Aideen Doran's Weblog

New Video Work in Belfast and Finland

aideendoran — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:35:22 +0000

A new video work of mine, Burn All Your Factories, was showing in December 2011 in Catalyst Arts, Belfast in the show The Featherweight Portable Art Museum. The video is a collection of found images of building faults and collapsed brickwork, edited together in very quick rhythmic succession.

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The Featherweight Portable Museum is a joint venture between Catalyst Arts and Media Pyhat (Finland), bringing together work made by selected UK, Irish and Finnish artists in a travelling multi-media exhibition.

The show travels to Finland this year, starting it’s tour in Galleria Rajatila, Tampere and moving to B-Galleria, Turku and Oksasenkatu, Helsinki, all in February 2012.

http://www.rajataide.fi/

http://www.catalystarts.org.uk/

Cork Art Trail, November 2011

aideendoran — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:31:30 +0000

I had some new work showing in the Cork Art Trail which opened Friday 18th of November and ran until the 4th of December. I was showing a commissioned project titled The Heritage Collection, comprising 1000 postcards in 4 different designs, to be distributed for free around Cork city for the duration of the Art Trail. There are also 4 single edition lithographic prints displayed at the former P&D Furniture store, Perry Street, shown alongside works from David Upton (IRL) and Goran Galic and Gian-Reto Gredig (CHE)

Here are some of the images that’ll be making their way around Cork, and some installation shots from the installed show;

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Full details of the programme here:

http://www.arttrail.ie/

The Mutual at Vault Art Fair, September 2011

aideendoran — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:23:54 +0000

I’ve recently made a piece of work in cooperation with The Mutual as part of their stand at Vault Art Fair, Glasgow in September 2011. Everything Must Go, a digitally altered found image was printed as a A3 pamphlet and sold at The Mutual stand, alongside pamphlets designed by Oliver Braid, Jamie Clements and Douglas Morland.

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http://www.facebook.com/themutual.glasgow

Claremorris Open ’11 & The Fold

aideendoran — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:23:49 +0000

A new piece of work of mine will be printed in an upcoming edition of The Fold, an artist led publication in Dublin- it’s launching on 11th September as part of the Essomenia project at the People’s Park in Dun Laoghaire.

The issue is themed ‘The Future’ and mixes work and writing from young emerging artists (myself) and more established figures like Isobel Nolan and Bea McMahon. The work itself is a series of digitally altered slide images titled Forwards, Not.

The video Homes for Today and Tomorrow (Belfast) will also be showing in the annual Claremorris Open exhibition which launches this weekend in Mayo.

http://www.coearts.org/COE/Home.html

http://foldeditions.blogspot.com/

Autonomous Supports @ Generator Projects, Dundee

aideendoran — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:48:03 +0000

Fellow MFA student Josée Aubin Ouellette and I developed a collaborative residency/exhibition for Generator Projects this August.

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The Autonomous Supports project is described below:

“For GENERATORprojects Doran and Ouellette will present a two part residency and exhibition creating sculptural work as a live performance.

In the first part of the project the artists will be in residence in the gallery using recycled wood and various objects sourced from within GENERATORprojects, they will assemble a structure which will be encased within a wooden scaffold support system. The artists will then remove the supported objects from within the scaffold, reconstructing their arrangement alongside their support.

In the second part, the support and the assembled objects will be
exhibited alongside plans describing the specific placement of each piece of furniture and each piece of wood.

Both Doran and Ouellette are artists living and working in Glasgow. They are interested in exploring their common fascination with the support structure aesthetic and the power dynamic between physical support and that which is supported.”

The project ran from August 1st – 14th.

Generator Projects

Sterile Environment, Catalyst Arts June 2011

aideendoran — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:50:42 +0000

My video Homes for Today and Tomorrow (Belfast) featured in the Sterile Environment show at Catalyst Arts, which ran from the 2nd to the 23rd of June this year. Some of the other artists in the show included Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell, Andrew Dodds, Eoin McGinn, Michael Pinsky, and Keith Winters.

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Angela Darby also gave a nice write up of the show on the Aesthetica magazine blog, and there are more images from the show on the website of PLACE.

http://www.catalystarts.org.uk/

MFA interim show

aideendoran — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:49:49 +0000

Better late than never, some images from the MFA interim show which opened on the 6th of May and ran until the 14th. I exhibited a new video work, edited together from archive footage of the Divis flats in Belfast from UTV, called Homes for Today and Tomorrow (Belfast). The sculpture is Untitled, and made simply from MDF and timber.

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http://mfagsa.blogspot.com/

Some more new drawings from the studio…

aideendoran — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:57:04 +0000

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Berlin

aideendoran — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:01:38 +0000

Last week I visited Berlin on a research trip with my sister and sometimes collaborator Fionnuala Doran – among other things, we found plenty of interesting structures:

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http://www.a-n.co.uk/nan

The trip was funded by Artists’ Newsletter through their NAN programme.

‘Endless Leisure’

aideendoran — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:25:07 +0000

Some stills from a new video work I’ve been working on – I’m working with the title ‘Endless Leisure’. It’s a collage of sorts of images and films I’ve gathered from archives, the internet and so on.

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