Dan Shipsides
Often reflecting a life obsession with climbing, my practice embodies a creative relationship to space. It explores spaces through experiential and at times, participatory engagement and seeks to create open and often weird narratives based on that experience. It draws from, responds to, documents or reflects the experience of “seeing, being and doing” whilst linking to social, political, environmental or historical contexts – articulating a socio-phenomenological engagement with place.
My artworks or projects take many forms including, interactive sculpture, constructions, public intervention, video, photography, drawing, performance and text. My practice is at times irreverent, open-ended, quickly made and fun and other times involves extended processes of research and is very sincere...
Often reflecting a life obsession with climbing, my practice embodies a creative relationship to space. It explores spaces through experiential and at times, participatory engagement and seeks to create open and often weird narratives based on that experience. It draws from, responds to, documents or reflects the experience of “seeing, being and doing” whilst linking to social, political, environmental or historical contexts – articulating a socio-phenomenological engagement with place.
My artworks or projects take many forms including, interactive sculpture, constructions, public intervention, video, photography, drawing, performance and text. My practice is at times irreverent, open-ended, quickly made and fun and other times involves extended processes of research and is very sincere...
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Diablo Fantasies 2005 Series of 10 lambda prints with diamond mount 34 x 28cm. Fantasy climbing routes on Paret de Diablo (Wall of the Devil) in Montserrat. Like taking a line for a climb. Flat pack vertigo Galerie Wandlebar. Solo exhibition. Gstaad, Switzerland. 2006 Drawing a line Grove gallery, St Patrick’s centre Downpatrick. Northern Ireland. Group show. 2006 London art Fair represented by GTG gallery. 2006 |
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