‘Not Alone’ departs for Rome!

‘Not Alone’ departs for Rome!

Our touring exhibition ‘Not Alone’ has left Bologna, and is on its way to Rome! Carefully packed up by our first curator Chiara Matteucci, the artworks will now travel 400km across Italy to the home of Manuela Pacella in Rome. Manuela is an independent...
GTG Artists Present: Aisling O’Beirn

GTG Artists Present: Aisling O’Beirn

Artist and Belfast School of Art lecturer Aisling O’Beirn has created this wonderful film collage tour of her studio, and a gallery of work for our latest edition of GTG Artists Present. Aisling states that her work “explores relationships between...
GTG Artists Present: Ursula Burke

GTG Artists Present: Ursula Burke

The Golden Thread is delighted to continue our series of new short films by artists reflecting on their work with a piece by Irish artist Ursula Burke. Ursula’s film ‘From Canova to De Chirico’ looks at the integration of the classical and the...
Eight Years On: Ambulatorio Belfast Anniversary

Eight Years On: Ambulatorio Belfast Anniversary

Eight years ago today on the 11th July, we opened Ambulatorio Belfast by Oscar Muñoz to the public at the Crumlin Road/Flax Street interface – meaning the interface itself was opened to the local communities for the first time in decades. Today we look back and...
GTG Revisits ‘Better Society’

GTG Revisits ‘Better Society’

Each week during lockdown, GTG Director Peter Richards revisits one of our past exhibitions on Instagram and shares his personal reflections on the show and its contexts, then and now. This week he looks back to 2000 and the exhibition Better Society, which brought...