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
For Catalyst Arts’ annual Member’s Show I created a new series of drawings, Weeds, chronicling the plants and weeds growing in and around the gallery space.
From publicity for Allotments;
Catalyst’s gallery space is the focus for this exhibition, with urban renewal resulting in an uncertain future for this unique space. This has prompted a necessary celebration and interrogation of the space, it’s historical and physical idiosyncrasies. ‘Allotments’ is an enquiry into the growth an regeneration of an arts space and the city it inhabits. The member show kicks off the summer long garden project at Catalyst, focusing on ideas of regeneration, development and cultivation.