Author: Cecilia

Kevin Kavanagh presents Cecilia Danell at Dunamaise Arts Centre. Exhibition runs from 22nd March to 27th April 2024. Official opening reception on Friday 22nd March 2024, from 6pm onwards. Free to attend, all are welcome. To mark the 25th Anniversary of the Dunamaise Arts Centre in Portlaoise Co. Laois, Kevin Kavanagh is pleased to present […]

I’m artist in residence at Áras Éanna Arts Centre on Inis Oirr, Aran Islands. I’ve been here since last Sunday the 3rd March and will be here until the 29th March. I am working out of a studio looking north-west across the sea and the middle island, Inis Meáin. I love going for walks in […]

I am currently on residency at Monson Arts, Maine USA. I got here on the 22nd January and will be here until the 15th February. It’s a great little town on the edge of the Appalachian trail wilderness and I’m here together with four other visual artists and five writers. Great food, company, scenery, plenty […]

My tufted rug ‘The Primeval Sunset’ made it onto the cover of the January – February issue of the Visual Artists Ireland News Sheet, which I’m delighted about. The exhibition ‘Following Threads’, which ran at Crawford art Gallery, Cork until the 28th January, is reviewed in the critique section. It can be found on the […]

I’m very happy to be showing my two large tufted rugs ‘The Moss Theatre’ and ‘The Primeval Sunset’ in this exhibition of textile-based works at Crawford Art Gallery. Public opening: Friday 8 September from 5pm Exhibition dates: 9 September 2023 – 28 January 2024 Textile based artworks have been a growing presence in art galleries over […]

I’m really delighted to have my work included in this new survey publication on Irish artists dealing with landscape and environment in their work by Dr Yvonne Scott, Trinity College, Dublin. It’s a great read that serves to describe and contextualise around 100 art practices. I’m thrilled to be in such great company. Published by […]

Myself and writer/critic Michaele Cutaya were recently awarded a 1 month joint residency at Interface Inagh, Connemara in 2024. For the residency we will be focusing on the local forest rewilding project and how it ties in with our own interest in landscape and ideas around superficiality, rewilding, the need for describing and noticing the […]

April 1 – April 15 2023 Cecilia Danell Claremorris Gallery, Co Mayo. 1st of April until April 15th and thereafter by appointment – 087 791 2337 Gallery hours: 1 – 6pmWednesday to Saturday or by appointment. A STILLNESS EXPANDED FEATURES A BODY OF NEW WORK BY AWARD-WINNING ARTIST, CECILIA DANELL RUNNING FROM APRIL 1ST – […]

‘Into the Woods’ oil and acrylic on canvas, 140 x 110 cm, 2021. I spent November 2021 on an Invited Fellowship residency at Ballinglen Arts Foundation, north Mayo where I painter the landscape of the nearby glen. The above painting of the entrance into the sitka forest growing on the slope joined the Ballinglen Museum […]

I was featured on ‘Imeall’ TG4’s bilingual arts series earlier this week. Episode 7 aired on the 31st October and 1st November 2022. My segment can be watched back on Youtube above and the full series is currently available on the TG4 player. It is produced by Red Shoe Productions who visited my studio last […]

Cecilia Danell – Brush Lightly Through Fireweed Forests 8th September – 1st October Reception Thursday 8th September at 6 pm Cecilia Danell’s exhibition Brush Lightly Through Fireweed Forests encompasses large, hand-tufted rugs and paintings inspired by her own encounters with the landscape of the area in Sweden where she grew up. In her process based practice, research into landscape and […]

I’m delighted to announce that my painting ‘The Canopy Bearer’ has been acquired by The Glucksman for the University College Cork Art Collection. It was exhibited in ‘Parklife: Biodiversity in Contemporary Art’ at the gallery earlier this year, and has now found a permanent home as part of the UCC collection. Administered and cared for […]

I’m delighted to be featured in this painting exhibition at Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. The opening takes place 5-7pm on the 23rd April. The exhibition runs until the 10th July. Butler Gallery is pleased to present GENERATION2022: New Irish Painting, a celebration of painting and of painters at work in Ireland today. The exhibition is curated by Butler […]

Parklife: Biodiversity in Contemporary Irish Art 8th April – 10th July 2022. The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland. Amber Broughton, Miriam de Búrca, Kari Cahill, Michael Canning, Cecilia Danell, Rachel Doolin, Gabhann Dunne, Martin Gale, Sean Hanrahan, Martin Healy, Peter Nash, Meadhbh O’Connor Curated by the Glucksman curatorial team: Fiona Kearney & Chris Clarke. Parklife presents the work of Irish artists who consider the biodiversity […]

