Join us for the first Late Night Art event of 2026!

Thursday 5th February, 6-8pm.

For February’s Late Night Art, DAS will present The Approach by Angela Halliday. This is the first in a series of works which will also include work by Catherine Devlin and Richard Davis.

We hope the series will offer audiences insight into the research and creative practices of the DAS team and foster a spirit of peer exchange.

The Approach is a film produced as part of the artist’s ongoing enquiry into pictorial representations of the Irish landscape. It considers how we approach the land both physically as navigators of the natural world, and philosophically as privileged viewers of composed images. It locates these concerns against the backdrop of Rathlin Island, which is home to thousands of breeding seabirds during the summer months. They nest on the west coast where the cliff faces open to the Atlantic Ocean. Filmed on water and land, the spaces presented oppress and overshadow.

The Approach is an interrogation of land, identity, and belonging, resonating with themes of exile, migration, and ecological grief. The film features a monologue written by the artist for this film. The speaker, a child, is both outsider and interloper, simultaneously unwelcome and already present. The child’s voice shifts from questioning to assertion, unable to trust in their interpretation of place.

This screening includes a filmed BSL interpretation by Patrick Sinclair.