On 6 June 2025, Ormston House curator Niamh Brown, alongside Dr. Jane Morrow, will lead a workshop as part of Arts & Business Northern Ireland’s Artist Studio Programme.

This initiative, in partnership with Belfast City Council, aims to support artist-led spaces which shape Belfast’s cultural landscape. Through tailored training, mentoring, and peer learning, the programme will help these spaces build strong foundations for the future.

The workshop will be based on Ormston House’s A Matter of Value: A blueprint for articulating the value of the artist-run, written by Brown, Morrow, Dylan Ryan, and Ashling McGrory. Brown and Morrow will discuss the publication’s practical mechanisms for communicating the inherent and sustained value of artist-run initiatives.

This blueprint was developed as part of the Creative Europe project, Artist-Run Network Europe, through a series of research laboratories, training opportunities, and meetings between 2021 and 2023.

Physical copies of A Matter of Value are available onsite and from our eShop here for free (excluding post and packing). Digital copies are available here.

A Matter of Value was developed across a series of research labs, led by Ormston House, as part of  the Creative Europe project, Artist-Run Network Europe (2020–2023) and co-funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and Limerick Arts Office.

About Dr. Jane Morrow:

Morrow is a visual art curator, writer, researcher, and advocate. She is Co-Director and Strategic Vision & Development Curator of PS2. Morrow co-initiated and manages Angelica (a network which aims to amplify the voices of visual artists and curators based on the island of Ireland who self-identify as women or minority gender, who are also from underrepresented cultural or ethnic backgrounds). She is currently working on two strategic research projects, one for British Council Ireland and one for Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts in Ireland. Morrow supports numerous artists from across these islands through ongoing mentorship. She is also the Secretary of the International Art Critics Association (Ireland). You can find further information about Morrow here.

About Arts & Business Northern Ireland:

Arts & Business NI is a creative membership network which brings together cultural and commercial businesses. It advocates for the value of arts, invests in innovation, and ensures that the Northern Ireland arts and cultural sector achieves its ambitions and fulfils its potential.