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Irish Modernisms
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Irish Modernisms
29 May 21—18 Sep 21
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Creating Dangerously
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Alberta Whittle
Creating Dangerously
17 May 21—23 May 21
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URGENCIES (2021)
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URGENCIES (2021)
30 Mar 21—22 May 21

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1 P Jerrom ULTRA NIGHTMARE Perce Jerrom
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CCA Introducing: Perce Jerrom
On Tuesday 3 August 2021 from 10am, follow artist Perce Jerrom as he takes over our Instagram and Twitter pages to share...
Growing Pains Oil on Canvas 2020 Gemma Kirkpatrick
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Gemma Kirkpatrick
CCA Introducing: Gemma Kirkpatrick
23 Jul 21—24 Jul 21
On Friday 23 July 2021 from 10am, follow artist Gemma Kirkpatrick as she takes over our Instagram and Twitter pages to s...
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Alberta Whittle
ART NIGHT 2021
06 Jul 21—17 Jul 21
CCA Derry~Londonderry has partnered with ART NIGHT 2021 to screen Alberta Whittle’s film trilogy Creating dangerously (w...
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Summer Family Activity 2021: 'IMAGINE. MAKE. PLAY.'
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CCA Introducing: Harry Grundy
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CCA Introducing: Nat Akinyi
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CCA Introducing: Rosie O'Grady

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CCA Derry~Londonderry has been shortlisted for the Art Fund's Museum of the Year 2021!
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'Irish Modernisms' Round Table Podcast released
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Posted 13 Jul
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COMING SOON: Summer Family Activity
CCA~Derry~Londonderry is delighted to introduce this year's Summer Family Activity IMAGINE. MAKE. PLAY. Artist Vasiliki ...
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This last year or so has been a tricky one to navigate in many ways, it hasn't always been easy to find the motivation to create & then to tackle the guilt that comes with not making, the last 18 months or so have allowed me to really feel into what my practice is and what it means for me, spending more time on the bits that no one usually sees, drawing, writing & reading. This takeover has really allowed me to reflect on how dynamic we can be as artists. The work we make when no one's looking is just as important and as necessary as the work that we make to be seen. I'll finish up with just a few snaps of my current studio situ, a few pieces gathering dust, a few others getting some wall time. Very grateful for this little space at @arcadestudiosbelfast. Thanks so much to anyone that's been following the posts here & over on twitter & thank you to Fiona at CCA for nominating me & for helping me with the takeover and to CCA for giving me this opportunity! ✨ This online takeover by Gemma Kirkpatrick is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing I can't let the takeover pass without sharing some of my favourite artist's, painter's & film that I turn to in the studio time and time again, 1.Giorgio Morandi, 'Flowers', 1952 2.Helen Verhoeven, 'Devil's Dinner', 2019 3.Philip Guston, 'Painting, Smoking, Eating', 1972 4.Chantal Joffe, 'Moll with Cat', 2017 5.Screenshot taken from 'Daisies', Věra Chytilová, 1966 6.Screenshot taken from 'The Royal Tenenbaums', Wes Anderson, 2001 This online takeover by Gemma Kirkpatrick is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing Like a lot of painters I have a catolgue of images that I like to refer too, reoccurring motifs that pop up in the work time and time again, for a while 'hands' featured quite a lot both in my paintings and collage pieces. I felt that they were a direct way for me to place myself in the work, stencilling around my own hand, adding points of narrative, changing the work to a first person perspective. Food & Tableware are also a prominent motif in my paintings. I'm interested in the etiquette that surrounds food, ideas of restraint or indulgence. I'm interested in the dinner table as a setting, the sorts of conversations that take place around the table or ones that are to be avoided! This online takeover by Gemma Kirkpatrick is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing Ever since discovering the work of Hannah Höch in my foundation year I've been hooked on collage! However, I've never fully understood its role in my practice, I don't see it as a prelimary process for painting but rather something that runs in parallel, another form of image making and/or story telling. I source a lot of my collage imagery from fashion/interior design magazines, or platforms such as Pinterest. I've always been intrigued by Pinterest, a hoarders paradise! Tonnes of organised boards filled with forgotten images and uncooked recipes. Occasionally I use collage to accompany short pieces of writing, some of which I've turned into small handmade books (maybe some day I'll get to exhibit/publish them). This online takeover by Gemma Kirkpatrick is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing Over the first lockdown period in March 2020, I was in the final semester of my MFA & found myself separated from my usual studio materials as I'd left them in the university building. I was restricted in space with just my desk in my room in my parent's house, and suddenly being indoors playing sims became even more integral for creating. I started recording my sim's day, making small water colour paintings of their everyday life, of the banal rituals of life indoors, washing hands, doing laundry, making lunch, eating alone... This online takeover by Gemma Kirkpatrick is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing I'm an indoors person with indoor hobbies such as reading and gaming and recently the line between these hobbies and my art practice