Exhibitions

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) hosts exhibitions on the ground floor of the building in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. All are welcome to attend these exhibitions whether they are registered readers or not.

Current Exhibition

Landscapes from Needlefelt to Glass

6 November 2025 - 26 November 2025

Needlefelt landscape image showing a beach and ship in the sun — Lorna Gough

North Coast artist Lorna Gough has spent many years exploring her local landscape in oil, watercolour, pen and ink as well as a great involvement in the former Riverside Theatre as a costumier and designer. In this exhibition Lorna combines her love of landscape and her creative approach to working with textiles by the use of needle felting technique to ignite her observation of colour and form in a manner similar to how she works with paint, layering and building up form and light.

Past Exhibitions

User Content?

17 April 2025 - 23 May 2025

User Content? is an exhibition produced through a collaboration between creative, legal and technological faculties of the University of Ulster, exploring the relationship between online applications, internet users and their data. The artworks in this exhibition are a creative response to society’s increasing reliance on digital technology and how the personal data collected from applications, such as fertility apps, is often shared with third parties without the user’s knowledge or consent.

Stories in Stone: Early Medieval Sculpture

13 June 2025 - 15 August 2025

Image of a small medieval stone cross with a carving of a bishop's crook. The cross stands in a field in front of a wire fence.

Stories in Stone showcases images of High crosses and early medieval sculpture from across Northern Ireland. This sculpture takes the form of simple cross inscribed stones, enigmatic figurative sculpture and monumental High Crosses. A selection of photographs and drawings from Historic Environment Record of Northern Ireland (HERoNI’s) collections are on display as well as a collection of early medieval cross inscribed stones from Nendrum Monastic site County Down.

The Personality of Belfast, 1970-1990: the Bill Kirk Photographic Archives

11 September 2025 - 29 October 2025

Black and white photograph of a man with a camera around his neck standing in front of a photographic exhibition — Bill Kirk

Bill Kirk, internationally renowned photographer, trained in the Belfast Art College during 1972-74, when he was in his early 30s. Inspired by progressive American photographers of the mid-20th century, Kirk took responsibility for making a direct record of the fractured life of the city at the time.

Skinheads, street preachers, down and outs, the city poor, dockyard workers all feature in the sharp, unforgettable imagery of his photos. The exhibition displays 100 images selected from his archives and comes to PRONI courtesy of the Ulster Museum and the Belfast Archive Project.

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