Golden Thread Gallery: 'Choice'

‘Choice’ is soberer in tone than the other banner by Golden Thread (number three on the floor plan). Hand knitted words highlight the choices, or lack of choices, for women, even today, 100 years after getting the partial vote. This is significant in Northern Ireland, where it is still illegal to have an abortion, with women having to travel to the UK to seek advice and treatment. The change in the law in the Republic underlined Northern Ireland’s laws. The banner also highlights the equality of choice women have, from equal marriage, job recognition, pay scales and opportunity.

Golden Thread Gallery (GTG) is a medium-scale, publicly funded, contemporary art gallery based in Belfast that is recognised as having charitable status. It provides a welcoming space for the public to engage with contemporary visual art, and has grown steadily since it was founded in 1998. GTG is recognised for its engagement with recent histories and re-imagined futures: the majority of its programme is engaged with offering the public a contextual experience of the visual art of our time.