Recorded in July 2025, this Roundtable brings together speakers to discuss their practices, approaches and interests.
Artist and CCA Research Associate Marie Farrington invited Megan Macedo and Róisín O Meadhra to join her in this podcast through their shared interests in geology, land, memory and connection and their different ways of looking at the past through the lens of today. They discuss their practices - Megan Macedo as a writer and facilitator and Róisín O Meadhra as an archaeology artefact illustrator - and their collaborations with Diagonal Acts, a multi-platform project created by Marie Farrington exploring many of these themes and more.
You can find out more about the speakers and CCA at CCADLD.org and at the following:
Marie Farrington | mariefarrington.com
Megan Macedo | meganmacedo.com
Róisín O Meadhra | roisinomeadhra.com
Diagonal Acts | diagonalacts.com
Strata | CCADLD.org/exhibitions/strata
With thanks to:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
Garfield Weston Foundation
Jerwood Foundation
Arts Council Ireland
Culture Ireland
Wicklow County Arts Office
An audio description by Soso Ní Cheallaigh
“De mo neamhthoil a thánaig an crith orm”
“How does it feel to never truly be still?”
Part of Bounce Festival 2024 at CCA Derry~Londonderry on 5 October 2024 where Soso performed in CCA's Project Space amidst their installation.
Responding to the essential tremor and involuntary contractions that convulse through their own body, this work is part of Soso Ní Cheallaigh’s ongoing study on the chaos and disorder of their rare nervous system conditions. This new site specific work combines video installation with live intervention to explore self-documentation, bodily isolation, and our inherent human need to understand ourselves.
De mo neamhthoil was supported in part by the European Dancehouse Network Carte Blanche Travel Award.
Proud part of the Bounce Arts Festival 2024.
About Soso Ní Cheallaigh
Soso Ní Cheallaigh (they/them) is a disability-led multidisciplinary maker from Derry. Their work spans poetry, essay, theatre, visual art, and film through both the English and Irish language. Recent credits include Burkitt (TG4/Little Ease Films), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Theatre), and SHIFT (DU Dance & Southpaw Dance Company). A graduate of Seamus Heaney Centre and Inclusive Dance Cork, Soso was a previous recipient of University of Atypical’s DDASF award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland funding, and a Theatre and Dance NI INVEST artist for 2024.
ohbysoso.com
About Bounce Festival
Bounce Arts Festival 4–6 October 2024 - This is a festival created by and for disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent people through the University of Atypical. This year it is taking place over three days in Belfast, Derry~Londonderry and Limavady. Transcending barriers, celebrating ability and disability; disturbing myths and illuminating the creative practice of disabled artists on a professional platform: Bounce is our showcase where every aspect of diverse identity is celebrated. All are welcome.
universityofatypical.org/bounce
Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council, University of ATypical, European Dancehouse Network Carte Blanche Travel Award.
Niamh Seana Meehan
Dreamers, 2024 Audio Recording, 8 mins 10 sec
Part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2024 and National Drawing Day 2024.
This year CCA invites artist Niamh Seana Meehan to design an activity for NIMHAF 10–19 May 2024 and National Drawing Day 18 May 2024.
In Dreamers Niamh invites you to listen, float, and linger with an audio coastal walk. Walking along edges of liquid space this audio will explore moments to find stillness, to feel how our skin touches seawater and how we can reimagine the desire path. A desire path is a path created by animal traffic, or a path taken as a short-cut. For this coastal walk the desire path will present listeners with the space to reimagine what they desire to find on their own coastal path.
Listen to the audio, pausing to draw or write anything that comes to mind. Alternatively you can listen to the full audio, then begin to draw what you feel, think or imagined as you were listening. You are also welcome to sit comfortably and listen to the audio.
Suggested materials are pens, pencils, colouring pencils or whatever you have to hand or prefer to draw with. You can collect materials from CCA, 10-12 Artillery Street, Derry~Londonderry, BT48 6RG from 10 May 2024.
You can download or listen online to this specially created audio with intentional pauses to give you space to reflect, draw or write. Headphones are preferred. You can tag your drawings with @CCADLD, @nimhaf, #NationalDrawingDay
Read more about the work at: ccadld.org/public-programme/dreamers-an-activity-for-nimhaf-and-national-drawing-day
And visit the artist's instagram at: @niamhseanameehan
This project was supported by:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Arts Council England
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
Northern Ireland Mental Health Festival
CCA Introducing continues with a takeover by R Talitha Samuel, an independent cultural producer and editor based in New Delhi, India. R's takeover, entitled Samuel, meaning 'God Has Heard', takes place on CCA's Instagram and Spotify on Sunday 24 March 2024.
