Artist Biogs
Marjorie Doohan - Director of Programmes and Office Manager
Marjorie Doohan, was born in Letterkenny and grew up in Co. Donegal, Rep. of Ireland. With her roots in her native area of Magheroarty and a deep interest in the Art and Culture of Cloughaneely she gained wide managerial experience since joining Cló in 2004.
Since joining Cló she organised, an exhibition of contemporary Art of the Gaeltacht which travelled internationally and 'Tearmann', a cross-border artists development programme together with directing our current programmes which include, Trasnú (Exchange with Ireland and Georgia), the Mhadghie Hughie Eoin Scholarship, the Living Archive, Summer School 2009 and is curretly working on a 2 year plan for Samkura (is a trans-European art and culture exchange.)
She has also travelled widely on behalf of the company to Wales, Ljubljana, Sardinia, Bremen, Paris, Rotterdam, Tbilisi, Georgia.
email: cloceardlann@eircom.net
Ian Joyce - Artistic Director of Cló and the Living Archive
Ian Joyce, was born in Dublin and grew up in Co.Cork, Rep. of Ireland. He studied at University College Dublin and at the Freie Universität and Hochschule der Künste, Berlin. He received a higher Diploma in Education from TCD (1984). In 1998 he moved from Belfast to Donegal where he founded Cló (Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc Teoranta) with Oona Hyland.
He has exhibited his work widely internationally and has been awarded many public art commissions, including most recently “Watershed” for the Clinton International Peace Centre in Enniskillen and “Tsunami” for the Letterkenny Institute of technology.
In 2004 he co-curated Úr, an exhibition of contemporary Art of the Gaeltacht which travelled internationally and initiated 'Tearmann', a cross-border artists development programme.
Recent solo exhibitions of his work took place at the Museum of Archeology, GennaMaria, Sardinia, (2005) and at the “Karavanserei”, Tbilisi History Museum, Georgia (2006). In 2009 a solo exhibtion, “Archive for Jan palach” takes place at the Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, curated by Miroslava Hajek, www.cmvu.cz
email: cloceardlann@eircom.net or ianjoyce@eircom.net
Oona Hyland - Manager of Cló Ceardlann (workshop) and
the Artist-in-Residence House
Oona Hyland was born in Wegburg Germany in 1965 and was brought up in England. She received a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art from Wimbledon School of Art (1987) and a Higher Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking from the Slade School of Art, University College London (1991) From 1992-1994 she was Printmaker in residence at the Belfast print workshop and in 1997/98 did a Masters in Philosophy at Queens University Belfast.
In 1998 she moved from Belfast to Donegal where she founded Cló (Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc Teoranta) with Ian Joyce.
In addition to many awards for her work she has exhibited widely internationally, including in Finland, India, China, Sardinia and Spain. In 2005, she participated in
Úr, an exhibition of contemporary Art of the Gaeltacht and Leabhar Mor na Gaelige/Gaidhlig, an international touring exhibition of Art and poetry from Ireland
and Scotland.
Oona manages the workshop at Cló and runs the International Residency Program at Teach an tSléibhe email: cloceardlann@eircom.net or oona@utvinternet.com