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David Moore, Lisa and John, Belfast Exposed, May 4 – June 16 2018
The eighteen photographs Pictures from the Real World are displayed in a rumbling visual essay of small formats that accentuates the feeling of gentle trespassing into private lives, this time with the enthusiastic agreement of the participating family. If the … Continue reading
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Tagged Derby, documentary photography, Extreme RAY 2018, Format 17, maquettes, photography, projects, video
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Helena Hamilton, Semblance and Event, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, 7April -23 May 2018
Light. Invitation to unthink the familiarity of the tube lights, the inevitability of a particular use. Standing near it, watching, looking, walking around, near and away, reminded me of Keyezua’s recent comment on her photographies: “After finishing at the Royal … Continue reading
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Tagged drawings, Eva Hesse, Light tubes, performance, photography, video
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Shonky:The Aesthetics of Awkwardness, MAC, Belfast, 20 October 2017 – 14 January 2018
The exhibition aims to explore the nature of visual awkwardness through the work of artists and architects Arakawa and Gins; Cosima von Bonin; Niki de Saint Phalle; Benedict Drew; Justin Favela; Duggie Fields; Louise Fishman; Friedensreich Hundertwasser; Kate Lepper; Andrew … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, awkwardness, Hayward Touring Curatorial Open Painting, installation, performance, sculpture, shonky, sound installation, video
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OLGA DZIUBAK: “large array of negative feelings”, Array Studios, Belfast, 5th – 8th October 2017
The title and some sentences from texts by Valerie Solanas and Ulrike Meinhof introduce the viewer to Dziubak’s installation of lens based art made during her residency at the Array Studios. ”permanent state of emergency to make violence unnecessary men … Continue reading
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Tagged abstraction, Colour Purple, freedom fighter, history. installation., performance to a camera, terror, video
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BOSTON,02/02/17 – 11/0317 Belfast. Golden Thread Gallery
From the University of Massachussetts via a dialogue at Scope NY, 2015, to the Project Space at the GTG in Belfast is a journey less startling than the choice of making Belfast a Sister City for Boston. Yet, in 2014 … Continue reading
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Tagged digital drawngs, Machine Knitted compositions, Mixed Media Collkage, video
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Aisling O’Beirn at Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, 2016
Curated by J. Baker . the exhibition titled another day in futile battle against the 2nd law of thermodynamics included, maps, diagrams, installation, and video, all presented with meticulous care. Selection of gallery exposition and O’Beirn’s introduction is accessible … Continue reading
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Tagged Arte Povera; astronomy, installation, science, thermodynamics, video
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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
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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Tagged Belfast, Daphne Wright, Frances Hegarty, Golden Thread Gallery, Isobel Nolan, Jeanne Susplugas, Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Kate Gilmore, Kelly Dobson, Klara Liden, Luana Perilli, Malak Helmy, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Peter Richards, Rona Yefman, She Devil, Sinead O'Donnell, Stefania Miscetti, Tamara Moyzes, Tanja Schlander, video, Vivienne Dick
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24 at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, December 2014
The Project Space is a small space on the left of the entrance inside the Golden Thread Gallery. It is irreverently free of “having-to-do” anything , and equally it is free to do anything. I think the paradox is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Calder, Brian J Morrison, Charlotte Bosanquet, Ciara Finnegan, Colin McGooki, Duncan Ross, Geoff Molyneux, Golden Thread Gallery Belfast, Hazel Neill, installation, Leo Devlin, Mick Cullen, mobiles, painting, prints, Robert Peters, Sarah McAvera, Stuart Calvin, video
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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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WILDSCAPES
The sound of Campbells work behind the back wall saturated the whole gallery, interfering with the viewing of works by Moffett (on the wall) and Hughes(between the columns) Curated by Phillip McCrilly and supported by Ben Crothers’s substantial informative essay … Continue reading
MOMENTUM at Catalyst Arts Belfast, 24 – 31 January 2014
Ten postgraduate students of the MFA at the University of Ulster presented interim exhibition in the both exhibition spaces of the CA gallery. The image on this poster is a screen grab of a video by Jonny McEwen (b 1966).Nothing moves … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Glenn, animals, Aoife Brady, blue hue, Catalyst Arts Belfast, Cathy Drooney, computer code, Elizabeth-Anne Curistan, Erin Hagan, forest, installation, Jonny McEwen, Katrina Sheena Smyth, landscape, light, Master of Fine Art. University of Ulster, myth, Pamela Byrne, Performance Art, Rosanna McKenna, sculpture, textile, video
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FIONA LARKIN, BACKSTORY, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 6 December 2012 -17 January 2014
The idea that something commonplace can be transfigured into exceptional has been habitually compulsorily twinned with reason and consent. Both appear at the preparatory stages of this exhibition.
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Tagged book, Catalyst Arts Belfast, essays, installation, J Baudrillard, lake, photography, scarfs, Sophie Calle, translation, video, Vito Acconci
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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
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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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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DAS 2012
Curated by the talented Dr Angela Halliday, the 48:45 minutes of digital art raised strongly one question, that of appropriate duration. It may seem secondary, unnecessary, insufficient issue, in the context of the differences in talent, subject matter, mode of … Continue reading
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Tagged A. Halliday, D Dunne, D Magee, digital art, E Negre, film, G Semper, J D'Arcy, S. Amido, T Tzara, video
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