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Golden Thread Gallery: The Return of The Women Who Never Left - 23 Nov 2010 to 27 Nov 2010 Current Exhibition |
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The Return of The Women Who Never Left Zoe Murdoch & YEHA Young Womens Group The Return of the Women Who Never Left explores the ways that young women in Ardoyne are judged and stereotyped and works out ways to challenge this by using photography and humour. Zoe Murdoch (artist) worked closely with the YEHA project and a core group of 11 young women to find creative ways of changing people�s perceptions of young women from Ardoyne. Many topics were addressed in depth including teenage pregnancy, drug & alcohol abuse and different perceptions of what beauty is. The young women soon discovered that messages can be made more powerful by using humour and irony as an antidote to the, often cruel, stereotypes and clich�s that are directed towards young people in general and young women from Ardoyne in particular. Young people from working class areas are very often the victims of class and gender stereotyping. Projects like The Return of the Women Who Never Left give the young women an opportunity to redefine themselves as multi-dimensional, unpredictable and untypical girls! Ruth Graham Development Officer Golden Thread Gallery The YEHA project is based in Ardoyne Flax Healthcare centre. It works under the umbrella project of Ardoyne and Shankill Healthcare Partnership. We are a small team of highly skilled youth workers working with young people aged between 0-25 on a range of issues with the goal of enhancing their personal development. The project worked with a group of young women aged between 13 -16 all from Ardoyne. The girls decided that they would like to cover the issue of �stereotypes` as they often suffer from generalisations that others can make about young girls from the Ardoyne area. Ardoyne is a highly deprived area with a strong sense of political and national identity. We asked the girls to explore their own identity and how coming from this community has affected them. The girls are were highly motivated over the twelve week project and lead the majority of discussions and activities themselves themselves. We offered them a range of mediums to use throughout the project. They chose to work with Zoe an artist from the Golden Thread gallery to carry out a photography project. Sick of being perceived as `animals` the girls used the photgraphs as a way to express this. I am extremely proud to have worked with this group of young women and wish them every success in the future. They achieved an awesome amount of perspective from working together and a good understanding of who they are and what they desire to become. Lara Thompson Youth Worker YEHA Project About the Gallery From its beginnings, in 1998, in a former linen mill on a contested �peace line� in North Belfast, Golden Thread Gallery has delivered annual programmes of exhibitions and activities designed to make a real contribution to the visual arts and wider communities in Northern Ireland. Now located in Belfast�s developing �sailor-town� area, on the edge of the city centre, Golden Thread Gallery has grown a unique position in the region by simultaneously developing programs of contemporary art that reach local and international audiences. Golden Thread Gallery has no permanent collection. Providing instead an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions and activities, that provide accessible and thought provoking opportunities to engage with aspects of contemporary artistic practice. We pride ourselves on offering a friendly, open space where everyone is welcome. For those who have never visited the Golden Thread Gallery before, why not pay us a visit and get a taste for what we do. For further information about our program and projects visit our website www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk or e-mail: [email protected], or why not join us on Facebook or Twitter, we love new friends. The Golden Thread Gallery is a company Limited by Guarantee NI 41642 and is accepted as a Charity by the Inland Revenue under reference XR 54731. Opening Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10.30am - 5.30 pm & Saturday - 10.30am - 4pm. Contact Details: 84-94 Great Patrick Street, Belfast, BT1 2LU. 0044 (0) 28 90330920 |
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