1978 – 2022

Belfast, N. Ireland
https://flaxartstudios.org/flax-art-artists/Hugh-odonnell

Hugh O’Donnell’s has been creating installation, video and performance works since receiving his MFA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster. His performance practice is informed by drawing, found and made objects. Often of an auto-personal nature, O’Donnell’s work is material-based and conceptual, and is concerned with notions of gender and sexuality. Hugh O’Donnell is based in Belfast, N. Ireland and his performance work has been exhibited in Ireland and internationally in Switzerland, Serbia, Romania and Quebec City. Currently he works with Bbeyond, a Belfast based performance organization established to preserve and promote performance art exchanges within Ireland/N. Ireland and abroad. This will be Hugh’s first performance in Toronto.

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International Visiting Artists: N. Ireland

Spotlight on Belfast shines a light on the solo performance works of Hugh O’Donnell and Sinéad O’Donnell.

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Flying Porcelain and Burning Liver: The Contested Spaces of Sinéad and Hugh O’Donnell

By Emma Doran

“Sibling performance artists Sinéad and Hugh O’Donnell both live and work in post civil war Northern Ireland, an area imprinted by civil upheaval. The works both artists presented referenced this—the tumultuous past of their home country—decades after the most severe violent incidents, revealing the perennial endurance of trauma.”

Hugh O’Donnell

Artists

Documentation

Performance

International Visiting Artists: N. Ireland

Writing

Flying Porcelain and Burning Liver: The Contested Spaces of Sinéad and Hugh O’Donnell

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