Forming a contemporary exhibition space spanning four floors, CCA Galleries international showcases some of the best contemporary British art including; paintings, limited edition prints and sculpture.
CCA International is at the center of cultural life in Jersey; bringing an opportunity to view and purchase work by leading International and local artists and offering educational opportunities for the community.
THE CURRENT EXHIBITION IS:
EXHIBITION DATES: 18th September – 16th October 2026
Onward Onwards
An exhibition of new work by
Kay Le Seelleur Ara
Back by popular demand, Kay Le Seelleur Ara returns to CCA Galleries International with Onward Onwards – a wild, witty and wonderfully unruly new body of work.
Kay Le Seelleur Ara has never made work that sits still.
Since a fall in 2017 left her unable to walk unaided, Kay has drawn from her armchair and painted in a small studio in her Trinity home, producing a relentless, riotous outpouring of work. Figures – human, animal and somewhere in between – jostle across the canvas with the wit, mischief and dark undertow that have made her one of Jersey’s most vital contemporary artists.
Onward Onwards takes its title from Kay’s own outlook: a lifelong refusal to stop, to soften, or to be anything other than exactly herself, on the page and off it.
Kay is currently living with delirium and is being cared for in a residential setting. She will not see this exhibition in person. When asked what she wanted her life to look like, she pointed to Yayoi Kusama – an artist whose decades living in an institution never once stood in the way of the work, or the world’s appetite for it.
Kay wanted this show to happen regardless. So, it has.
The exhibition brings together new work made with the same restless, magpie sensibility that has carried Kay from her first solo exhibition at age 82 to international collectors and a devoted following around the world. Images are pulled from everywhere – popular culture, art history, memory, observation and imagination – and filtered through nobody but her.
There is no neat category for Kay’s work, and no fixed point of view. Her paintings are funny, unsettling, tender, bawdy and strange. They refuse to behave. They move at their own pace, accumulating characters, references and possibilities until the canvas seems barely able to contain them.
Onward Onwards is an exhibition about continuing: about making work in the face of limitation, about an imagination that refuses to be contained, and about an artist who has never been particularly interested in standing still.
Onward, onwards.
THE PREVIOUS EXHIBITIOn WAS:
EXHIBITION DATES: 19th JUNE – 24th JULY 2026
The Jersey Summer Exhibition is always a highlight for CCA Galleries
International, bringing together a vibrant and diverse collection of
work from artists across Jersey and the Channel Islands.
From first-time exhibitors to established practitioners, it offers a
reflection of the island’s creative life today.
More than 130 works have been selected from a wide range of
disciplines, including painting, printmaking, photography, film,
sculpture and mixed media. Together, they reflect the breadth of
practice and the individuality of each artist’s approach.
As the works are installed in the gallery, individual pieces begin to
speak to one another – unexpected connections emerge between
materials, subjects and ways of seeing. It is in this coming together
that the exhibition takes shape.
A key part of the exhibition is the judging process, which culminates
in the awarding of the Summer Prize. The winning artist receives a
prize and the opportunity to present a solo exhibition at CCA
Galleries International, offering valuable support and visibility for
their practice and career.
The Jersey Summer Exhibition offers the opportunity to discover
original work, hear the stories behind it and connect with the artists
whose work continues to shape the creative landscape of Jersey and
the Channel Islands.
Now an established part of the island’s cultural calendar, it remains a
place where artists, audiences and ideas come together in one
shared space.
THE previous EXHIBITIOn was:
PLEASE TOUCH
An exhibition of new work by
Paige Le Geyt
THE PREVIOUS EXHIBITION WAS:
within this world xiv
CAROL ANN SUTHERLAND
CCA Galleries International is pleased to present new work by Carol Ann Sutherland in the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, Within This World XIV.
Carol Ann Sutherland, an alumni of Glasgow School of Art, is an artist making paintings, drawings and prints with an evolving narrative which has been present in the work throughout her career. Within This World XIV is the fourteenth instalment of the same title in a series of solo exhibitions ongoing since the 1970's.
The characters and places in the artworks are intended as an allegory for the artist’s own life and they converse with one another in an enigmatic and captivating way. Depictions of horses, angels, castles, boats, houses, rivers, dogs and chessboards appear throughout her artworks in an often-whimsical fashion. These motifs are playfully arranged with short lines of text and through this illustrated story we are given a glimpse of another world where horses fly and fish have legs. In each artwork, fragments of this fantastical land are revealed to us and, as the viewer of the show, we are able to thread together an interpretation of events taking place across the entire collection of work.
Carol Ann Sutherland has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Art London, The Royal Scottish Academy, Towner Art Gallery, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, Mercury Gallery, CCA Galleries International, the Chicago Art Fair and the McNay Art Museum Texas, where her work is held in the public collection. She was awarded the Meyer Oppenheim Prize by the Royal Scottish Academy.
The exhibition will feature new work made by the artist since receiving the Summer Prize at the 2020 Jersey Summer Exhibition. Also included will be the display of a relief work in stone plus a small retrospective of studio work since 1972.
Exhibition sponsored by
Framing by Victoria Art and Framing Gallery
THE pREVIOUS EXHIBITION IS:
Christmas Exhibition
2025
5TH December – 23RD December
Open Mon – Fri 12pm – 6pm
CCA Galleries International is pleased to present Christmas Exhibition 2025, an exhibition of new prints by Sir Peter Blake, Bruce McLean and Dan Baldwin.
All new releases feature in the CCA International Christmas Exhibition, displayed alongside other iconic works by Damien Hirst, Peter Blake, Bruce McLean, Dan Baldwin, Barbara Rae CBE RA, Sandra Blow, Lucie Bennett, Storm Thorgerson and many more.
SIR PETER BLAKE
Earlier this year CCA Galleries launched a new triptych edition by Peter Blake. Published by CCA Galleries and printed at Worton Hall Studios, Marilyn is Marilyn is Marilyn consists of three stunning silkscreens printed on gold mirri board and presented in an archival box with a colophon and title page.
The ‘Godfather of Pop Art’ as he is often referred, has depicted Marilyn Monroe numerous times in his work throughout his career. These three striking prints, each with their own personality, see Blake portray the many faces of the icon in a different way, employing his signature watercolour and collage styles.
BRUCE MCLEAN
Bruce Mclean’s most recent series of prints are part of an ongoing body of work that sees the artist present structured compositions of still-life scenes which feature ceramic objects he has created. This invites the viewer to consider encountering the same subject matter in print or paint and in sculpture. The new editions also incorporate elements of flora as seen in his much-loved garden-inspired works.
The four new colourways in pink, green, blue and orange follow his silkscreens A Vase of Arranged Flowers in a Wild Garden - Yellow and A Vase of Arranged Flowers in a Wild Garden - Olive which were made to mark the artist's 80th birthday as well as the 10th anniversary of Worton Hall Studios.
KAY LE SEELLEUR ARA
Earlier this year CCA Galleries International published three original fine art limited edition prints with Jersey based artist, Kay Le Seelleur Ara. The prints were launched at the 2025 London Original Print Fair at Somerset House. Titled Whip Crack Away, Poor Frida and You Promised No Dog, Kay’s idiosyncratic paintings are wonderfully translated into print with two silkscreens and a lithograph. These vibrant works are accompanied by quirky titles that can be witty, silly, naughty, thoughtful or edgy, sometimes referring to contemporary politics, histories of art, everyday occurrences or the people and animals that share Kay’s life.
