shane finan visual art
shane finan visual art
Shane Finan
This is a personal website for me as a visual artist. I post updates from my studio, at irregular intervals, and keep the rss feed up to date manually.
Latest Posts
upcoming workshop, june 5th and 6th 2025, leitrim sculpture centre I will be running a workshop in using Raspberry Pi to do synchronised and interactive media players for art installations in the Leitrim Sculpture Centre in June 2025....
residency, june 2025, VARC northumberland, england In June, I will return to Kielder in Northumberland, where five years ago I began a residency about interconnectedness between forests, communities and technologies. Revisiting the site...
new artworks and project page, April 2025, online Having just completed a 3-month research residency on, I have now documented the new artworks and works in progress on a project page on this website. The page documents some of the...
research residency, Jan-Mar 2025, The Maltings, Berwick, UK; University College Dublin; Newcastle University I was selected to be the Irish artist in residence for the international collaborative research project FIRECULT, led by...
symposium and exhibition, 17th-19th January, The Glens Centre and ^, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim A 3-day event about tendoing, healing and care featuring artworks, talks and performance at ^, the Glens Centre and outdoors in...
I've made a new page on my website for all the archives of interviews and short videos that exist on the internet about my projects. It's in the menu under 'interviews', or visit it at this link: https://shanefinan.org/interviews.html
ritual, ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland A ritual at ^ that celebrated the life of Benbo mountain, and asked visitors to consider grief through their báidín bróin The ritual included costumes, a walk around Manorhamilton, and a keen, circling...
publication, Scottish Geographical Journal (2024) I was co-author on a publication 'Making a mark on the farm', published in June 2024 and then made full open access in October 2024. The publication was led by led by Niamh Mahon at the...
community event, ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland A community art event at ^ led by Shane Finan where visitors created small boats and placed their grief in them. These will form part of a ritual later this year organised by ^ members. The...
research residency, Crux Arts, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada 3 week research residency investigating the place and history of the first few transatlantic telegraph cables, and the current ones that carry internet signal. Invited by...
research presentation, Forum for Artistic Research, Gustav Mahler Private University for Music (GMPU), Klagenfurt, Austria Presenting collective research from various proejcts as part of the 2024 Forum for Artistic Research. From the...
collective research trip, Varia, Rotterdam, 22nd-27th June 2024 Our collective ^ in Manorhamilton are travelling to Rotterdam to visit art/design collective Varia to speak about a new collaboration. From the event text...
residency, Síolta Glasa with Friends of Lace Limerick, May 2024-Oct 2025 I have been selected as one of seven artists-in-residence on the Síolta Glasa project that will run until October 2025. The project partners artists with community...
panel discussion, Ardnaculla Summer School, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, 1st June 2024 Panel discussion on the role of creativity in bringing about behavioural change in communities The others on the panel include Tania Banotti, Director of...
upcoming conferenece intervention, Forum for Artistic Research, Austria ||| In June 2024 I have been invited to present work about experimental forms of artistic collaboration, with work from four projects included as artworks, visual...