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ICONS OF THE NORTH
Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art
Brian McAvera

ISBN 0-9549633-3-4
Year: 2006
Published by: Golden Thread Gallery
Hardcover: 47 pages

Published to coincide with the second Collective Histories exhibition, which took place from 28th January – 04 March 2006, Icons of the North looks at socio-political art in Northern Ireland from 1969 until 1994. Thirty-one full colour illustrations include work by Marie Barrett, Tom Bevan, Gerry Gleason, Graham Gingles, Jack Packenham, Victor Sloan and Una Walker.
POST WAR - PRE TROUBLES
Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art
Brian McAvera and S.B. Kennedy

ISBN 0-9549633-1-8
Year: 2005
Published by: Golden Thread Gallery
Hardcover: 47 pages

The first in the Collective Histories series, the exhibition was curated by S.B. Kennedy and Brian McAvera and took place from the 29th October – 26th November 2005. Focussing on the period 1945 – 1969, the publication contains thirty-four full–colour illustrations, an essay on Paul Henry by S.B Kennedy, an essay on art in the sixties by Brian McAvera and a section of Brian McAvera in conversation with S.B Kennedy.
THE DOUBLE IMAGE
Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art
Dougal McKenzie

ISBN 978-0-9549633-8-5
Year: 2007
Published by: Golden Thread Gallery
Hardcover: 47 pages

The fourth in the Collective Histories series, The Double Image, by Dougal McKenzie, acts as an investigation into the duality of views and the two ways of looking, by focussing on ten painters and ten photographers. The book includes 22 full colour illustrations of artists such as Hannah Starkey, John Duncan, Sean Hillen, Mary Theresa Keown, Mark Orange and Eamon O'Kane and the exhibition took place from the 29th September until 07th November 2007.
ART AND THE DISEMBODIED EYE
Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art
Liam Kelly

ISBN 978-0-9549633-5-4
Year: 2007
Published by: Golden Thread Gallery
Hardcover: 47 pages

Focussed on the notion of surveillance and how it affected Northern Irish Art, Art and the Disembodied Eye was published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name that took place between 28th October and 01st December 2006. Kelly discusses how artists such as John Aiken, Willie Doherty, Rita Duffy, Elizabeth Magill, Miachael Minnis, Locky Morris, Philip Napier, Dermot Seymour and Paul Seawright reacted to working in a "marked, segregated and intensively surveilled place."