Cecilia Danell

Publication Launch

Cecilia Danell
These Magnetic Magnitudes

Thursday 9th October 2025 from 6-7pm
Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin

Kevin Kavanagh is pleased to announce the launch of These Magnetic Magnitudes, a publication by Solstice Arts Centre of works by Cecilia Danell.

This publication, designed by Pure Designs, features a Foreward by Belinda Quirke and commissioned texts by Charity Coleman and Aidan Dunne. 

Join us at the gallery on Thursday 9th October from 6-7pm. The publication is an Edition of 400 and will be available on the night, priced at €20.

Published by Solstice Arts Centre (Navan) on the occasion of the exhibition These Magnetic Magnitudes by Cecilia Danell, curated by Brenda McParland. 

Kevin Kavanagh
Chancery Lane
Dublin 8
www.kevinkavanagh.ie

Main Gallery

4 September – 27 September 2025

John Behan, Tom Climent, Cecilia Danell, Nuala O’Donovan, Deirdre Frost, Kaye Maahs, Samir Mahmood, Louise Neiland, Martha Quinn, Jennifer Trouton, Dominic Turner, Amna Walayat, Conor Walton 

In Autumn 2025 Lavit Gallery launches a new group exhibition format focusing on a selection of new work by artists working across the Island of Ireland.  

Cork Arts Society (est. 1963), trading as Lavit Gallery, is very loyal to its Cork artists but having a national reach is also important so that we can continue to stimulate and inspire our audience and customers with a variety of talent.  

For the inaugural New Irish Art exhibition Cork is represented by Tom Climent, Deirdre Frost, Nuala O’Donovan and Amna Walayat, Galway is represented by John Behan and Cecilia Danell, Clare by Kaye Maahs, Dublin by Samir Mahmood and Dominic Turner, Wicklow by Conor Walton, Sligo by Martha Quinn and Belfast by Jennifer Trouton.  

Not all these artists are based in their native counties or even their country of origin and that is another important part this new exhibition model. The ‘new Irish’ part of the title also refers to the ideal of a less parochial and more fluid and multi-cultural Irish society that extends to our national identity. 
As a not-for-profit arts organisation and registered charity Cork Arts Society, trading as Lavit Gallery, greatly appreciates the support of our colleagues running sales-based galleries in Dublin. Included in this exhibition are artists represented by Solomon Fine Art, Taylor Galleries and Kevin Kavanagh Gallery. 
https://lavitgallery.com/exhibition/new-irish-art/

I’m delighted to be participating in ‘In Bloom’ at 532 Gallery Jaeckel, the inaugural exhibition in their new premises in Basel, Switzerland.

The exhibition opened on the 17th June, and I was happy to be able to attend and spend a few days in Basel. It runs until the 1st August.

532 Gallery Jaeckel presents In Bloom, a group exhibition featuring Ian Hughes, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Yongjae Kim, Paco Marcial, Christine Nguyen, John Alexander Parks, Jean-Guerly Pétion, Lily Prince, Danielle Riede, Danny Rolph, Alberto Alejandro Rodriguez, Robert Armstrong, Cecilia Danell, Shuto Mizukami, Patrick Neal, Morgan Ogilvie, Ramona Projer, Lennart Rieder, Tanja Selzer, Kazue Taguchi, Erin Turner, and Michael Wang. Exhibiting sculptures, paintings, and mixed-media works, In Bloom begins with an opening reception on Tuesday June 17, 5–7 pm and runs through August 1.

A first showcase in Basel since the gallery’s inception in the mid-aughts, 532 Gallery is excited to present this sun-drenched, summer exhibition with all the radiant characteristics of the season. 

