{"id":175520,"date":"2025-12-04T22:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175520\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:36:09","slug":"disasters-and-interventions-oliver-jeffers-on-returning-home-for-his-first-ni-exhibition-in-23-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175520\/","title":{"rendered":"Disasters and Interventions: Oliver Jeffers on returning\u00a0home for his first NI exhibition in 23 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Celebrated artist and children's author Oliver Jeffers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d70d72ff-1005-4692-9b08-e78cea9deb83.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Celebrated artist and children&#8217;s author Oliver Jeffers<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For a man who has tucked millions of children into bed with his stories, Oliver Jeffers has arrived back in Belfast carrying something far less soothing: a 15-year archive of disasters, mischief and beautifully controlled chaos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The artist, who was born in Australia in 1977, raised in east Belfast and is now one of the world\u2019s most recognisable children\u2019s storytellers, has spent two decades moving between New York City and the rest of the world, building a career that stretches from picture books to major museum shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrated artist and children&#8217;s author Oliver Jeffers For a man who has tucked millions of children into bed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,17770,92832],"class_list":{"0":"post-175520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-kurtis-reid","17":"tag-queens-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}