Cathedral Quarter Weekend

For this year’s Cathedral Quarter Weekend CCA Derry~Londonderry invites city based artist Aimee Melaugh to work with the public to create a series of large scale paintings in the collaborative painting event Supporting Cast.

The activity will take place in front of the gallery, on Artillery Street on Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 September 2021, 1pm–4pm. Drawing from the ideas that underpin her research, such as persona, identity and stripping it all away, Aimee will work with participants to create bold and expressive paintings. Working on large sheets of paper, using brush and brightly coloured inks, they will look at where and how to find pattern, consider how to develop a colour palette and explore a range of mark-making.

This will be a lively, creative event, aimed at all age groups, with an emphasis on families. The exciting part of this event is that everyone can work individually, to create a collective installation for CCA. Alongside this activity, the gallery will extend its opening hours for our current exhibition Irish Modernisms for the full weekend. For more information please email info@ccadld.org.

This event is supported by Derry City and Strabane District Council.

Aimee Melaugh is a painter based in Derry~Londonderry, having graduated in 2018 from the Belfast School of art, Melaugh has since exhibited at Platform Arts Belfast, PS^2, the ArtisAnn Gallery and has taken part in various group exhibitions as part of Gallery 545. She has had a solo exhibition at The Glassworks, Derry, supported by the Arts Council Northern Ireland and has recently completed an artist residency with Art Arcadia in June 2021. Her work is included in public collections such as the Belfast School of Art, The Arts Council Northern Ireland’s permanent collection and the Northern Ireland Civil Service Art collection.

Cathedral Quarter Weekend 4 and 5 September, 2021. Wander the traffic free streets of the Cathedral Quarter, enjoy world class circus and street performance from In Your Space Carnival of Colours, live on street music trail from Music Capital, children’s activities, outdoor painting, arts and craft workshops, jewellery making, harvest and craft demos, contemporary art and heritage exhibitions, a unique range of independent shops and markets, indoor and extended outdoor dining and live music at your favourite cafés or street food at the Legenderry Food Market! Search and download What's On Derry Strabane in the Apple or Google Play store.

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