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URGENCIES (2023)
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URGENCIES (2023)
21 Jan 23—18 Mar 23
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Black Gold and Green (Mobilise the Poets)
05 Dec 22—13 Dec 22
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Seven Days
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Sarah Duffy
Seven Days
31 Oct 22—06 Nov 22

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URGENCIES (2023): School's Programme
We are delighted to share with you our new School’s Programme workshop for the exhibition URGENCIES (2023). Artist educa...
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Project Space: Red Berries
01 Mar 23—31 Mar 23
This March CCA welcomes Ginte Regina to CCA to present Red Berries in CCA's Project Space with a special screening of he...
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Nessa Finnegan
CCA Introducing: Nessa Finnegan
28 Feb 23
We're back with CCA Introducing in 2023! Our first online takeover will be by Berlin based, Irish artist Nessa Finnegan,...
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2 Channel Land
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The Virtual Lectures by Frank Wasser – The Art School: Digressions on Affection and Anger
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Pre-Launch Performance: URGENCIES (2023)
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Energy Quilt

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Gintė Regina presents BOY and Red Berries
CCA Derry~Londonderry are delighted to present a screening of two films, BOY and Red Berries, by artist Gintė Regina on ...
Posted 21 Mar
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New CCA Edition launches: A Snail's Manifesto
CCA is thrilled to announce the launch of A Snail's Manifesto, a new CCA Edition by artist DreamBean. Produced for URGEN...
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Open Call: CCA Digital Residencies
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2023 Artist Training Survey now live
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🪡🧵 Announcing: 'SEAMS' by Laura Wilson 🧵🪡 Launching Friday 31 March 2023, 7-9pm 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry We are excited to announce 'SEAMS' , a solo exhibition by Laura Wilson comprising three installations including a significant new body of work entitled 'Winding then Winding'. Laura is interested in how everyday materials such as bricks, textile, wheat, salt and bread dough transmit historical and embodied knowledge between people over time and place. Laura develops research-led projects, working with specialists and experts to communicate relationships between materiality, memory and tacit knowledge, explored through sculpture, performance, drawings and video. This exhibition is a survey of Laura’s recent works connected by the body, learning, movement and labour. More information can be found about the exhibition via the link in our bio 🔗 & further details about the public programme are coming soon. 🤝 Supported by a bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company; funded by the County Durham Community Foundation’s Dover Prize Fund, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Derry City & Strabane District Council. 🗞 Husk Bennett, 'Untitled (Intervention-Performance)' in 'URGENCIES (2023)' 🗞 Today, we’re taking a look at the final three artists that took part in our recent exhibition ‘URGENCIES (2023)’ which closed on Saturday. For the exhibition, Husk Bennett created a new, site-specific work responding to the news headlines on 'Blue Monday', a Monday in January that's known as the 'most depressing day of the year' - a concept created by a travel company. On Monday 16 January, Husk spent five hours in CCA creating forty new drawings inspired by the articles, headlines and advertisements from the day's newspapers. The work looks at the trivialisation of societal issues by the media and capitalism, as well as investigating artists' labour and time. 🔹 Husk is preoccupied with his own visceral present, the role of an artist and the turbulent histories of queerness. He questions the inescapable absurdity of identity, the performativity of existence and explores how he can examine these ideas within his own outputs and experiences. 