Story of My Life 2021

The Story of My Life - Autofictions, is a series of workshops for Transition Year students designed to open the young people's eyes to the possibilities of their own creativity. Working with three schools, Moyle Park College, St Kevins Community College and Collinstown Park Community College, and three artists, Celina Muldoon, Stephen Dunne and Michelle Doyle, the projects focuses on students’ own personal narratives, and stories, which they were invited to develop as a final artwork. 

Each artist was assigned to a school to work with its students. Exploring specific aspects of art-making and themes, students created meaningful works of art that are personal to them, pieces that they can refer back to throughout their lives as capturing a moment in their own personal development.

  • Michelle Doyle | Collinstown Park Community College: Making zines workshops 

  • Stephen Dunne | St. Kevins Community College: Drawing, automatic drawing, subconscious drawing,

  • Celina Muldoon | Moyle Park College: Research and collaborative decision making across a variety of media such as drawing and sculpture, collaborative art making.

The project is in collaboration with our amazing partners South Dublin City Council and South Dublin City Council Libraries and it is supported by the Arts Council Ireland. 

Michelle Doyle is an Irish multidisciplinary visual artist who works with film, sound, technology, and sculpture. Her work critiques technology, politics and innovation through new media. This has seen her work with pirate radio, coding, spatial sound and compositing. Her work can be found in both institutional and extra-institutional spaces. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2013 and completed her Masters in Art and Research Collaboration in Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin in 2016. She was recently awarded the A4 Sounds Artist in Residence Award (2018), the Sirius Residency Award (2019) and the Firestation Digital Media Award (2019). She has exhibited extensively around Ireland, Canada, Netherlands, and Poland and is a member of Brass Neck Press, an independent art publisher of artist editions, t-shirts and printed/digital ephemera.

Stephen Dunne is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London and regularly exhibits work at both national and international level. His practice operates across the registers of painting, drawing, moving image and the investigation of speculative and theoretical fictions. The process of making, where each thing leads to the next through an experimental and intuitive approach is at the core of this work. Critical to this process is an interest in drawing on aspects of the subconscious, to enable freer, less conscious or less self-reflexive aspects to come through in the final work. Selected exhibitions include: Worms In Your Head, A Journey, Courthouse Gallery (2019), Shackled To Belligerent Ghosts, Triskel Arts Center (2019); Uchronia, Not As It Was, But As It Might Have Been, Royal Hibernian Academy (2019) amongst many others. 

Celina Muldoon is an artist based in Northwest Ireland. Identity, memory and surveillance are themes around which she investigates relationships between socio-political structures and the body. Her work spans Live Performance, Film and Installation. She uses collaborative processes to test live performance methodologies in response to site and context with a primary motivation to cultivate moments of magic and fantasy. Within this surrealist environment she conjures human connection with the viewer and strives to promote a collective sense of tolerance, compassion and empathy. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and her major multi-disciplinary work SIRENS was funded by the Next Generation Award and the Artist in the Community Scheme Award from the Arts Council. She was artist-in-resident at St. Vincent's Primary School as part of Creative Generations supported by The Central Bank of Ireland.

The final exhibition and zine launch took place in the beautiful new North Clondalkin Library and displayed the artworks created by the pupils during an eight-week module. A reception open to the public co-presented by Cllr. Peter Kavanagh Mayor of South Dublin and Superprojects Curator Rayne Booth was held on Thursday November 18th, 2021.