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Welcome to Golden Thread Gallery, Northern Ireland's leading international contemporary visual arts organisation, based in and informed by the local. We are actively committed to enhancing and widening the cultural experience for those living in, working in and visiting the region. Golden Thread Gallery prides itself on offering a friendly, open space where everyone is welcome. For those who have never visited the gallery before, why not pay us a visit and get a taste of what we do? We are driven by two key aims: - to widen participation and increase access to contemporary visual arts activities. - to support the development of contemporary visual arts professionals. We deliver our aims through a multi-faceted program of visual arts activities: Large scale contemporary art exhibitions. Ambitious off-site outreach projects and creative community collaborations. In-house educational opportunities. Artist support and profiling projects both nationally and internationally. Contemporary art publications.
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Lisa Byrne, Majella Clancy, Martina Corry, Benjamin De Burca, Victoria J. Dean, Ciara Finnegan, Gerry Gleason, Sara Greavu, Phil Hession, Allan Hughes, Brendan Jamison, Lisa Malone, Conor McFeely, Deirdre McKenna, Philip Napier, Brendan O’Neill, Gary Shaw, Victor Sloan, Shaleen Temple, Una Walker & Keith Winter |
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Calculated Error – Michael Hanna
2.2.2012 - 23.2.2012
Golden Thread Gallery presents Calculated Error, the first major solo exhibition by Michael Hanna. Over the past 3 months Hanna carried out a series of intentional mistakes, each carefully planned and budgeted in advance. Through a series of objects, photographs and texts, the exhibition documents these mistakes from the mistaken action to the repair. But, is ‘sorry’ ever enough? Are mistakes the ultimate learning tool? Is a problem ever fixed? Is a fix permanent? Is a fix perfect?
Michael Hanna (b.1979, Craigavon, Northern Ireland) lives and works in Belfast. He graduated with BA (Hons) in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in 2009 and is currently completing his MFA at the University of Ulster.
Hanna has exhibited both locally and internationally, including Arrivals at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast and Futures at Elephant Gallery, Los Angeles.
“I will make mistakes[1] in my life on purpose and secure funding[2] to put right these mistakes.”
Michael Hanna3
LUNCH TIME TALK
1pm – pmSaturday 4th February 2012
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INTERPLANETARY REVOLUTION
16.2.2012 - 24.3.2012
Are we the warriors of the Revolution?! Are you? Drawing inspiration from the 1924 Russian propaganda animation of the same name, Interplanetary Revolution is a project that will include at least two new simultaneous group exhibitions and the installation/reworking of another. Looking at failing/ed ideologies; notions of otherworldliness and the uncanny; and revolutionary critique, Interplanetary Revolution will be an opportunity to collapse a few assumptions and undermine previous relationships.
It is planned that parts of the exhibition/s, the artists and/or artworks will change – other elements of the project remain as yet unfinished and may end up never being so. The project will be accompanied by curated or hosted screenings every Thursday evening and most likely a series of lunchtime talks.
The opening of the exhibition will feature work by artists and curators, including: Anonymous, Charles Burns, Captain Hate, Martin Carter, Ben Crothers, Colin Darke, Maurice Doherty, Adham Faramawy, The Girls, Gerry Gleason, Laura Graham, Pierre Granoux, Sophie Hamacher, Allan Hugh...[ Read all ] |
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Fish, Flesh & Fowl
Dermot Seymour – A Retrospective
15th December 2011 – 4th February 2012
THE SHANKILL CONNECTION
In the mid nineteen fifties three boys were born on the Shankill Road, went to the Boys Model School at the same time and subsequently became artists. David Sandlin now lives in New York, Stephen Shaw in his native Belfast and Dermot Seymour in County Mayo.
The work of Dermot Seymour spans three decades and his idiosyncratic take on Irish life, painted with a combination of unflinching realism and symbolic ambiguity, tugs at the unconscious mind of the viewer. The decade of the 1980s, when the surreal collided with the ordinary on a daily basis, saw Seymour, then still living in Belfast, develop and refine his unique style. A headless bandsman, his hand on the back of a neckless bandswoman, approach the cranes of Harland and Wolf, looming above a steep hillside. The pair are being observed by a cow and a hovering helicopter. This painting is entitled Who fears to Speak of ’98?. As the writer Dermot Healy remarks, We are now in a circus of the imagination.