🔹 'URGENCIES (2023)' closed on Saturday 18 March 2023, but you can still find out more about the exhibition via our website CCADLD.org ⛓ Keep an eye on our social media to find out what's next at CCA 👀 🪡 🌳 Julie Lovett, 'Success Strategy' in 'URGENCIES (2023)' 🌳 Today, we’re taking a look at the final three artists that took part in our recent exhibition ‘URGENCIES (2023)’ which closed on Saturday. In 2020, Julie Lovett reallocated from Belfast to her home village Castlemaine, Co. Kerry. since returning, she is in the secure position to embrace the full use of her studio space in her back garden. With this opportunity also come challenges, given that the remoteness of such a rural space can often be mentally frustrating. 'Success Strategy' is a series of short video performances that Julie has produced over the past two years in response to the directional shift in her practice. The videos, filmed in an episodic manner, deal with the artist's heightened desperation and frustration as a practicing artist navigating understanding and surviving a professional art career in Co. Kerry. 🌫 The precarious and changeable position of the studio space is a prominent concern in how Julie approaches her work, something she feels is relatable to artists in many different locations. 🌫 'URGENCIES (2023)' closed on Saturday 18 March 2023, but you can still find out more about the exhibition via our website CCADLD.org ⛓ 🚜 Silvia Mandic, ‘Making a Way (Old Movie House)’ in ‘URGENCIES (2023)’ 🚜 Today, we’re taking a look at the final three artists that took part in our recent exhibition ‘URGENCIES (2023)’ which closed on Saturday. For artist Silvia Mandic, deconstructing the logic of gentrification is an urgent topic, both locally and internationally. In the film, ‘Making a Way (Old Movie House)’ Silvia uses raw footage taken from her apartment that overlooks the construction site of the new headquarters of IT firm Kainos and new student accommodation on the site of the demolished Movie House - one of the last remaining cinemas in Belfast city centre. Redevelopment and gentrification have been a source of controversy in Northern Ireland for a number of years. In this specific, but not unique, case of the old Movie House, the Kainos firm is another office block built in spite of the fact that multiple office spaces lie empty across Belfast. 📹 Silvia Mandic frequently uses dynamic split screens as a visual device to structurally dissect her subjects to arrive at a fragmentary image of multiple timeframes in a single viewpoint. She uses formalist principles of synthetic Cubism and cinematic tropes such as Kitchen Sink or suburban science fiction in her video work. 📹 'URGENCIES (2023)' closed on Saturday 18 March 2023, but you can still find out more about the exhibition via our website CCADLD.org ⛓ 👥 Miach Malachy, ‘an radharc ón fhuinneog chúil. the view from the backseat’ 👥 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry & Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin ⏰ Exhibition finishes tomorrow, Saturday 18 March 2023 Moving between two languages, ‘an radharc ón fhuinneog chúil. the view from the backseat’ is narrated by a watcher, a parasitic double, who waits in the shadows. This work began as a ‘conversation’ with an image, that of the back of a car, from which the scáth na scáthanna revealed itself. 🔄 Is físeán le guthú é an saothar seo, ‘an radharc ón fhuinneog chúil. the view from the backseat’ ag bogadh idir dhá theange. Is breathnóir agus cineál leathcheann seadánach é an scéalaí a fhanann sna scáthanna. Thosaigh an saothar seo mar ‘chombrá’ le híomhá ó chúl an ghluaisteáin, óna dtáinig a shadow of shadows. Go raibh maith agat (with thanks to for their help): le Liam Ó Brádaigh as a chuidiú, agus Courtney Braniff, Niall Ó Siadhail agus Aoife Nig Loingsigh as a gcuidiú fosta. Miach’s practice consists of writing and visual art, realised in a mix of sculptural, installation, video, audio and published presentations. Generally these works are formally concerned with text and image relationships. Miach’s works have been generally informed by, but not limited to, the NI context, and in particular testimony and idiosyncratic or local uses of language. Miach’s developing concern is how art might offer a peculiar and precarious space for thought, and how this interacts with demands for function, response and ‘accounting for’. ~~ 🔗 Check the link in our bio above for more information about ‘URGENCIES (2023)’ and come visit us tomorrow for the show’s last day. 