A selection of past projects

R-Space Community Engagement

Thanks to Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council Arts Grants Scheme funding, R-Space were delighted to engage with a wide range of community participants in 2021.22. A series of events, workshops and educational outreach was delivered during this period, with each strand running alongside an exhibition within our annual programme.

The objectives included: To inspire, educate and encourage collaboration between the scientific and creative industries, To engage migrant community groups in a celebration of culture, and To explore the plight of migrating families in modern society, highlighting the connection we have to landscape and place.

Activities included educational workshops with Forthill Primary School, Screenprinting Workshops, and an International Teadance with Yallaa CIC, Tonagh Ladies Group, and the Intercultural Friendship Group, among others.

Build a Bridge

This project, informed by the historic links between Lisburn and The Wallace Collection, will engage clients from Action Mental Health, Stepping Stones and Positive Futures in a range of art techniques. Drawing, painting and printmaking will be introduced to participants over a series of workshops delivered at the groups’ centres.

R-Space is committed to engaging the wider public in arts activities that focus on high quality outcomes through skill development that enhances wellbeing. The Wallace Collection is an internationally outstanding collection which contains unsurpassed masterpieces of paintings, sculpture, furniture, arms and armour and porcelain. It provides a stock of inspirational artworks through which new skills can be developed.

The project seeks to extend R-Space’s outreach programmes and build new relationships within the Lisburn community. The project has been funded by The Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland and will be delivered by artist Robert Peters