Painting
Ciara Doolan
Ciara’s degree show display explores the world of television and our relationship with it. Aspects she explored this year through her work include the uncanny, the sublime , and lots of hypnotic elements , exploring our obsession with television ,the good and the bad.
The artist looks at the dialogue between the screen and the figure in her paintings, an important topic of the contemporary moment, where the line between human and the artificial is blurred. Her subject matter includes interior scenes, where the screen is a source of liminality. Her figures inhabit an uncanny world, illuminated by the glow of screen moments. She works with a range of paint mediums to create different levels of depth within the scenes, including ink, water colour, charcoal, conte chalks, acrylic and oil paint. She explores the technological glitches and glare of the screen through washes and gestural marks. Alongside her painting practice, the artist also experiments with video and sound. She draws inspiration from Mamma Andersson, Luc Tuymans, David Lynch and David Cronenburg.