Anna Cheyne Visual Arts Exhibition @ Island Arts Centre, Lisburn 5th – 18th September 2011 Ulster Fry @ Catalyst Arts Project Space, Belfast 1st – 8th September 2011 Craft Cavern @ White’s Tavern, Belfast 6th August 2011

Opening Night: Thursday 1st September 6pm – 9pm Open Daily: Friday 2nd – 8th September 11am – 5pm What goes in to your perfect fry? How do you eat yours? Ulster Fry is a visually arresting and humourous look at something very familiar and yet the experience is an odd, unfamiliar type of voyeurism. How often do you watch someone else’s food disappear from their plate? —– Rob Hilken is currently studying Fine Art at Belfast Metropolitan College. His work [...]

Our show at the end of first year (HND Fine Art) was a great success. We had about 300 people through the doors and got excellent feedback from everyone. You can see some photos from the show in the gallery below. [flickr-gallery mode="photoset" photoset="72157626753832663"]

Here’s my slideshow from my end of year presentation about a portion of my work… It’s pretty self explanatory but feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about it… You can also see the full size presentation here.

I apologise if you’ve seen this work before but I realised that I haven’t blogged about it so here goes… The photograph above was taken by Simon Mills at the Catalyst Arts Members’ Show in February 2011. It shows the top half of the ‘casting machine’ suspended by fishing line from the ceiling to give a weightless appearance. I found it interesting to create a separate installed artwork from something that I had previously been using as a functional tool. [...]

The end of year show from our Foundation in Art & Design at Belfast Metropolitan College was a tremendous success! Here’s a selection of photos from the opening night in June.