Selected Exhibitions

2026 Portrait of Emilia at the Royal Ulster Academy’s 145th Annual Exhibition in the Ulster Museum from the 18th October 2026 – 3rd January 2027.

2024 The Approach at the Royal Ulster Academy’s Annual Exhibition in the Ulster Museum, Belfast from the 18th of October 2024 - 6th January 2025.

2022 Commissioned text in response to Hold on Tight Exhibition at Golden Thread Gallery. Read here: Text by Angela Halliday

2019 Helen, (the library was my great project) in Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection exhibition at Belfast Exposed, 25th Jan 2019 to 16th Mar 2019.

2014   Presently, group exhibition curated by Feargal O'Malley, Millennium Court Arts Centre.

2013   Topographies: Smithfield, Belfast at the Royal Ulster Academy’s 132nd Annual Exhibition.

2011   Single Screen at the University of Ulster Gallery, Belfast.

2011   Notice, Curfew Tower Residency Exhibition at Catalyst Arts

2010   Solo exhibition at Ad Hoc Gallery, Kent Street, Belfast

2009   Solo exhibition at Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast.

2007   20th Instant Video Numériques et Poétiques, Marseille.

2007   Trauma Interrupted, The Cultural Centre of The Philippines, Manila.

2007   Felt Experience Project, Catalyst Arts, Belfast. (Curator)

2006   Sample, PS2 Gallery Belfast.

2006   Play Station 3x3, at PS2 Gallery, Belfast

2005   Offside Live II, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.

2005   Art Trail, Soundworks, Cork

Work Held in Collection

2021 Kinramer Wood, Rathlin, watercolour (from a video still), purchased for private collection.

2018 Manor House II purchased for private collection.

2016 Front Covers featuring works by Charles Cordier and Mauricio Lima (2016) in the Royal Ulster Academy’s Diploma Collection.

2010   Helen (the library was my great project), single channel video installation, (2009), collection of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Awards, Residencies

2026  The Perpetual Silver Medal for best work by an Associate of the Royal Ulster Academy. Selected by guest adjudicator Dr Caroline Campbell, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland.

2013   Original Vision Prize– RUA – Adjudicated by Professor Paul Gough RWA

2018, 2013, 2012, 2009   Support for the Individual Artist Programme awarded grants - Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

2010   Curfew Tower Artist’s Residency, Cushendall.

2005   Queen Street Studios Digital Residency, Belfast

Reviews 

Slavka Sverakova, review of Topographies: Smithfield, Belfast (2013) at https://slavkasverakova.wordpress.com/?s=ANGELA+HALLIDAY

Flaudette May V. Datuin, ‘Uncommon Sense’, n. paradoxa, vol. 21, (2008), pp. 5-15, (p. 9).

Slavka Sverakova, ‘Felt Experience Project’, Circa, vol.119, (2007), pp. 92-94.

Education

2011  PhD (Practice Based) University of Ulster, Belfast: Video Narratives and The Construction of the Female Subject. Thesis abstract

2005   Master of Fine Art with distinction, University of Ulster, Belfast.

2002   BA Hons Fine & Applied Arts, University of Ulster, Belfast.