More information and images of all the artworks can be found on their website: https://www.532gallery.com/

532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel

Hammerstrasse 121 | Basel 4057 | CH

Telephone: +41 78 349 03 00 (Europe)  |  +1 917 701 3338 (United States)

Email: Info@532gallery.com

Solstice Arts Centre, along with Cecilia Danell, are delighted to invite you to the opening of ‘These Magnetic Magnitudes’.
These Magnetic Magnitudes is a solo exhibition of new works of painting, textiles, ceramics and film by Cecilia Danell. In a practice that is rooted in materiality and process, the starting point for Danell’s work is a first-hand engagement with the landscape of the area in Sweden where she grew up. 

More information can be found on the invite attached or by visiting our website https://solsticeartscentre.ie/event/these-magnetic-magnitudes

Opening Details:
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath, C15 KWP1
Sat 14 June, 2:30pm
Gallery on Level 3

There is a feature on Cecilia Danell ahead of the exhibition in the Summer edition of Irish Arts Review.

I’m happy to have a painting in this year’s RHA Annual Exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. The 195th Annual exhibition runs from the 26th May – 3rd August.

“We invite you to view works by 350+ artists working in paint, sculpture, drawing, print, photography and architecture, when the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald opens to the public, with free admission, from Monday 26 May.

Visitors can view works by Academy Members, invited artists and works by artists who were successful in the very competitive open submission process. 2025, saw a total of 4,565 works of art submitted, from which, following a very rigorous 2 rounds of selection, 422 works have been accepted and will be exhibited throughout all gallery spaces at the RHA.

A high point of Ireland’s cultural calendar, this exhibition has proven to be a great opportunity for both first-time and experienced buyers alike.”
(from RHA website)

It is also possible to browse through all works in the exhibition in the online viewing room.

I’m delighted to be exhibiting in my home county in Sweden for the first time in 11 years by participating in the juried exhibition ‘Salong Östergötland’ at Linköping Konsthall Passagen in the city centre of Linköping. It features artists who are either born in, live in or have lived in county Östergötland. I am showing my large painting ‘The Teleporter’.

For anyone in the county, the exhibition opened today, the 26th April and runs until the 24th May, Tuesday to Saturday.

“The artworks have been carefully selected by a jury consisting of Peter Sköld – artist, supervisor and lecturer, Nathalie Gabrielsson – artist, Tilda Dalunde – artist, and Christer Fällman – former art gallery director and author.
The salon is a collaboration with Östgöta Konstförening (Östergötland Art Society) whose vice-chairman, Elsi-Brith Jodal, will give the opening speech during our vernissage.
The salon shows a wide range of artists who all have some type of connection to Östergötland. There are faithful Östergötland residents with deep roots in our county, expatriate artists who grew up here, and those who have found their way here in recent years.
It is an exciting opportunity to get to know both new and old artists, unknown and more established.”

(Linköping Konsthall translated press release)

I was in Stockholm for a week at the start of April to attend Supermarket Art Fair in Skärholmen. It’s an art fair for artist-led initiatives and I was invited to exhibit with 126 Artist-Run Gallery, Galway along with Áine Phillips and Conor Burke as I had shown with 126 Gallery at Galway International Arts Festival last year. It was great to meet so many artists from all over the world, view performances, attend talks and also have the time to visit a lot of exhibitions in Stockholm over the course of the week.

126 Artist-Run Gallery in partnership with Galway International Arts Festival are proud to present 

What the Plants Know 
Featuring Artists Cecilia Danell and Katerina Gribkoff
Curated by Naoise Sheridan 

Opening Reception: Saturday July 14th 3pm
Runs from 14th – 28th July 
Open daily 12-6

What the Plants Know is an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and textile work that uses an interdisciplinary approach to begin unraveling the secrets held by the natural world that surrounds us.

Rooted in themes of our environment, artists Cecilia Danell and Katerina Gribkoff who are both based out in the wilderness of the West of Ireland, explore a myriad of different mediums as a method of drawing inspiration from the landscape, and offers viewers a glimpse into unique ways of seeing the natural world. The pieces on display invite close looking to witness the magic held within these elements of nature and combine to create an environment of its very own within the gallery. Show curated by Naoise Sheridan as part of the Galway International Arts Festival 2024.

