Creative Careers Realities Conference

05 Feb 25

Artists

Michael Hanna, Hannah Casey-Brogan

Info

Wednesday 5 February 2025, 10am–2.45pm

The Centre For Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry is delighted to partner with the North West Regional College to deliver a one day online conference for Art and Design students, from both the Strand and Limavady campuses.

The aim of the conference is to hear directly from artists about their art journeys, experiences and their creative career path. Discussing where and when it began, what challenges they faced and where they at with their art practice today. The students will also learn about the artists' work, the context of their work, their processes and materials they use. They will hear about their thoughts on the art sector as a career choice.

Hannah Casey-Brogan seeds, 2024 Watercolour and colouring pencils on paper

During the conference the students will hear from invited guest-speaking artists Michael Hanna and Hannah Casey Brogan. Michael recently had a solo exhibition, Crossing the Park, in CCA from October to December 2024. Hannah is an exhibiting artist in CCA's current exhibition URGENCIES (2025), which runs until 15 March 2025. There will be additional contributions form CCA Director, Catherine Hemelryk and Public Programmes Curator, Laura McCafferty.

Michael Hanna, Installation view 'Crossing the Park', Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry (Photo: Paola Bernadelli)

This conference forms part of the Public Programme for the current exhibition URGENCIES (2025).

Michael Hanna Biography

Michael Hanna is an artist based in Northern Ireland. His work takes the form of social and sensory experiments often with himself as the subject.

Exhibitions include the MAC, Belfast (2024), PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin Castle (2022), Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2022), TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway (2022) and Chennai Photo Biennale (2021).

He recently completed a residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris (2021), and the Freelands Artist Programme (2019-21), a 2-year fellowship with PS2, Belfast and Freelands Foundation, London.

michaelhanna.org

Hannah Casey-Brogan Biography

Hannah Casey-Brogan creates uncanny landscapes which are simultaneously alien and familiar, finding herself drawn to the interconnectedness between biology, geography, and meteorology.

Hannah Casey-Brogan holds a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art (2007), in addition to two Masters degrees in Embroidery (2009) and Painting (2015) from Ulster University. Hannah has exhibited her work throughout the UK and Ireland, most recently at The MAC Belfast (2023), as well as internationally in Berlin, Paris, New York, Reykjavik and Japan. She has received awards from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council to travel on international residencies to countries including Iceland and Japan.

hannahcaseybrogan.com

instagram.com/hannahcasey_brogan