This is a bit of strange one located slightly off the usual shopping track at the top of Queen Street. The ‘gallery’ is made up of a raft of bizarrely antiquated and kitsch items — I remember a huge number of George Best sketches and photo-shopped images. A few caricatures and a little handful of traditional ‘paintings’ although you’d be hard pressed to find them with the sheer number of other things on offer. A bit dazzling and a garish — gallery? In the truest sense of the word yes, but don’t expect to see a Lavery among the rough silly sketches.
Suzi B.
Tu valoración: 2 Whiteabbey, United Kingdom
I used to work in an art gallery /picture framers so I enjoy taking a peek in to other shops and seeing what’s on offer. The Picture Gallery doesn’t offer anything out of this world, but if you’re after a local scene or some sporting legend then I’d say you would get it here. The prices are quite a reasonable price, but the framing they offer isn’t spectacular. I’ve seen a lot better, for about the same price in the other framers in Belfast. Certainly a higher quality is offered elsewhere. You’re not going to miss anything if you don’t come in, but saying that it probably depends what you’re after. I would have thought that a shop lasting this long in Belfast would try and modernise to suit changing moods but here seems to be stuck in some what of a time warp.
Rosejane L.
Tu valoración: 2 Belfast, United Kingdom
If you want to see pictures crammed wall to ceiling with average Northern Ireland local views then step in here. For some reason I once got a photograph framed here in a so-so transaction as I noticed greasy finger prints on the inside of the glass when it came back. I’d have been grateful too if they’d let me know when the picture was ready as they said they would. The price was not outrageous but I’d try another picture framer in future.
Conor K.
Tu valoración: 2 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Picture Gallery on Queen Street just looks cheap. It’s been there along time and I’m always praising independent businesses but the framing business hasn’t been over run by any type of corporate machine just yet so I don’t think The Picture Gallery can use that as an excuse for its tattered façade and silly pictures it sells. It really does sell a lot of silly pictures. It can be read(vaguely) painted on the shop front that it deals in classic Irish art but that doesn’t appear to be what it sells at all. Instead all you can see covering the walls are silly sketches of footballers, wrestlers, MP’s and way to many pictures of Elvis. This did work to our advantage when for a birthday joke we got our friend a picture of the Undertaker(which was framed…), but come on, why does a shop selling that exist?