26 Treasures

Northern Ireland’s most compelling treasure house, the Ulster Museum, is delighted to collaborate with 26. Writers, including poets Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon and Bernard MacLaverty, have been randomly paired with visual artists, such as Michael’s daughter, Sarah Longley, Peter Anderson and Ross Wilson. These creative partnerships have hustled, bustled and negotiated their way to creating personal responses to myriad of intriguing objects. You can discover exactly how and why they were inspired at the exhibition in The Belfast Room from 14th October.

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Now that the launch of 26 Treasures at the Ulster Museum is just around the corner, there will plenty of stirring stories of creativity, collaboration, and in some, cases conflict between our pairings as well as explanations on how they arrived at those particular 62 words and that particular visual response. For now though, here are a few snapshots of our contributors’ work in progress.