Below, you can find a description of the takeover:
'I had a totally different plan in mind for this visual and audio project when I initially started out. However, just before I was all set to hit record, my grandfather got very sick and passed away. This was during the month of December 2023, and it naturally changed the course of not only my life and understanding of myself but also of this work. I wanted to explore why I do what I do in terms of my approach to audio as a medium, mediated through the literal voices of members of my community and my family. Now, my takeover, Samuel, meaning 'God Has Heard', composed of audio recordings, old Tamil hymns and voice notes will dive into the warp and weft of grief, collective prayer, sound as infrastructure, recording as witness and what it means to be a man.'
CCA Introducing is made possible thanks to Art Fund, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Derry City & Strabane District Council.
Welcome to our latest Roundtable from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.
Sound and Vision connects this episode's speakers: Peter Glasgow, Susan Hughes and Ryan Vail. Recorded during Susan Hughes' solo show, 'Stones From a Gentle Place' at CCA, each artists' practice spans music and visual art. Susan is a fiddle player using music to barter for stories, Peter experiments with slide guitar and participated in CCA's Digital Residency 'The Honkey Tonks and Me' in Autumn 2023, and Ryan Vail won the NI Music Award for Best Album with Elma Orkestra in 2019 as well as working with Visual Spectrum Studios creating audio-visual installations.
You can find out more about CCA at CCADLD.org.
Peter Glasgow peterglasgow.co.uk | @peterglasgow
Susan Hughes cargocollective.com/susanhughesartist | @susandorothyhughes
Ryan Vail @ryanvail | @visualspectrumstudio
With thanks to:
CCA Derry~LondonderryArt FundArts Council of Northern IrelandDerry City & Strabane District Council
Welcome to our latest Roundtable from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.
Episode 9 welcomes SEAMS artist Laura Wilson who talks with writer Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh and weaver Claire Whelan about linen, family, history, motherhood, nature and the colour indigo amongst other topics.
You can find out more about SEAMS at CCADLD.org.
Laura Wilson laurawilson.me | @wilsonlaurawilson
Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh @kerrinidochartaigh
Claire Whelan @whelansweaving
With thanks to:
CCA Derry~LondonderryArt FundArts Council of Northern IrelandDerry City & Strabane District Council
Welcome to our latest Roundtable from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.
In this episode artist Tom O'Dea and Frank Sweeney talk with Pirate.ie's John Walsh about the Irish Pirate Radio Archive, cross border broadcasts and country music.
You can see documentation from the exhibition Ballads of Rhinestones & Newcomers, which featured work by Frank Sweeney and Tom O'Dea at CCADLD.org and you can read more about the artists at the following links:
Frank Sweeney
franksweeney.art | @frankbeee
Tom O'Dea
iamtomodea.com
John Walsh
Pirate.ie | @pirate_ie
With thanks to:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Art Fund
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
Welcome to our latest Roundtable from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.
In this episode artist Bojana Janković invites Justin Kuoame and Vukašin Nedeljković to talk with her and Director of CCA Catherine Hemelryk. They discuss how they came to art, life as a migrant and navigating the various hostile environments they have encountered through the different systems operating across the UK and Ireland.
You can see documentation from the exhibition Ballads of Rhinestones & Newcomers, which featured work by Bojana Janković at CCADLD.org and you can read more about the artists at the following links:
Bojana Janković
bojanajankovic.com | @postmoderna
Justin Kuoame
Interview
Vukašin Nedeljković
asylumarchive.com | @asylum.archive
With thanks to:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Art Fund
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
Welcome to our latest Roundtable from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.
In this episode 2022 DeMo Reciprocal Residency artists Mark Buckeridge and Ona Juciūtė talk with artist Hrefna Hörn Leifsdóttir and curator and Director of CCA, Catherine Hemelryk. They talk about the past, the present and the role materials play in their practices.
You can see more by Mark Buckeridge and Ona Juciūtė and their solo shows at ccadld.org as well as more about the artists at the following links:
Mark Buckeridge
markbuckeridge.com | @mark_buckeridge | muinebheagarts.com
Hrefna Hörn Leifsdóttir
hrefnaleifsdottir.be | @hrefnahorn | @the_tail_brussels | @f.ct.on
Ona Juciūtė
Interview
With thanks to:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Lithuanian Culture Institute
Art Fund
Kaunas Artists' House
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
Lithuanian Council for Culture
Kaunas Municipality
Kaunas 2022
This podcast was made possible by Lithuanian Culture Institute, Arts Council for Northern Ireland and Art Fund.
