Announcing: URGENCIES (2025) Selected Artists

CCA Derry~Londonderry is pleased to announce the artists selected for URGENCIES (2025):

Aidan O’Neill, Cara Donaghey, Emily Waszak, Hannah Casey Brogan, James Mooney/Alex Pollock/Rodhlann Mossop/Sadhbh Sheehan, Katrina Cobain, Kelly Ewing, Leah Corbett, Niall McLaughlin, Sgàire Wood.

Selected by CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk and Artist Jennifer Trouton, the URGENCIES (2025) artists represent a snapshot of some of the concerns and interests held today by early-career artists connected to our region. Working across a wide range of media, the topics covered include ecological breakdown, mental health, toxic masculinity, conflict, privilege, power, preservation and healthcare. Many of the works have been inspired by personal experience and specific issues but speak to wider national and global contexts such as medication shortages, violent attacks on identity, library closures, flooding, and the toxic blooms of Lough Neagh.

URGENCIES (2025) is the fourth edition of the biennial group exhibition selected through open call. The project will launch on Saturday 18 January 2025 at 7pm and will take place in CCA’s galleries and offsite. The exhibition will run until 15 March 2025.

For the full Press Release please visit the Press Page:
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URGENCIES ARCHIVE:

URGENCIES (2023)
Artists: Chloe Austin, Husk Bennett, Daniel Coleman, Sarah Diver Lang, DreamBean, Miach Malachy, Julie Lovett, Richard Magee, Silvia Mandic, Yasmine Robinson.
Selectors: Joy Gerrard & Catherine Hemelryk

URGENCIES (2021)
Artists: Martin Boyle, Bryony Dunne, Brian Farrell, Edy Fung, Kathryn Graham, Michael Hanna, Patrick Hickey, Siobhán Kelly, Lucie McLaughlin, Christopher Steenson, Frank Wasser.
Selectors: Locky Morris & Catherine Hemelryk

URGENCIES (2019)
Artists: Bronagh Gallagher, Denise McShannon, Doireann Ní Ghrioghair, Hamish MacPherson, Laura O’Connor, Michelle Hall, Myriad Carten, Niamh McConaghy, Paddy McKeown and Soft Fiction Projects (Alessia Cargnelli and Emily McFarland).
Selectors: Willie Doherty & Catherine Hemelryk

URGENCIES (2025) is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Derry City & Strabane District Council

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery

Images:

1. Hannah Casey Brogan, seeds (2024). Drawing on paper

2. Cara Donaghey, C3630 : Road at Gransha,Tuesday 23 June 2009 (2024). Etching

3. Aidan O’Neill, mzUNga (2024). Video

4. Leah Corbett, Carnegie Oldpark Library, Belfast (2024). Photograph