24/9/2022 – 5/11/2022 Elvira Santamaría Torres is an internationally acclaimed performance artist whose work has resonated with audiences around the world. Born in 1967 in Mexico City, she has been based in Northern Ireland since 2011. The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to present this seminal exhibition Artefacts and Encounters as part of the Belfast […]
SATURDAY 8th OCTOBER 1.30PM - 3PM This week will be exploring the art movement known as De Stijl, which is Dutch for ‘the style’. We will be taking inspiration from Dutch painter and leader of the De Stijl movement Piet Mondrian and creating our very own De Stijl art piece using acrylic paint on canvas. […]
Wednesday 12th - Friday 14th October 2022, Performance 12-4 pm Join us in Gallery One for this process art / durational performance by Elvira Santamaria Torres, part of Artefacts and Encounters. Salt is an essential mineral for life, salt as a currency, salt as a gift, a salary, salt as punishment and destruction, or using […]
SATURDAY 15th OCTOBER 1.30PM - 3PM This week we will be exploring the art movement, Fauvism. The fauvist movement began in France and placed emphasis on the use of bold colour and brushwork- so expect lots of bright colours! Henri Matisse was a famous Fauvist painter as well as a collage artist. We will be […]
18th – 21st October, Workshops 1pm-4pm Each Day Internationally acclaimed performance artist Elvira Santamaria Torres will lead this series of performance art workshops, in which participants will have the opportunity to work on ideas, concerns or intuitions that they want to develop into a performance artwork. From experiential and conceptual material, the sessions will provide […]
SATURDAY OCTOBER 22nd 1.30-3pm In this Saturdays workshop we will be exploring the Surrealist movement, which celebrated and documented the thoughts of the unconscious mind. Surrealists often created artworks of their dreams or let their unconscious mind take over as they created automatic drawings (doodled). Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo are both very famous Surrealist […]
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29th 1.30-3pm Happy Halloween!! In this spooktacular workshop we will be exploring the expressionist movement. Within the expressionist movement artists used their work to express their inner feelings and ideas, such as Edward Munch’s ‘The Scream’. Die Brücke were a group of German Expressionist artists who were based in Dresden; they were known […]