Festival Website

I’m thrilled to be the winner of the Merrion Plinth Award 2024 from The Merrion Hotel, Dublin with a painting made on my recent residency at Áras Éanna Arts Centre on Inis Oírr, Aran Islands.

I was at a reception in the hotel on the 27th June where the winner was announced.

Huge thank you to the Merrion Hotel and to judges Lochlann Quinn Chairman of The Merrion, Patrick Murphy, Director RHA and Oonagh Young, Gallerist/Designer. And to Áras Éanna Arts Centre of course, without the residency providing the inspiration the painting wouldn’t exist.

The painting can now be viewed in the hotel by the Garden Restaurant.

Merrion Hotel press release:

Congratulations to Cecilia Danell who was announced as the winner of the 2024 Merrion Plinth Award on the evening of June 27th 2024.

The title of Cecilia’s work ‘The Farthest Shore’, can be viewed just outside The Garden Room Restaurant. Danell is the third successful artist of this biennial contemporary art prize which was established in 2019 to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Merrion Hotel. This prize aims to directly support contemporary artists with a prize fund of €5,000, and the winning work will be on view in the hotel for two years amongst its significant collection of late 19th century and early 20th century Irish and European Art. 

The award-winning oil on canvas painting ‘The Farthest Shore’ captures an entire landscape devoid of trees but brimming with life. The smooth rock formations below the tide line and the loose rocks softened by the rolling waves beside the Plassey shipwreck resonated through the accidental juxtaposition of man and nature. The judges were particularly impressed with Danell’s accomplished use of colour to portray an atmosphere evocative of the west while managing to accentuate particular forms to near abstraction.

Cecilia Danell is an artist based in Galway and originally from Sweden. Her painting practice is based on research into landscapes combined with the psychology of place and a strong interest in materiality evident in her striking use of colour. Danell recently completed a residency in Áras Éanna Arts Centre on Inis Oirr, the smallest of the Aran Islands.

Cecilia was presented with the prize of €5,000 by Mr Lochlann Quinn, Chairman of the Merrion at a reception in the hotel this evening. 

I was happy to be selected for this year’s Artworks 2024 ‘Behind the Curtain’ at VISUAL Carlow as part of Carlow Arts Festival. The exhibition, which runs until the 25th August, is shown alongside a solo show by Ulla von Brandenburg, who was also on the selection panel. The opening took place on the 6th June and I was delighted to be one of the recipients of this year’s five Artworks Prizes of €1,000 for my film ‘Tonight at the Magic Theatre’ (2017), shot on Super 8 in the forest and at an old wooden theatre in Sweden with a soundtrack by Sofia Ek. It was previously shown in my solo exhibition ‘The Last Wilderness’ at Galway Arts Centre and The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon in 2017 and it was great to revisit it again for this theatre-themed exhibition.

From the VISUAL website:

This year’s exhibition will consider hallmarks of theatre, film and performance traditions such as masking, costume, set-building, role-playing, becoming other and transformation. This thematic is drawn from the practice of visual artist Ulla von Brandenburg, who is presenting Under Water Ball, a solo exhibition in VISUAL alongside Behind the Curtain, and from the work of Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, a 17th century Flemish painter who specialised in trompe-l’oeil works. Gijsbrecht’s work Reverse of a Framed Painting (c.1670) has been argued to be the earliest work of conceptual art.

Artists invited to participate and chosen from the open call are:

Andreas Kindler von Knobloch, Anja Buchheister, Cecilia Danell, Gillian Lawler, Jane Hughes, Julie Lovett, Kathy Tynan, Liam O’Callaghan, Lucy Sheridan, Mia Shattock, Miriam O’ Connor, Nollaig Molloy, Olga Anacka, Rachel Fallon, Richard Malone, Siobhan McDonald, Sorcha McNamara and Tobi Balogun.

