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Happy International Womens day from Vault! 💚🖤💛💜💙♥️
Why not celebrate us wonderful women by going to see Vault artist Wilhelmina Peace's incredible new exhibition of drawings in the Green Room at the Black Box?
The gallery programme may be on hold as the big move from Marlborough to Bankmore House continues but our 130+ Vault artists still have plenty going on!
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Today’s the day!
A hoorah… 12–4pm, 28-32 Victoria Street, Belfast!
Vid by @leoprints.bsky.social
Our art studio is moving to a different bit of Belfast city centre so I organised a small paste up outing with some of the artists on a wall I have been pasting on for the last while.
It pissed down with rain but everyone came very colourfully dressed and for a minute we beat the terrible weather.
Me neither…
Of course - see you then!
It will be- you should come!
The time has come when Everyone Must Go (from our Marlborough House building). But before we do we're having a sale!
Come and grab some bargains and giveaways on Sunday 1 Feb from 12pm — 4pm.
Free city centre parking. Open to all. Good dogs are always welcome.
28-32 Victoria Street!
Members’ meeting.
Belfast city Hospital Tower block is celebrating 40 years of being a weird brutalist erratic on the Belfast skyline and I was commissioned to make some art for the exhibition in the hospital.
The exhibition is called 40 never looked so good and runs until April.
@belfasttrust.bsky.social
New killer weapons.
A constant…
In 2026 we continue the search for secure, appropriate, long term work spaces.
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All artwork by the very very good, great actually, @leoprints.bsky.social
… and our funders who put their faith in us by supporting our work.
Vault is now Bankmore House, Corporation Street & Shankill Mission - All temporary buildings…
To our trustees and staff team who go above and beyond, our members for giving and caring so much, our fellow artist-led spaces for being the best network, our participants and audiences for showing up, getting involved and celebrating the arts, the Martin Group for renting us Marlborough House…
Bankmore House is in the city centre (just opposite Wetherspoons) and will be home to many of the Marlborough House artists. It will also be home to our new gallery and project space which, all being well, will reopen this April. Wahoozers!
Massive thank you to everyone who has supported us…
…To those who have also lost their buildings and still seek a new space - Solidarity.
So what's next? Our amazing staff team have secured a new building on Bedford St called Bankmore House.
It's a temporary fix but it does allow our artists to keep working and our programming to continue for now…
… multidisciplinary collaborative, experimental, group and solo exhibitions. Phew-nominal!
Being in the city centre allowed us to make new friends and team up with other artist-led spaces and creative human forces all experiencing the same highs and lows of working in the arts at this time...
The 70 or so artists who had studios here made the most of the building and its location in Belfast city centre while we had it. Marlborough House was home to our first city centre gallery and project space and what a space that was!
We hosted, produced and curated more than 25 incredible…
Vault Artist Studios presents...
A comic in 5 pages.
In little more than two weeks, Vault at Marlborough House will be no more as our tenancy in this home for the last 2 years and 8 months comes to an end.
Marlborough House was a temporary building for us as the site is due for redevelopment…
That’s 28 - 32 - but yeah, you won’t miss it
Some snaps of today’s ‘Belfast Pop Shop’ by @leoprints.bsky.social - more again tomorrow at Vault Marlboro House - 23-32 Victoria St Belfast!
A story in 5 Jpegs.
Belfast Pop Shop is back and for the final time in @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social gallery as we have to move out in February.
Who knows where (or who) we will be next year :)
#belfast #art #ireland #popart #printmaking
I'll be up at the Vault Xmas Market again today. Hoping for more conversations like:
'Can I pay you in Euro?'
'OK. How come you're paying in Euro?'
'I won in a casino in Dublin'
And:
'Do you know anyone who does mime in Belfast'
'Yeah, there's a guy called Grant doing mime behind you.'
Today is the last day of @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social Christmas Market in Carlisle church which means its the last chance to catch Godzilla Santa in the house of God :)
#belfast #godzilla #belfastchristmasmarket
Some shots from Day 1 of our Christmas Market by our talented member and co-chair and professional photographer Kristi McHenry. We're doing it all over again today from 11am-5pm at Carlisle Memorial thanks to @bbtbelfast.bsky.social
Food, drink, 80+ stalls, music, and no-AI generated 'art'. C U !
@vaultartiststudios.bsky.social Christmas Market opens this weekend we got in the paper due to our anti AI stance.
I know its not the New York Times but it is something. :)
#belfast #noai
So pleased @markxa.com flagged up @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social show at Carlisle Memorial today & tomorrow. And v pleased to be buying from talented local artists
