The Future is Bright and The Past is Colourful

Open: 12th - 28th July.

Shields is a Manchester based artist from Northern Ireland. In October 2017 Shields was selected for the Impose|Lift residency in The Curfew Tower situated in Cushendall Northern Ireland. The residency is curated by Manchester based gallery The Penthouse and hosted by Bill Drummond. The residency focused on the political situation in Northern Ireland, the history of the tower, indigenousness and the other. Being unbaptized from Catholic and Protestant parents, Shields explored his ambiguous cultural identity through subjects that are stereotypically associated with Northern Ireland by those in mainland Britain and the rest of Ireland.