Tag Archives: Golden Thread Gallery

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

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SHE DEVIL

SHE DEVIL in BELFAST, Golden Thread Gallery, 17/12/2015 – 6/2/2016 I have not heard of the Italian architect who created the SHE DEVIL project. On her website (www.studiostefaniamiscetti.com) she offers impressive list of artists who responded to her invitation. It … Continue reading

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Gary Shaw: Ocular, at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, September 4 – 25, 2014

    Pristine, precise, poignant, poetic – they tell of human consciousness meticulously coding imaginative power of colour.Which one, where, how much, at what angle  – those are

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Equilibrium? Royden Rabinowitch at the GTG Project room, 09/01/2014 – 25/01/2014

The drawing  above carries the instruction for the sculpture that appears in this exhibition. Organised in partnership with Politics Plus (www.politicsplus.com, launched on February 2oth, 2013) it aims at an elusive instrumental value of art while focusing on one work … Continue reading

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Distributed through Space and Time, Golden Thread gallery, Belfast, December 5 2013 – January 19 2014

Curated by Sarah McAvera the exhibition takes its title from one line in Canto 1 of Pale Fire(1962) by V Nabokov. The curator limited the number of artists to three, possibly in relation to the small size of the Project … Continue reading

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Susan MacWilliam, 13 Roland Gardens, DVD 22 minutes 30secs, 2007

Recently, Eileen Coly has died. My essay has been distributed to the visitors of Golden Thread Gallery at the occasion of the video 13 Roland Gardens  being exhibited in  February 2009. It is re-published here  in memory of  Susan’s Mrs C. … Continue reading

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PSYCHIC DRIVING

Psychic Driving at the GTG, Belfast, 22 August – 5 October, 2013 Curated in collaboration with Ben Crothers the exhibition presents art by Maurice Doherty, Ciara Finnegan, Kandy Fong, James Franco, Kristin Lucas, Nicolas Provost, Nancy Jo Sales, Peter Spiers … Continue reading

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Mary Morgan and Gerard Carson

Mary Morgan and Gerard Carson: A Passing Breeze, Golden Thread Gallery, 4 – 27 July 2013 In the gallery’s project space, an installation of objects by Gerard Carson and of lens-based images of objects by Mary Morgan has been curated … Continue reading

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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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