Blackout Extended Edition in Belfast

Our Blackout collection landed in our fourth venue on Thursday 7th March at Platform Arts, Belfast. Our core Blackout core collection, curated in comic-form at the space, was accompanied by an extended collection of works exclusively created by Nua Collective artists for this exhibition. Launched by gallery co-director Amy Devlin, the launch event was well attended and warmly welcomed by the people of Belfast.

Blackout Core Collection featuring 13 lithographic prints in 'comic-curation'.

As the tour continues, we have learned no matter the location around the world, viewers have connected to the message that we as a collective are aiming to project – highlighting our climate issue as a problem of magnitude and even more so on a domestic level, the difficulties that we are enduring with the increase of inflation and in particular our energy crisis.

Our extended edition features “Blackout” a photographic print by Caoimhe Heaney, “Contrails” a brass miniatures by Robert Jackson, “Apparition” a relief rubbing by Carol Healy, “Erosion” an installation by Maria Markham, “The Sun Will Appear” a painting by Paul McMahon, “Recovery” a fabric print by Eamonn B. Shanahan, “Strike” a large painting by Anne Martin Walsh and two pieces by Katrina Tračuma including “The Corncrake does not have a tractor to drive to parliament with” and a “Portrait of Eimear Friel, The Ambassador of Ireland to Latvia” (in honour of her opening our debut physical exhibition in Jelgava, Latvia last December 2023).