Through photographic, moving-image, drawing, sculptural, and text-based artworks, In Living Memory explores the elusive nature of memory and where it resides. 

Works by Niamh Clarke, Kanich Khajohnsri, Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl, John Rainey, Amanda Rice, and Lyónn Wolf in this site-specific exhibition attempt to evoke the spaces and places where activities have occurred; consider how embodied, transient, and resistant acts can be captured and represented; and how objects and materials store and transmit memories and stories across time.

In Living Memory is installed on the exterior of a North-Belfast Victorian end-of-terrace house on the Antrim Road. It marks the start of ‘The Living House’, a new collaboration between Household and MMAS architects to inhabit and re-animate the building. Within this new neighbourhood setting and context, alongside MMAS’s socially engaged and community focused architectural practice, Household will create an artist residency space and programme and ‘living archive’ that connects with the creative potential of the domestic and the city’s past, present and future.

A number of the works in the exhibition will be editioned and available to buy via UPHOLD. More information coming soon.

Delivered in partnership with MMAS and supported by Lottery funding through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Paul Mellon Centre, Belfast City Council & Arts and Business Blueprint programme.

Image credit: Niamh Clarke, Head, Heart, Hand (Black Mountain College Series), 2025, Giclee Print with stitch and carbon transfer text on paper.