Exhibitions

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Current
Reciprocal Residency Solo Exhibitions 2022
Exhibition
Mark Buckeridge, Ona Juciūtė
Reciprocal Residency Solo Exhibitions 2022
23 Apr 22—02 Jul 22
Past
Ferox
Exhibition
Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh
Ferox
14 Jan 22—09 Apr 22
Past
The Indoor Tree
Exhibition
Ciara Finnegan
The Indoor Tree
22 Nov 21—29 Nov 21

Public Programmes

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Poets/Poems/Existing is a meme - screenshot from online, Niamh Roberts
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Fool's Spring
CCA is proud to present Fool’s Spring by Niamh Roberts as part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2022....
Fools Spring workshop The Fool2 web
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Jack McGarrigle
'Fool's Spring' workshop
14 May 22
To accompany Fool’s Spring by Niamh Roberts for NI Mental Health Arts Festival 2022, local artist & facilitator Jack...
Hannah Casey Brogan heat burst 2022 cut out on wood
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Hannah Casey-Brogan
Drawing with Scissors: Make your own ‘cut-out’ artwork!
21 May 22
For National Drawing Day this year on Saturday 21 May, 2022 CCA invites painter Hannah Casey-Brogan to design a drawing ...
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'The Melting/ed' Spring in CCA Project Space
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Lifelong Learning Festival 2022
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'Herding surrogates' with Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh
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CCA Introducing 2022: Corinne Mazzoli

Latest News

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'The House Always Wins' performance by Sarah Duffy at Fort Dunree (2021)
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Announcing the 2022 CCA digital residency selections
Following the open call in April 2022, CCA's Director Catherine Hemelryk and Marketing and Digital Programmes Coordinato...
Posted 17 May
Hannah Casey Brogan, Convective Rain, gouache and pens on Bristol paper, 2022
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National Drawing Day 2022
Save the date: For National Drawing Day this year on Saturday 21 May, 2022 CCA invites painter Hannah Casey-Brogan to de...
Posted 07 May
CCA from walls
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Announcing the selected artists for UK New Artists Weekender at CCA Derry~Londonderry 2022
UK New Artists' 5th Weekender residency is organised in partnership between the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~London...
Posted 04 May
Mark Buckeridge research image at Kaunas Artists' House (2022)
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Mark Buckeridge performances confirmed for '4 Ballads'
As part of Mark Buckeridge's exhibition 4 Ballads, the artist has confirmed performances taking place this month on Satu...
Posted 04 May

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🎋 Thank you to all our participants who joined us at CCA yesterday for the ‘Fool’s Spring’ workshop led by Jack McGarrigle! 🎋 Inspired by Niamh Roberts’ show in the CCA Project Space, Jack invited the group to try out hand weaving on a makeshift cardboard loom with unorthodox materials such as gathered found objects (feathers, leaves, herbs, flowers), printouts of Tarot cards and strips of drawings/writing. This repetitive task gave the feeling of producing something tangible while experiencing the meditative qualities of the process. We hope to host more events like this soon for you! 🪵 ‘Joiners’ by Ona Juciūtė 🪵 Tuesday–Saturday, noon–6pm until Saturday 2 July 2022 📍 CCA Ona Juciūtė is interested in the practices and shifts of making today. She works across sculpture, installation and moving images. With a set of sculptures made specifically for this show, Ona is exploring parallels between tailoring, clothing and furniture-making following her month-long residency at CCA. Gallery 1 houses a series of sculptures constructed from wood veneers inspired by the parallels in the declining industries of Derry~Londonderry (shirt factories) and Ona’s home city of Vilnius (timber). For more on the 2022 DeMo residency solo shows ‘Joiners’ and ‘4 Ballads’, click the link in our bio. #artsni #whatsonderrystrabane ⚙️ COMING UP: Fool’s Spring’ by Niamh Roberts ⚙️ Monday 9–Sunday 15 May 2022 📍 CCA Project Space As part of @nimhafest 2022 CCA is hosting ‘Fool’s Spring’ by Niamh Roberts. Niamh is an artist and poet originally from our city and a recent graduate of the Slade School of Art, London. This new installation visible through our windows at 10–12 Artillery St is centred around a piece of writing entitled ‘Fool’s Spring’, and consists of a cycle rack, yellow light and poem. It includes an audio recording of the poem read by Niamh that will play in the CCA Project Space alongside a printout available to visitors. Visitors can come into the CCA Project Space Tuesday 10–Saturday 14 May 2022. When in the space, Niamh invites you to lean on the cycle rack while listening to the poem. The full poem can be read on our website, and you can download/stream as a podcast from CCA’s Spotify, iTunes, Anchor and at ccadld.org. 