have become more and more blurred. Life within a simulated reality has been the driving force behind my most recent paintings. I've always been a fan of life simulation games and I can remember as a child fighting for my turn on the PC so I could build on the Sims. I would spend hours building and decorating ignoring any other gameplay. After reading Ocampo's 'The House Made of Sugar' (1959) I had the idea to create my own virtual doll's house using the 'Sims 4' computer game. I documented the space using screenshots before and after the sim had interacted with various rooms and objects... After gathering screenshots I recreate the rooms in miniature using cheap materials such as cardboard, clay and used doll house furniture that I bid for on eBay. The maquettes have become something I can use and set up in the studio to paint from directly and a process that I've come to really enjoy, fabricating each set up and considering each object and the narrative that I'm building. This online takeover by Gemma Kirkpatrick is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing Bachelard's 'The Poetics of Space' has been integral to my research and practice after it was recommended to me during a group crit in my final year of BA. With only a few weeks to go until my final hand in I borrowed this book from the library and found myself completely absorbed! 'The Poetics of Space' was my first insight into considering domestic space as a place for refuge, a place to retract into, the home as a shell, (an idea that has felt so much more poignant this last year!) although I always mention 'domestic space' in relation to my practice I think what I truly try to cultivate in my painting is what it is to be indoors. I bought my own copy and this book has been with me in the studio ever since and is one I feel I will always come back to. This online takeover by Gemma Kirkpatrick is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing I find that my work is often informed by what I'm reading which is usually (female) gothic literature such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1892), Leonora Carrington's short stories such as 'The Oval Lady' (1937), and Silvina Ocampo's gothic tales. Their work has been the cataylst for informing the narrative within my painting in considering the female presence and banality in fabricated domestic settings and ideas surrounding solitude, superstition and ritual within the everyday. This online takeover by Gemma Kirkpatrick is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing Hi Gemma here! @iamgemma, I'll be sharing some images/thoughts from my practice over the coming hours, mostly in relation to painting. I graduated from from the MFA at Belfast School of Art in 2020 so I'll be sharing some of the work I made on the programme as well as showing how I've tried to navigate making work during the last year of lockdowns! Above are some snaps of my work that I exhibited at the MAC International for the MFA degree show September 2020, 1.‘Hand on Heart’, 2020, Oil on Canvas 2.‘It Sounded From Above’, 2020, Oil on Canvas 3.'Tyger, Tyger', 2020, Oil on Canvas This online takeover by Gemma Kirkpatrick is part of CCA Introducing 2021, supported by the Art Fund. Click the link in the CCADLD bio for more. #ccaintroducing 🏆 CCA Derry~Londonderry has been selected as one of the five finalists for @artfund Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021, the world’s largest museum prize. 🏆 The Centre for Contemporary Art has been exhibiting emerging artists from Northern Ireland alongside international peers since 1992. Today CCA creates opportunities for audiences to experience ambitious, experimental and engaging contemporary art and supports the development of artists through commissions, solo and group exhibitions, public programmes, artist residencies, alongside its own publishing programme. In the past year, it has supported 65 artists with paid for opportunities including social media takeovers, as well as developing its CCA Supports programme. This includes an online platform providing artists with information on emergency support through Government schemes and initiatives, crit groups, surgeries along with a series of Round Table podcasts. Moreover, CCA has continued to engage with the community by displaying artwork in its windows, it presented the biennial exhibition ‘URGENCIES 2021’ in spaces across the city such as in shop windows, theatres and a shopping centre, and delivered activity packs to hundreds of schoolchildren, essential in an area of social deprivation. The other four shortlisted museums are: @barnsleymuseums @firstsitecolchester @thackraymuseum @timespanculturalinstitution A big congratulations to them all! We can’t wait to see what the year has in store. Click the link in our bio for more on this announcement. #museumoftheyear 🖼🛋💐 Friday 23 July 2021, from 10am CCA Introducing: Gemma Kirkpatrick Follow artist Gemma Kirkpatrick as she takes over our Instagram and Twitter pages to share her work and research for CCA Introducing 2021. We are @CCADLD on all platforms. Gemma Kirkpatrick recently graduated from the MFA programme at Belfast School of Art (2020) having previously graduated from the BA Hons Fine Art (Painting) in 2017. Gemma’s practice explores ideas of domesticity, solitude and reverie. Life within a simulated reality drives the narrative behind her most recent paintings. Doll house figurines and life in miniature are used to consider the boundary between fictional narrative and biography. Over the course of the takeover, Gemma intends to give an overview of her practice with an emphasis on the preliminary stages of painting; what happens in the studio, what takes place before painting, such as drawing, collage, objects and text. For more on Gemma and CCA Introducing, click the link in our bio. #ccaintroducing Images: ‘A Borrowed Life’, ‘Tyger Tyger’, ‘Momento’ and ‘Growing Pains’ oil on canvas paintings by Gemma Kirkpatrick. @harry_grundy takeover: That’s it from me today. I’ve been sharing some poetry and thoughts over on their Twitter feed so be sure to have a look. Thank you so much to Fiona from @ccadld for having me and for @ryanjgander for nominating me 💐