BRONTË to the Future
Brontë to the Future was my entry into Thought Bubble Festival’s 2011 Northern Sequential Art Competition. All other entries can be seen at this link.
THE SILENCE Catalogue / Ligatura 2011
The Silence Catalogue is an outcome of Silence competition that ran during 2nd International Comics Culture Festival Ligatura (in June 2011). The idea behind the contest was to promote the comic book art form where the only form of narration is through images. See in how many ways you can understand the word silence.
Over 200 works where received for the Silence competition during the 2nd international comics culture festival “Ligatura”. The catalogue includes 43 works by artists from Argentina, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Macedonia, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, the UK and the USA.
Including work from Yours Truly. Click here to take a peek.
A History of Ireland in Many Small Parts (work in progress)
I’ve been working on putting together a history of Ireland as seen through the medium of comics, although everything I’ve completed so far deals with things that happened after 1780. These two pages deal very, very roughly with Roger Casement’s pre-revolutionary life as British Consul investigator extraordinaire.
(It’s been brought to me attention that the map makes it look like Peru is in Brazil. The next version will have instructional arrows pointing to Peru’s actual location)
Multiples at in_flux, Limerick 26-29th May
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From 26th-29th of May Multiples and Catalyst Arts traveled to Limerick for in_flux, a large scale art fair exhibition that brought together ten different artist-led spaces from Ireland and Europe.
Participating groups included :
1646, The Hague
Block T, Dublin
Catalyst Arts, Belfast
126, Galway
Monster Truck, Dublin
Transmission, Glasgow
Transition, London
SOMA, Waterford
Wolfart, Rotterdam
Glasgow Sketchbook
Some sketches from the Burrel Collection, Glasgow.
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Berlin Sketchbook
Some sketches from the Pergamon Museum, Berlin- of their permanent collection and Tell Halaf exhibition.
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Astoria
C’est Bon Kultur’s last call for submissions was along the theme of Astoria, or music, which was a fairly good excuse to make something new. This is the ‘Inspired by the Motion Picture’ equivalent for Muddy Waters’ Mannish Boy, page 1 of 2.
Multiples at GTG, Belfast 28 April – 03 May
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MULTIPLE by Catalyst Arts makes a visit to Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival with a freshly stocked pop-up shop and more than a few new arrivals. We’ll be featuring art ‘for sale’ in the form of lo-fi commodities, souvenirs, collectables, posters and paraphernalia by local artists.Expect curiosities and wry insights into the city by Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell, Charlotte Bosanquet, Martin Carter, Ben Craig, Fionnuala Doran, Ciara Dunne, Phil Hession, Helen McDonnell, Miguel Martin, Simon Mills, Ryan O’Reilly, Catherine Roberts, Duncan Ross, Gemma Withers and the Catalyst Arts directors.
Location: Golden Thread Gallery, Project Space
84-94 Great Patrick Street
Belfast
My first Multiple, Portmanteau 1- Venice, was on sale in GTG. Multiples will be travelling down to Limerick shortly to Occupy:Space.
¿@#!*$ at Catalyst Arts
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What this unpronounceable series of symbols, ¿@#!*$, stands for is; ‘an exhibition and series of events incorporating the artistic mediums of Comics, Illustration and Zine making.’
Alongside the visual treats on display from the eclectic mix of local and international artists, Catalyst Arts will also play host to a library full of zines and comics from all over the place (basically anything we could get our hands on). Then, as if that wasn’t enough, there will a be series of events running throughout the duration of the exhibition to keep things interesting.
Exhibiting Artists
Malcy Duff
Travis Millard
Tom Gauld
Simone Lia
Chris Ware
Fionnuala Doran
Phil Barrett
Multiples- work in progress.
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Since January I’ve been working on producing a series of three small books of drawings and comics for Catalyst Arts’ Multiples. Above is a preview of the work in progress. I’ve been developing these as part of the my residency at the Digital Arts Studios, Belfast.
¿@#!*$
¿@#!*$ coincides with the exhibition of the same name at Catalyst Arts, opening next Thursday, 14th April. It features work by Travis Millard, Nathan Crothers, Douglas Noble, Jonathon Ross, Phil Barett, Simone Lia, Gus Hughes, Miguel Martin, Malcy Duff, Rachel House, Jennifer Hanley, Boz Mugabe, Heather Purcell, Andy Luke, Stephen Millar and me, Fionnuala Doran.
¿@#!*$ is availble for free throughout Belfast.
?@#!*$ at Catalyst Arts
I will be exhibiting shortly in Catalyst Arts’ ?@#!*$, alongside the works of Tom Gauld, Simone Lia, Malcy Duff, Phil Barrett and Chris Ware.
The Great Gambino
The Great Gambino, world’s finest clown, has had a late life change of heart, and now bases his act on his desertion of the army some 60 years before.
Multiples
I’m currently working on making a series of publications for Catalyst Art’s Multiples project, which is support by the British Council. Here’s a preview of some of the work:
Sketch Dump
A sketch of Zurbaran's painting of St Francis at prayer, from the National Gallery's Sacred Made Real.
A sketch (from memory) of one of the installations tucked away at the back of the Arsenale in the 53rd Venice Biennale of Art. The idea was to traverse the room using only the rings.
A sketch of the entrance to Bruce Nauman's retrospective at the American Pavilion during the Venice Biennial. I drew this while waiting in line.
A sketch of the Panel Talk that ended Catalyst Arts' FIX 09 Biennial of Peformance Art.
Elena Elagina & Igor Makorevitch's melting ice-sculpture from the Arsenale, Venice Biennial 2009.
Some doodles of the sights from the Vaparetto from the Lido to Venice proper.
Marco Polo doodles
This is the little lay out I was working on that eventually became Marco Polo- World Traveler. I believe the little guy there was supposed to be Casanova. I did this while in Venice, so there was plenty of nifty architecture/street scapes around to include in the doodle.
9-5 Residency at PS2
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 9pmThis 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.
Residence at Flat 4
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