 To accompany the installation, local artist and facilitator Jack McGarrigle will deliver a free public workshop in the gallery using the themes in Niamh’s work as a starting point. Book a free spot at ccadld.org/shop. 🌱 Happy Springtime from CCA! 🌱 We have a couple of events coming up to coincide with the new season and in partnership with Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2022. 🌦 ‘Fool’s Spring’ by Niamh Roberts 🌦 Monday 9–Sunday 15 May 2022 📍 CCA Project Space As part of @nimhafest 2022 CCA is hosting ‘Fool’s Spring’ by Niamh Roberts. The work takes its name from a long poem by Niamh, mostly written when they participated in Frances Whorrall-Campbell's writing workshop series ‘How to write a door and walk through’. Fool’s Spring is a fake season, naming the week of warmth that comes after Winter and before ‘second Winter’. It’s a false start, some brief and urgent movement in-between stagnancy. 🃏 ‘Fool’s Spring’ workshop with Jack McGarrigle 🃏 Saturday 14 May 2022, 1pm–4pm 📍 CCA To accompany the installation, local artist and facilitator Jack McGarrigle will deliver a free public workshop using the themes in Niamh’s work as a starting point. Participants are invited to give an immediate response to ‘Fool’s Spring’ through guided techniques in writing, drawing and assemblage of found and collected materials. The group will prepare hand looms to explore experiences with the ephemera through the ritual of weaving. To book, click the link in our bio for our online shop. #artsni #whatsonderrystrabane #artworkshop 🧵 CCA PROJECT SPACE: ‘The Melting/ed Spring’ by Tara McGinn 🧵 until Sunday 1 May 2022 Artist Tara McGinn spent four weeks working in CCA's Project Space over March and April 2022. Over the month Tara visited old sketch books, examined previous research and experimented with new materials. In this cathartic process of familiarising herself with different ways of making and destroying ideas in the studio, she has created an installation as a snapshot of the work – entitled ‘The Melting/ed Spring’ – visible from the gallery's windows at 10–12 Artillery Street until Sunday 1 May 2022. She will be developing a written piece informing a new audiovisual work based on the developments in her practice over the course of the residency which will be produced later in the Summer. Click the link in our bio to read new excerpts from ‘The Melting/ed Spring’ by Tara McGinn. #artsni Thank you to all those who came last night for the opening of ‘4 Ballads’ by Mark Buckeridge and ‘Joiners’ by Ona Juciūtė! It was wonderful to have you. The 2022 ‘DeMo’ residency solo shows are now open at CCA for visitors Tuesday–Saturday, noon–6pm until Saturday 2 July 2022. ‘4 Ballads’ is a performance and installation by Mark Buckeridge (NI/RoI). Within this sculptural setting performance, collage and sound are intertwined to explore the intersection of traditional singing, nostalgia and poetic details of everyday life. Ona Juciūtė (LT) is interested in the practices and shifts of making today. She works across sculpture, installation and moving images. With a set of sculptures made specifically for this show, she is exploring parallels between tailoring, clothing and furniture making. The video piece ‘Joiners’ connects patchwork making practices of former Factory Girls from Derry and a story of Ona's father – a carpenter – and his relationship with the changing world through his skill. A series of events and Round Table Podcast will accompany the exhibitions. Keep an eye out for details. #artsni #exhibitionsni #whatsonderrystrabane 🗞 COMING UP: 2022 DeMo reciprocal residency solo shows 🗞  Opening Friday 22 April 2022, 7pm–9pm 📍 CCA The countdown is on until our next opening! Join us on Friday evening and be the first to see Mark Buckeridge's and Ona Juciūtė's exhibitions. '4 Ballads' is a performance and installation by Mark Buckeridge. Within this sculptural setting performance, collage and sound are intertwined to explore the intersection of traditional singing, nostalgia and poetic details of everyday life. With a set of new sculptures, Ona explores parallels between tailoring, clothing & furniture making. The video work 'Joiners' connects patchwork making practices of Derry Factory Girls & a story of Ona's father – a carpenter – to his relationship to the world through his craft. Stay tuned by clicking the link in our bio. #artsni #exhibitionsni #whatsonderrystrabane This online takeover by Corinne Mazzoli is part