‘Connected Emotions’

The Exhibition

R-Space Gallery and artist Jill Phillips are delighted to present an innovative interactive exhibition. ‘Connected Emotions’ brings together art, design and science, to create a textile installation and explore connections between emotions and different types of design. Visitors will have the opportunity not just to view but interact and contribute to this installation, and thus explore their very own emotional connections with design.

Artist and designer Jill Phillips has worked in collaboration with Dr Tim Foster of the Psychology Department, Queen’s University, Belfast. Together they have discovered possible relationships and relationships’ patterns between emotional words such as happy, sad and disgust, and design characteristics including shape and depth. In this exhibition they will explore further these possible relationships, inviting visitors to pick emotional words and place them in linen pockets and sleeves with different designs attached to a wide length of linen. Other linen pockets and sleeves with the outcomes of previous studies will be hung. Combined together they will create a unique installation clearly displaying what before had been unconscious and unknown relationships between emotions and design. 

R-Space Gallery and Jill Phillips look forward to welcoming visitors of all ages to this unique exhibition and to them actively participating in this ‘art, design, and science’ experiment. 

Workshops accompany this show. Dates and times are published on this website on the what’s on page.

‘Connected Emotions’ is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (principal funder). This exhibition is part of the Linen Biennale, a visual arts initiative of R-Space Gallery across Northern Ireland, celebrating the linen history, while giving it contemporary relevance; funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, thanks to National Lottery players.

About the Artist

Jill Phillips is a textile artist, facilitator and designer who works across the arts, academia and design industry. She has exhibited locally and internationally including at the National Craft Museum of Ireland, and  has facilitated workshops with different groups. She has also worked/works as a designer and design consultant for several companies and Queen’s University.

Photos courtesy of Linen Biennale Northern Ireland. Photographer, Neal Campbell