🤲 Chloe Austin, ‘To the hands that held before me’ 🤲 in our current exhibition,‘URGENCIES (2023)’ 📍CCA Derry~Londonderry & various locations throughout the city, including The Rainbow Project, Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin & Derry Central Library ‘To the hands that held before me’ takes the form of an installation that explores past, current and future forms of queer acts of resistance expressed through typographic design. The work attempts to stage an intervention that capitalises on the disruptive force of queer negativity by embracing marginality and otherness as a position from which to create. In celebrating the poetics of queer failure, it investigates the affective power found in historical documents and printed ephemera in UK-Irish contexts. When trying to articulate her desire to touch queer history and be present with the physical archive, Chloe writes that she wishes to ‘ form a bond, to think of all the other hands that held it, created it, thought and screamed it… To the hands that held before me.’ 🔗 Check the link in our bio above for more information about ‘URGENCIES (2023)’ and come visit us before the show ends this Saturday 18 March 2023. 🪡 🧵 Sarah Diver Lang, ‘Energy Quilt’🧵🪡 With less than a week to go of ‘URGENCIES (2023)’, join us as we take a look at the work featured in the exhibition. Today, we’re looking at Sarah Diver Lang’s ‘Energy Quilt’ - a communally made quilt that responds to the urgent energy crisis. In her work, Sarah creates functional textile pieces as a way to communicate sustainable practice and the social role of craft. ‘Energy Quilt’ is made from sustainable methods, using natural textiles, natural dyes, block printing and hand stitching. The energy crisis that we face is complex, with both long term and urgent issues to solve, and is not just about the extremely unaffordable prices which will force many into heat poverty, but also our unsustainable use of fossil fuels. During the course of the exhibition, the quilt has been added to with a communal stitching workshop. The workshop created a space to discuss the urgent energy crisis and discuss what warmth means to us. The craft skills embedded in the making of the quilt represent a social action which brings us together to support one another and express ourselves. 🔗 Check the link in our bio above for more information about ‘URGENCIES (2023)’ and come visit us before the show ends this Saturday 18 March 2023. 📹 CCA Project Space: Gintė Regina 📹 Until Friday 31 March 2023, with a special screening on Friday 24 March. 📍CCA Project Space This March, CCA welcomes Gintė Regina to present two films: 🍒‘Red Berries’ which runs until Friday 31 March in our Project Space, viewable during our regular visiting hours - Tuesday to Saturday, midday to 6pm - and viewable from 20-31 March 2023 by appointment by emailing info@ccadld.org 📺 A special screening of her latest film, 'BOY' as well as ‘Red Berries’ on Friday 24 March 2023 at 2pm followed by a Q & A with the artist. Gintė was a participant in the first DeMo Reciprocal Residency programme with CCA and Kaunas Artists' House; the work 'Red Berries' was created following her stay in our city. More information about the films can be viewed via the link in our bio 🔗 💖🐌 DreamBean: ‘A Snail’s Manifesto’ 🐌💖 In ‘URGENCIES (2023)’ until Saturday 18 March 2023 & an edition on sale now via our online shop! With under two weeks to go of our current exhibition, ‘URGENCIES (2023)’ we’re taking a look at DreamBean’s ‘A Snail’s Manifesto’, a queer coded way to discuss mental illness, equality and accessibility. In the manifesto, DreamBean assumes the voice of a snail who advocates for us all to slow down to the pace of snail, and acknowledge self care as essential. Snail’s understand that capitalism has everyone living in a future mindset, and instead act as a conduit for us to take different, slower approaches to living and working. Alongside the manifesto, there is a snail sculpture and button badges depicting the slogan ‘Please be Kind’. This creates an opportunity for the audience to bring the snail manifesto out of the gallery and into their daily life. The final accompaniment to ‘A Snail’s Manifesto’ is a QR code, where DreamBean asks the audience to feedback about what forms accessibility and self care can take, in the hope that this will enable the artist to reimagine their practice according to the needs and issues affected people’s everyday lives. ~~ 💌 We’re also delighted to announce that we are selling limited editions of ‘A Snail’s Manifesto’, that can be purchased both in the gallery and via our online shop. Check out the link in our bio for more information 🔗 💕🍓Yasmine Robinson: ‘The Pits’, ‘Green-Cheeked Parakeet’, ‘Love Bugs’, ‘Sunset Lover’🍓💕 Today, we continue to look at the work in our current exhibition, ‘URGENCIES (2023)’. Fecund, driven by process and compulsion, Yasmine Robinson’s paintings are kinetic, haptic, visual episodes where she