Black History Month – Celebrating Black Voices

GTG New Needs Intern Esther Andare writes to mark Black History Month in the UK. Entering the later part of 2020, we are left to adapt our lives to the ‘new normal’ due to the pandemic, but also to deal and process with the aftermaths of the Black Lives Matter...
Not Alone continues in Rome

Not Alone continues in Rome

For the past two weeks, our touring exhibition ‘Not Alone’ has been installed in the Roman home of curator Micol di Veroli and exhibited to the world through her Instagram. Once Micol unpacked the artworks (under the curious gaze of her beautiful cat!),...
GTG Workshop: Monochrome inspired by Joy Gerrard

GTG Workshop: Monochrome inspired by Joy Gerrard

Start collecting your paper scraps and junk mail! For today’s GTG virtual Workshop, we are taking inspiration from our current exhibition by artist Joy Gerrard, ‘Put It to the People’. In this online workshop our Gallery Assistant Katharine Paisley shows you how to...
GTG welcomes our Community Foundation NI New Needs Intern!

GTG welcomes our Community Foundation NI New Needs Intern!

Thanks to support from the Community Foundation NI New Needs award, the Golden Thread Gallery has created a new paid internship role for an individual who identifies as a member of the Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. Following interviews last...
‘Not Alone’ continues its journey in Italy

‘Not Alone’ continues its journey in Italy

Our exhibition in a bottle is in Rome, installed by curator Manuela Pacella in her home. Manuela has a deep interest in the the history and art of Northern Ireland, since curating the Patria Interiore / Inner Homeland exhibition here at the GTG in 2012, and then being...