Belfast Exposed

Exhibitions

3rd Aug - 16th Sep

Portrait of Humanity Vol. 5

In partnership with the British Journal of PhotographyBelfast Exposed is delighted to be hosting the British Journal of P...

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1st Jun - 22nd Jul

Else Time | Ulster University MFA Photography Exhibition 2023

In this unique time that we find ourselves in, the things that once were so certain, are no longer so.Else Time is an 'ot...

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Community

21st May - 22nd May

Showing the faces of dementia with Alzheimer’s NI

Ahead of the Alzheimer’s Society Annual Conference 2019 (ASAC19), Belfast Exposed was commissioned by Alzheimer’s NI to w...

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4th May - 20th May

Coronation Generation 2023

Bringing together young people from across communities for Coronation GenerationIn April 2023, Belfast Exposed worked wit...

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Gallery 2

14th Jan 2016 to 27th Feb 2016

About The Exhibition

Ruby Wallis questions photography’s potential to convey sensory experience to the viewer. Her photographs, focusing on the body in sensual surroundings, experiment with perspective and perception. Wallis seeks to challenge conventional representations of landscape, which are controlled by powerful vertical figure in a horizontal space. Instead of adopting the traditional distant view, she frames intimate points of contact.

Through her photographic practice, the artist contemplates the moments in which the body connects with its material surroundings.These images highlight interactions between tactile and tangible surfaces an substances be they natural or synthetic, organic or structured, intimate or abstract.

The Artists

Ruby Wallis

Artist Biography

Ruby Wallis completed her PhD in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. She holds an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of South Wales. She is currently artist in residence at IMMA, (Dublin) and was nominated for the Prix Pictet Award. She won first prize at Claremorris Open Exhibition in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include the Burren College of Art (Co. Clare), Pallas Projects (Dublin), 126- Artists run gallery (Galway), and The Dock (Carrick- on-Shannon). Group shows include The Gallery of Photography (Dublin), Galerie du Faouëdic (France), The Lab (Dublin), Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, (Portugal) and Ffotogallery (Cardiff), Vondelbunker (Amsterdam). Publications include the Journal for Artistic Research (Switzerland), Super Massive Blackhole Magazine (Dublin) and the British Journal of Photography (UK).

Acknowledgements

Belfast Exposed Futures is generously supported by the Foyle Foundation, Arts Council Northern Ireland, The British Council and The Directory.