18.02.2012

A Return to Making-Strange? | Opens Tomorrow | Interplanetary Revolution | Golden Thread Gallery | Belfast ….(more)

Text by Angela Darby

Exhibition Statement:

The opening of Interplanetary Revolution may feature a cocktail bar, a chorus of ice cream vans, the introduction of another currency and a song by The Factotum Choir that they never quite cracked. Are we the warriors of the Revolution?! Are you? Drawing inspiration from the 1924 Russian propaganda animation of the same name,Interplanetary Revolution …. to read on click here

14.02.2012

 

1pm – 2pm

17^th Febuary 2012

Launching the Interplanetary Revolution Launch Talks Program we have:

AllArtNow, Damascus, Syria – artists run space, Abir Boukhari and Nisrine Boukhari in conversation with Brian Kennedy.

Abir Boukhari is a curator from Damascus and her sister Nisrine is an artist. They are both involved in running AllArtNow a small but vibrant artists run space in the old part of Damascus. AllArtNow is the most important contemporary art space in the city and it regularly works with international partners like the British Council to create projects in Damascus. The British Council is sponsoring their visit to Belfast where they will meet artists, curators and community partners, creating links that can be developed in the future.

For more information see Brian Kennedy’s article in Circa.

http://www.recirca.com/cgi-bin/mysql/show_item.cgi?post_id=5934&type=NewArticles&ps=publish

http://www.allartnow.com/aboutus.htm

All talks are free and tea and coffee will be provided, places are limited so please RSVP to book your place to info@gtgallery.co.uk. All  Welcome.

26.01.2012

ART REVIEW: London Art Fair

Fionola Meredith, chair of Belfast’s Golden Thread Gallery, is more impressed with the cheap work than the Hirsts  ... to continue reading …

 

 

 

24.01.2012

Golden Thread Gallery once again exhibited contemporary artwork from Northern Ireland at London Art Fair and would like to thank all who popped by our stand, always nice to see familiar faces.

Many thanks to our exhibiting artists Jenny Keane, Miguel Martin, Darren Murray and Keef Winter

Hope you can make SCOPE New York in March!

For more information : www.londonartfair.co.uk, www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk

24.01.2012

6pm – 8pm

2nd February 2012

Critical Bastards Magazine is a monthly handmade A5 magazine. The magazine is dedicated to reviewing Visual Art exhibitions and public art in cities across the island. The magazine is made by artists who wish to engage with art viewing on an active level. Submissions are open to all visual artists from all cities and areas across the island. Online editions are available at: criticalbastards.wordpress.com. Print editions are available in most Belfast galleries.

criticalbastards@hotmail.co.uk

http://criticalbastards.wordpress.com/

24.01.2012

 

 

LUNCH TIME TALK

1pm – pmSaturday 4th February 2012

Michael Hanna will discuss his work and talk about his project Calculated Error.

All talks are free and tea and coffee will be provided, places are limited so please RSVP to book your place to info@gtgallery.co.uk. All Welcome.

Michael Hanna (b.1979, Craigavon, Northern Ireland) lives and works in Belfast. He graduated with BA (Hons) in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in 2009 and is currently completing his MFA at the University of Ulster.
Hanna has exhibited both locally and internationally, including Arrivals at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast and Futures at Elephant Gallery, Los Angeles.

“I will make mistakes[1] in my life on purpose and secure funding[2] to put right these mistakes.”   

Michael Hanna³

17.01.2012

 

Happy Birthday Art!

http://www.artsbirthday.net/

http://artsbirthday.blogspot.com/2007/12/who-was-robert-filliou.html

 

 

13.01.2012

Belfast-based visual artist Miguel Martin (b. 1985) currently works from his studio at Platform Arts.  With previous influences in performance art and sculpture, Miguel considers his distinctive drawing practice the basis of everything he produces. His playful versatility in scale often ranges from sketchbook drawings to wall-sized, panoramic multi-perspective viewpoints.

Often permeating his subject matter with chaotic overtones of horror and violence, a grotesque humour and wit evolve. He indulges in the process of drawing and attempts to seduce the viewer with variety. Offering a multitude of textures and actions with simple thin lines, each drawing is intended to imply a fictional sound or movement.

With contemporary art often regarded as an equivalent to commodity for dealers in a competitive gallery context, Miguel’s practice often counteracts this high priced market by infiltrating lower fidelity venues such as craft markets or street festivals.  He has exhibited his work in numerous solo exhibitions locally and in New York.

www.miguelmartin.co.uk

12.01.2012

 

ARTISTS TALK – Barak Reiser

 

1pm – 2pm

 

Wednesday 25^th January 2012

Venue : Golden Thread Gallery

 

ABOUT THE TALK 

 

Barak Reiser is guest artist at the Flaxarts studios this winter.

 

During his talk he will introduce his last two exhibitions from Nov. 2011, „Charades and Shades“ shown at the Museum House Vlaho Bukovac in Cavtat, Croatia, and See Throughs” / “Underground Scene”,at AtelierFrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, which are collaborative works with architect Anton Savov.

 

Memorizing, memory, regarding places and things are the main questions his current work in Belfast deals with. The researcher’s aim is to try to see the extent to which a person can see every image, as well as every detail of information as far as the limits of abstractions is concerned. Seeing, remembering, watching until the point when one sees nothing. The artist will talk about these ideas, and will show previous works, which correlate to his current work in Belfast.

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Barak Reiser is an artist who lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. He was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1973. He studied Fine Arts at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule, in Frankfurt am Main.

All talks are free and tea and coffee will be provided, places are limited so please RSVP to book your place to info@gtgallery.co.uk

For More Information about International Artists Residency programme

Go to www.flaxartstudios.com/Submissions

Or contact

Flax Art Studios
United Optical Building
44-46 Corporation Street
Belfast
BT1 3DE

Tel: 0044 28 90234300

12.01.2012

 

http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/3877/golden%20thread%20gallery/0/0/1/my-cultural-life-sinead-o-donnell