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Your annual reminder to start reading now if you live in the North and want an immersive experience of #TheFireStarters The book begins about now and this year, for the first time this year, you can listen to it on audiobook whilst pacing the flag-draped streets of East Belfast.

'Organ Donor' is a large scale, immersive sound installation at Carlisle Memorial by Vault member Cameron Clarke. The work brings back the sacred sound of a church organ to a site which has been organ-less since 1980. This weekend: www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/organ-d... #sound #installation

Gallery Space! Meeting Room! Workshop Venue! The Vault is your oyster. Check out our new multi-use event space for hire in Belfast’s Linen Quarter: Vault Bedford Street... www.vaultartiststudios.com/venue-hire #linenquarter #venue #gallery #belfast

'Organ Donor' is a large scale, immersive sound installation at Carlisle Memorial by Vault member Cameron Clarke. The work brings back the sacred sound of a church organ to a site which has been organ-less since 1980. Next weekend: www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/organ-d... #sound #installation

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None of my friends are allowed to buy this because I got there first.

This month only! Designed by Vault member Ruth Crothers, this 'Party Fly' t-shirt will see you flutter and fly through the summer party scene in full blown party fly style!: www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/new-par... #tshirt #partyfly #summer #apparel

Oh balls. Hockney was truly one of the greats and a great rejoinder to the stuffier, fustier strands of the art establishment. Always an innovator, always restless but full of joy in our being, our sexuality and our environment. #RIP

Following on from his single release, Vault member J SHIELDS speaks to The Thin Air about slowness, grief and the banshee wail: thethinair.net/2026/06/obse... @thethinairmagazine.bsky.social @jshieldsxoxo.bsky.social #thethinair #northernirelandmusic #newmusic

Gallery Space! Meeting Room! Workshop Venue! The Vault is your oyster. Check out our new multi-use event space for hire in Belfast’s Linen Quarter... www.vaultartiststudios.com/venue-hire Photos, text & artwork by @leoprints.bsky.social & Marta Dyczkowska #art #belfast #gallery

Good few Vaulters in that crowd. This is the real Belfast. Keep thinking about David Hockney RIP saying that bad news sells. No Sky News helicopter filming this anti-racism rally and when one person was arrested a group of camera operators rushed to film it. #belfast #antiracism #rally

Bookbinding Classes Summer Term Programme with Vault member Raquel! A series of Bookbinding courses taking places this summer for all skill levels and ages, including children and family. Find out more: www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/bookbin... #bookbinding #workshop

Nice thing to see on my way home.

Leo's Big Giant Poster Sale! Now is your chance to get your hands of one of these mighty fine art posters of a rare and unusual design the likes of which your eyes have (maybe) never seen! Find out more: www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/leos-bi... @leoprints.bsky.social #posters #godzilla

I posted this yesterday over on insta/facebook and by this morning there were a ton of death threats and racist comments. But they didn't burn down Belfast last night because they have no community support and everyone can see them for the vile shites that they are.

'We will not stand by as racist pogroms sweep our city. Not in our name' - Solidarity rally at Belfast City Hall, Sat 13 June at 1pm. #solidary #rally #belfast

ANAKA have been actively helping the victims of the Belfast pogrom. Now we can help them support the people and groups impacted by racist attacks too. Please donate/share. chuffed.org/project/1854...

Tomorrow 11 June: Free Lunchtime Drawing Session at Bankmore House & Square. Drawn to Nature — Art for Wellbeing through line drawing flora and fauna in the city. Led by our very own Sally O'Dowd. Find out more: www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/free-lu... #drawing #workshop

This Belfast womens collective is raising funds to help victims. chuffed.org/project/1854...

full hearts douse flames of hate it's not us and them we are as one held hands remain undivided This work by Ashley David John from our ‘All Welcome’ exhibition last November feels even more important this grim morning. Solidarity with our friends and neighbours.

Today J SHIELDS @jshieldsxoxo.bsky.social releases ‘and bleeds for you’. Completing the story begun with ‘my heart still beats’ in March, J SHIELDS releases the second single ‘and bleeds for you’. Find out more:

A couple of these Diversion posters are heading off in the post to new homes. You too can be the proud owner of an A2 Diversion poster for only twenty quid! And you can find info on the poster here. www.leoboyd.com/product/dive... #art #streetart #booksky #reading #streetsign

New! 'Party Fly' T-Shirt by Ruth Crothers available only this month! Designed by Vault's very own Ruth Crothers this Party Fly T-shirt will see you flutter and fly through the summer party scene in full blown party fly style! Find out more:

