The Belfast Review Team | 3 March, 2024
Welcome to Week 3 of our Spring Blog. Each week we will feature a handful of new creative works by artists, photographers, writers, poets, and song writers. Different days of the week highlight different creative forms: Feast Your Eyes Sundays (art, photography), Wordy Tuesday (fiction, flash, nonfiction), and Rhythm-Verse Thursday (poetry, song lyrics).
This week we're exploring the theme of 'Inspiration.' As in, the spark that takes our creativity in a new direction, opens up a new way of looking at the world, gives us the permission we need to bring something new into being.
In other words – it's what lights your fire.
Featured artist: Nina Staack
Most artist's live by their inspiration but this artist lives and breathes it, forever on the move looking for the next inspiring city, seashore, rainbow, rock, or ruin. She's best described as a one-woman inspiration factory, expressing herself through any artistic medium that comes her way.
We're lucky that for the time being she calls Belfast her homebase while she searches for her next grand adventure – will it be as a lighthouse keeper, a Berlin artiste, or an island hopping bohemian in search of her selkie prince?
Her work blends minimalist abstract illustrations with Celtic tribal forms and an explosion of expressionist colour. Each painting looks like a page from a lost storybook inviting us to consider each illustration as the main character in a tale likely to defy conventions even as it inspires us to make it our own.
In the three paintings that follow, you will meet perhaps a lonely misunderstood sea goddess (or monster?), three mysterious messengers (or mentors) with news about your quest, and an electric boogaloo faerie godmother who's here to grant your wish (so long as it's absolutely fabulous).
Choose your adventure.
Atlanta's Abgesoffen
NINA STAACK
Three
NINA STAACK
Time to Fly
NINA STAACK
ARTIST BIO
Nina Staack is an upcoming artist and photographer from Germany currently residing in Belfast. Her work has recently appeared in The Belfast Review magazine, and her portfolio can be viewed on Instagram @nina.nostril
Special thanks to the artist for trusting us with her work.
Thanks to all of you readers for reading! Be sure to like, follow, and share.
Check out our other posts this week:
Wordy Tuesday (5 Mar) with Nonfiction by Sarah d'Episcopo
and Fiction by Marie O'Shea
Rhythm-Verse Thursday (7 Mar) with Poetry by PS Conway and Shannon Carlin
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