Cecily Brennan is an Irish artist, born in 1954. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and has shown extensively nationally and internationally. Her work is held in all of the major Irish public and private collections.
Her work addresses psychological damage and recovery, both metaphorically, in landscape, in depictions of skin diseases and their treatment, in basic science demonstrations, and directly, through film and video work, considering grief, self-harm, melancholia and psychosis.
Her practice encompasses film, photography, drawing, printmaking, painting (in gesso, oil and watercolour), casting, and sound.
She is currently making a body of work, centred around a film, supported by an Arts Council project award, which presents psychosis in six imagined men.
She was elected to membership of Aosdána in 1991 and is currently Chair of its organising committee, the Toscaireacht. She helped establish the Visual Arts Centre, a shared studio space, and served on various Boards and committees associated with the arts in Ireland.
She was a founder of the Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the Eight Amendment, which was part of the successful campaign to guarantee reproductive rights to Irish women.
Her show PRESSURE at the Glucksman Gallery in Cork is was in November 2025; PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE SIX MEN PROJECT was at the Taylor Galleries in Dublin from 13th February to 8th March 2025; her film SIX MEN will be in the Cube in the Project Arts Centre in Dublin in November 2025.
She is represented by the Taylor Galleries in Dublin.
Emma Keane, Producer, Raw Grá Productions
Emma Keane is an emerging filmmaker and producer from Meath now based in Dublin. They graduated from the National Film School of Ireland (IADT) in 2015 as a Producing major, BA in Film & Television Production. They have been selected for the talent development schemes Xpollinator in 2023 and IGNITE in 2024.
Through their production company Raw Grá Productions, their work focuses on bringing artist-led films and creative documentaries to the screen.
