BIOGRAPHY

Paul Doran is an Irish painter born in Gorey, Co. Wexford in 1972. He studied a master’s in fine art at the National College of Art and Design in 2001. Doran is one of Irelands finest painters and he celebrates the medium of paint itself. Working with abstract compositions of thick, layered paint, he creates highly textured works of a compelling nature. In his paintings Doran wishes to emphasize the handmade element; whereby organic structures can be assembled together by the human hand in a multitude of ways resulting in something that appears complete but reveals itself to be fluid. The lack of something stable and ‘absolute’ makes Doran’s paintings an unmistakable contemporary experience. Doran constructs his small scale works through the application of extremely thick layers of paint which are then sliced, torn and trowelled to create a compelling fluidity and instability. Doran was awarded the AIB Art Prize in 2005. He has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions in the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin and Sunday L.E.S., New York.