Bedrooms & bars

Whats stopping you? Making live work

MARCH 21st. 10.30am - 4.30pm

This session is for practicing artists and will be a deep dive into making live performance work. Looking at what stops us, what we're afraid of, and how to over come creative barriers.

Late Night Art/Late Night Vault

Thursday 6th March

Group show featuring the work of 15 women artists from across the islands in celebration of International Womens Day 2025.

DROP IN COFFEE & CAKE MORNING

MONDAY MARCH 3rd from 11am - 2pm
Vault Shankill Mission Cafe Space. 116 Shankill Rd, Belfast BT13 2BD

Vault Artist Studios, invites you to join us in honouring the legacy of the historic Shankill Mission Building. This remarkable space on the Shankill Road has been a cornerstone of the community for generations, and we want to ensure its stories and significance are not forgotten.

ANYONE CAN...PRODUCE PROPAGANDA

FEBUARY 27TH. 6pm - 8pm

Anyone Can... Workshops by and for young creatives types. Free of charge, no need to book.

18+

ARTS FACILITATION TRAINING FOR ARTISTS

FEBRUARY 27TH

This facilitation training is a step by step guide for individual Artists from all disciplines in designing and delivering Arts Workshops.

Late Night Art / Late Night Vault
Thurs 6 Feb

New collaborative performance and installation work exploring themes of violence against women and girls.

Anyone Can...

ANYONE CAN WRITE A POEM

JANUARY 30TH. 6 - 8pm

Did you know this? You, in fact, can write a poem. Would you like to write a poem? Would you like to meet the finest young people in Belfast? Consume the finest tea and biscuits in Belfast? You can! 

Finance for Creatives

JANUARY 10TH

The first workshop in our Mutual Flux Programme, just in time for Tax-Return season!

This workshop is tailored to those working in the creative sector particularly those who are beginning or considering their self employed journey.

18th December

Raising funds for Haneen Muhammad Koraz, animator and educator working with displaced children and women in Gaza. A screening of the children’s work will be followed by a workshop making our own zoetrope animations with Stephen Mullan.

Leo did a thing…

Late Night Art/ Late Night Vault
5–11 December

A solo exhibition of works on paper by Wilhelmina Peace exploring mythological themes of reflection and metamorphosis.

Late Night Art/Late Night Vault
Thursday 5th December. 6pm- 9pm

Surround Sound' is a sound installation by Cameron Clarke. Set in the public walkway under the Albert Clock, the installation uses various modified vintage hi-fi speakers to play with the resonant reverb of the space, immersing the audience in an alternative subterranean sound world. It's literally underground music.

22 November - 14 December

Original paintings, limited prints, apparel and more!

17 November (12–5pm)

Vault Open Studios, taking place in our Marlborough House building on Victoria Street Belfast, is a rare opportunity, on your doorstep, to peer into these artists’ studios, and what better place to do so than in Northern Ireland’s largest provider of affordable multi-disciplinary studios.

Late Night Art/ Late Night Vault

Thurs 7th - 13 November & Sunday 17th

Marta Dyczkowska is a filmmaker and photographer who works across media including printing and performance to investigate loss, grief, friendship and personal and collective stories within their urban context. This exhibition lets us in the artist's home and studio.

Late Night Art/ Late Night Vault

4 October - 9 October 2024

“Like precious objects in a Coptic or Greek Orthodox church, they shimmer in even the lowest light, reflecting everything in tones of red gold, green gold, copper, silver and various juicy shades of enamel…”

Late Night Art/ Late Night Vault

Opens Thursday September 5th

Balancing delicately from their phantom threads, incongruent pendulums ebb and flow capturing momentum from every gentle disruption. In the stillness, their serene beauty in the dancing light belies their creation …

Community craft installation some 600,000 and 5 months in the making. Created by Ali Fell. Carlisle Memorial Church, 5–8 September 2024.

17 August 2–5pm

The Grand Opening, the Big Day and you're all invited.

Open studios, activities, performances and more...

Late Night Art/ Late Night Vault

2 August – 14 August

‘Try We Must - The Impossible Task Of Squaring The Circle’ is a further examination of themes that explore the sensitive subjects of identity, emblems and commemoration in Northern Ireland.


Opening event: Thurs 1 August 6–9pm
(part of Late Night Art Belfast).
Exhibition continues Fri 2 August – Wed 14 August.

Late Night Art/ Late Night Vault

4 - 8 July

From the inky depths of the creative minds of artists Sally O’Dowd and Jonny McEwen comes a show that is all about ink, inklings, and collaboration!

Opening event: Thurs 4 July 6–9pm(part of Late Night Art Belfast). Exhibition continues Fri 5 July – Mon 8 July, 12–6pm. ONE WEEKEND ONLY!

