CV

b. 1985 in Motala, Sweden. Based in Galway, Ireland since 2004.
Represented by Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.

Awards / Residencies:

• 2024 (forthcoming) Interface Inagh collaborative residency with Michaele Cutaya, Connemara, Ireland
• 2022 Hennessy Craig Award Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin
• 2021 Irish Arts Council Agility Award
• 2021 Ballinglen Arts Foundation One-month invited Fellowship Residency, Co Mayo, Ireland
• 2020 ESB Keating Award and Medal for an Outstanding Artwork 190th RHA Annual Exhibition
• 2020 Irish Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award
• 2020 RCSI Art Award Shortlist 190th RHA Annual Exhibition
• 2020 Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris 2019 VAI and Suki Tea Art Prize, 2 month funded residency
• 2019 Irish Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award
• 2017 Irish Arts Council Next Generation Award
• 2017 GMIT Centre for Creative Arts and Media Two-month Summer Residency
• 2017 Irish Arts Council Project Award for solo exhibition at Galway Arts Centre
• 2016 Nordic Artists' Centre, Dale, Norway Two-month Residency funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture
• 2015 Individual Artist Bursary Award towards trip to Ingmar Bergman's Fårö, Galway City Council
• 2013 Individual Artist Bursary Award Galway City Council.
• 2012 The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Award Galway City Council
• 2011 Wexford Arts Centre Emergence Award in association with Wexford County Council & the Irish Arts Council
• 2011 Irish Arts Council Project Award for 'Build Your own: Scandinavian Loneliness'
• 2010 Irish Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary award
• 2009 Liljesonska stiftelsen, County Östergötland, Sweden Young artists' training award.
• 2008 GMIT paint student of the year award sponsored by Allied Irish Bank
• 2007 Prize Winner Claremorris Open Exhibition

Education:

• BA Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting, 2004-2008
• Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland.
  - First Class Honours and Paint Student of the Year

• Introduction to Jungian Psychology, 2012
• University College of Gävle, Sweden.
• - 15 ECTS Credits

• The Films of Ingmar Bergman, 2014
• Linnaeus University, Sweden.
• - 7.5 ECTS Credits

Memberships:

• Engage Art Studios, Galway. Secretary on the Board of Directors. (www.engageartstudios.com)
• Visual Artists Ireland (VAI)

Solo Exhibitions:

• 2023, A Stillness Expanded Claremorris Gallery, Co Mayo (IRL)
  2022, Brush Lightly Through Fireweed Forests Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (IRL)
  2022, Tactile Terrain Luan Gallery, Athlone (IRL)
  2021, I Trust the Quiet Burren College of Art Gallery, Co Clare (IRL)
  2020, I set a Bait for the Unknown Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (IRL)
  2019, In a Landscape Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin. Curated by: Ruth Carroll (IRL)
  2019, Winter Wanderer Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin. (IRL)
  2017, The Last Wilderness The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon. Curated by: Sarah Searson (IRL)
• 2017, The Last Wilderness Galway Arts Centre. (IRL)
• 2014, I am a Forest, and a Night of Dark Trees Eight Gallery, Dublin. (IRL)
• 2012, Secretly, we Thirst for Reality Wexford Arts Centre. (IRL)
• 2012, The Consoling Dream Necessity Talbot Gallery, Dublin. (IRL)
  

Two-person Exhibitions:

• 2021, Mise en scène, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (FR)
  2016, Adventure Time, TACTIC, Cork. Curated by: Emily O'Flynn (IRL)
  2014, Your Spaces are my Places too, Motala Konsthall. Curated by: Denise Laxén Di Zazzo. (SWE)
  
• 2012, (Non)fiction, Ballina Arts Centre. (IRL)
  
• 2008, Here And Elsewhere, Crow Gallery, Dublin. Curated by: Maeve Mulrennan. (IRL)
  

Group Exhibitions:

