Emily McCullagh
D.O.B. 1st January 1976
email: emilymccullagh@yahoo.co.uk

Education

1995 - 1998

BA Honours Fine and Applied Arts - University of Ulster

Community Art

Summer 2002

Step Stories I organized a traveling art project which entailed walking from Belfast to Baltimore in South Co. Cork over the summer months and creating large scale wall hangings with 6 rural groups along the way. This project was funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Autumn 2001

Open Arts, Working with the psychiatric ward and out patients in City
Hospital to realize a public installation in the Botanic Gardens using
stained glass.
Draiocht Children's Festival, Working with a traveler children's group to design and realize a wood sculpture for the Colin Glen Forest Park.
Workshops in glass painting and ceramics.

Summer 2001

Open Arts, Woodcarving workshops with the visually impaired to create a permanent sculpture for the Cresent Arts center.
Pavee Point, Dublin. Glass painting with Roma gypsies.
Groundwork, Cross community project to realize 2 sculptural benches for youth groups in Ballymena.
Tollymore youth club. Mural for a large wall in the main hall of the building depicting past and present members,
and some of the activities.
Inisowen Carnival Group. Costume making with 2 schools in Inisowen for the annual Halloween Carnival

Spring 2002

Open Arts. Crafts with Breaking the Silence groups
Tollymore Youth Group. Mural project
Newstart Youth group. Mural project and Hall of Fame Puppet making.
Draoicht children's festival. Craft with children.
Conway Education Centre. Basic ceramics.

Carnival Work

Summer 2000

Feile An Phobail, Design and creation of two floats and costumes for the St.
Patrick's Day Parade
Feile An Phobail. Street theatre walkabout with Carnival Chaos.
Prior's Wood Community, Dublin Puppet making
Cresent Arts Centre. Carnival assembly for Larne summer parade.
Feile An Phobail. Largescale floats for West Belfast St. Patrick's Day celibrations.
Carnival assembly for Greystones Summer Festival and the City Quays
Festival, Dublin.

Events

May 2000 /01

Decoration of St Georges Market as a Venue for Mayday celibrations
Set design for Eclectic Electric Benefit Nights.

Commissions

Summer 2001

Memorial woodcarving
Gem of the Roe, Public sculpture
Sculptural lampshades.

Exhibitions

Spring 2002

Autumn 1998

Summer 1998

Chultarlann Mac Fiach, Irish Cultural Centre, Belfast
Bookfinders Café, Belfast
Clements Café, Belfast

RUA Annual Exhibition, received the Connor prize
Blackstaff Artists' Collective Christmas Exhibition

Young in Art, Cultra Heritage Centre
Degree Show, Belfast College of Art

Care work

Spring 1999

Summer 1997

Care assistant at the Pines Residential Home

Counselor at a special needs summer camp, California

Interests

Mountaineering, participating in carnivals, human rights, travel.

I hold a current Driver's Licence.