Michael Boran

www.michaelboran.blogspot.com

The photographs of Michael Boran track the fleeting traces of interactions between people and places. Tracing and mapping different movements and directions across the surface, they open up a bird’s eye view of underlying patterns and shifting co-ordinates. Often utilising aerial viewpoints from a height at which the camera seems to be about to float away from the world, Boran’s photographs offer the viewer unfamiliar visions of the familiar. Notions of scale and transference between micro and macro-cosmos are explored in a manner of mapmaking. Searching, positioning and mapping are recurrent themes both by the artist and the protagonists who seem to wander into the frame. These maps attempt to measure not only the four points of the pictorial compass, but also look inward, into the realm of mystery, synchronicity and underlying principals. Boran’s scientific approach is also evident in the general sense in which he moves beyond questioning our notions of the real, to attempt a deeper analysis of the actual through the creation of ‘photographic’ evidence. His images suggest an experimental laboratory of the everyday, presenting a map of a journey which moves from the specific to the underlying principals that govern.


BIOGRAPHY

Michael Boran graduated with a degree in Fine Art from NCAD in 1988. He received the Bank of Ireland Emerging Artist of The Year Award in 1992


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo exhibitions

Voyager, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin 2008

The Sun Propeller, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin 2005

Grasping the Sparrow’s Tail, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin 2003

Peak, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, 2001

Palace of Bubbles, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 1999

Works on Film, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 1994

Nature Morte, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin 1992

Group exhibitions (recent)

Snakes and Ladders, Wexford Opera House, Wexford , 2009

Bubbles, Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, 2009

RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, 2009

30 Contemporary Collection, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 2008

Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, 2008

RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, 2008

European Night, Recontres dArles, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France , 2008

Group Therapy, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin 2008

The Bank, Gallery of Photography, 2006

Cityscapes, ARCO’06, selected by Rachael Thomas, IMMA, 2006

Across Boundaries, OPW Touring Exhibition, 2005

Forty Shades, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Dixon Gallery, Memphis, USA, Arka Gallery, Vilnius , Lithuania, 2005 Cavanacor Gallery, Lifford, Donegal, 2004

RHA Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery. Dublin, 2004

50/50, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, 2004

En direct de Dublin, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France 2003

On Main Street, Laois Arts Festival, 2001

d-sixteen, Static Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2000

Vivid, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin 2000


COLLECTIONS

The Arts Council, AIB Bank, Bank of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, The Hunt Collection, The Osman Collection, AXA Insurance, The Office of Public Works, Fidelity (USA) and various private collections.

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