Performance Art + Northern Ireland Co-curated by Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes and Brian Connolly; featuring artists: Alastair MacLennan; Sandra Johnston; Brian Connolly; Bbeyond. Northern Irish performance art is well regarded and has substantial international networks, in addition to a track record of sustained, experimental practice for the past 40 years. It has established a global reputation for the […]
Vanishing Futures: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art Curated by Peter Richards; featuring artists: Tom Bevan; Charlie Bosanquet; Sinead Breathnach-Cashell; Lorraine Burrell; Lisa Byrne; Ursula Burke; Miriam de Búrca; Ian Charlesworth; Colin Darke; Maurice Doherty; John Duncan; Factotum; Ciara Finnegan; Graham Gingles; Gerry Gleason; Carol Graham; Michael Hanna; Phil Hession; Tony Hill; Allan Hughes; Johanna […]
The various works and the different critical perspectives coexist within a discourse of many voices, where the multiplicity of women's worlds and visions emerge...SHE DEVIL in Belfast will contribute to the wider international discourse with a special edition curated by a group of Irish and Northern Irish curators, selected by Peter Richards.
Curated by PLACE in collaboration with Golden Thread Gallery, this exhibition follows the line connecting east and west Belfast. It interrupts the gallery as we travel around, under, over and through. Programmed as part of City as a Gallery, Desire Line plays with the poetic and anecdotal elements of Belfast’s visual culture referenced along this route.
Martin Boyle and Lorraine Burrell
The juxtaposition of the real with the imaginary has been of constant interest to Golden Thread Gallery and has led to the realisation of this exhibition, These Days are Persistent and Changeable.
Milena Bonilla, Cecily Brennan and Elvira Santamaría-Torres
The fundamental premise of the exhibition Victories are Short-lived is to provoke discussion and reflection on both the psychological and phenomenological aftermath of conflict.
Golden Thread Gallery is pleased to launch the international tour of Adventure: Capital, a new artwork by artist Sean Lynch that was commissioned for Ireland at Venice 2015, the Irish Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to present Christian Marclay’s critically acclaimed Video Quartet (2001) on loan from the Tate, London until the 7th January 2017
Golden Thread Gallery’s new exhibition Cut & Stuck brings together two simultaneous presentations: ‘Video Quartet’ (2002) by Christian Marclay on loan from the Tate, London, and ‘Small Axe: Queer Caribbean Visualities’, a guest curated exhibition hosted by Outburst Queer Arts Festival, in collaboration with the British Counci
Golden Thread Gallery is proud to host a new group exhibition of queer work from Caribbean artists, in partnership with Outburst Queer Arts Festival and British Council .
"Sean Hillen works in a space even Francis Bacon would tidy, creates collages that would give someone with 20:20 vision a headache, and is as much a cultural institution as a working artist."
Cora Burke LeCool in 2013
Yael Bartana’s deeply stirring and contentious film trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned is both of its time and ahead of it.