The selection panel consisted of; VISUAL’s Curator Benjamin Stafford and Learning Curator Clare Breen; Carlow Arts Festival’s Creative Producer Orlaith Tracey; visual artist Ulla von Brandenburg, and playwright, theatre-maker and cabaret artist Pea Dinneen.

I’m currently on a week’s joint residency at Interface Inagh in Connemara with writer Michaele Cutaya. We’re here alongside the Woodland Symposium group, who convene on Interface for two weeks each year to reflect on the planned transformation of the on-site area of Sitka spruce to native woodland and how it’s progressing.

We’ve been on guided nature walks with archeologist Michael Gibbons and ecologist Marie Louise Heffernan, looked at a native oak forest preserve across the lake and native, non-native and invasive species in the area.

Michaele and I will be back for the second week of our residency in the autumn.

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 new paintings by Cecilia Danell.
Danell regularly returns to her family farm in Sweden to walk and gather research material for paintings and sculptures. Recent and ongoing research interests include the psychogeography movement and the psychological impact place has on a person, speculative fiction and Science Fiction novels. What strikes her about these novels is humanity’s ability to persevere and adapt in adverse circumstances. The human urge to find solace in a primeval landscape grows increasingly stronger amidst the uncertainty of our current condition. Yet wilderness is for the most part a construct and the places she depicts are managed forest landscapes.

Danell is the 2022 recipient of the RHA Hennessy Craig Award for painting, the ESB Keating Award at the 190th RHA Annual Exhibition, a 2017 Arts Council Next Generation Award and the 2011 Wexford Arts Centre Emergence Award and has received several bursary and project awards from the Arts Council.

Cecilia Danell is represented by Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.
More info HERE

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 this stony, barren landscape, so unlike what I usually depict and watching the changing light and weather through the window. It’s very dreamy.

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 of snow and a huge studio, what more could you ask for in the middle of winter?! I love it!

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 Press page.

The VAI News Sheet is distributed by post to all VAI members and is also available to pick up at galleries and arts centres around the country as well as at the Irish Cultural Centres in Paris and New York.

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 the last decade with artists investigating a variety of new and age-old concerns with fibres and threads. The boundaries of traditional techniques such as weaving and embroidery have been pushed by artists who are interested in embracing the potential of thread in contemporary art. 

Spotlighting areas of practice we are curious about and interested in, the exhibition will feature works by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Isabel Nolan, Matt Smith, Ciara O’Connor, Cecilia Danell, Mainie Jellett design by Ceodogàn rugs, Dorothy Cross, Michelle Malone, Jennifer Trouton, Anne Kiely and Mary Palmer.

More info: https://crawfordartgallery.ie/following-threads/

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 Churchill House Press in association with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), it’s available now from the IMMA bookshop, The Irish Georgian Society and Churchill House Press.

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 world around us and how Science Fiction can be used as a tool to comment on our own situation and the future. The residency is funded by the Arts Council and features Irish and international artists.

I am also delighted to have been awarded a 2023 Visual Arts Bursary from the Irish Arts Council. I am incredibly grateful for their support of my practice over the years and it means that I can continue to make ambitious work. I really look forward to getting stuck in making new work, which will include ceramics, a new departure for me.

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 – 6pm
Wednesday to Saturday or by appointment.

A STILLNESS EXPANDED FEATURES A BODY OF NEW WORK BY AWARD-WINNING ARTIST, CECILIA DANELL RUNNING FROM APRIL 1ST – APRIL 15TH. THE WORK IS INSPIRED BY THE ARTIST’S INTEREST IN THE PUSH AND PULL OF THE NATURAL AND THE MAN-MADE.

The large-scale paintings by the Galway-based artist represents a glimpse of the forrested landscape where she grew up in Sweden, but they could be anywhere. Through use of colour, sci-fi graphical elements and the focus on remnants symbolising human presence, Danell’s paintings depict scenes that exist between truth and fiction, pointing to something else and sometimes upending the romantic notion of nature as an untended wilderness.

