Cecilia Danell is a Swedish artist based in Galway, Ireland. She graduated from the GMIT in Galway in 2008 with a first class honours degree in painting and was awarded Paint student of the year.
In her work feelings of otherness and longing combine with questions concerning identity and the perception of the Self. Utopian and Dystopian landscapes act as stage sets where the boundaries between the universal and the personal, the known and the unknown, reality and fiction become blurred.
Since graduating Cecilia has exhibited in Ireland and the USA, including group and two person shows in The Red House Arts Centre in Syracuse NY, The Crow Gallery in Dublin, Galway Arts Centre, Occupy Space in Limerick, 126 Gallery, Tulca Season of Visual Arts and The Claremorris Open. During 2012 she will have solo exhibitions in the Talbot Gallery, Dublin and Wexford Arts Centre.
She is the 2011 winner of the Wexford Arts Centre Emerging Artist Award. Other recent awards include a 2010 Arts Council of Ireland bursary award and a 2011 Arts Council of Ireland Project Award for the project Build your own: Scandinavian loneliness.
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