No More is based on a memory of things, my interpretation of what resides in memory.

The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Brian Faulkner, made an announcement introducing Internment, broadcast on the BBC on the evening of the 8th of August 1971. My 5th birthday was just five days before and although I can’t be sure I was watching TV that evening, I know I could have been. The next day my father was gone. This piece, in a sense, is based on that trauma.

Inaugural winner of The MAC International Arts Prize, 2014

SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS: No More (16mins/found footage/photos/sound) Mairéad McClean©

2024

Longing for Home | Works from the Collection | Arts Council Northern Ireland | Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, Co Tyrone

2020

The Border | Group show | Deutsche Kuntsterlbund e.V Berlin, Germany | with Sandra Johnson, Eoghan McTigue, Mark Clare, Susanna Bosch and Declan Clark | Curated by Albert Weiss

Isolation TV | Episode 1 | curated by Vaari Claffey

2019

Artworks: Visual Carlow | In collaboration with the IMMA Collection

Selected works from The Collection | Arts Council of Northern Ireland | Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast.

Resonances@ The Horse Hospital, London | curated by The Wapping Project.

2018

New Work from Northern Ireland | The MAC, Belfast, curated by AMINI in association with Visual Artist Ireland & The MAC.

2017

Re-recorded Pasts: In association with The Whitechapel Art Gallery, Sheffield Fringe and Close-Up Cinema: A retrospective screening of 4 works examining the impact of governmental policy on personal memory and family life. No More, 2013 | Broadcast32172, 2017 | For The Record, 2009 | Blue is The Colour of Distance, 1991, followed by an in-conversation with writer, Declan Long.

Glasgow Film Festival | in the Home Video Systems programme.

Hennessy Award Exhibition | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.

2016

Krasnoyarsk International Festival of Screen and Media Arts, Serbia, Russia in the programme | Documenting Reality curated by Marina Fomenko.

Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK. Screening from October 5th to the18th of December | curated by Tessa Garland.

Sheffield Fringe ‘Film at the Intersection of Art and Documentary’ curated by Minou Norouzi and Gareth Evans with a Q&A facilitated by Adam Pugh Sheffield, UK.

Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival| Faces of Conflict| Invited participant, Pittsburgh, USA,

Irish Artists Now, Whitechapel Gallery Screening, curated by Gareth Evans, London, UK

2015

Sound and Vision at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, London (Group show curated by David Waterworth), UK

The Shock of Victory, CCA Glasgow, Installation, Nov 2015. Curated by Remco de Blaaij(group show) Scotland.

Bilbao Experimental Film Festival, Spain

Now&After, Video Art Festival, Moscow, Russia. Awarded an Honorary Jury Mention

The 5th Alchemy Video Art Festival, Hawick, Scotland | Honorary Mention

The Void Gallery, Derry/Londonderry, in association with The Garden of Reflection, ‘Hope Beyond Hurt’, Peace Conference, Northern Ireland.

2014

The MAC International Art Prize | Winner | selected group show, The MAC Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland | Nov-Jan 2015

27th Festival Les Instant Video, Marseille, France and Milan [.BOX] Videoart Project Space Italy.

2013

First Installation version presented at TULCA, Galway, Ireland curated by Valerie Connor, Nov 2013 for Golden Mountain.

Reviewed in Frieze and Artist Newsletter in November 2015 by Chris Sharrett “ The contrast between a government imposing it’s will by

containment and Cieślak’s assertion of the human need for free expression provided a simple but compelling dichotomy- and an utterly mesmerising film”

No More is held in the Collection of The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The Arts Council of Ireland and the National Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

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