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Saturday 26th May
Opening
After An Act
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After An Act
Susan Connolly, Deb Covell, Brian Fay and Jo McGonigal.
26th May 2018 - 14th July 2018
The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to present 'After an Act' an exhibition featuring works by: Susan Connolly; Deb Covell; Brian Fay and Jo McGonigal.
The exhibition launches with a public reception on Saturday 26th May from 1.00pm - 3.00pm and continues until Saturday 14th July 2018. We look forward to you joining us at the reception.
Featuring four artists whose process is inherent to their practice, 'After An Act' questions when an art work is truly completed. Perhaps it is an exchange between viewer and work that completion is found, though this itself posits the suggestion that it is only when the work is being actively looked at that it is in a state of completion.
It has become customary to look at performance art and question whether the art can only exist in the ephemeral moment and if it becomes something else in the recording or documenting. 'After An Act' suggests that these questions are equally pertinent to any works.
To complement the exhibition, there will be a selection of workshops where participants are encouraged to question openly what they are seeing and how their own personalities, pasts and attitudes can affect their viewing of art. These will include family workshops and written response sessions led by artist Dr. Colin Darke. Further details will be published on the gallery website and social media pages.
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Project Space
Verges
Clare Gallagher
Thu 3rd May - Sat 30th June
The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to present Verges a solo exhibition by Clare Gallagher. The photographs in Verges examine the potential for everyday resistance through the growth and habits of weeds. Attending more closely to our ordinary surroundings and appreciating the familiar undermines the capitalist desire for commodity and spectacle, for the exotic and dramatic.
It is easy to feel so tightly constrained by grown-up concerns that we don’t have time to notice what we encounter every day. It becomes hard to see the opportunities for pleasure or plenitude lurking within them. Rocks and trees stop being forts, scraps of paper become just mess, and dandelions, goose grass and buttercups evolve from playthings into hostile invaders of our land.
These photographs aim to reclaim some of the freedom and creativity that weeds exhibit. They defy preoccupations with property and boundaries, growing wherever suits them, however untidy or inconvenient it is for us. Making use of tiny scraps of dirt to grow roots, weeds use ingenious ways to find spaces in hostile environments to thrive, teasing our desire for order and control. They suggest a view of nature as autonomous, rather than one in which it exists only to serve us.
Observing and recording weeds offers a playful, life-affirming perspective that resists judgemental thinking about our everyday environment and invites us to experience it anew.
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Opening Times
Tuesday - Friday: 11am - 5pm & Saturday: 11am - 4pm
Free Admission
Golden Thread Gallery, 84- 94 Great Patrick Street, Belfast, BT1 2LU. Tel. +44 (0)28 90 330920.
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