of CCA Introducing 2022, supported by the Art Fund. Go to ccadld.org for more information on the programme and artists. “On Tutorials, Stereotypes and Body Visions” Since the 1990s, with the spread of the internet, online tutorials have established themselves as a direct learning method that teaches through emulation; their success began first on youtube, and then pervaded Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other sites and they were able to develop distinctive aesthetics, winking at commercial images, mass culture and internet fashions. The exhibition "On Tutorials, Stereotypes and Body Visions" grew out of a workshop that the artist Corinne Mazzoli conducted at the Universidad Iberoamericana en Puebla as part of her research supported by the Italian Council 2021. This research analyses the Tutorial to question its homologating and imitative nature, making it a tool for emancipation and representation of identity in an unconventional way. Practises of "instruction based art", artistic experiences related to the body, identity, self-representation and gender studies were among the topics. In the student’s videos the tutorial, normally characterised by a homologating nature, was deconstructed and emancipated from its rigid structures and was used to represent shifting collective and individual identities and highly personal visions of the body. It became a way to "play" and open up new visual and psychoanalytical scenarios. The exhibition was curated by Corinne Mazzoli and Alma Elena Cardoso. Project supported by the Italian Council (10th edition, 2021), program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. #italiancouncil #creativitacontemporanea #corinnemazzoli #istitutoitalianodiculturamex #iberopuebla This online takeover by Corinne Mazzoli is part of CCA Introducing 2022, supported by the Art Fund. Go to ccadld.org for more information on the programme and artists. “On Tutorials, Stereotypes and Body Visions” Since the 1990s, with the spread of the internet, online tutorials have established themselves as a direct learning method that teaches through emulation; their success began first on youtube, and then pervaded Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other sites and they were able to develop distinctive aesthetics, winking at commercial images, mass culture and internet fashions. The exhibition "On Tutorials, Stereotypes and Body Visions" grew out of a workshop that the artist Corinne Mazzoli conducted at the Universidad Iberoamericana en Puebla as part of her research supported by the Italian Council 2021. This research analyses the Tutorial to question its homologating and imitative nature, making it a tool for emancipation and representation of identity in an unconventional way. Practises of "instruction based art", artistic experiences related to the body, identity, self-representation and gender studies were among the topics. In the student’s videos the tutorial, normally characterised by a homologating nature, was deconstructed and emancipated from its rigid structures and was used to represent shifting collective and individual identities and highly personal visions of the body. It became a way to "play" and open up new visual and psychoanalytical scenarios. The exhibition was curated by Corinne Mazzoli and Alma Elena Cardoso. Project supported by the Italian Council (10th edition, 2021), program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. #italiancouncil #creativitacontemporanea #corinnemazzoli #istitutoitalianodiculturamex #iberopuebla This online takeover by Corinne Mazzoli is part of CCA Introducing 2022, supported by the Art Fund. Go to ccadld.org for more information on the programme and artists. “On Tutorials, Stereotypes and Body Visions” Since the 1990s, with the spread of the internet, online tutorials have established themselves as a direct learning method that teaches through emulation; their success began first on youtube, and then pervaded Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other sites and they were able to develop distinctive aesthetics, winking at commercial images, mass culture and internet fashions. The exhibition "On Tutorials, Stereotypes and Body Visions" grew out of a workshop that the artist Corinne Mazzoli conducted at the Universidad Iberoamericana en Puebla as part of her research supported by the Italian Council 2021. This research analyses the Tutorial to question its homologating and imitative