The Drawing Rooms

Thursday 21 March – Thursday 9 May 2024
The Drawing Rooms | Thursday 21 March – Thursday 9 May 2024 | Atypical Gallery | Image: painting / drawing of a head, strong colours, big eyes with black irises and pupils and pale-blue ‘whites’, pink lips, dabs of blue in otherwise black, short hair, black outline to the head and shoulders, except where the background yellow cuts into it; quarter-circular red disk coming down from the top behind the head

A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room.

During the global pandemic of 2020 and 2021, all of our homes became more solitary spaces. The visits to care settings to those we loved were restricted. This project imagined the drawing rooms project to inspire new activity where other activity had been disrupted.

Artist Talk – Friday 26 March 1 – 2pm

Access: BSL Interpreter booked for artist talk on Friday 26 March. • To request other access requirements email access@universityofatypical.org

‘A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room.’

During the global pandemic of 2020 and 2021, all of our homes became more solitary spaces. The visits to care settings to those we loved were restricted. This project imagined the drawing rooms project to inspire new activity where other activity had been disrupted.

Working with staff and residents from Culling Tree Meadows, Arches Care Home and the NOW Group Club, artists David Dunlop and Paul Moore trained participants to create digital drawings. Artworks created have been printed and exhibited here in this bright and experimental exhibition.

Drawings will be delivered back to the original Drawing Rooms in which they were created to be displayed on the walls of the homes from which they came.

This Project was funded by Belfast City Council through the Department For Communities Access and Inclusion Capital Programme 2020/2021.

Thursday 21 March – Thursday 9 May 2024
Atypical Gallery
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Belfast BT1 1FF
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