• 2023, Recent Acquisitions Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, Co Mayo. Curated by: Margo Dolan
  2022, Past, Present, Future Boyle Arts Festival, King House. Curated by: Paul McKenna (IRL)
  2022, Visual Art Trail Cairde Sligo Arts Festival. Curated by: Barry McHugh (IRL)
  2022, GENERATION2022: New Irish Painting The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. Curated by: Anna O'Sullivan (IRL)
  2022, Parklife: Biodiversity in Contemporary Irish Art The Glucksman, Cork Curated by: Fiona Kearney & Chris Clarke (IRL)
  2022, Hennessy Craig Award Exhibition Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (IRL)
  2021, Dublin Art Book Fair Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (IRL)
  2021, The Way That We Went Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, Co Mayo. Curated by: Anne Mullee
  2020, 190th RHA Annual Exhibition Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (IRL)
  2020, Swab Barcelona Art Fair Kevin Kavanagh, Barcelona (virtual fair) (ES)
  2020, London Art Fair Kevin Kavanagh, Islington, London (UK)
  2019, Silver Kevin Kavanagh 25 years Anniversary show, Dublin. (IRL)
  2019, Our Choice Our World selected Kevin Kavanagh gallery artists, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaois. (IRL)
  2018, Winter Exhibition Claremorris Gallery, County Mayo. (IRL)
  2018, Futures Series 3 Episode 2 Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin. Curated by: Patrick T Murphy & Ruth Carroll (IRL)
• 2018, Island Life Custom House Gallery, Westport. Curated by: Kevin Kavanagh & Ingrid Lyons (IRL)
• 2018, BEEP Painting Biennial Elysium Gallery Offsite, Swansea, Wales. Selected by: Andre Stitt & Sue Williams (UK)
• 2018, Gathering Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Boyle. Curated by: Paul McKenna. (IRL)
• 2018, Island Life Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin. (IRL)
• 2018, Narrating Self, translating the Other Engage Studios members. Galway Arts Centre. Curated by: Maeve Mulrennan (IRL)
• 2018, Hermione Exhibition Alexandra College, Dublin. Curated by: Aisling Prior. (IRL)
  
• 2017, Material Conditions Platform Arts, Belfast. Curated by: Hayley Gault & Alex Brunt (NI)
• 2017, Summer Residency Exhibition GMIT Centre for Creative Arts & Media, Galway. (IRL)
• 2017, Facing West Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Boyle. Curated by: Paul McKenna. (IRL)
• 2017, Hermione Exhibition Alexandra College, Dublin. Curated by: Aisling Prior. (IRL)
  
• 2016, COE '16 New Century Retro Selected previous Claremorris Open Prize-winners, Claremorris. Curated by: Helen O'Donoghue (IMMA). (IRL)
• 2016, Creative Wave Galway Arts Festival, Galway City Museum. Curated by: Austin Ivers. (IRL)
• 2016, Veins Molesworth Gallery, Dublin. Curated by: Davey Moor and Peter Prendergast. (IRL)
• 2016, Escape Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise. (IRL)
• 2016, Overlap Aras Eanna Arts Centre, Inis Oirr, Aran Islands. (IRL)
• 2016, Hermione Exhibition Alexandra College, Dublin. Curated by: Aisling Prior. (IRL)
  
• 2015, Höstsalong 2015 Selected Annual Autumn Exhibition, Edsvik Konsthall, Sollentuna. (SWE)
• 2015, 185th RHA Annual Exhibition Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. (IRL)
• 2015, Wildscreen Site-specific art screening, Inagh Valley, Connemara. Curated by: Louise Manifold and Úna Quigley. (IRL)
  
• 2014, Tulca Festival of Visual Arts Festival Gallery, Galway. Curated by: Aisling Prior. (IRL)
• 2014, Galway, Gateway to Connaught Galerie Du Faouedic, Lorient. Curated by: Maeve Mulrennan and James C Harold. (FR)
• 2014, I kommunens gömmor Motala Municipal Art Collection new acquisitions. Motala Konsthall. (SWE)
  
• 2013, REMEMBER ME (before I forget) Cecilia Danell, Emmet Kierans and Red Bird Youth Collective, Galway Arts Centre. (IRL)
  