Oisín Roberts
Fool's Spring, 2022
Audio reading, 4 mins 45 sec
Part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2022.
Oisín Roberts is an artist and poet originally from our city and a recent graduate of the Slade School of Art in London. This new installation is centred around a new piece of writing entitled Fool’s Spring and consists of a bicycle rack, yellow light and poem installed in CCA's Project Space and the poem is available to download in this podcast.
The title of the long form poem comes from the nick name of a fake season, naming the week of warmth that comes after winter and before ‘second winter’. It is, for the artist, a false start, a brief and urgent movement between periods of stagnancy. Oisín is interested in repeating fleeting human interventions in their environment, whether seeing a person absent-mindedly moving something from one place to another, noticing a sticker stuck on the side of a wall, or screen-shotting the bike ebay ad when noticing a butterfly on the frame.
Oisín writes referencing the tone of the New Narrative movement way of writing poetry, creating auto-fiction texts that sound like they could be talking about their life, but the content comes from a wide range of sources. Adopting the idea that all sources are as valid as the other, Oisín practices a way of making in which no hierarchy exists.
Fool’s Spring is on view in the CCA Project Space for the duration of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Festival from Monday 9–Sunday 15 May 2022.
About the artist
Oisín Roberts (b.1994) is originally from Derry~Londonderry. They moved to London to study at The Slade School of Fine Art, graduating in 2018. A Pisces, a poet and an artist - they went on to read in public and exhibit sculptures, now scattered across various defunked and hard to find web-links. Their current exhibitions include, catch Fast Glass, a group photography exhibition at Set New Cross, 15–16 April, Carpeted Stares, a group show in AMP Gallery 15–19 June and 07803178250/07531313883, a two person show with Lowri Heckler at Set New Cross 2–9 August.
Read more about the work at: CCADLD.org/public-programmes/fools-spring
And visit the artist's instagram at: @oisin.roberts
This project was supported by:
CCA Derry~Londonderry Arts Council England Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council Northern Ireland Mental Health Festival
Chinasa Vivian Ezugha
Tongues, 2021
in collaboration with Uchechuwku and Chidinma Ezugha
Audio performance, 10 minutes
Edited by Martyna Poznanska
This first practice-as-research project by CCA Research Associate Chinasa Vivian Ezugha seeks to examine the question: ‘What kind of documentation can be derived from glossolalic speech and its presentation?’ It does so through the development and creation of an audio performance, realised in collaboration with the artists' sisters recorded in everyday mundane spaces such as the kitchen or bedroom. This project examines the practice of glossolalia within family relationships and the everyday, and the way in which spoken glossolalia can be used to further discussions around our relationship to the voice as a form of connection to our bodies and others.
This is the first iteration of this research project, exploring glossolalia and the differences in speech and sound between the diasporic Nigerians in the UK and the Pentecostal Nigerians across Nigeria.
Read more about the work at: CCADLD.org/public-programmes/tongues
And visit the artist's websites at: vcezugha.wixsite.com | ezugha.tumblr.com
This project was supported by:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Arts Council England
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
Welcome to the fifth of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Roundtables where we bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.
The exhibition Tilt [at Windmills] is the starting point for this conversation between artist Jarkko Räsänen with the project's curator Mirjami Schuppert and Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell who is both a curator at Northern Ireland Screen and member of the Turner Prize winning collective Array! They discuss archives, Teletext, collective memory and more.
A full transcript will be available soon.
Read more about the exhibition and view the cryptark at:
CCADLD.org/exhibitions/tilt-at-windmills
cryptark.net
And you can find out more about the speakers at:
Jarkko Räsänen - jarkko.persona.co
Mirjami Schuppert - mirjamischuppert.com
Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell - arraystudiosbelfast.com/sinead-bhreathnach-cashell.html
Northern Ireland Screen - digitalfilmarchive.net
With thanks to:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
Art Fund
Welcome to the fourth of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Roundtables where we bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.
In conversation in this episode are artists Priya Mistry, Nithya Nagarajan and Hetain Patel. The artists discuss their practices, working across disciplines, collaborations, family, diaspora and identity.
