socially engaged artwork, august 2025, arthur's quay shopping centre, limerick A new socially engaged artwork as part of the 'Síolta Glasa' project, Limerick. Working with Friends of Lace Limerick, I developed an artwork to help people consider technology nad manufacture in clothing. On 14th-15th August 2025, I...

ritual and workshop, july 5th 2025, antidefuturing, whiddy summer school, whiddy island, co. cork I was invited to be part of the programme at AGON-A, the first Whiddy Island Summer School, where artists, academics and designers came together to discuss futures. I collaborated on a session with futures literacy...

artist talk, june 17th 2025, online (hosted by the maltings berwick) On June 17th I will give a talk on my three-month residency aiteann (https://shanefinan.org/VAP/15_aiteann.html) as part of the research project FIRECULT. The project is exploring the relationship between fire and loss of cultural heritage. I will...

residency, june 8th-24th 2025, visual arts in rural communities and forestry england I have arrived back in Northumberland to do a 2-week residency partnered with Forestry England revising the Kielderhead Wildwood where I was also resident in 2020-21 (see https://shanefinan.org/VAP/10_woodwideweb.html). I will be on...

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. The workshop costs €240 for two days, with a limit of six places. More information...

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 of this residency, I will document the area where a community planted over...

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 resarch process and the collaborations with research and community partners. View it...

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 Newcastle University. Working with UCD and The Maltings Berwick, I will develop...

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 Manorhamilton, January 17th-19th 2025, created by the collective ^ Information, schedule and...

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 the town with members of the local community.

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 James Hutton Institute, and co-authors are Lewis Holloway, Beth Clark, and Amy...