negotiates, collages and stitches together personal discursive experiences into the language of abstraction. Yasmine experiments with materials and surfaces, wrapping the physicality of the materiality around the canvas frame to push the boundaries and borders of painting. Yasmine has a predilection for found materials, collecting, reworking, and reusing. With a growing concern for sustainability in her practice, Yasmine considers her work’s production and the life cycle of the work. She uses reclaimed calico that has been scavenged or deconstructed from previous work, which sometimes dictates the direction of the piece and gives each painting a unique personality and plurality of expression. The small scale, intimate works presented in ‘URGENCIES (2023)’ have been framed, using stuffed with offcuts from remnants and ‘bi-products’ of their productions, others, through remembered associations using knitted wool which she relates to her late grandmother who worked at the shirt factory ‘Tillie and Henderson’ set on the banks of the river Foyle. Yasmine Robinson was born in Derry and Lectures in Fine Art Foundation Studies at Belfast School of Art. 🪲 ‘URGENCIES (2023)’ ends on Saturday 18 March 2023. Check out our website for more information about the artists in the exhibition, as well as the public programme for the show CCADLD.org 🔗🔗 💌 Open Call: CCA Digital Residency 💌 Deadline: Midnight, Monday 3 April 2023 Applications are now open for this year’s CCA Digital Residencies! The residency will last for one week and be updated on a dedicated webpage on CCADLD.org, with the artist(s) receiving a fee of £500. We are flexible with the timeline of the residency, however it must take place before December 2023. We are open to applications from artists as well as collectives or collaborations. The content of the residency does not have to fit into one category or medium; we are interested in hearing about proposals for live online events, performances, digital installations, film, resource sharing and more. We are seeking applications from artists based in or from NI and beyond. The residency will be curated by CCA’s Marketing and Digital Programmes Coordinator Cecelia Graham. If you're interested in applying for this opportunity, please send in a covering letter: ✍️ Max 250 word proposal - this can describe what you wish to research and develop during the residency, key references or ideas you wish to explore 🖥 Max 250 word description of your practice and experience of working online 📸 Up to five images of your work ⛓ Links to your website and any online platforms to Cecelia Graham on cecelia@ccadld.org with the subject of the email reading ‘DIGITAL RESIDENCY APPLICATION 2023’. If you have any access requirements or need help in making an application, please contact Cecelia Graham at cecelia@ccadld.org. CCA’s digital programme is made possible by support from Art Fund. More information can be found via the opportunities link in our bio ⤴️ Image: Cat and Éiméar McClay, Film still from a work in progress from 'Holy Blood' online residency, 2021 🎓’The Virtual Lectures by Frank Wasser – The Art School: Digressions on Affection and Anger’🎓 📍Online via Zoom Thursday 16 March 2023, 7pm CCA is delighted to host a new Lecture Performance by artist, writer, curator and educator Frank Wasser. In this Lecture Frank presents a series of Digressions exploring the historical and contemporary complexities, constraints and contradictions of art school education from his experience as a student, researcher and teacher over the past decade. The lecture starts with a visual analysis of the current state of Art School education in the UK and Ireland. The Virtual Lectures started as a temporary project during the Covid-19 pandemic focused on delivering decentred art education internationally initiated by Frank Wasser. Early lectures were supported by institutions including Pallas Project Space (Dublin) and Tate (London). The lectures developed into a performative and collaborative research project which is currently supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Project Award. Frank will deliver a series of lectures in the Spring of 2023 starting with this lecture ‘The Art School: Digressions on Affection and Anger’. This Lecture Performance forms part of the Public Programme for the exhibition URGENCIES (2023). This event is free, online and will take place via Zoom. Duration 45 mins. Booking is essential and tickets can be booked through our online shop. Link in bio ⬆️ 📸Documentation from ‘On Tenterhooks’ by Frank Wasser at Pallas Project Space (Nov 2022) photography by Loiuisa Haugh