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Ec(h)oe(s) - Exhibition openingThu 02 JulDown Arts Centre
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Ec(h)oe(s) - Exhibition opening
Thu 02 Jul
|Down Arts Centre
Exhibition of film poem installations and photopoetry
Time & Location
02 Jul 2026, 17:00 – 31 Jul 2026, 19:00
Down Arts Centre, 2-6 Irish St, Downpatrick BT30 6BP, UK
About the event
The exhbition will be opened by Damian Smyth, Head of Drama and Literature, Arts Council of Northern Ireland on 2nd July at 5 pm.
Csilla Toldy is a writer and film poet living in Rostrevor, Co. Down. Her visual work is text-based, and often multilingual, exploring themes of identity, nature, and our connections with the environment. Csilla’s film poems were commissioned by the Executive Office of Northern Ireland and the Centre for Creative Practices. Many of them won awards at international film festivals.
Works were exhibited in Poole Arts Centre, Leno Gallery Berlin, D-Light Gallery, The Complex in Dublin, Armagh Planetarium and the Foyer Gallery of Marketplace Theatre.
The still images in this exhibition were created in collaboration with photographer Jonathan Heyhoe as part of their joint work “Reflections”, discussing identity and our place in the world.
Along with earlier works, this exhibition will unveil “Imbolc” a video installation Csilla…