conversation, exchange and diverse communities of interest and place.
Flesh and Stone opens on the 11th June (7-8:30pm). All are welcome to attend. The exhibition and public programme events are free to attend unless stated otherwise.
The artworks in the exhibition have been editioned and will be available to order on our online selling platform, UPHOLD in the coming weeks.
Flesh and Stone is is generously supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland through the National Lottery, Belfast City Council, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive, and the Belfast Fleadh Fringe.
It has been made possible through the support of MMAS.
- Opening: 11 June, 7–8.30pm
- Exhibition: 11–28 June (some programming running into August)
- The Living House, 489 Antrim Road, Belfast
All are welcome.
More information: www.householdbelfast.co.uk/artists-in-neighbourhoods-all/fleshandstone