Belfast Zine Fair! As part of the Belfast Book Festival, Vault member Helen Gomez is helping to run this event tomorrow that promotes local zine-making and DIY self-publishing. Find out more:

Amadan Ensemble's ClownLAB returns with 1-day workshop. Amadan Ensemble’s training programme returns for a full-day workshop exploring your inner clown (Sat 6 Jun, Vault Corporation St, 10am-5pm). Find out more:

Tonight: ‘We influence everything’ by Cathy Scullion. A solo exhibition of new work by Cathy Scullion. Opening in The Black Box Thursday 4 June for Late Night Art Belfast. Find out more:

Tomorrow night! Dublin Road Cinema – guerrilla experimental short film festival taking place in the shadow of the old Movie House for Late Night Art June. Find out more:

Ages ago I had an idea to do micro film projections around my new art studio which stands opposite the site of the Dublin Road Cinema. We did some tests last night with the projectors and bloody hell they look great! So Thursday Evening from sundown come to @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social

Alert: Poke Wagon Exclusion Zone! Poke Wagon exclusions come into effect in Belfast this summer. Find out more: www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/poke-wa... or ask @leoprints.bsky.social

'Avant Gardener' at Naughton Gallery. Vault member, Sinéad O'Neill-Nicholl is part of the ‘Avant Gardener’ group exhibition in the Naughton Gallery at Queens until 31 May 2026. Find out more: www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/avant-g...

‘Won't Be Told’ – Bealtaine Tour. Vault members Ken and Tina of Tumble Circus unleash 'Won’t Be Told', a fierce burst of acrobatics, absurd juggling, and hysterical comedy, refusing to fade quietly into the night. Find out more: www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/wont-be...

Many years ago I did this giant mural in Ballymena. It was a kind of mash up of paste ups and painting and told a story of the Ballymena over the rainbow. I think that was the idea anyway. Image found in recent yahoomail cull. #streetart #pasteup #ireland #dinosaur #godzilla

Vault member Jonathan Brennan will be showing a new work, created during a recent residency at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris, at Ranelagh Arts Festival taking place at Ranelagh Arts in Dublin from 8–17 May 2026. www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/jonatha... @jonathanbrennanart.bsky.social

‘I built it for you’: A new exhibition of works by Vault member Clinton Kirkpatrick with the Mental Health Arts Northern Ireland Festival. Artist talk on Thursday 14 May (7pm). www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/i-built... @clintonkirkpatrick.bsky.social

Help us by Demanding your Print on Demand Merch! We have two new items of merch as Vault fundraisers in our online shop. These are both Vault fundraiser items designed by Vault members Leo Boyd and Rob Hilken www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/demand-... @leoprints.bsky.social @robhilken.bsky.social

Like what we do? Leave us a review! This is an appeal to you our good supporters to help more people find us on the world wide web, Google Maps, etc. g.page/r/Cdadw5PIdi...

Mayday Mayday continues today in the new @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social gallery in Belfast. It is a rather lovely exhibition celebrating workers and workers rights in various different art forms. One of my pieces is this modified street sign. #art #painting #streetart #belfast

Double launch tomorrow night (7 May 6—9pm)! New digs on Bedford St and a new exhibition ‘Mayday Mayday’ to honour International Workers’ Day. Part of Late Night Art - this is your new stop on the LNA route, see you then! 62 Bedford St Belfast BT2 7GP

I designed this poster for the up coming exhibition in the new Vault gallery in @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social which is now on Bedford Street. There is more info here www.vaultartiststudios.com/maydaymayday

I have been working on a new colourways for this image for a t-shirt fundraiser for @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social for our first exhibition in the new gallery. I have been scrolling through colours and trying to find something less harsh than my normal black and red and these colours are cute.

Our studio @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social is opening a galllery in Belfast tomorrow night with an exhibition about workers rights. And we are in the news! www.newsletter.co.uk/your-world/v...

Goooood morning!

Happy Mother's day to all the mothers out there! Photo taken at @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social group exhibition 'Mother' that opened for international Women's Day in 2024.

You’re looking good today!

Happy International Womens day from Vault! 💚🖤💛💜💙♥️ Why not celebrate us wonderful women by going to see Vault artist Wilhelmina Peace's incredible new exhibition of drawings in the Green Room at the Black Box?

The gallery programme may be on hold as the big move from Marlborough to Bankmore House continues but our 130+ Vault artists still have plenty going on! Our newsletter goes out monthly to subscribers and contains tons of event listings. Sign up for your own free monthly copy: tinyurl.com/y2smpx9s

Today’s the day! A hoorah… 12–4pm, 28-32 Victoria Street, Belfast! Vid by @leoprints.bsky.social