Seymour’s world is both sinister and ordin...[ Read all ] |
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Scope New York
2012
7.3.2012 - 11.3.2012
Lost in Lust: the Representation and Mis-representation of Woman is a group project. Each of the artists involved has a distinct voice in this debate and each approach the idea of “woman” from different vantage points. A mixture of photography, video, object-based work, drawing and performance, the project will challenge notions of femininity and representation.
Ursula Burke, Allan Hughes, Jenny Keane, Deirdre McKenna, Katherine Nolan and Maurice Doherty combine to carry on the Golden Thread Gallery’s tradition of platforming the work of Northern Irish based artists and those influenced by time spent here. Each of the artists both covertly and explicitly play with the idea of exploitation and question who, if anyone, is being exploited. Voyeurism, pornography, myth and tradition are all explored and our attitudes queried and interrogated.
LONDON ART FAIR 2012
January 2012 will mark Golden Thread Gallery’s seventh consecutive year of participation at London Art Fair, once again exhibiting contemporary works from Northern Ireland in the innovative Art Projects section of t...[ Read all ] |
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Golden Thread Gallery Interested Artist’s Registry.
We do not accept proposals from individual artists for exhibitions of their own work. Individual artists should submit their work for consideration via the Interested Artist’s Registry.
The Golden Thread Gallery Interested Artist’s Registry has been established as a resource that the organisation can draw up on when devising its programme of temporary exhibitions and activities.
We do not accept submissions by email (e.g. jpgs or links to personal websites); in order to submit materials to the Registry please follow the instructions.
Please send:
1. A CD or DVD (one disk only) that is clearly labelled with your name, the date, and your email address.
2. The disk should include no more than 12 jpegs that are 21cm x __ @300dpi and/or 4 standard PAL format video clips each no longer than 5 minutes. Ensure that each image or clip is clearly labelled with your name & a number, i.e. 1 through to 12 that correlate to an Image List.
3. The Image List should provide the title, date and brief description of each work as numbered on the disk.
4. An Artist's statement.
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Tears in Rain/ Dheora san Fhearthainn
Curated by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
20 October – 3 November 2011
Welcome to this, the eighth instalment of the Golden Thread Gallery’s Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art Series. For those of you who are new to the Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art series, it is a project that consists of up to twelve instalments, each taking the form of an individual exhibition and accompanying publication. The aim of the project is to form a significant archive of Northern Irish Art from 1945 to the present through multiple narratives, each examining different aspects of the period. Each instalment features a guest curator - selected to make their particular specialist knowledge and lived experience accessible to audiences through their exhibition and accompanying publication.
The project set outs, in the absence of any relevant permanent public collection, to create a useful historical context from which audiences and educators can engage with the stories of this place through the art of our time. Central to the project is an acknowledgement that there are many versions of history. To...[ Read all ] |
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THURSDAY TALKS
1pm – 2pm
1 September
Cecily Brennan in conversation with Sarah McAvera.
8 September
Lisa Byrne in conversation with Bronagh Lawson.
15 September
Ruth Graham in conversation with people who have been "the subjects" in artworks.
22 September
Colin Darke and Peter Richards in discussion about the history of storytelling in artistic practice.
29 September
Claire Hackett from the Falls Community Council talks about aural history and its importance today.
All talks are free and tea and coffee will be provided, places are limited so please RSVP to book your place to info@gtgallery.co.uk
Thursday Talks at the Golden Thread Gallery will start at 1pm sharp.
All Welcome.
On thresholds… A lecture by Dr. Julie Louise Bacon27.05.2011
On thresholds…
A lecture by Dr. Julie Louise Bacon
tracing the development of her practice as a visual artist, writer and curator. The lecture looks at a range of Bacon’s curatorial, art and writing projects, spanning her time in management posts in artist-run centres, and over a decade of performance and installation works.
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■Development Officer Ruth Graham
■Exhibitions Officer Sarah McAvera
■Outreach Officer Deirdre McKenna
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