Grateful to have art as a release, Paul Doran’s work is infused with positivity, writes Susan Campbell ahead of his first solo show in Dublin this month
Born in Belfast in 1987, Paul Doran’s personal history, forged in that city, manifests in his paintings. Recent examples of his work exude psychological and political overtones that evoke the layering in an individual’s psyche or on a mural-covered wall. His unconscious has been affected, he says, by ‘serious disruption due to riots and sectarianism’ experienced in his youth.
The Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick is now one of the most digitally advanced libraries in the world, writes Judith Hill
