Halloween Festival introduces New Art Gallery to Ballymoney...

The Town’s Spirits of Halloween Festival has got a further boost with  a new  Gallery  introducing some of Northern Irelands finest artists in Painting, Photography  and Sculpture to Ballymoney.

The spacious new venue, located below Bell Architects and next to the Manor Hotel in the town’s Main Street, will provide an excellent location to see wonderful new work by local artists such as Sara Cunningham-Bell (sculpture and painting), Tim Millen (photography and painting), Andrew Cochrane (sculpture).

Commenting on the latest addition to the Halloween events offer Chamber President Winifred Mellet enthused: “This is wonderful news, it’s something completely new for the town and  adds to the art and culture dimension of our festival, which includes an exhibition by fine watercolourist Hugh Thomson at the Town Hall.  Thomson illustrated the works of many famous Victorian authors including Charles Dickens and famously illustrated all of Jane Austen’s novels and Quality Street.

The gallery also joins those 20+ stores who are opening late from 6.00 – 8.30 p.m. on the Friday evening, 30th October, all to the beat of Q97.2 whose big gig rig is providing non-stop music from 6 – 8 pm from its base in High Street.”

The Spirits of Halloween Festival is being co-ordinated and marketed by Ballymoney Town Centre Management in association with Ballymoney Chamber of Commerce.