This symposium is for painters, and anyone interested in contemporary painting and slow time. Revolving around notions of painting time, looking time, cinematic time, movement in and around painting, the fixed and moving image, this is a free event and marks a new exhibition of work by the graduates of 2015 and painting staff at Belfast School of Art, opening at the Crescent Arts Centre later in the day. It also co-incides with the final day of the 2016 painting degree shows at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University.

Organised by the Painting Research Group at Belfast School of Art, and made possible through a Garfield Weston Foundation Grant

The Painting Research Group at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, is a network of practitioners, lecturers and research students interested in the places and contexts for contemporary painting practice.

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Speakers include:
Robert Armstrong
Artist and Head of Painting at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin

Brian Bishop
Artist; Artist-in-Residence at Belfast School of Art (Spring Semester 2016); Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art and Music at Framingham State University in Massachusetts

Dougal McKenzie
Artist and lecturer at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University

Fionna Murray
Artist and lecturer at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology

Doris Rohr
Artist and lecturer at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University