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
workshop Manorhamilton, Ireland ||| A 2-day workshop in interactive technologies, as part of Creative Heartlands' programme of professional development. Attendees learned how to use open source technologies, sensors and electronics to...
new artwork ||| A new kinetic art installation based on crustose lichen and their interconnectivity. Drawn lines are weaved from conductive wire connected to Raspberry Pi Picos. They all link together, and the parts speak to one another,...
fundraiser ||| I'm selling unique drawings of lichen and accepting donations to crowdfund the completion of an interactive artwork from the perspective of a lichen. The artwork will feature an 'AI', with 'lichen learning' instead of...
Under construction for over a year, I've finally launched a new site. All videos now hosted here, not externally. All cookies and javascript have been removed, and hopefully it's a much more accessible and enjoyable experience than before.
new project, truskmore, sligo, ireland ||| In December I was awarded a Leitrim Arts Office Individual Artist Bursary Award to begin new artistic research into the five transmission towers around Ireland. Initial funding includes research...
collaboration, ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland ||| As part of my Arts Council of Ireland bursary award, I have been working with Rotterdam-based arts collective varia on developing skills and understanding for building data servers based on...
event, Manorhamilton and Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland ||| I was invited to programme events for Designweek 2023 in Leitrim by Creative Heartlands and Leitrim Design House. The programme included a one-day workshop on artist-led servers by...
event, Blessington Library, Co. Wicklow, Ireland ||| Three artists present new works about the Poulaphuca Reservoir, in a project that I have led since 2021. Visual artist Saidhbhín Gibson (Kildare) has drawn from an 1842 etching that...
publication, University of Performing Arts and Music, Austria ||| A chapter in the book 'Swap Spaces', which documents the 2022 project 'Swap Space' which I was a collaborating artist on. The chapter is a poetic reflection that documents...
talk / book launch, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria ||| Presented a prerecorded talk at Kunstverein Graz as part of the launch of the book Swap Spaces, where I discussed how 'tidal thinking' as a collaborative practice was used during...
exhibition of new artwork, How It's Made, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, Ireland ||| A new artwork was created drawing links between electricity and myth/magic, from the perspective of my first mobile phone. Developed for 'How It's Made' and...
exhibition of new artwork, ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland ||| A final event for the project 'Waking the Land', the collective at ^ built a banner and staged a social event at ^ in Manorhamilton, Leitrim. The banner will be activated next...
social events, ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland ||| As part of the collective ^, we are coordinating new artist-led social events each Thursday in August 2023 for the project Waking the Land. Each week a different artist will hold space at ^....
video interview, Jackie Clarke Collection, Ballina, Co. Mayo ||| Interview film by Anula Productions and supported by the Jackie Clarke Collection about the artwork 'Assembly', created as Decade of Centenaries Artist in Residence 2022....
documentation in publication by Dr. El Putnam, MDPI Arts 2023, 12(3) ||| Dr. El Putnam's publication features a philosophical response to the artwork Assembly (2022) by Shane Finan as part of an evolving Irish cosmotechnics. The paper...