Exhibition | Collaboration | Workshop

Late Night Art/ Late Night Vault

6 – 12 June 2024

Computer Says No is a new, never before seen collection of drawings, animation and full sized hand drawn cardboard cut out installations that draw from an archive of half finished sketchpads that Leo has left in his wake.

30 May – 2 June 2024

New work by Jonathan Brennan
Carlisle Memorial Church, Carlisle Circus, Belfast

Jonathan Brennan shows a short film telling the story of a forgotten chapter in Carlisle Memorial's history, some experimental photographs, and an interactive print.

Late Night Art/ Late Night Vault

2 – 8 May 2024

Exhibition of new work by FGB

FGB presents a collection of new studio based works.

13 April 2024

Do you like boats? Are you creative?
Then you’ll like Boat Building for Creatives!

Join artists Leo Boyd and Laura Nelson for a boat building workshop.

Late Night Art/ Late Night Vault

4 April 2024

Last Immediate Moving Images exhibits dancer Maeve McGreevy and filmmaker Tom Hughes visual response to experimental quartet Blue Whale’s sophomore album ‘Last Immediate Images’. The 6 short films, shot in the previous Vault premises on Tower Street in the last days of inhabiting the building, act as a homage to the space, whilst offering a company of living pictures that meditate on memory and perception.

This project was generously funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Photography by Paul Fox.

Late Night Art/ Late Night Vault

7 – 13 March 2024

For this year’s International Women’s Day, and for our first show open to artists from outside the Vault artist membership, it seemed fitting to pick ‘Mother’ as our theme. We asked you to submit images of, about, or created by your mother, or someone who performs the mothering role and not limited to the conventional meaning of the word mother. Seventy of you responded with paintings, sculptures, collages, photography, prints, drawings, bunting, embroidery, poetry, installations, textiles, mixed media, digital illustration, and videos. Works that celebrate, commemorate and cherish mothers. 
Welcome to ‘Mother’.  

Late Night Art/ Late Night Vault

Thursday 1st Febuary

Exhibition and drop-in Workshops.

Placards for Palestine is the fourth instalment in the ongoing series of exhibitions and projects that Vault Artist Studios are holding in our Gallery & Project Space at Marlborough House, this time in conjunction with PS2 and Artists Against Genocide.

On display will be placards and protest banners made by locals artists, community groups and individuals organising and campaigning for an end to the war in Gaza.

4 – 7 January 2024

Belfast Buildings Trust (BBT) is delighted to announce 'Engaging Art', a new project in collaboration with Vault Artist Studios, in the former Carlisle Memorial Church, between Thursday 1st and Sunday 4th

‘Engaging Art’ will launch with Leo Boyd’s ‘The Belfast that Time Forgot (in 3D)’.Description goes here

Vault Gallery & Project Space Exhibition

7 November 2023

‘Diamond’ is an exhibition of original works available to buy - just in time for the buying season!

Preparations for another epic Christmas Market are in full swing. Check out this year’s amazing venue…

30 November 2023

Vault Artist Studios and Irish Artists for Palestine, in collaboration with Circusful, will host a cabaret show. Please come along and help raise much needed funds for the Gaza Women’s Yoga and Circus Hub.

29 November 2023

Film screening and talk with visual art and delish food.

Vault Gallery & Project Space Exhibition

2 – 9 November 2023

Buttermilk is the second instalment in the ongoing series of exhibitions and projects that Vault Artist Studios are holding in our new Gallery/Project Space in Marlborough House…

Vault Gallery & Project Space Launch!

6 – 15 October 2023

Following several months of intense planning and preparatory work, we are so excited to fling open the doors of Vault Artist Studios and welcome you to the launch of our new ‘Gallery – Project Space’ in Marlborough House Belfast and the opening of ‘It’s All Your Vault’….

22nd & 23rd April
12.00 – 17:00

Think old school desks, pianos, picture frames, sofas, bric-a-brac and the general art treasures.

18th February – 3rd March
7:00 – 8:00PM

You are invited to the Opening Reception a group exhibition from artists working in Vault Studios Belfast.

3rd & 4th December
11:00 – 17:00

It is with heavy hearts that we have to leave our home at Tower Street but we are going to go out with a bang!

14th – 30th October
00:00 – 00:00

Join us for the opening night of 'Sense of Place', a selection of new work from artist Jonathan Brennan

10 & 11 September
00:00 – 00:00

Welcome to the last Vault Summer Market that Tower Street will ever see! We are going to make this one a market to remember

10th & 11th September
7:00-8:00PM

Artists Charlotte Bosanquet, Sally O’Dowd, and Grace McMurray share an interest in contemporary drawing