This ran during Good Relations Week 2025
It is here as a record of what happened. The dates and any booking links below are from 2025 and will not work now.
Run by National Museums NI
Discover two new artwork acquisitions in The Enemy is Time exhibition at the Ulster Museum.
During the 1950s and 1960s, artists experimented with new ways of making art in a world profoundly altered by the previously unimaginable losses and devastation of the Second World War. Two of the most important paintings in the Ulster Museum collection, Head II (1949) by Francis Bacon and Golden Age (1958) by Morris Louis, respond in different ways to the uncertainties of the new Anthropocene era, an age dominated by the activities of man.
For many contemporary artists, the vulnerability of the natural world and the preciousness of human memory and experience have become dominant themes. Two new acquisitions, Blue Sky Thinking (2019) by Patrick Goddard and Interval V (2023) by Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, reflect the alarming speed and immensity of loss associated with unchecked climate change. Read more about the artwork included in this exhibition here and here.
The Ulster Museum exhibitions are free to visit, open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17.00.
Discussion or talk
Visiting Killyleagh Castle (exterior only), Saintfield and Ballynahinch
Tour or walk
A guided tour of Ulster Museum's Troubles and Beyond exhibition, as part of Good Relations Week
Community coffee morning
We use essential cookies to make the site work — signing you in, and remembering a half-finished event listing. We would also like to set analytics cookies to understand how the programme is used, but only if you are happy with that. Read our privacy notice.
