Cecilia Danell
Cecilia Danell is a Swedish artist based in Galway. Her practice is process based, where accumulated research into landscape and the psychology of place is coupled with a strong interest in materiality and making. For the past ten years, Danell has returned to her family farm in Sweden to walk and gather research material for paintings. This experience of being in the landscape, along with the physical process of painting in the studio, results in works that detach themselves from the photographic source material. She walks and traces an environment that she knows intimately, happening upon decaying remnants of human activity, further upending the romantic notion of nature as untended wilderness. Recent and ongoing research interests include the psychogeography movement and the psychological impact place has on a person, speculative fiction and Science Fiction novels.
Cecilia Danell began this body of work while on residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in early 2020 and continued through the pandemic, ending with a residency at Ballinglen Arts Foundation in November 2021. This time of introspection and enforced solitude has resulted in a deep engagement with painting, where the winter landscape further represents that sense of stillness.
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