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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.
Golden Thread Gallery Mentoring & Exhibition Award 2021
We are delighted to announce that the recipient of the Golden Thread Gallery Mentoring & Exhibition Award 2021 is Drydan Wilson. The award is presented to an University of Ulster School of Art Graduate based on their MFA work and show. The winner of the award will...
GTG SAYS #THANKSTOYOU FOR NATIONAL LOTTERY OPEN WEEK
We’re celebrating National Lottery Open Week with an amazing art giveaway! From Tuesday 15th June the first 50 visitors who present any National Lottery ticket at the Golden Thread Gallery Reception will receive a free limited edition David Sherry art postcard, signed by the artist!
GTG supports the Kids in Museums Manifesto!
We're excited to share that we have signed up to the Kids in Museums Manifesto. It's a set of simple guidelines for museums, heritage sites and cultural organisations that was created with children, young people and families. It sets out what they feel makes a gallery...
GTG Gallery Explorer Packs – Tell Us What You Think!
We would really love to know what you think about our new Gallery Explorer packs! It helps us so much to hear from you. Please fill in this short feedback form, it takes just a couple of minutes. Thank you! MY GTG GALLERY EXPLORER PACK MADE ME
FREE GALLERY EXPLORER ART PACKS!
Become a Golden Thread Gallery Explorer! Thanks to funding from the Halifax Foundation NI, we’ve got a really special welcome for all junior visitors to the Gallery. Every child under 16 can get a free Gallery Explorer backpack when they visit!
Paul Moore’s sea swimming inspiration
Make sure to catch Paul Moore’s exhibition, Fionnghlas when the gallery reopens on May 25th! The exhibition was delayed by lockdown, so you have just a short time to see it in the Project Space. In 2019 Paul Moore received the ACNI Artist Career Enhancement Scheme...
Across and In-Between: Suzanne Lacy
Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to be premiering the installation of Suzanne Lacy’s Across and In-Between in the summer of 2021, presented in association with Ulster University. Co-commissioned and presented as a work-in-progress for the closing season of 14-18 NOW and the Belfast International Arts Festival; the project amplified the voices and experiences of border residents during Brexit negotiations through words, imagery, sound and performance, providing them an opportunity to reclaim the landscape around them.
Junior Gallery Newsletter: Community Edition!
This month our theme is Community, taking inspiration from the exhibition currently showing in Gallery 1 &2, 'not only the earth we share' by Sol Archer. Sol worked with Household Belfast and the community of Sailortown in North Belfast to develop this work. We...