A full transcript is available to download here: tinyurl.com/35jw5m8p
You can read more about the artists at their websites:
Priya Mistry - whatsthebigmistry.com
Nithya Nagarajan - nithyanagarajan.com
Hetain Patel - hetainpatel.com
With thanks to:
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
Art Fund
CCA Derry~Londonderry | CCADLD.org | @CCADLD
Welcome to a BONUS MATERIAL podcast that follows on from the third CCA Derry~Londonderry's Roundtable with the Irish Modernisms artists talking about their work and experiences. The exhibition's artists James Ashe, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Phillip McCrilly, Grace McMurray join the exhibition's curators Catherine Hemelryk and Matt Retallick to discuss modernisms, the work in the show and their wider practices.
The full transcript is available to read here: tinyurl.com/smrf6nce
You can listen to the first part of the conversation here: anchor.fm/ccadld/episodes/CCA-DerryLondonderry--Round-Table-3--Irish-Modernisms-e14coei
You can see 'Irish Modernisms: legacies of modernism in the north' at CCA until 18 September 2021. You can see images of the show at the website and online @CCADLD.
CCADLD.org/exhibitions/irish-modernisms
With thanks to:
CCA Derry~Londonderry Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council British Art Network Paul Mellon Centre Yale Arts Council England
Tate
Welcome to the third CCA Derry~Londonderry's Roundtable where we bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences. Irish Modernisms is an exhibition bringing together five contemporary artists from NI influenced and exploring the legacies of modernism in the north. The exhibition's artists James Ashe, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Phillip McCrilly, Grace McMurray join the exhibition's curators Catherine Hemelryk and Matt Retallick to discuss modernisms, the work in the show and their wider practices.
The full transcript is available to read here: https://tinyurl.com/3afcnfp4
This is the first part of the conversation - you can listen to the rest of the conversation on our Bonus Material Podcast: anchor.fm/ccadld/episodes/BONUS-MATERIAL-CCA-DerryLondonderry--Round-Table-3--Irish-Modernisms-e14cp8v
You can see 'Irish Modernisms: legacies of modernism in the north' at CCA until 18 September 2021. You can see images of the show at the website and online @CCADLD.
CCADLD.org/exhibitions/irish-modernisms
With thanks to:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
British Art Network
Paul Mellon Centre
Yale
Arts Council England
Tate
Welcome to the second of CCA Derry~Londonderry's Roundtables where we bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.
In this episode artists Janie Doherty and Locky Morris are in conversation with Joanne Laws. They discuss their respective practices, collaboration, movement, painting, place, disembodied limbs and more.
You can see nothing (but windows), a new body of work by Janie Doherty and Locky Morris, in CCA’s Project Space until 1 May 2021 and clips by the artists can be seen on Instagram @CCADLD and 'especiallyeverything' @LockyMorrisArtist.
Transcription of this recording is available here.
With thanks to: CCA Derry~LondonderryArts Council of Northern IrelandDerry City & Strabane District Council
URGENCIES (2021) is a biennial exhibition by CCA Derry~Londonderry. The exhibition is selected from an open call, seeking to take the temperature of what emerging artists working today with a connection to our region consider to be urgent.
Lucie McLaughlin, Clickety-Clack - Part 1, 2021
7 minutes 31 seconds
Clickety-Clack by Lucie McLaughlin is a triptych of experimental sound work, a mix of field recording and constructed narrative sequences that include the sounds of a printer dancing, music leaked through walls, the quiet rabble of voices outside a pub and the purr of a washing machine. The artist aims to build connections between the disparate places where words inhabit artwork and art inhabits words. Lucie navigates between moving/still image, performance, writing and sound and uses 'autobiographical' or abstracted anecdotal moments in order to question the essence of performative text and to write from 'hard places' such as mental ill health. Lucie McLaughlin was born in Belfast and is currently based in Glasgow.
URGENCIES (2021) features artists and Martin Boyle, Bryony Dunne, Brian Farrell, Edy Fung, Kathryn Graham, Michael Hanna, Patrick Hickey, Siobhán Kelly, Lucie McLaughlin, Christopher Steenson, Frank Wasser and was selected by artist Locky Morris and CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk.
Read more about the exhibition:
http://cca-derry-londonderry.org/exhibitions/urgencies-2021
Listen to Clickety-Clack parts 2 and 3 here.
This project was supported by:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
URGENCIES (2021) is a biennial exhibition by CCA Derry~Londonderry. The exhibition is selected from an open call, seeking to take the temperature of what emerging artists working today with a connection to our region consider to be urgent.