I’m really delighted to be the recipient of the 2022 Hennessy Craig Award for painting at the RHA, Dublin. The award exhibition, featuring 10 shortlisted painters, continues until the 27th March. “The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts is delighted to announce that the Hennessy Craig Award 2022 has been awarded to Cecilia Danell. Bequest of […]

Delighted to have been invited to exhibit at Luan Gallery, Athlone this spring. My exhibition ‘Tactile Terrain’ will run in the main gallery from the 12th February – 3rd April. There will be a catalogue accompanying the three concurrent exhibitions available at the gallery.

The Artist’s Well is an hour long weekly programme live at 10am on Saturday mornings via Zoom and subsequently archived on The Artist’s Well YouTube Channel. It provides viewers with an insight into the lives, work spaces and work practices of Artists around the world in order to inspire and support each other. The Artist’s Well […]

The opening of my exhibition at Burren College of Art on the 28th October also marked the launch of a publication on my work published by Kevin Kavanagh. The 48 page hardcover publication is designed by Peter Prendergast with a text by Cristín Leach and acts as a summary of my work of the past […]

I’m delighted to be included in this group show of Irish-based artists dealing with landscape in their work, curated by Anne Mullee. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue and runs until the 18th December.

More info at: https://www.burrencollege.ie/exhibitions/

Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris 17th September – 31st October 2021 Centre Culturel Irlandais is delighted to present Mise en scène, a joint exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptural works by Swedish artist Cecilia Danell, who is based in Ireland, and Denmark-based Irish artist Eamon O’Kane. Both explore encounters with landscape. Their approaches upend romantic notions […]

I’m really delighted to be the recipient of the ESB Moran Award and Silver Medal for an Outstanding Artwork in the 190th RHA Annual Exhibition. The award is kindly sponsored by ESB Networks Ireland in memory of painter Sean Keating. In the Birch Plantation, oil and acrylics on canvas, 95×130 cm, 2019. I am also […]

I am delighted to announce that the Arts Council of Ireland have recently acquired ‘The Octopus Salt Lick’ from my August solo exhibition at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery for the Arts Council Collection. www.artscouncil.ie. The Arts Council Collection has been acquiring exceptional works of Irish art for 58 years and counting. It is one of the […]

Kevin Kavanagh presents Cecilia Danell, Diana Copperwhite and Vanessa Donoso-Lopez. Swab Virtual Edition 2020 www.swab.es The protection of Swab participants is our top priority, and therefore, exploring formats and ways to respond to the new reality, we proudly present an exclusively digital edition. Swab has created a 3D virtual environment through which visitors can walk […]

‘The Light Falls’ – oil and acrylics on canvas, 130×170 cm, 2019. 6th – 29th August, Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm.The artist will be present in the gallery from 12-7pm on Thursday the 6th August. Cecilia Danell’s paintings are organic, magically playful and densely rich; however, they are also curiously geometric and linear, working […]

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery are running a series of online exhibitions in the viewing room on the gallery website. From the 20th May – 2nd June I will be showing a series of notebook watercolours made at home during lockdown. www.kevinkavanagh.ie

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery will present work by four gallery artists at the London Art Fair, Islington in January. They are Cecilia Danell, Joe Scullion, Stephanie Deady and Margaret Corcoran. You can find Kevin Kavanagh Gallery at booth P19 in the Art Projects section of the fair. For further information see the London Art Fair WEBSITE.

‘Our Choice Our World’ opened in Dunamaise Arts Centre Portlaoise Co. Laois on Friday 4th of October. The exhibition was curated by young students of 5th and 6th class from Scoil Bhride Primary School in Mountrath Co. Laois. These young creatives selected art works from Kevin Kavanagh’s new Store Room feature on the gallery’s website. […]

I was recently invited by the editors of West of Ireland-based poetry magazine Skylight 47 to be featured artist for issue 12 of the magazine and I was very happy to accept. It was launched on the 8th September and features my painting ‘Inside a Shadow’ on the front and back cover as well as […]

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded a 2 month residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and The Visual Artists Ireland Suki Tea Art Prize which funds the residency. I can’t wait to live and work in the centre of Paris and view lots of art. Thank you to Centre Culturel Irlandais, […]