B/W Drawing for the Great Dame
I recently completed a drawing for the poster of The Great Dame, or Space Aladdin.
The Great Dame runs at the Black Box, Belfast from Sunday 20 to Wednesday 23 December.
Ideation
I recently completed a stint at PS2, Belfast as part of their 9-5 Residency program.
‘9 to 5 residency’- a daily changing use of space. 3 – 16 November
Sarah McBride, Michael Hanna, Fionnuala Doran, Laura Graham, Kevin Walsh, Anne Marie Taggart, John McKeown/ Pia Munita, Acitore Z Artezione/William Artt, Jane Butler, Aideen Doran, Catherine Roberts, Alissa Kleist, Tonya McMullan.
Opening hours: Mon- Sat 11am -5pm; Thurs 5 Nov till 9pm
This project is the result of an open call for a series of one day residencies in PS².
Artists, architects and creative practitioners were invited to sent in a proposal, how they would use the space between 9am and 5pm; for performance, research, office work, hide out, craft workshop, studio, cinema, museum, living room, shop or observatory…
The proposal: To use the PS2 gallery space as space to continuously generate ideas between the hours of 9 to 5. In short, to produce as many single paragraph or single image ideas, all on single sheets of notebook paper, as possible. For example, the artist will generate narratives such as ‘ In an elaborate suicide bid, a man travels back in time to kill his father’. Upon completion this narrative will be ripped off the block and pinned to the gallery wall. A narrative can be no longer than a paragraph and an image must fit onto a single page.
Made as part of GIANT ROBO for Cinema Sports 2009, Belfast March 28.
The ingredients were:
A text message from an unknown number
A tattoo
A lookalike
Featuring music by Yello and the Housemartins.
Political murals as seen by google street view.
Cut to 5:20 in.
Aideen Doran & Fionnuala Doran
Aideen and Fionnuala Doran were born in 1984 in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. They completed their BA Fine and Applied Art in 2007, graduating with first class honours, and are both now co-directors of Catalyst Arts Gallery in Belfast.
Both artists are interested in exploring the strangeness apparent in everyday life, and the disconnections between actual and imagined geographies. Working across sculpture, animation, drawing and installation, they appropriate obsolete and obscure cultural material and reweave new narratives from it. Doran and Doran share a will to draw the absurd out of the mundane.
Aideen and Fionnula used Flat 4 as an open studio working on drawings and sculptures. Aideen experimented with frosted lettering and wood effect contact paper inspired by the dingy imitation surroundings associated with rented flats while Fionnula drew the imagined adventures of Abraham Lincoln with laser vision. During their stay Aideen also offered a crossword service to tenants.
Learn more about Residence at Flat 4.
Abe 1
Abe Eyes
Corgi- page 1
Fionnuala Doran participated in Belfast’s first 24 Hour Comics Day, October 18 – 19th 2008. Her comic from the event – Corgi – can be found here. More information about the event as well as comics made by the other participants can be found at Belfast 24 Hour Comics’ comicspace and Catalyst Arts’ website.
The Bend of Linearity, Ink on Paper 2007; The Purple Glob, Ink on Paper, 2007