• 2013, Kaleidoscope: Contemporary Art From EU Member States Representing Sweden. Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin. (IRL)
  
• 2013, The 6th Annual 126 Members' Show 126 Gallery, Galway. Curated by: Katherine Waugh. (IRL)
  
• 2012, Fast moving consumer goods Christmas exhibition, Talbot Gallery, Dublin. Curated by Elaine Grainger and Claire Halpin. (IRL)
  
• 2012, Tulca Festival of Visual Arts The Fairgreen gallery, Galway. Curated by: Gregory McCartney. (IRL)
  
• 2012, Latency Engage Studios members, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar. Curated by: Michaële Cutaya. (IRL)
  
• 2012, #008000 Selected Engage Studios members, The Shed, Galway. Curated by: Grace McEvoy. (IRL)
  
• 2012, Hyperopia Clifden Arts festival. Curated by: Shelly McDonnell. (IRL)
  
• 2012, Impressions '12 Print exhibition, Galway Arts Centre. Selected by: Norman Ackroyd. (IRL)
  
• 2012, The Museum Of Miniatures Skibbereen Arts Festival. Curated by: Tess Leak and Marie Brett. (IRL)
  
• 2012, Solstice Cork Midsummer Festival, The Elysian, Cork. Curated by: Aoife Flynn. (IRL)
  
• 2011, Live@8 on Tour The Exchange, Temple Bar, Dublin. (IRL)
• 2011, VUE: Art Fair RHA, Dublin. represented by Talbot Gallery. (IRL)
  
• 2011, Hammer and feather - experiments in space The Niland Gallery, Galway. Curated by Mary Conlon. (IRL)
  
• 2011, Re-fabrication Collaborative installation with Majella Dowdican, Live@8 on tour, Occupy Space, Limerick. (IRL)
  
• 2010, Tulca festival of Visual Arts The Niland Gallery, Galway. Curated by Michelle Browne. (IRL)
  
• 2010, Claremorris Open Exhibition 2010 Curated by Lisa Le Feuvre. (IRL)
  
• 2010, Enrage Engage Studios members, White Room Gallery, Galway Arts Festival. Curator: Ian McInerney. (IRL)
  
• 2010, Outside: Insight Brigit's Garden, Rosscahill, Co Galway. (IRL)
  
• 2010, Dock Discourse 126 Gallery, Galway. Curated by Aoife Considine. (IRL)
  
• 2010, {un}familiar Galway Arts Centre. Curated by Maeve Mulrennan. (IRL)
  
• 2010, {un}familiar Red House Arts Center, Syracuse, NY. Curated by Maeve Mulrennan. (USA)
  
• 2009, 10x10 White Room Gallery, Galway, curated by Anna McCarthy. (IRL)
  
• 2009, Ealaion at Lunasa Galway Arts Centre. (IRL)
  
• 2009, 126 Members show swap Catalyst arts, Belfast. (NI)
  
• 2009, 126 Members show 126 Gallery, Galway. (IRL)
  
• 2008, GMIT CCAM Honours Degree Exhibition 'Is This Utopia?' Galway. (IRL)
  
• 2007, Claremorris Open Exhibition 2007 Curated by Ingrid Swenson. (IRL)
  

Catalogues/ Press:

• "Danell at Kavanagh" Irish Arts Review Autumn Issue 2022.

• "Art Pervading Life - Cecilia Danell and Diana Copperwhite chat about their painting routine" Visual Artists' News Sheet Painting themed issue, March/April 2022.

• The Green and the Grey Exhibition catalogue, three concurrent solo exhibitions, Luan Gallery, Athlone. Essay by Eamonn Maxwell, 2022.

• The Way That We Went Exhibition catalogue with an essay by Joanne Laws. Ballinglen Arts Foundation, 2021.

• A Strange Familiar Place Hardcover publication on Cecilia Danell's work with an essay by Cristin Leach. published by Kevin Kavanagh, 2021.

• Fredrik Kylberg "Cecilia återvänder alltid hem" Östgöta Correspondenten and Motala Vadstena Tidning, 12th November 2020.
• Aidan Dunne "Art in Focus: The Drenched Forest by Cecilia Danell" The Irish Times, 23rd March 2019.
• Niall MacMonagle "What lies beneath: Inside a Shadow by Cecilia Danell" The Sunday Independent, 3rd February 2019.
• Cristin Leach "Eyes peeled - eight artists to watch in 2019" RTE Culture Online 29th January 2019.
• Aidan Dunne "The best art exhibitions running across the country" The Irish Times, 5th January 2019.
• Amelia O'Mahony Brady "Artsdesk: New, Now, Next" Totally Dublin Magazine, December 2018.
• Padraic E Moore, "Welcome to the Future" Irish Arts Review, Winter Issue 2018/2019
• Joanne Laws, "Finding the Line" Visual Artists' News Sheet, Graduate-themed issue, Sept-Oct 2018
• BEEP Painting Biennial Catalogue 2018. Wales, UK
• Abridged Art/Poetry Journal 0-51 Wormwood issue, November 2017.
• Amanda Jane Graham, Interview with Cecilia Danell on the Arts Hour Shannonside FM Broadcast at 8pm, 7th June 2017.
• "The Last Wilderness - Cecilia Danell" The Leitrim Observer 2nd June, 2017.
• "The Last Wilderness" Publication on Cecilia Danell's work with an essay by Sue Rainsford, 66 pages. Funded by an Arts Council Project Award 2017.
• Kernan Andrews, "A Swedish Woman's Galway view of Scandinavia" The Galway Advertiser 9th March, 2017.
• Michaele Cutaya, "The Last Wilderness" Irish Arts Review Spring Issue, 2017.
• Sofia Ek, "Inblick" Folio Kulturtidning nummer 2, Vadstena, Sweden, June 2016.
• "In Profile: Cecilia Danell" Moustache Magazine, Brisbane, June 10th 2015.
• "Being an outsider gives me a different view on things other people might take for granted" The Galway Advertiser 13th November 2014.
• "Access to visual arts tops Festival Agenda" RTE News 1pm News broadcast, 12th November 2014.
• "Speeds of Life - Aisling Prior discusses her approach to curating Tulca 2014" The Visual Artists' News Sheet November - December 2014.
• "Cecilia och Helga i duoutställning" Östgötatidningen Motalamagasinet Vecka 3 2014.
• "Duoutställning med rötter i Motala" Motala Tidning 11 January 2014.
• Kaleidoscope: Contemporary Art from EU Member States Exhibition Catalogue 2013.
• Abridged art/poetry journal 0-29 Primal issue, April 2013.
• Tulca Festival of Visual Arts Exhibition Catalogue 2010, 2012, 2014.
• "Cecilia Danell wins Visual Art Award" Irish Arts Review Spring issue (March-May) 2012.
• News and views Image Interiors & Living January/February 2012.
• Mats Persson, "Irländskt konstpris till Cecilia" Motala & Vadstena Tidning 28 December 2011.
• Claremorris Open Exhibition Catalogue 2007, 2010.
• An artist's impression Art publication curated by Aideen Barry as part of 'Dock Discourse', Galway Independent supplement, 9th June 2010.
• Brochure Issue two art publication produced by Niall Moore, 2008.

Reviews:

• Cristin Leach, "Botany branches out to art" The Sunday Times 29th May 2022.
• Aidan Dunne, "Grappling with the age of anxiety" The Irish Times 27th November 2018.
• Cristin Leach, "Existential show for our times" The Sunday Times 25th November 2018.
• Aidan Dunne, "The Last Wilderness: Cecilia Danell, Galway Arts Centre" The Irish Times 28th March 2017.
• Aidan Dunne, "Veins/ Small . . . Far away, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin" The Irish Times 26th July 2016.
• Aidan Dunne, "No need for anxiety as Tulca engages in Galway" The Irish Times 18th November 2014.
• Gunnar Lindqvist, "Vackra landskap och mörka träd" Östgöta Correspondenten 26th January 2014.
• Eileen Hutton, "Engage Art Studios Members 'Latency.'" The Visual Artists' News Sheet Issue 1 Jan-Feb 2013.
• Sinead Rice, "Council's Visual Artist Award winner exhibits in Wexford'" The Wexford Echo Newspaper 4th December 2012, page 54.
• Sue Rainsford, "Cecilia Danell: The Consoling Dream Necessity at Talbot Gallery." Paper Visual Arts Journal 9th April 2012.
• Jeanette Donnelly, "The award winners Derek Fortas and Cecilia Danell" www.Artforartssake.org January 2012.
• Aidan Dunne, "Elsewhere at Galway Arts Festival" The Irish Times 21st July 2010.
• Nancy keefe Rhodes, "Redhouse Irish: Galway Arts Centre returns a second year" Syracuse City Eagle 18th March 2010.
• Michaele Cutaya, "Degree show Critic's choice", Circa 125 - contemporary visual culture in Ireland, Autumn 2008 issue, page 62.

Collections:

• The Arts Council, Ireland
  The OPW Irish State Art Collection, Ireland
  Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  University College Cork, Ireland
  Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ireland
  Kelly Resort Hotel, Ireland
  The Dean Hotel Galway, Ireland
  Lyrath Estate Kilkenny, Ireland
  The Leinster Hotel, Ireland
  Wexford County Council, Ireland
  Galway City Council, Ireland
  Motala Municipality, Sweden
  and private collections in Ireland, United Kingdom, Norway, Canada, France and Sweden.

Artist Talks/Public speaking/Other:

• 2022, Kevin Kavanagh Cecilia Danell In Conversation with writer/critic Cristin Leach on the occasion of the solo exhibition 'Brush Lightly Through Fireweed Forests'.
  2022, Limerick School of Art & Design TUS Visiting lecturer in the Paint department. Presentation on my work and 3rd & 4th year student tutorials.
  2022, Luan Gallery artist talk facilitated by Eamonn Maxwell, featuring three artists with concurrent solo exhibitions at the gallery.
  2021, Burren College of Art Gallery in conversation with gallerist Kevin Kavanagh at the opening of 'I Trust the Quiet'.
  2020, Custom House Gallery, Westport, Co Mayo. Exhibition programming selection panel.
  2020, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Clare. Visiting lecturer to the MA students. Presentation on my work and student tutorials.
  2019 Kevin Kavanagh Artist talk on the occasion of 'SILVER' Kevin Kavanagh's 25th Anniversary Exhibition.
  2019 Visual Artists Ireland Get Together TU Dublin, Grangegorman. Invited to give a presentation on my work in the Artists' Speak strand.
  2019 GMIT Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Galway. Invited guest speaker officially opening the 4th Year Degree Show.
  2019 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. 'Ashford in Conversation' Talk about my exhibition 'In a Landscape' with writer Sue Rainsford.
  2019 GMIT Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Galway. MA Creative Practice lecture series. Invited twice as visiting lecturer; presentation on my work and student tutorials.
  2018 Custom House Gallery, Westport. Artist panel talk as part of the opening of 'Island Life'.
  2017 The Dock Arts Centre. Informal discussion about my work with director Sarah Searson as part of the opening of the exhibition 'The Last Wilderness'.
  2017 Galway Arts Centre. Talk about my practice and the making of the exhibition 'The Last Wilderness'.
  2017 GMIT Centre For Creative Arts and Media, Galway. Visiting lecturer: presentation on my work and tutorials with the MA students.
  2014 Motala Konsthall, Sweden. With Helga Steppan during the exhibition 'Your Spaces Are my Places Too'
  2012 Talbot Gallery, Dublin. In conversation with Jennie Moran during the exhibition 'The Consoling Dream Necessity'
  
  Studio visits from: Cow House Studios Summer School, Wexford, MA Arts Policy and Practice students, Galway, Red Bird Youth Art Collective, Galway and United World College Nordic students, Fjaler, Norway.

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