Lucie McLaughlin, Clickety-Clack - Part 3, 2021
9 minutes 12 seconds
Clickety-Clack by Lucie McLaughlin is a triptych of experimental sound work, a mix of field recording and constructed narrative sequences that include the sounds of a printer dancing, music leaked through walls, the quiet rabble of voices outside a pub and the purr of a washing machine. The artist aims to build connections between the disparate places where words inhabit artwork and art inhabits words. Lucie navigates between moving/still image, performance, writing and sound and uses 'autobiographical' or abstracted anecdotal moments in order to question the essence of performative text and to write from 'hard places' such as mental ill health. Lucie McLaughlin was born in Belfast and is currently based in Glasgow.
URGENCIES (2021) features artists and Martin Boyle, Bryony Dunne, Brian Farrell, Edy Fung, Kathryn Graham, Michael Hanna, Patrick Hickey, Siobhán Kelly, Lucie McLaughlin, Christopher Steenson, Frank Wasser and was selected by artist Locky Morris and CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk.
Read more about the exhibition:
http://cca-derry-londonderry.org/exhibitions/urgencies-2021
Listen to Clickety-Clack parts 1 and 2 here.
This project was supported by:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
URGENCIES (2021) is a biennial exhibition by CCA Derry~Londonderry. The exhibition is selected from an open call, seeking to take the temperature of what emerging artists working today with a connection to our region consider to be urgent.
Lucie McLaughlin, Clickety-Clack - Part 1, 2021
3 minutes 55 seconds
Clickety-Clack by Lucie McLaughlin is a triptych of experimental sound work, a mix of field recording and constructed narrative sequences that include the sounds of a printer dancing, music leaked through walls, the quiet rabble of voices outside a pub and the purr of a washing machine. The artist aims to build connections between the disparate places where words inhabit artwork and art inhabits words. Lucie navigates between moving/still image, performance, writing and sound and uses 'autobiographical' or abstracted anecdotal moments in order to question the essence of performative text and to write from 'hard places' such as mental ill health. Lucie McLaughlin was born in Belfast and is currently based in Glasgow.
URGENCIES (2021) features artists and Martin Boyle, Bryony Dunne, Brian Farrell, Edy Fung, Kathryn Graham, Michael Hanna, Patrick Hickey, Siobhán Kelly, Lucie McLaughlin, Christopher Steenson, Frank Wasser and was selected by artist Locky Morris and CCA Director Catherine Hemelryk.
Read more about the exhibition:
http://cca-derry-londonderry.org/exhibitions/urgencies-2021
Listen to Clickety-Clack parts 1 and 3 here.
This project was supported by:
CCA Derry~Londonderry
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council
Put on your headphones and join artist Jan Uprichard on a self-directed smell walk to explore your surroundings with your nose.
Find out more at cca-derry-londonderry.org
For CCA during lockdown, Jan has created OlfactoStroll, a smell walk for our city, however, you can listen to the audio anywhere in the world or around your own home to create your own OlfactoStroll. Both walking and smell have taken on added importance during the pandemic. This guided walk offers a different way to experience familiar surroundings guided by a series of prompts from the artist. The podcast/guided walk, is accompanied by a series of Deep Smelling protocols, visible through our gallery windows and at various spots around the city.
Jan is an artist and freelance curator/producer based in Belfast. She is currently a PhD researcher at Ulster University. OlfactoStroll is grounded in Jan’s PhD research, in which she is developing a method of Deep Smelling. Deep Smelling is a meditative, experiential and process-based art practice, which brings our attention to our sense of smell.
As an artist and researcher Jan works with smell as a device to re-programme how we perceive our surroundings, whilst themes of friendship fuel her curatorial practice. Jan’s art practice oscillates between participatory events and obsessive research, using smell, walking, archives, mapping, food, sound, film, bookmaking, botany, and interventions as tools.
Jan’s hope, as we negotiate the pandemic and try to figure out what a ‘new normal’ could be, is that we take the opportunity to maintain a slower pace. That we will
reflect on our experiences with a quiet activism, that utilises taking time to do nothing but wander around, and in this case, notice what we can smell and sense
around us.
* If you are experiencing a loss or distortion of your sense of smell this could be a symptom of Covid-19; please follow guidance to self-isolate and book a
test www.nidirect.gov.uk
AbScent is a UK charity that offers support and advice to people with smell disorders. Their resources include smell training, a technique that can help to stimulate the sense of smell and encourage regeneration of the olfactory nerve. Visit their website at AbScent.org.