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Cecelia Graham

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It was a pleasure to host artist Niamh Seana Meehan @niamhseanameehan and practitioner Cecelia Graham @cecelia_ac for a research and development residency at the Tea Houses💧🌿

“Our short residency in Kilkenny unfolded through warmth, generosity, and deep attentiveness to place. From our welcome at @the_powerhouse_callan by Seamus Kelly to warm drinks at @fennellys_of_callan with Etaoin, we felt guided by a strength of community and the way local life is closely intertwined with the surrounding ecosystems.

Our days moved with the River Nore – from visiting the Tea Houses with @_rachel_botha_ , lunch at @theloopcafefreshford, to learning about projects such as @acornprojectcollaboration and @thenorevision with Maura Brennan.

Walking shaped our time: through Callan, along the River Nore, and around Newpark Marsh Eco Park, before marking Brigid’s Day at the @butlergallery. We explored Callan with @rosie__lynch, a tour from the Moat to the @workhouseunion. Another day we shared tea and fire at @brownmountaindiamond with @carlgiffney. We left after a morning stonemasonry workshop with Seamus, guiding us through the process of carving small spirals and swirls. As a final gesture, @seamus6083 gifted us handmade candle holders, a warm token of our time in Kilkenny.”

Read the full post on @kilkennyartsoffice’s blog, link in bio 👆🏻

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Supported by the Agility Award, @artscouncilireland, @kilkennycoco and @kilkennyartsoffice.

#research #development #residency #artinkilkenny #rivernore taken in Kilkenny, Ireland by @cecelia_ac

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8 months ago

🪑🪚🤝 this bench slides apart, you can expand your seat to fit a friend

Back in March, me & my dad built a bench. Modelled on an open source design by Todd Dermody, it was a chance to learn new skills together, sharing tricks learnt from rural living, the creation of make-shift tools and our respective times spent hanging around a furniture factory (my dad, when he was a kid) or working in artist-led spaces ~~

>> an exercise in: checking measurements once, then twice, then thrice / tentatively getting to grips with a circular saw / inaccurately using a set square / avoiding knots in wood when drilling / taking apart and putting back together again / learning that a handsaw will always save the day.

~~ accompanied by a text inspired by farmhack.org whose online Tool Library details concepts for new tools and mechanisms shared by those working on small farms, and the book The Anarchists Workbench by Christopher Schwarz.

💌 Included in ‘Take Hold’, a show curated by Rachel Botha at CCA Derry back in Spring ‘25. The bench a lil resting place for those who wanted a seat when watching husk’s video in the same show ~ an accidental collaboration but the sweetest one !! taken in Cookstown by @cecelia_ac

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a year ago

TONIGHT:

🌱Companion Planting🌱
Led by Cecelia Graham @cecelia_ac

A series of ongoing gatherings that take the form of an informal discussion group, Companion Planting creates space for the interrogation of embedded institutional practices and bureaucratic mechanisms within the arts ecology as a whole.  In the sessions, we discuss possible ways of reconfiguring arts organisations, seeking new and genuine means of support for creative practitioners in the north of Ireland; whether it’s ways of working that exist outside of monetary exchange, the implementation of more transparent policy, contracts and institutional procedures, or re-imagining how we can work collectively to uphold one another through, for example, holding institutions accountable.   In the gatherings, we often share readings, listenings, watchings and examples that identify ways of supporting practitioners, staff and (often underpaid) contractors as they journey through institutions. 
💌 To join Companion Planting, send an email to cecelia.ac.graham@gmail.com with the subject line COMPANION PLANTING. Everyone is welcome. by @cecelia_ac

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a year ago

🛝 Notes towards an informal hedge // Walk carefully, well loved one 🛝

Two lil pieces of writing in catalyst atm ~ one tucked into the pocket of overalls I used to wear during installs & another breezily hanging on an architect’s blueprint rack

‘Notes towards an informal hedge’ puts forward a speculative structure for institutions ~ a hinge or double spiral with a shared and moveable centre 🌀🤝 A proposition to occupy gaps and leaks, withdrawing resources from commodification; re-configuring frameworks that hoard authority; and prioritising the distribution of skills and knowledge as opposed to narratives of growth ~~ loose, soft, wayward, reasons and venues.

‘Walk carefully, well loved one’ is a redacted text thinking about how bodies exist within arts organisations & an old catalyst contract I found ~ it’s reworked from a text i wrote for @luminpress Local 37 transmission project a few years ago and is propped on a chair that holds a door open; the hinge in constant suspension ⛓️‍💥

💌 thank u to soft fiction projects for printing, husk for editing & organising & drilling & supporting, daf for editing, davy for lighting, simon for the photos & catalyst for painting & looking after !!

Install Photos: Simon Mills

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Part of *-* with angels Edy Fung and Luke Van Gelderen ⛓️🪽and curated by v v lovely Husk Bennett taken in Catalyst Arts by @cecelia_ac

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2 years ago

**NOW FULLY BOOKED </3**
🌀 The garden cannot be unplanted: ‘Dream your friends forward’ 🌀
Tuesday 3 September 2024, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
💌 To attend, email dreamyourfriendsforward@gmail.com

‘Dream your friends forward’ is a collaboration between artists and chefs, Phillip McCrilly and Moonhyung Lee, alongside curator Cecelia Graham in the form of a workshop.

