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 [...]

The second in a series of ‘eating’ videos and the first collaboration between Rob Hilken and Gary Watson. This was recorded at the beginning of 2011 and is now online after finding something suitable to do to mask our insufferable conversation. Available in full 1080p HD.

Here are the two essays I have done in the last year or so for college. They’re not great really but you might be interested enough in the subject to get something from them. How and why has western portraiture changed so radically since the beginning of the 20th Century? The Influence of Marcel Duchamp

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’ve been working on a simple controllable lighting system for my current sculpture at college. It runs two effects at the moment but I will add more soon. The first is an array of RGB LEDs that have two knobs that adjust brightness and hue. The second is a series of flashing LEDs that flash at random. The is also a knob that adjusts the speed of the flashing. There are also two switches. One switch toggles the random flashes [...]

Life Drawing, a set on Flickr. Some life drawing from last term at the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast.