Ruaille Buaille

2nd April - 30th April

Solo exhibition by Siofra Minnis, recipient of the 25/26 Graduate Award.

Siofra Minnis is a Belfast-based multidisciplinary artist, currently based at Queen Street Studios. Her practice explores archival systems, materiality, and the colonial legacies embedded in structures of display. With a focus on land, conflict, and identity in Ireland.

This exhibition presents a film featuring masked figures wearing hand-cast beeswax masks, alongside the costumes and props used in its production. Installed in the style of a museum storehouse, these elements are reframed as artefacts within a speculative archive. The exhibition aims to interrogate systems of display, the ethics of collecting, and the instability of identity, using folkloric characters to reimagine cultural narrators across time.

The exhibition is kindly funded by Ulster University.