STRIKING bronze casts of the hands of politicians who played key roles in the peace process have gone on display in Belfast.
Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, ex-Secretary of State, the late Mo Mowlam and former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern are among the casts on display.
The Hands of History exhibit at the Golden Thread Gallery marks 21 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
Shortly after the landmark accord was signed, artist Raymond Watson took bronze casts of the hands of key figures including then SDLP leader John Hume, UUP leader David Trimble, PUP head David Ervine and Monica McWilliams, founder of the Women's Coalition.
To commemorate more than two decades since the agreement, the artist has cast the hands of people involved in peace-building work.
The newer casts include former Irish oreign affairs minister David Andrews, Jonathan Powell, the former chief of staff of ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Rev Harold Good - one of two independent witnesses who oversaw the decommissioning of IRA arms.
The casts form part of a wider exhibition at the gallery around the history of the Troubles.
The exhibition includes two installations - one about Belfast's largest peace wall and another on Crumlin Road jail.
A grappling hook, secretly made and hidden by internees in Long Kesh in the 1970s, features in a video installation where it is shown being thrown over the peace wall.
The second installation uses keys from the cells and buildings at Crumlin Road jail in Belfast. The keys, including fobs which show what doors or gates they opened, are hung at head height.
Other artworks include memorial quilts, sewn by people who lost loved ones in the conflict.
Each individual patch contains symbols personal to those who were killed.
A video installation, Lyrical Agreement, includes excerpts from the accord read by people from Belfast.
The readers belong to those who survived the conflict.
The exhibition runs at the Golden Thread Gallery on Great Patrick Street until January 18.
