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Ceara Conway is an independent award-winning contemporary vocal and visual artist. She creates experiential compositions and performance works that utilise song, testimonies, texts and forms of visual art (photography, sculpture and video) to explore social issues such as migration, the ecological crisis and feminist concerns.

An area of her practice includes a specific interest in the utilisation of traditional and contemporary lament as a way to explore at how we, as individuals, communities and societies express and experience loss and grief in response to social and humanistic issues. 

 

She has shown and performed work widely internationally and in Ireland, including the Museum Of Fine Art, Florida (2024), Stable Gallery, Washington (2023), the Katzen Arts Centre, Washington, the Barbican, UK, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum (2015), Galway Arts Centre and the National Gallery of Ireland.

Select works include Weathering with Mary Wycherley and composer Jurgen Simpson (2023), CAOIN (2022), GOL with Brú Theatre (2021), Bealtaine Festival ‘Of Scent and Song (2021), Viriditas, Galway ECOC & Saolta Arts (2020), Dóchas/Hope, Oireachtas na Gaeilge & Waterways Ireland (2019). The Feminist Supermarket, Ormston House, (2021), Pocahontas Opera House Residency with Anna Roberts Gevalt, West Virginia, USA (2022 & 23). 
 

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2025- Commissions/Projects/Live Performances

​Online talk with Manchán Magan, Ray Cuddihy and Tadhg Griffin- Cork County Arts Office: March 20th, 2025

Greywood Arts, Cork - Artists Residency, May 25

Galway International Arts Festival & Interface, Curated by Valeria Ceregini - July 2025

CREATE- Artists in the Community Scheme: I Sing Myself - Research Project Award 2025

Arts Council Music Bursary Award recipient: 2024

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​For commission/performance inquiries email: conwayceara@gmail.com

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