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cara rooney - illustrator + plaything maker

@cararoooney

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illustrator + plaything maker in dundee
encouraging nature connection
freelance design educator @vadundee
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☀️Wasps open studios 2026 this weekend! Looking forward to welcoming people into my studio: get an insight into my creative process, things I’m working on, have a bit of a chat about the types of commissions I work on across healthcare, public art and illustration. I’m one of 25+ artists from WASPS Dundee taking part in Door Open Days in Dundee, taking part on the  26th and 27th September. A real opportunity to see the creativity that happens in the city, peek in the  studios, chat about process, see work in progress, artists at work, things to buy or workshops you can sign up to. A group exhibition - Work In Progress on the 4th floor. Plus we have the fab EH9 expresso pop up keeping us refreshed. Please spread the work! 201 Jonathan Hood @jonathandhood 202 Kirsty McKeown @helloitskirsty 203 John Scott 208 Zsofia Jakab @zsofia.joachim 209 Paola McClure @paolamcclurex 213 Scarlett Erskine @scarlettersk 215 Katie McGroarty @katiemcgroarty 216 Dundee Ceramics Workshop @dundeeceramicsworkshop 219 Clay 4 Clarity @clay4clarity 220 Anne Watson @anne_watson_jewellery 306 Stephanie Graham (Dundee Community Craft) @dundeecommunitycraft 307 Cara Rooney @cararoooney 308 Nomimaci @nomimaci 309 Sandra Junele @junele.sandra 310 Judy Scott @judyscott 311 Frances Stevenson 312 Joanna Craig @joannacraigfineartist 317 David Lyall @davelyall21 318 Zane Zarakovska @werewitchcrafts 401 Dundee Maker Space @makerspacedundee  403 Astrid Leeson @astridleeson  404 Louise Kirby @louisekirbydesign 413 Wildflower Ceramics @wildflower.ceramic 415 Louise Ritchie @louiseritchiegram 416 Scott Dee 418 Theresa Lynn @treesbitterpool #WaspsStudios #DoorsOpenDays #DoorsOpenDaysDundee
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Cara Rooney is an illustrator and plaything maker from Dundee. She has been based at Meadow Mill studios since November 2020. Her work combines bright colours and bold shapes to create children’s books and activity trails, and to capture climate-focused events. Alongside her illustration work, she facilitates workshops based on her book A Little World of Ants and through her role as a Freelance Design Educator at V&A Dundee. Through all her work, she aims to encourage people to connect curiously with the world and everyone with whom they share it. Meadow Mill is a former jute mill in the Blackness area of Dundee, which today provides studios to around 100 visual artists and designers from across Tayside. It is the largest facility of its kind in the region. The artists and makers of Meadow Mill are hosting an open studios weekend for Doors Open Days Festival this 26 and 27 September (10am–5pm), allowing the public a rare chance to pop in and discover this amazing creative community, and explore this Victorian-era former jute mill. Images: 2 & 3. Cara Rooney in her studio by Jilly Noble. 4. Courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. #WaspsStudios #DoorsOpenDays #DoorsOpenDaysDundee
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This weekend I turned 30 baby! ✨✨✨ I'm so looking forward to this next decade and I feel extremely grateful for the folk I have in my life to share it with 💖 I don't often share much on here about myself, I mainly keep it to work related stuff and even then I've not been posting much about my recent projects. I guess it's nice to have time to focus on all the other parts of life that are important. I love my job but it's also not everything about me and it's nice to get back to that a bit. @thenewport_inn was such a special place to celebrate turning 30 at, I can't recommend it enough as a venue! We also had the wonderful @sookkitchen_ providing insanely tasty catering and @machairbakery coming in with the most beautiful birthday cake. All go and support the wonderful Dundee/Newport-on-tay local businesses 💖 📸 Craig Myles
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Throwback to June…feels like forever since I wore a cardigan, but only yesterday that I was at the Healing Arts Scotland conference! 🤩🧠🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥜✨ In a nutshell, the conference ran by @jameelartshealthlab in collab with @who, was born to share the latest research and stories from researchers, practitioners and artists pathing the way in the creative health space from social prescribing to art installations in built environments. 🏥🎨 I really gravitated towards the role art has in improving wellbeing and the patient experience in healthcare settings. This was brought to life on the day by the talented artist @louisekirbydesign who shared her bespoke commissions in the health context.
