Artist Facilitation and Education

An experienced artist educator and facilitator.

Almha has experience developing and teaching workshops to a variety of audiences including adults, adults with additional needs (incl. mental health), people with learning disabilities and young people with SEND.

She is particularly interested in working in community settings and is passionate about diversity, inclusion and access within the arts.She is always open to working with new organisations or groups, either on one off sessions or ongoing projects. Get in touch if you’d like to discuss working together.

Organisations she works with include:

Core Arts, Hackney, London.
Community Focus Inclusive Arts, Finchley, London.
Equal Arts, UK wide.
National Portrait Gallery, London.

Almha McCartan (pronounced AL-VA) is an artist, designer and facilitator from Ireland based in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2021 with an MA in Textiles. Her work moves across textiles, collage, sculpture and painting. She works predominantly with linen, second-hand fabrics and reclaimed wood offcuts.

Through an expressive use of colour, pattern and intuitive experimentation with materials, Almha’s work uses traditional craft processes in a contemporary and innovative way.

She works from her studio at Craft Central in East London, which she was awarded through their Graduate Support Programme in 2022.

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Education

MA Mixed Media Textiles, Royal College of Art, 2021
BA Textile Art & Artefact and Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, 2017.

Awards/Bursaries

2023 The Eaton Fund - Materials Grant
2022–2023 Craft Central Graduate Support Programme
2022 Making and Momentum Artist Prize

Exhibitions

Making Process - Craft Central, London, May 2023
Open Studios - Gaunson Creative Studios, London 2022
Re- RCA Graduate Show 2021
RCA Wip Show 2023
NCAD Graduate Exhibition, Dublin, 2017