I have a fixed media piece in this super art event happening in a house in Belfast over a weekend. The history behind it is fascinating, and the artwork will be equal to it. I am personally fizzing inside to have some work in it. My experience so far in life, is that it’s generally a super thing to be asked to do anything by any of the Hickey family. Great people, great curators and a great project. Take a peek:

http://housetakenover.com
A weekend of talks, performances and artist responses within a historical home in South Belfast curated by Hickey + Hickey.

Exhibiting Artists
Sighle BHREATHNACH-CASHELL, Joseph BEUYS, Declan CLARKE, John D’ARCY, Irina GHEORGHE, Allan HUGHES, Tom HUGHES, Dorothy HUNTER, Alexey KRASNOVSKY, Gillian LAWLER, Julie LOVETT, Roseanne LYNCH, Colin MARTIN, Lorcan McGEOUGH, Una MONAGHAN, Maeve O’LYNN, Tullis RENNIE, Penelope WARD, AMINI (Artist’s Moving Image Northern Ireland)

This exhibition is made in response to a recent unexpected discovery about the house. During WW2 it held a secret function as the Northern Irish Intelligence Headquarters for a covert operation involving a network of secret listeners who tuned in to their radio sets in homes across the province listening to enemy communications. The logs recorded by the listeners were forwarded to ‘Heathcote’, where they were transferred directly to codebreakers in Bletchley Park to be decrypted.

www.housetakenover.com
www.sonorities.org.uk

For more information, to view the exhibition or to book an event please email us at hickeyandhickey2018@gmail.com

Hickey + Hickey is the collaborative curatorial practice of sisters Ciara Hickey (Learning Producer at Hillsborough Castle since 2017, Co-Director of Household Belfast and former Curator at Belfast Exposed) and Nora Hickey M’Sichili (Director of the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, Ireland’s International Arts Centre, since 2013 and former Director of Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray).