The Honeymoon Suite is possibly Juno Calypso’s most startling photographic mission. Dressed in lurid pastels and a wig, Calypso’s one-woman tour of honeymoon hotels defies the typical perceptions of gender and identity through an edgy prism of wit, humour and courageous vulnerability.
Signs and Ciphers Curated by Peter Richards, featuring artist: Alistair Wilson Revealing links across various periods of production, Signs and Ciphers, an exhibition of works by Belfast-based artist Alistair Wilson, is broken into four parts and realised across two galleries. Encompassing selected works spanning forty years of production, the exhibition does not set out to […]
Video encounters: Inside the Story Curated by Peter Richards, featuring artists: Rachel MacLean; and Bedwyr Williams. Why not come and have your senses rearranged courtesy of The Lion and The Unicorn by Rachel Maclean and The Starry Messenger by Bedwyr Williams, presented side-by-side in the North of Ireland for the first time! Inside the Story […]
Dissolving Histories: A Moment in Time Curated by Peter Richards and Sarah McAvera; featuring artists: Liam Crichton; Erin Hagan; Dorothy Hunter; Kevin Killen; and John Rainey. Dissolving Histories: A Moment in Time takes five artists whose diverse practices seek to capture, explore and explain moments. The nature of time is unsubstantial; a moment, a second, […]
Nightfall – amplissium terrarum tractum Curated by Peter Richards, featuring artist:David Godbold Like most Latin text, the ‘implication’ of a specific phrase carries enfolded meaning beyond its literal English translation. In the instance of the subtitle of David Godbold’s new exhibition for Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; amplissium terrarum tractum, Google Translate simplistically provides a […]
Where am I in the photo? An exhibition of iconic photographs of Belfast Working with submissions from local audiences, Golden Thread Gallery and Belfast Photo Festival have created an exhibition of iconic photographs of the city of Belfast, drawn from residents’ personal collections. These photographs will be exhibited at Unit 39, Castle Court Shopping […]
NOW: A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists Curated by Peter Richards The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to host a screening of NOW: A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists, a collaborative programme aimed at reinvigorating discussion around the role of female contemporary artists in the art ecology of present day China. Through a series […]
After An Act Curated by Peter Richards; featuring artists: Susan Connolly; Deb Covell; Brian Fay; and Jo McGonigal. The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to present 'After an Act' an exhibition featuring works by: Susan Connolly; Deb Covell; Brian Fay and Jo McGonigal. Featuring four artists whose process is inherent to their practice, 'After An Act' […]
Homeland Insecurity | a common fiction Two simultaneous solo exhibitions by Travis Somerville; and Ian Cumberland; curated by Peter Richards. The positioning of these two solo exhibitions next to one another builds on the current themes being explored by the Golden Thread’s 2018- 2019 programme of approaching ways of looking. Both Cumberland and Somerville’s works […]
The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to present, Winnipeg-based (Ca) artist Irene Bindi’s first solo exhibition in the North of Ireland, ‘Annoucing notte sopra, vipere sotto’. Bindi’s project initiated at an Artarcadia artists-residency in Le Caselle, Italy, takes as its starting point Oskar Fishinger’s ‘Walking from Berlin to Munich’ (1927). As an exercise, Bindi walked […]
The DAS Short Programme Featuring artists: Sylvia Javen; Nicky Larking; Laurie Sumiye; Jacqueline Holt; and David Prince The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to present the DAS Short Programme of moving image works. This programme features work produced by artists in residence at the Digital Arts Studios. Including artists who have been living in Belfast for a […]
Separate Systems AMINI Graduate Award Showcase; featuring artists: Marta Dyczowska; Joey O'Gorman; and Dara Flanagan AMINI is delighted to present Separate Systems, a showcase of work from our Graduate Award Winners. Since 2016 the award has been selected each year from moving image work presented at the Belfast School of Art Degree Show. Tomorrow […]
