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After an Act. Golden Thread Gallery Belfast, 26th May – 14th July 2018
I just read that Boo Saville sands back painted layers until the canvas gleams. (https://frieze.com/article/damien-hirst-spotlights-emerging-talent-his-newport-street-gallery-show) Vanishing of brushstrokes and tones until the canvas shines vanishes also a painting canon like the albertian window, gesture paintings etc. Reminds me of Hans Magnus … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Fay, Deb Covell, drawing, I Kant, installation, Isamu Noguchi, Italo Calvino, Jo McGonigal, painting, sculpture, Susan Connolly, Tamara Kostianowsky
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DAVID GODBOLD:Nightfall – amplissium terrarum tractum , Golden thread Gallery, Belfast, 3 Feb – 10 March 2018
An unexpected move to use Latin as a title of an exhibition these days… the words are written in neon tubes above the painting titled Three little words, (2010, neon, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 115 cm, sorry my mobile … Continue reading
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Tagged A Camus, A Duerer, C Bell, C. Greenberg, D Judd, drawing, E Neizvestny, Kuks, M Braun, M Buber, M Shapiro, Malingue Gallery Shanghai, painting, Ravenna, Ulrich Heltoft, Voynich Botanical Studies, W Blake
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Sharon Kelly at ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast, May 4-27 2017
Sharon Kelly watercolours with graphite form a half of two persons exhibition titled Dissolving into ambiguity with Lenka Davidikova( b 1980, Dolny Kubin, Slovak Republic). Both graduated from the University of Ulster – 26 years apart. I have written about Kelly’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Duerer, ArtisAnn gallery, August Rodin, Bertrand Russell, dance, drawing, Giordano Bruno, graphite, grief, Sharon Kelly, watercolour
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Victories are shortlived – Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 23.06.16 – 13.08.16
Milena Bonilla (b 1975, Bogota, Columbia) tracks a “no man land” between Germany and Czech Republic – a residuum of the Cold War between Soviet Union and the West. Where used to be an electric fence for almost half a … Continue reading
Open work ? Belfast (March/April 2016)
Three concurrent exhibitions invite that question. Marie Hanlon at Fendersky, Desire Line at Golden Thread Gallery and In-Stream at the two galleries, Ulster University and QSS. Fenderesky Gallery and cafe is a new place with a four decades of history … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Glenn, Anthony Kelly, Charles Baudelaire, correspondences, David Stalling, Desire Line, drawing, Fenderesky gallery, Finding Equilibrium, Geraldine Boyle, Golden Therad Gallery, In-Stream, John Hutchings, Julie Lovett, Kevin Miller, Majella Clancy, Marie Hanlon, painting, QSS gallery, Rowan Sexton, Univeristy of Ulster Gallery
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PETER RICHARDS: Intuitive Actions, Common Attributes and Isolated Incidents, 13 September – 25 October, 2014, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown
Gallery TWO is a common display of islands of meaning in a space, flat images on a shelve or directly on the wall, 3D on a pedestal or trolley. Each is given approaching and leaving viewing space … Continue reading
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Tagged Conceptual art, drawing, duration, eternal recurrence, H Marcuse, installation, Paul Sharits, performance, pinhole camera, Ryoji Ikeda, video, Vito Acconci
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SHARON KELLY and ROBIN PRICE, Process Lab, Rehearsal Room PS2, Belfast, Nov 18 -22nd, 2013
I visited this installment of Rehearsal Room series on its last day. On the wall opposite the window a continuous video of animated drawings easily competed for attention with three large charcoal drawings on the right and one exquisite work … Continue reading
Hugh O’Donnell, A Passing Thought, ADF, Belfast, October 11 – November 22 2013
The Arts Disability Forum keeps developing its exhibition program along the criteria prevalent in the contemporary art practices, while making use of social links, in this case, the 7th Outburst Queer Arts Festival. As if reading Lessing’s Laokoon, they avoid … Continue reading
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Tagged blue paint, disability, drawing, found objects, found photography, installation, Jasper Johns, Performance Art, sculpture, table, W Kandinsky, Yves Klein
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Colin Davidson, Between The Words
The Naughton Gallery at Queens hosted Davidson’s ‘large heads’ from 4th September until 6th October 2013. All exhibits were reproduced in a catalogue with a lively forward by Simon Callow and Conversation with Shan McAnena. Davidson proposed to explore large … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast, drawing, Garry Lightbody, Heraclitos, James Ellis, James Nesbit, likeness, Naughton Gallery, painting, portrait, Queens University, Seamus Heaney, Shan McAnena, Simon Callow
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DRAWING BOX: 2013
It has a page on Facebook without which it could not be what it is. Soon after her return from her residency in India, Diane Henshaw together with Andrew Crane, John Crabtree, and Patil Rajendra, started the first Drawing Box … Continue reading
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Tagged A5 size, Available resources 1991, Belfast, Delawab, drawing, Drawing Box Mumbai, Dublin, Enniskillen, Facebook, Household, Satis House
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Karine Talec
Karine Talec: Drawing In the Light, 2013, University of Ulster Degree shows, Belfast Her gestures as drawings in the air are readily understood. In the above frame it appears as if she is responding to someone in the audience. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Stones, drawing, Esther Ferrer, Frances Hegarty, James Turrell, light, Martina Corry, photography, Susan MacWilliam, video
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Chris Wilson
Slavka Sverakova interviews Chris Wilson by e-mail, February 2008 SS: The paintings I saw at the Mullan Gallery in 2007 were different from your previous dark images drawn over multicoloured maps. You have mentioned a residency that inspired that departure. … Continue reading
Sandra Johnston
Sandra Johnston: The Shadow of a Doubt Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 13 December 2012 – 2 February 2013 The title refers to the terminology of barristers and judges, zooming on the impossibly nuanced degree “beyond which guilt or innocence may … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, Golden Thread Gallery, installation, performance, sound, texts, video
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