‘Dream your friends forward’ brings together a group to collectively engage in and consider the act of neighbourly foraging 🌱 We will contemplate how acts of companionship and exchange enable us to cultivate new ways of being that put forward alternative economies, and build upon forms of knowledge that emerge from our surrounding environment, neighbours and soon-to-be friendships.

The workshop consists of two parts 🌷 First, we will forage together in the Ormeau area of Belfast, where we will encounter seasonal ingredients that contribute to the second part of the workshop - the creation of a batch of fruit syrup. The syrup will be made in an alleyway that runs between Ardmore and Rossmore avenue in Belfast, made with neighbours and residents.

Throughout the workshop, we will discuss sustainable foraging practices that encourage we harvest ethically, and think about how this slow and thoughtful act creates the foundation for empathetic and neighbourly approaches to artistic practice.

🤝 ‘Dream your friends forward’ is a collaboration between the artists Phillip and Moon, and curator and writer Cecelia Graham. The workshop forms part of the wider project ‘The garden cannot be unplanted’, which also includes the event ‘Feeding Houses’ as part of a @9ftincommon commission.

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With thanks to British Art Network for funding the workshop.

ℹ️ We advise that you wear comfortable shoes, and bring waterproofs just in case! Please send an access rider for the event to dreamyourfriendsforward@gmail.com if you wish.

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Images 3-6: From Moon and Phil’s residency at La Foresta in Rovereto as part of the second semester of the Gramounce’s alternative MA in Art and Food. taken in Belfast by @cecelia_ac

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2 years ago

an april in mustarinda

snow shoeing / writing / resting / having long breakfasts and lunches and dinners / laughing / sauna-ing / observing and waiting / birdwatching / doing snow work /forming collective paths through the forest / playing games and guessing / looking out of windows / deciphering tracks / learning how to forest ski / learning a very specific list of finnish words* / singing / turning 30

so grateful for the time spent in this special place & with a group of real-life angels <3 i’ll be thinking about mustarinda and all the things I learnt there for a long time to come

*i think the best word i learnt is kantohanki which i’m told means ‘the snow that holds you’ taken in MUSTARINDA by @cecelia_ac

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2 years ago

photos from this past summer when i spent some time with @davidmichaelcleary in Abergavenny & @louisedhobson in Barry~~ two real life angels doing v angelic things !! <3 amongst a too busy year, it was nice to spend time sharing & reading & having v generous conversations that have helped me plot the path towards an initiative that i’m working on called ‘informal hedges’🌀🌱🤝

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‘informal hedges’ is a future initiative that instigates playful artistic and curatorial interventions within institutional sites, governance, policies and decision making mechanisms. In challenging extractive working, institutional notions of ‘professionalism’ and siloed working practices, I hope that informal hedges can help create space to re-configure the potential of arts organisations as places in which collaborative, non-hierarchical working practices and networks of support can grow <3

i am v grateful to have support from BAN & a nice upcoming residency to help towards the development of this throughout the upcoming year 💌

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📸 1/2/3/4 photos from a day in Abergavenny with David, alongside books and notes that he brought and our lil home for the day @peakcymru << also v generous for letting us use their Platfform space !!

5 a pic taken of a drawing of a wee cow in an edition of Anorak from Louise’s house in Barry by @cecelia_ac

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3 years ago

love u @thefieldthefieldthefield <3

a week spent recovering from a busy year / reading / writing / sharing / knitting / walking / composting / sleeping well.

Very grateful for this residency, and for people and places that embrace so openly & kindly !! taken in The Field by @cecelia_ac

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3 years ago

a warm & happy heart, wales with friends 🤝 by @cecelia_ac

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3 years ago

a gorgeous few days spent at @wysing.arts.centre with jerwood curatorial cuties 💐 very grateful to have met a 10/10 group of friends, supporters & practitioners who bring love and joy and understanding to everything <3 truly the most nourishing & generous year !!

📸 Pics from a lil lunch made by the group, with a menu concocted by @katherineamurphy and me, as part of a workshop we collaborated on exploring forms of working together, holding each other, and looking out for ourselves & others in capitalist labour structures🫒🥬🍓

& thank u thank u to @okcandice @saint_lovie & @jamiecrewe for hosting workshops and conversations that filled my heart & brain <3 & thank u to stunners @harrietrcooper @mirkabluus @lilligeissendorfer & @clionama for looking out for us & ur endless patience 🤝 by @cecelia_ac

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3 years ago

🌊⛓feel v lucky to have spent a lot of time under the river lagan at the end of March setting up for Christopher Steenson’s Let it run all over me, a site specific soundwork presented as a one day event within the Lagan Weir, as part of me and Grace Jackson’s curatorial residency at pssquared.

The work responds to the aural architecture of the Lagan Weir, a vital framework that guides the water’s tidal fluctuations and monitors the surrounding ecology 🌿🦆 loved hearing about Chris’ process & how his work captured the acoustic foundations of the Weir and its underwater tunnel ~ each of the sounds featured in the work passed through structures and mediums relating to the Weir, including the water that surrounds it & the concrete expanse of its infrastructure.

after talking for almost a year it was v amazing to see this come together 🤝 so so grateful to the Lagan Weir team for making our dreams come true (& for sharing all the amazing and v important work that they do with us)!!! Thank u thank u to Chris, Davy Mahon, Peter Mutschler, Martin King, Michael at Eclipse Disco Centre, Simon Mills & always always my amazing collaborator Grace @gracesbum <3

📸 photos from around the lagan weir & install photos by Simon Mills taken in Lagan Weir by @cecelia_ac

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4 years ago