To protect both our audiences and our performers, we will be recommending that all audience members wear a mask whether they are vaccinated or not. We ask for your cooperation. By working together, we can ensure that our performers feel comfortable and that the Opera House doors stay open for future performances.
Ceara Conway is an Irish contemporary vocalist and visual artist. She creates innovative experiential performance works that utilize traditional and contemporary song, music and visual art to explore social issues such as the ecological crisis, migration and feminist concerns.
In conjunction with her commissioned work, she has successfully practiced as a singer performing Irish traditional sean nós and traditional repertoires from Portugal and Georgia. She performs nationally and internationally for prolific events, festivals & visiting heads of state.
Ceara has completed numerous commissions, residencies, and public artworks including Viriditas, Galway ECOC2020, Dóchas/Hope (2018) Oireachtas na Gaeilge & Waterways Ireland, Thin Places, Kings College, London ( 2015) , Vicissitudes (2013), Derry City of Culture and Making Visible, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2014). She has undertaken residencies with institutes such as the Taigh Chearsabhaigh Museum, UK & OTIS College of Art/Suzanne Lacy, LA, USA .
2021 - 2022 projects:
Seanchai - Ceara Conway, Ian Lynch, Lisa O Neill, Ruth Smith, Aindrais De Staic
''How Are You'' an olfactory scent based art work for Age & Opportunity Bealtaine Festival ( May 2021)
'Weathering with dancer, choreographer Mary Wycherly and composer Jurgen Simpson
Pocahontas Opera House, West Virginia, 2022
Moon Medicine event co curated by Ceara Conway and Kathy Scott as part of the Feminist Supermarket with Ormston House Cultural Centre , May 2021
CAOIN - Album of traditional laments produced by Sean McEarlaine (2021)
Ceara works with the Arts Council as a Creative Associate Artist & Arts Coordinator for the Embrace Art & Disability/ Artists in Schools programme with the Clare County Arts Office.