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AdOne thing we’ve always found is that reading becomes so much more exciting when children are free to choose books that reflect their own interests. Whatever they’re into, finding stories they genuinely connect with can make all the difference.📚🤍 We recently visited The Works’ Find Your Story book bus, where every child can choose a free book to take home. It was so lovely to see the children exploring books that sparked their curiosity, meeting their favourite book characters, taking part in workshops, and leaving with stories they couldn’t wait to read. If the Find Your Story book bus is stopping near you this summer, it’s definitely worth a visit. Check the upcoming locations and let your little ones find their story too. ✨ @theworksstores #FindYourStory
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Great Shapes of Play workshop yesterday for the first day of the Celebrate Play Festival! Together we used the shapes designed by local artist and illustrator @cararoooney for the @dundeeplayforum to create artworks which will be used in a large banner for future Play Forum events. Big thanks to Sarah, Marie and the @dcadundee for hosting us, and to the ladies who joined us. We had really interesting and wide ranging conversations. Love how simple making activities can open up space for deeper connection and reflection. Tomorrow we are running Shapes of Play at @scrapantics community space at the Wellgate shopping centre… pop in any time from 11am - 1pm to get involved in the community banner, all welcome and no need to book! #dundeeplayfestival #playdundee #infiniteskymurals #communityart #dundee
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"We can a' kick a ba!' Launching Dundee Play Festival! What a joyous kick-off ⚽️ ❤️
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Final Day / Dundee Month of Design 📢 What an amazing month! We've celebrated 1 year of @designdundee's Design Lives Here, marked 10 years since the first @dnd_designfest, and celebrated 65+ events across the city 💛 Here are just some of our snaps from across the whole month 👉 We'll be back soon with a wee call for feedback about @dundeemonthofdesign - post-it notes at the ready! ✍️ 📸 Image 1 : Photography by @burnt_bongo. Two people applying paper stencils to a bright, geometric textured mural, one standing on a short step ladder.
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✨ FESTIVAL PROGRAMME LIVE ✨ Check out over 50 FREE family friendly or exclusively adult events across the whole city of Dundee from the 11th to the 14th of June. We kick off on the International Day of Play (11th of June) and can’t wait to have you along for a whole weekend of games, creativity, sports and PLAY! #dundeeplayfestival #dundeefestival #freeevents #dundee #dundeeplayforum
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Have you spotted us in the Dundee Evening Telegraph??? We’re brining a four-day festival that CELEBRATEs the power of play across Dundee. There are FREE family-friendly and adult-only events taking place across every ward in Dundee. There’s something for everyone. Be prepared for colour, laughter, silliness and feel good factor that lasts all weekend! 🌞⚽️🦋✨🎨 #dundeeplayfestival #dundeeplayforum #dundeefestival #familyfun #freeactivities
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Thank you to everyone who came my pop-up workshops! So fun seeing all the three dimensional paper masterpieces being made in real time. Here are some pics! Thank you @glasgowlifelibraries for having me 🌷 #workshops #popups #craftworkshop #glasgow
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It’s both tatreez and tea for me. I love tatreez and the skills of embroidery I learned from my mother. And, I love the tea. The tea is the drink, the storytelling part of the stitching circle, the proverbial tea. Tea is also me! Without life, there is no tatreez. My account (and my book Tatreez & Tea) has attempted to highlight both. Sharing about tatreez, my life and my work. To me, tatreez is about the ritual of relationships with self, each other, land, and our higher power. That’s what a stitching circle is meant to hold. 💟 I have empathy for the dresses, I don’t know how, but I do. This past week, I spent time with them (the dresses), in between the demands of research and the work surrounding the Thread Memory symposium. The dresses seemed really happy and loved in Dundee. They were beaming, I could tell. Thank you @racheldedman for being such a great champion of the Palestinian Museum, history and heritage, my work and the dresses. I am also sincerely grateful for the staff at @vadundee who absolutely adored this exhibition and took care of these dresses, dolls, headdresses and stewarded our history to the over 140,000 people who visited the exhibition. 💜🥹 When this exhibition originally opened we were looking for some place in this world to feel Palestinian life in such immense despair. Thread Memory created this space, but most importantly, called on us to do more. To do more than just look. To do more than just despair.
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