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Indepth Arts News:
"The Reading Room: Denis Doran"
2002-02-14 until 2002-03-09
Tom Blau Gallery
London, ,
UK United Kingdom
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Elegiac and fragmented images concerning a
childhood landscape reflected and refracted through
the artist's relationship with his two sons. A boy's story
of sorts, but one rooted in geographical and cultural
migration.
Denis Doran's memories of rainy afternoons spent as a
young boy in a reference library on the North East coast
of England have inspired his latest body of work.
Although he now lives in Brighton, he is increasingly
concerned with exploring the cultural differences between
his own North East childhood and that of his two sons,
brought up on the South coast. Doran works digitally,
initially collecting and assembling ephemera; detritus,
scraps of photographs of his sons and his father,
typographic fragments, and text which function as visual
aids to memory.
The exhibition, in three sections, consists
of some twenty large and vibrantly coloured images. They
are accompanied by a series of artist-made books taking
inspiration from popular childhood pastimes. These are
boys stories, if you like, but boys stories rooted in
migration.
IMAGE:
Denis Doran,
Walking the Dog, 2001
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