Programme
Researcher-in-Residence
11 Dec 12
Positive Ageing Small Grants Programme
14 Jan 25—28 Feb 25
Artists
Gráinne McMenamin, OPNW (formerly Age Concern)
Info
CCA Derry~Londonderry is delighted to announce a new project with Older People North West (formerly Age Concern). Inter-disciplinary artist and researcher Gráinne McMenamin will lead a four part print-making workshop, across four weeks. This is supported by funding from the Positive Ageing Small Grants Programme 2024–2025 from Western Health and Social Care Trust.
This four-session workshop programme, delivered across 4–6 weeks, aims to allow participants to learn new skills from an experienced artist/ facilitator, providing an opportunity for social connection, to reduce loneliness, improving well-being through conversation, socialising, to increase confidence, promote lifelong learning through art techniques and produce tangible creative outcomes with the support of Gráinne.
Across the four workshops participants will get an introduction to relief methods of printmaking including learning about the tools, materials and techniques of lino cut. Followed by an introduction to intaglio printmaking methods of printmaking. Participants will sample both techniques, working towards designs for their own hand-printed greeting cards and a framed art piece.
This project follows previous years, when Lyndsey McDougall facilitated Slow Making, an eco bundle dye workshop in 2021. Followed by oil painting workshops with Niall McLaughlin, Still Life Painting in Oil, in 2022 and Studying Old Masters in 2024. This workshop series is for participants at OPNW. If you are 60+ and would like to get involved email info@CCADLD.org to find out more.
CCA Derry~Londonderry would like to thank Western Health and Social Care Trust for supporting this activity through the Positive Ageing Small Grants Programme. Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Derry City & Strabane District Council.
Gráinne is an interdisciplinary artist/researcher based in northwest Ireland.
Her projects span installation, performance, sculpture and video. Her practice incorporates painting, printmaking, drawing, writing and hand- embroidery using plant-dyed silk skeins and local Donegal wool.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been engaged in an ongoing collaboration with artist / researcher Catherine Bourne on a number of creative projects. A recent Decade of Centenaries funded project (Leitrim County Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media 2020- 2022.) included historical research, photography, drawing, aerial and ground mapping alongside the planning and delivery of participatory community workshops involving art, writing, reminiscence, story-collecting, and the development of a creative archive, real and imagined.
Gráinne has been project coordinator of the artists initiative Donegal Visual Artist Network (DVAN) in collaboration with Artlink Fort Dunree, The Regional Cultural Centre (RCC) Letterkenny, An Gailearai, Gweedore and The Glebe Gallery, Church Hill since 2022.
She was a participant of CCA Derry~Londonderry / Jerwood Developing Artists Programme in 2023 and is a member of The Manorhamilton Print Group at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre, currently working in exchange with the Ottawa-Gatineau Printmakers Connective in Canada on an ongoing collaboration project.
Gráinne’s current combined theory and practice-based research on the historic print as a catalyst for new visual art practice is supported by the Northern Bridge Consortium funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
