CCA Project Space: Emily Waszak

Visual artist Emily Waszak will be using the CCA project space as a de facto studio in order to test and produce sculptural work for her upcoming solo exhibition in Southwark Park Galleries in London. For her first solo exhibition in the UK, Emily will be making woven and ceramic work to explore ritual as an ancestral technology. Additionally she will be exploring the sculptural and narrative qualities of time-based media including sound and moving image.

About the Artist

Emily Waszak is a Donegal-based visual artist of Japanese-descent working in sculpture and textiles. With a background in industrial weaving, her work is concerned with ritual, ruin and landscape. As a widow, themes of grief and loss are ever present in her art. 

Waszak’s work has been exhibited in Ireland and internationally. Upcoming solo exhibitions include: Ancestors, Lovers, Kin (Ring a Bell), Southwark Park Galleries, London (2026); Cailleach Dhubh, RCC, Letterkenny (2026). Recent exhibitions include: Faigh Amach, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2025), Enchanting, and Then What Sorrow, Courthouse Gallery, Clare (2025); URGENCIES (2025), CCA, Derry (2025); Thresholds to the Unseen, Solstice Arts, Navan (2024); The Land and Others Including the Dead, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin (2024); Grief Weaving, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny (2023); Shadow and Fold, Arts Itoya, Japan (2023); To Guide Shadows, Old Church Grangegorman, Dublin (2023). Her work was also exhibited in IMMA as part of the RDS Visual Arts Awards exhibition.

Photo: Ros Kavanagh