Thursday 31 March 2011, 2 – 4pm.

In support of the recent launch of the Arts Council’s Artist Career Enhancement Scheme, artists are invited to a series of afternoon talks at the Golden Thread Gallery which will focus on professional development of artistic practice within the Visual Arts. The event will feature Noel Kelly (Director, Visual Artists Ireland), Peter Richards (Director, Golden Thread Gallery) and Debra Mulholland (Business Development Manager, ACNI).

http://visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/talks-lectures/professional-development-talk-at-golden-thread-gallery-belfast/

Motivated by the most expensive silent film ever, the Metropolis by Fritz Lang, the curator, Ben Crothers, chose the monstrous killer of workers, the M-machine as a name of a group exhibition of the art works by Lisa Byrne, Martina Corry, Lydia Holmes, Allan Hughes, Jenny Keane, Fiona Larkin, Mary McCaffrey and Lisa Malone.
The film has been altered, re-cut and adapted so many times, that I find it more than difficult to ascertain the connections between the negative view of a machine. Its violent and destructive role in the film, and the visual art exhibited…click here to read on…http://www.huma3.com/huma3-eng-reviews-id-530.html

The Golden Thread Gallery is pleased to announce that it will be presenting works by Allan Hughes and Sara Greavu at SCOPE New York… do join us if you can

http://www.scope-art.com/Index.php/new_york/exhibitors/

NEW YORK with its flagship fair, SCOPE New York. Serviced daily by shuttles, this year SCOPE expands to a 60,000 square foot hall on the West Side Highway, minutes from The Armory Show. The fair opens to Press and VIP’s on Wednesday, March 2 with the FirstView benefit.

This year’s New York edition of the fair, March 2 – March 6, 2011, will present over 50 international galleries from four continents and sixteen countries including China, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Spain, and Canada.

SCOPE New York’s invitees will uphold its unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows providing the real opportunity for gallerists, collectors, curators, artists, critics and art lovers alike to experience a view of the contemporary art market available nowhere else.

“Our new monumental location will highlight SCOPE’s core mission of introducing international galleries alongside museum quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events.

Anchoring SCOPE as New York’s destination fair, programming expands in partnership with local and international cultural organizations, featuring: film, music, installation and performance.

“SCOPE New York will again highlight our lead role as creative R+D for a wider audience of taste makers who make art their business” says SCOPE President & Founder Alexis Hubshman.

ALLAN HUGHES

 Allan Hughes (b. Bangor, Northern Ireland, 1976) is currently based at Orchid Studios, Belfast.  His video installation work explores the production of remediated histories through the deconstruction of post-production processes. Hughes’s works usually proceed from research into the sites, documents and apparatus of recorded and remediated histories. His installations have touched on many subjects including Jane Fonda’s Radio Hanoi Broadcasts, the decommissioned British Army listening post at Black Mountain in Belfast, the recording of Patty Hearst’s S.L.A. Communiqués and the erased portions of Richard Nixon’s Watergate Tapes.

 2010 has seen his work included in Rencontres Internationales at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Matt Roberts Gallery in London, and KYU in Taiwan. In 2009 Hughes was a recipient of a six-month Artist’s Residency Programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and is recently the recipient of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Major Artist Award.

www.allanhughes.com

SARA GREAVU

 Born in Bluffton, Ohio, Sara Greavu moved to Northern Ireland in 1991 to study Peace and Conflict Studies (BA and MA), before completing her Master of Fine Art and PhD at the University of Ulster, Belfast, with her thesis Equivocal Identities and ‘Ethnic Drag’: Performance and Performativity of Race, Nation and Gender in the Irish ‘Postcolonial’ Context.  Currently living in Derry after some time spent in Dublin, Belfast and Barcelona, Greavu is a founder of VOID, an artist-led contemporary art space in Derry, and continues to sit on their curating committee.  Themes explored in Greavu’s practice include the carnival and the carnivalesque, alternative or aberrant temporality, polyvocality and hybrid or bricolage art forms.