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I am currently one of five artists in residence at the Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale. The centre is located in a small fjord community in western Norway. I have spent 3 weeks here, and am really liking it so far. I will be here for two months, until the 31st March. We are having an […]

My painting ‘There are no Dark Waters Anymore / Det finns inga mörka vatten mer’ (oil and acrylics on canvas, 107×107 cm, 2013) has been selected for the annual juried autumn exhibition at Edsvik Konsthall, Sollentuna, Stockholm, Sweden. 150 artworks out of 1000 submitted were selected for this year’s annual exhibition which runs from the […]

I am absolutely thrilled to have been awarded a 2 month residency at Nordic Artists Centre Dale in western Norway for next year. The centre is funded by the Norwegian ministry of culture and offers private living spaces and large studios at the purpose build centre for five international artists at a time. The 2016 […]

I am delighted to have been selected to show a piece in the 185th Annual Exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. Press release from the RHA website: This year, the RHA 185th Annual exhibition will open to the public on 26 May and show until 9 August. Irelands largest and longest established open […]

I was interviewed on the RTÉ 1 News (Ireland’s national news) about the Tulca Festival of Visual Arts. Watch the clip by clicking on the picture.

I am a Forest, and a Night of Dark Trees Eight Gallery, Dublin is pleased to present ‘I am a Forest, and a Night of Dark Trees’ an exhibition of new works by Cecilia Danell. Nov 14th – 26th Preview Friday Nov 14th 6 – 8pm “He prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and […]

I am delighted to announce that I have been selected as one of the artists in this year’s Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Aisling Prior. The opening reception takes place on the 7th November and the festival is on from the 8th – 23rd November in venues in Galway City, Ireland. Excerpt from […]

I was recently interviewed about my artistic process, influences, recent exhibitions and themes explored through my art for Glasgow-based feminist collective TYCI’s website. Read the interview :HERE:

Motala Konsthall, Sweden. 11th January – 8th February 2014. Including an artist talk on the 15th January. Your spaces are my places too is a two person exhibition featuring Helga Steppan and Cecilia Danell. They share the same hometown, Motala in Sweden, but through spending many years abroad, in England and Ireland respectively, their notion […]

Image courtesy of Graveface Records. I was delighted to be asked by Galway-based garage pop band Dott to design the cover for their debut album Swoon, out on US label Graveface Records on the 4th December. They are currently embarked on a launch tour of Ireland and will be playing dates in the States in […]

2nd May – 1st June 2013 Press release: The Eternal Return – by Cecilia Danell Red Bird Youth Collective will present ‘Remember me (when I forget)’, an exhibition presenting work by artists Cecilia Danell, Emmet Kierans, and Red Bird in collaboration with Jonathan Sammon and Ruadhrí Brennan. ‘Remember me (Before I forget)’ opens on the […]

I’ve been selected to represent Sweden in an exhibition at Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin featuring art from all the EU member states, as part of Ireland’s EU presidency. The painting selected is called “Fracture” and is part of the Irish State collection (OPW). Below is the press release: This is an exhibition of contemporary artworks from […]

This short interview was shot on the 23rd November while I was installing the exhibition.

Secretly, we thirst for reality by Cecilia Danell Visual Artist Award Winner 2011 Wexford Arts Centre Opening event: Friday 30th November, 6pm. Opened by artist and writer Mary Ruth Walsh. All welcome to attend. Cecilia Danell was the recipient of the 2011 Emerging Visual Artist Award, a partnership initiative between the Arts Council, Wexford County […]

Every now and then over the last year I tried to document what I was doing in the studio, since I had the video camera lying around anyway. Unfortunately my video camera broke a while ago, so as it looks now there will be no video documentation of this studio year, but I can tell […]

Press Release Cecilia Danell Talbot Gallery Studios, 51 Talbot Street, Dublin 1. Tel: 01 8556599 __________________________________________________________________________ The Consoling Dream Necessity Cecilia Danell at Talbot Gallery Studios January 11th – February 4th 2012 Cecilia Danell is a Swedish artist based in Galway. Her work focuses on questions concerning identity, dealing with such themes as perception of […]

I am currently in the middle of producing work as part of the project “Build your own: Scandinavian loneliness”, for which I got funding from the Arts Council earlier this year. I have employed fellow artist Fiona Hession as my assistant in the production of the work, which consists of a flat pack model set […]

Time for a long overdue update. The summer is flying by and a few things have happened since last. I was in Sweden for the second half of May. While there I made a photo project for a group exhibition in the Niland Gallery, Galway curated by Mary Conlon, Shinnors scholar at the Limerick City […]

I’m super excited about next week! There is a bi-monthly art event in Galway called Live@8, taking place in bar EIGHT and featuring performance and video art. Now the curators Aine Phillips, Maeve Mulrennan and Vivienne Dick have decided to bring the event on tour, so on Thursday the 5th of May the Galway art […]

Press Release You Had Another Skin (The Super 8 Series) New work by Cecilia Danell February 22nd – April 2nd 2011 Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 22nd from 6pm. EIGHT “I held your hand. You had another skin. I believed all you told me” – J.P Sartre, The Room The series of paintings presented in You […]

I love the smell of filter coffee and oil paint when I enter the studio. That coffee maker I got in October is probably one of the best investments I’ve made in a long time! I am busy painting, I am working on a series of 30×40 cm paintings on board. They’re stills from my […]

I’ve been busy in the studio all since I got back from Sweden. Just over a week ago my Super 8 films arrived back from the lab in Berlin, so I’ve been reviewing footage and editing by hand, which has proven to be so much fun! And I am also loving my newly renovated studio. […]

A few things have happened since I last updated this blog. First of all I received a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland, which I’m delighted about. Part of my proposal was that I would go to Sweden and do research for a new body of work, and shoot Super 8. So, soon after […]

I’m just back from spending most of the weekend in Claremorris in County Mayo. I was very happy to be selected for the Claremorris Open Exhibition a second time (my first time was in 2007). It’s a prestigious open submission show. Each year a prominent curator, usually from the London art scene is asked to […]

So, what do you think of the new website design? I thought it was about time to update the look of the site slightly since the previous colour scheme was created to fit with the work of my degree show two years ago and since I’ve moved on a bit since then I thought it […]

The opening of the Dock Discourse project in the 126 Gallery on the 11th June went really well, with a fantastic turn out. I could barely get into the gallery by the time I arrived. You can see photos from the opening here. During the course of the exhibition there has also been a discussion […]

Tomorrow marks the launch of the ‘Dock Doscourse’ exhibition in the 126 Gallery in Galway. Find out more about the show on their website: www.126.ie under “Current Exhibition”. Aideen Barry’s part in the project; “An artist’s impression”, which I mentioned about in my previous post and whick was delivered with the Galway Independent newspaper yesterday, […]

Busy times! The {un}familiar exhibition opened in the Galway Arts Centre on Thursday the 3rd and I am very pleased with the turn out for the opening and the positive feedback I’ve got on my work and the show overall, well done to Maeve who curated it and to all the artists taking part! I […]