nature, making it a tool for emancipation and representation of identity in an unconventional way. Practises of "instruction based art", artistic experiences related to the body, identity, self-representation and gender studies were among the topics. In the student’s videos the tutorial, normally characterised by a homologating nature, was deconstructed and emancipated from its rigid structures and was used to represent shifting collective and individual identities and highly personal visions of the body. It became a way to "play" and open up new visual and psychoanalytical scenarios. The exhibition was curated by Corinne Mazzoli and Alma Elena Cardoso. Project supported by the Italian Council (10th edition, 2021), program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. #italiancouncil #creativitacontemporanea #corinnemazzoli #istitutoitalianodiculturamex #iberopuebla This online takeover by Corinne Mazzoli is part of CCA Introducing 2022, supported by the Art Fund. Go to ccadld.org for more information on the programme and artists. “On Tutorials, Stereotypes and Body Visions” Since the 1990s, with the spread of the internet, online tutorials have established themselves as a direct learning method that teaches through emulation; their success began first on youtube, and then pervaded Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other sites and they were able to develop distinctive aesthetics, winking at commercial images, mass culture and internet fashions. The exhibition "On Tutorials, Stereotypes and Body Visions" grew out of a workshop that the artist Corinne Mazzoli conducted at the Universidad Iberoamericana en Puebla as part of her research supported by the Italian Council 2021. This research analyses the Tutorial to question its homologating and imitative nature, making it a tool for emancipation and representation of identity in an unconventional way. Practises of "instruction based art", artistic experiences related to the body, identity, self-representation and gender studies were among the topics. In the student’s videos the tutorial, normally characterised by a homologating nature, was deconstructed and emancipated from its rigid structures and was used to represent shifting collective and individual identities and highly personal visions of the body. It became a way to "play" and open up new visual and psychoanalytical scenarios. The exhibition was curated by Corinne Mazzoli and Alma Elena Cardoso. Project supported by the Italian Council (10th edition, 2021), program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. #italiancouncil #creativitacontemporanea #corinnemazzoli #istitutoitalianodiculturamex #iberopuebla This online takeover by Corinne Mazzoli is part of CCA Introducing 2022, supported by the Art Fund. Go to ccadld.org for more information on the programme and artists. “On Tutorials, Stereotypes and Body Visions” Since the 1990s, with the spread of the internet, online tutorials have established themselves as a direct learning method that teaches through emulation; their success began first on youtube, and then pervaded Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other sites and they were able to develop distinctive aesthetics, winking at commercial images, mass culture and internet fashions. The exhibition "On Tutorials, Stereotypes and Body Visions" grew out of a workshop that the artist Corinne Mazzoli conducted at the Universidad Iberoamericana en Puebla as part of her research supported by the Italian Council 2021. This research analyses the Tutorial to question its homologating and imitative nature, making it a tool for emancipation and representation of identity in an unconventional way. Practises of "instruction based art", artistic experiences related to the body, identity, self-representation and gender studies were among the topics. In the student’s videos the tutorial, normally characterised by a homologating nature, was deconstructed and emancipated from its rigid structures and was used to represent shifting collective and individual identities and highly personal visions of the body. It became a way to "play" and open up new visual and psychoanalytical scenarios. The exhibition was curated by Corinne Mazzoli and Alma Elena Cardoso. Project supported by the Italian Council (10th edition, 2021), program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. #italiancouncil #creativitacontemporanea #corinnemazzoli #istitutoitalianodiculturamex #iberopuebla