Much of the work was created during the pandemic, a time when many of us found our immediate landscapes both strange and familiar at the same time. Her paintings draw on how both we and our environment adapt, adjust and form new realities after seismic events. Each canvas represents a slice of a bigger world and gives a sense of a portal to a universe larger than what you can see.

‘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 of Art Permanent Collection, and it is now on view to the public for the first time in the ‘Recent Acquisitions’ exhibition at the museum, curated by Founding Director Margo Dolan.

The exhibition opened on the 16th March and runs until the 30th May.

Artists: Kim Abraham, Gail Baar, Peter Brooke, Kathleen Buchanan, Ken Buhler, Patricia Burns, Liam Callaghan, Tom Climent, Cecilia Danell, Jon Eckel, Megan Eustace, Rick Fox, Evan Fugazzi, Logan Grider, Paul Hallahan, Mary Hambleton, Hollis Heichemer, Allyson Keehan, Maria Levinge, Aubrey Levinthal, Susan Maxfield, Ethan Murrow, John O’reilly, Thomas Sarrantonio, Wendy Seller, Gerda Teljeur, Jennifer Trouton, Lorna Watkins

https://www.ballinglenartsfoundation.org/

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 spring when I was in the middle of my rug tufting project and also shot footage at my solo exhibition at Luan Gallery, which ran at the time. Thank you to Red Shoe Productions and TG4 for featuring me.

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 the psychology of place is coupled with a strong interest in materiality and making. Treating the landscape as an extension of the Self, Danell’s research takes in classic speculative fiction and Science-Fiction novels, with special focus on how the natural world is rendered in these stories and how it ties in with the human urge to find solace in a primeval landscape, although wilderness is mostly a construct. The notion of constructing narratives particularly interests the artist and in her journeys through the real landscape she’s drawn to settings that have a theatrical, enchanted feel. Historical, water-filled mine holes could be portals into other worlds, a piece of driftwood resembles an ancient, petrified sea creature, there are thickets abundant with fireweed and a tree trunk blazingly illuminated by the winter sun. Although real locations act as the starting point, the process of selecting and rendering each scene creates something separate, more closely related to storybooks and dream imagery. The departure into large-scale rug tufting saw Danell convert her studio into a temporary tufting workshop for the duration of the spring, resulting in two hand-tufted works with a framing reminiscent of theatre scenery, where the tactility of the yarn adds another dimension to the rendering of moss and grasses. The scale of these new works; paintings and rugs, invite the viewer to step into the scene, finding themselves somewhere between reality and fiction.

Cecilia Danell is the 2022 recipient of the RHA Hennessy Craig Award for painting, the ESB Keating Award at the 190th RHA Annual Exhibition, a 2017 Arts Council Next Generation Award and the 2011 Wexford Arts Centre Emergence Award and has received several bursary and project awards from the Arts Council. Recent exhibitions include: ‘GENERATION2022: New Irish Painting’ Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (2022), ‘Parklife’ The Glucksman, Cork (2022), ‘Tactile Terrain’ (solo), Luan Gallery, Athlone (2022), The Hennessy Craig Award Exhibition, RHA, Dublin (2022), ‘I Trust The Quiet’ (solo), Burren College of Art Gallery, Co Clare (2021), ‘Mise en scène’, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2021), I set a Bait for the Unknown’ (solo), Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2020), ‘In a Landscape’ (solo) Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin (2019), ‘Winter Wanderer’ (solo), Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2019), ‘Futures – Series 3 Episode 2’ RHA, Dublin (2018). Residencies include Ballinglen Arts Foundation (2021), Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2020) and the Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale, Norway (2016). Her work is in several public collections including the Arts Council, Trinity College, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Galway City Council, Wexford County Council, Motala Municipal Council, Sweden and the Office of Public Works as well as private collections in Ireland, UK, Sweden, Canada, France and Norway. A book on Danell’s work with an essay by Cristín Leach was published by Kevin Kavanagh in 2021.

The artist would like to thank Connemara Carpets for help with mounting of the tufted rugs and the Arts Council for helping her fund equipment through the Agility Award.
 

