{"id":341582,"date":"2025-12-29T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341582\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T20:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:41:28","slug":"oliver-jeffers-artists-first-belfast-exhibition-in-more-than-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341582\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Jeffers: Artist&#8217;s first Belfast exhibition in more than 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several works feature the most famous, and disastrous, ship to be built in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But instead of disappearing beneath the Atlantic waves \u2013 the Titanic is depicted sinking in a desert, a glen, and other non-maritime landscapes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Images associated with what Jeffers described as &#8220;a city of storytellers&#8221; are prominent in the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since moving back to Northern Ireland, Jeffers has particularly valued the &#8220;slowness and sense of community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t realise the importance of it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s only with coming back, having experienced the rat race at full tilt elsewhere, that I realise this is what I want, for my family and myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are a lot of really talented artists and storytellers coming through the ranks in Northern Ireland \u2013 it&#8217;s good to be here and encourage people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jeffers said  he planned to continue to &#8220;enjoy the work I make, and let it come naturally&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That will involve more books, more art, and staying still and observing the world and those around me,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several works feature the most famous, and disastrous, ship to be built in Belfast. But instead of disappearing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-341582","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-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}