Niamh Seana Meehan | Notebook Whisper, 2020

CCA Derry~Londonderry presents two solo exhibitions by Niamh Seana Meehan (NI) and Gintė Regina (LT), participants in the first DeMo reciprocal residency programme, a partnership between CCA, Lithuanian Cultural Institute and Kaunas Artists’ House. The exhibitions feature new work by the artists following their participation in the residency programme. Niamh Seana Meehan's solo exhibition Coming Soon / Netrukus is on show at CCA until November 2020. Due to government restrictions we are showing several works from the exhibition online for the duration of the show. Niamh Seana Meehan, Notebook Whisper, 2020 Niamh Seana Meehan is an artist living and working in Northern Ireland and spent February–March 2020 in Kaunas. Her interest in the residency was piqued by the language used to discuss its structure and aims; words like ‘demo’, ‘pilot’, ‘modernity’, ‘dialogue’ and ‘exchange’. Niamh’s practice often focuses on performance and spoken word and examining words. Niamh began the residency by asking what the words from the call meant and what they intended to convey in the context of an artist’s residency. As a working research method that informed much of the work in the exhibition, Niamh asked people she met during the residency for their definitions of these words and formed narratives. She combined these with her experience of the world as an ‘emerging’ artist in the political and social landscape of today, which has resulted in a new body of work in this exhibition. Notebook Whisper (2020) hears the voice of the artist reading aloud in a whisper a set texts by the artist relating to her experiences of being an artist in a new country. Read more about the exhibition: http://cca-derry-londonderry.org/exhibitions/reciprocal-residency-solo-exhibitions This project was supported by: CCA Derry~Londonderry Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council Lithuanian Cultural Institute Kaunas Artists' House Lithuanian Council for Culture Kaunas Municipality Kaunas 2022