‘Daylighting — Work In Progress’. Jonathan Brennan

3—26 October 2024

Taking Belfast’s rivers as a point of departure, Jonathan has been developing a new body of work looking at: issues around ecology (how we experience/manage rivers in urban areas); river ownership/maintenance (rivers diverted/culverted by private ventures); river narratives and metaphors (rivers as a way of talking about other things, under the surface). The show will feature Brennan's research and works in progress to date. 

About the artist:

Jonathan Brennan is a multi-disciplinary artist working in printmaking, painting, photography, moving image, and sound. He is based at Vault Artist Studios and Belfast Print Workshop. 

Jonathan’s work is about place: architectural and urban places as well as what is traditionally referred to as landscape, and how both interact. He is drawn to the less obvious, the neglected and the abandoned – alleyways, culverted rivers, wastelands, abandoned spaces and objects. Brennan’s work is not overtly political, but rather seeks to prompt the viewer into looking with new eyes at the quotidian and to consider the wider forces that seek to manipulate how we think and act. 

Jonathan is currently undertaking an ACNI Artist Career Enhancement Scheme Award project with NI Screen and The Strand Arts Centre, which will draw together archive film as well as a new body of work. 

Find out more on the PS² website.