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GTG is celebrating World Children’s Day on 20th November with our biggest ever art giveaway!
We're marking World Children's Day on Saturday 20th November by giving away HUNDREDS of free art packs to enable children across Northern Ireland to create art representing their fundamental rights. Just email us to request yours! World Children’s Day is celebrated on...
GTG is hosting Belfast Potter’s Market Christmas 2021!
On Saturday 11th December from 12pm to 7pm we’ll host Belfast Potter’s Market, just in time for Christmas!
FREE FAMILY WORKSHOPS IN NOVEMBER!
Our free Saturday art workshops for families this month take place on the 13th and 20th November. As always it’s free to take part, and we’ll supply all the art materials and light refreshments! We have our new Covid-19 safety measures in place too. For safety...
Outburst Arts Festival: The Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show
Friday 12th Nov – Saturday 4th Dec. We’re delighted to welcome Outburst Arts Festival back to the Golden Thread once again!
Lighthouse by Donovan Wylie
From Saturday 27th Nov 2021 to Saturday 8th Jan 2022, explore photographer Donovan Wylie’s Lighthouse series.
GTG at the Family Friendly Museum Awards 2021!
On Monday 11th October the GTG team attended the virtual Family Friendly Museum Awards 2021, where Golden Thread Gallery was nominated for Best Small Museum! The prestigious awards were created by Kids in Museums in 2004, and have been growing every year, with a new...
Farewell from Esther Andare!
We're very sad to be saying goodbye to Esther Andare, our wonderful Community Foundation NI and VSB intern. She's off to finish her Masters degree, and we have no doubt she will do so brilliantly! GTG has gained so much from our time working with Esther; from learning...
‘Portrait of Northern Ireland’ exhibition opens Tuesday 12th October
The exhibition features over 100 artists who have explored perspectives of Northern Ireland’s people and landscapes from the 1920s until the present day.
GTG is going the extra mile for refugees this month!
This month the GTG team is going to be making every mile we go count for refugees - we're taking part in the British Red Cross Miles for Refugees fundraising event! We will be walking, running, rowing, cycling and swimming a target distance of 72 miles - that's the...
FREE FAMILY WORKSHOPS IN SEPTEMBER!
Our free Saturday art workshops for families this month take place on the 11th and 18th of September! As always it’s free to take part, and we’ll supply all the art materials and light refreshments! We have our new Covid-19 safety measures in place too. For safety...
Seen as it’s made = Made as it’s seen: Lennon
Golden Thread Gallery presents ‘Seen as it’s made = Made as it’s seen’, a solo exhibition by Lennon, ‘one of the most important Irish painters currently working in the field of non-objective art’. The exhibition in Gallery One and Gallery Two includes a new appearance of Folded/Unfolded, a work with a fifty-year legacy, which will be made in the gallery space itself in August 2021.
GTG ‘one of the best places to visit in Belfast’, says Clayton Hotels!
We are delighted to be featured as one of the best places to visit in Belfast by our city centre neighbours at the Clayton Hotel in their Belfast Weekend Guide! The Gallery is an easy ten minute walk from the hotel, with a choice of routes that take you past some of...
Portrait of Northern Ireland Centenary exhibition at the Golden Thread Gallery announced
Secretary of State Brandon Lewis has announced a major art exhibition to showcase Northern Ireland’s creative talent as part of the Northern Ireland Office’s Centenary programme. The Portrait of Northern Ireland: Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto exhibition, which will...
SATURDAY FAMILY WORKSHOPS ARE BACK IN AUGUST!
Our free Saturday art workshops for families are back from August! Workshops will take place in the gallery on the first and third Saturdays of every month, with new Covid-19 safety measures in place. As always it's free to take part, and we'll supply all the art...
The Bystander Effect: Alison Lowry
Golden Thread Gallery are delighted to share Alison Lowry’s new exhibition The Bystander Effect in the Project Space. The culmination of two years of research, The Bystander Effect examines the role that we, as a society, had in allowing an ‘architecture of containment’ to develop in Northern Ireland; the physical infrastructure and systems used to incarcerate women and children in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland, including Industrial Schools, Children’s Homes, Mother and Baby Institutions and Magdalene Laundries.
GTG BLOG: Do you believe in life after…. lockdown?
VSB Intern Esther Andare writes about the gradual return of our arts and culture scene as the end of the pandemic – hopefully! – gets nearer.
Artist Interview: ACES award-winner Paul Moore
Watch artist Paul Moore in conversation with Golden Thread Gallery Director Peter Richards in this new interview, recorded in the gallery in May 2021.
Junior Gallery Newsletter: Borders Edition!
Our theme for this month's Junior Newsletter is Borders, taking inspiration from our summer exhibition 'Across and In-Between' by Suzanne Lacy, which is being exhibited across the whole Gallery from June 12th until August 14th. The exhibition explores the border...
GTG shortlisted for national Family Friendly Museum Award!
The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, has been shortlisted for the Kids in Museums Family Friendly Museum Award, it was announced today. Charity Kids in Museums has run a prestigious annual award for the past 15 years, recognising the most family friendly heritage sites in the UK. It is the only museum award to be judged by families.
IRELAND AT VENICE 2022 : Niamh O’Malley’s Gather
The Ireland at Venice 2022 Curatorial Team, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, will present Niamh O’Malley’s Gather at the Irish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to be a partner gallery of this project, and will host Gather in Belfast in 2023 as part of the Ireland at Venice 2022 National Tour.