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Camilla Fanning is an Irish artist based in Dublin whose work is informed by frequent stays on the western edges of Ireland. Her artist practice is interdisciplinary working across media including sound art, drawing, printmaking and assemblage, exploring ideas around collective memories, concealment, cognitive dissonance, intergenerational trauma and epigenetics. Recent works include an interdisciplinary installation in a two person show in Asna Gallery 2022 and in 2020 her sound piece ‘Wordsteps’ was ‘Winner Dublin County Award Heritage Week’. Her fine art print is held in public and private collections. She has received arts awards from the Irish Arts Council, and DLR Co.Co. and is a member of the Graphic Studio Dublin. She completed an MFA in 2018 in the National College of Art & Design, Dublin and has been selected for Artists Residencies in Greywood Arts 2024, AnnaMakkerig Tyrone Guthrie Centre (2025), Limerick Printmakers (2020) AMP4 Kunstpodium-T Apprentice ‘Master-Is’ Project, TAC Eindhoven (2018), Cill Rialaig (2021, 2020, 2015), Berlin 2009 and New York Arts Students League 1999.
‘My practice is focused on landscape - in particular the elements that are hidden, suggested or half remembered. I am interesting in story mapping and embedded memories and the communal history of place.’
My practice is focused primarily on place, memory, and landscape, exploring the impact of intergenerational trauma. We have powerful associations, and embodied memories, in the places we know and move through. I am interested in the act of remembering, deep mapping, cognitive dissonance and the communal history of place, in particular the elements that are hidden, suggested, suppressed, or half-remembered. What do we choose to acknowledge and what is lost to wilful forgetting? Acknowledging a difficult truth is always a challenge, but is also the only way to break the pattern. The first step is noticing, and then awareness and self-questioning.
My practice is interdisciplinary, working across media including sound art, drawing, printmaking, and assemblage. On site drawing and recording captures a particular immediacy, while working from research sketchbooks allows more complex images to be developed later in the studio. I record on site, to create original field recordings or use found objects and natural materials to make sound. I utilise original or ‘authentic’ sounds, derived from analogue sources or created from scratch using digital tools. The final work is a blend of all of these sources dictated by the intention.
Exhibitions
2024 Out of Place Gallerie Wolf & Galentz Berlin three person show with Oona Hyland (printmaker) and Grace Sexton (film maker)
2022 DECADES Asna Gallery Clonakilty Co Cork Ireland two-person show with Sinead Barrett (painter)
Ongoing group shows
Awards
2020 Winner Dublin County Award Heritage Week for ‘WordSteps’ sound walk.
Residencies
2024 Creative Process Residency at Greywood Arts & Aras Eanna Residency Inis Oirr
2021 Cill Rialaig Print Now Event and Residency
2020 Limerick Printmakers Residency
2020 Cill Rialaig Residency
2018 Residency TAC Eindhoven AMP4 Kunstpodium-T Programm
2015 Cill Rialaig, Artists Retreat, Co Kerry, Ireland
2008 Residency in Druckstelle Etching Studio Berlin
1999 Residency in Art Students League New York.
Public & Private Art Commissions
2017 Public art commission for Waterways Ireland ‘WORDSTEPS’ sound walk.
2013 Commission for MART Arts Centre Assemblage ‘ARE WE THERE YET?’,
Collections: private, state, museums etc:
Fine art prints included in the collection of the Office of Public Works, the archives of the Botanic Gardens Dublin, Cill Rialaig & Graphic Studio Dublin; Held in private collections in Austria, France, Australia, UK and USA.
Public speaking, artists talks, conference contributions:
RESPONDENT at the 2019 Conference for Aquatic Cultures and the Digital Environmental Humanities (ACDEH), Trinity Long Room Hub. Culture Night public printmaking DEMONSTRATION & TALK for the Graphic Studio Dublin (2015-18); PRESENTATION on technology & culture at CASI Seminar Liverpool (2015); ARTIST’S TALK at Synthesis II’ at the Irish Film Institute, curated by FRACTAL
Press coverage & texts:
Keep on Rolling #53 Pressing Matters Newsletter August 2024
Irish Arts Review ‘Out of Place’ Summer 2024 International selection
‘The Graphic Studio Dublin – history, impacts and artistry’ Exhibition Essay by Dr Angela Griffith TCD for ‘Diamond Point’ 2020.
Irish Times 2020 Heritage Week award winners 24 Oct 2020
‘Changing perceptions of print in Bunclody’, New Ross Standard August 13 2016
‘The Masters_2016: Etching’ Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London 2016
Memberships:
Graphic Studio Dublin Member, Visual Artists Ireland Professional Membership, CATALYST Belfast, Ormston House Limerick, Science + Art Reading Group, Science Museum TCD, Blue Island Network Aqua Research AU/TCD, PRAXIS Artists Union.
Gallery Representation:
Graphic Studio Dublin Gallery, SO Fine Art Editions Gallery.