Danielle Beirne

BFA Illustration; Minor in English

Narrative is the binding thread throughout all of my work: the translating of written narrative into narrative art. My goal is never to simply depict what the text says, whether it’s from my own personal written work or someone else’s, but to evoke the emotion and feeling that the text lends you and create a new narrative from it, a visual one.

We are all looking for something, to leave a lasting memory of ourselves on the world through our narratives to fight the obscurity, mortality, and eventual end that is life. In my work, I explore this concept, trying to give back to the narratives we have fought so hard to preserve and those we have fought so hard to create. Writing, like illustration, is constantly telling new stories. The trick is to learn how to breathe life into them anew.