Please join us for ‘In Conversation’ with Cecilia Danell and Cristín Leach on the 27th September at 6pm.

Kevin Kavanagh
Chancery Lane
Dublin 8
+353(0)1 475 9514
www.kevinkavanagh.ie

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 by The Glucksman, the University College Cork art collection focuses on modern and contemporary Irish art. The works are sited throughout the campus to provide the UCC community and visitors with a first-hand encounter with original works of art.

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 Gallery Director Anna O’Sullivan and includes the following eclectic group of 26 artists:

Helen Blake | Miranda Blennerhassett | Peter Bradley | Diarmuid Breen | Megan Burns | Serena Caulfield | Susan Connolly | Cecilia Danell | Mollie Douthit | Stephen Doyle | Gabhann Dunne | David Eager Maher | Fiona Finnegan | Deirdre Frost | Philip Gerald | Brian Harte | Sinead Lucey | Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh | Róisín O’Sullivan | Jane Rainey | Sheila Rennick | Ciara Roche | Emma Roche | Salvatore of Lucan | Jennifer Trouton | Marcel Vidal

The works on view reflect a diversity of approach to picture making, from abstraction to figuration, to representational work embracing landscape and portraiture. Some paintings are incorporated into installations on the wall, some are free-standing in the middle of the gallery, but mostly the works are two-dimensional explorations of a variety of the passions, issues and concerns of the individual artists.

www.butlergallery.ie

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 of the world around us, looking at how different forms of life thrive in the urban realm as well as in more remote environments. 

The selected works range from detailed drawings of the various species of animals that make their home on the UCC campus to photographic studies of birds and plants that bring contemporary resonance to the pioneering work of Karl Blossfeldt on display in our Sisk gallery. The exhibition features a series of paintings of the Scots Pine, one of Ireland’s three native coniferous trees as well as research investigations into the ways in which communities are conserving seeds to protect food crops for future generations.

https://www.glucksman.org/exhibitions/parklife

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 the estate of Patrick Hennessy and Henry Robertson Craig.

The Hennessy Craig Award, in memory of H. Robertson Craig RHA and Patrick Hennessy RHA, was created through a generous bequest to the Academy by Henry Robertson Craig and the terms under which it is awarded are those specified in his will. The Award is open to any painter under the age of thirty-five exhibiting in the open submission section of the Academy’s Annual Exhibition. The painter must have studied at a recognised art college on the island of Ireland.

The Hennessy Craig Award is made on a biennial basis cumulating with an exhibition of short-listed artists, every two years, at which the recipient of the award will be announced.

In 2020, the Hennessy Craig jury shortlisted five eligible artists from the 190th RHA Annual Exhibition and an additional five artists have been shortlisted from the 191st RHA Annual Exhibition in 2021 and the recipient will be announced during the exhibition.

Shortlisted artists:

2020

Chanelle Walshe, Cecilia Danell, Tom McLean, Niamh Porter, Jane Rainey

2021

Eileen O’Sullivan, Ciara Roche, Fiach McGuinne, Owen de Forge, Sarah Wren Wilson

Each artist is invited to exhibit two new works and although considerate of the work submitted, the award will be made based on the overall practice of the artist. This exhibition will offer an unparalleled opportunity to view and for the discernible collector a chance to purchase, the very best work by some of Ireland’s most exciting young painters working today.

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 is a non-scripted, informal interview and studio tour format with the opportunity for viewers to ask questions at the end. The Artist’s Well is hosted by founder Alan Keane and participation is by invitation / recommendation only.

Each programme is archived on the Artist’s Well Youtube channel.

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 four years. It’s supported by Centre Culturel Irlandais and printed by art book specialists Cassochrome.

The book is available for purchase from the Contact section of this website, from Kevin Kavanagh in Dublin and will also be available from Temple Bar Gallery during the Dublin Art Book Fair (25th November – 5th December) online and in person.

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.