THU 12 MAY – SAT 9 JULY 2022 HOW DID WE GET TO: KNOW SO LITTLE? is a collaboration between Golden Thread Gallery and Docs Ireland 2022. This exhibition of artist moving image works explores how museums and archives perpetuate western colonialism through categorisation and collecting objects, and hopes to engage with the ongoing dialogue about […]
Thursday 2nd June to Saturday 30th July, Project Space Launch Event: Thursday, June 2, 6:00 PM 8:00 PM "Women watch themselves being looked at, they are turned into a sight, a spectacle, an object of vision." - John Berger, Ways of Seeing A new commission from Belfast Photo Festival, An Object of Vision by Alexandra […]
Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to be the Belfast location for WAIWAV on 2nd July with an intervention by artist Porcelain Delaney in our Project Space.
SATURDAY 23 JULY 11.00-12.00 Create your own colourful banner or poster to celebrate Belfast Pride 2022! We’ll supply the art materials and some drinks & snacks, you bring your fierce and fearless creativity 🌈 We love to re-use and recycle materials too, so please bring along some cardboard, paper, old wallpaper, bedsheets or fabric to […]
Saturday 30th July to Saturday 10th September 2022 Exhibition launches Saturday 30/07/22 at 12 noon, with an introduction by curator Peter Richards and artist Ailbhe Greaney at 1pm. Free family art activity inspired by the exhibition from 1pm. Please join us to mark the launch of Room Without a View, a major solo exhibition by […]
20 August – 15 October 2022 Root and Branch is a unique exhibition by mother and son artists Catherine and Simon McWilliams, together in the Golden Thread Gallery Project Space. Taking Betty McCord’s sculpture ‘Rook’ as a starting point, the exhibition is a conversation about the processes of making artwork with familial connections. Both Simon […]
Exhibition Launch Saturday 20 August 2022 1pm - 4pm Please join us for a glass of wine to mark the launch of Root and Branch by mother and son artists Catherine and Simon McWilliams, together in the Golden Thread Gallery’s Project Space. Taking Betty McCord’s sculpture ‘Rook’ as a starting point, the exhibition is a conversation […]
Saturday 3rd September 1PM-2PM, Gallery One Join us for a talk by artist Ailbhe Greaney and writer Declan Long, discussing the forthcoming publication of their book, the exhibition Room Without a View, and the inspiration behind Ailbhe's work. There will also be an opportunity for questions from the audience. The talk will be livestreamed on […]
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 1st October, 2pm Two generations of renowned artists, mother and son Catherine and Simon McWilliams, join GTG curator Peter Richards in conversation about their shared passion for nature, their different practices, and their experience of this familial joint exhibition, Root and Branch. Please join us for this free event, refreshments will be served. Golden […]
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 […]
