DAN SHIPSIDES - CV & contact info
Curriculum Vitae / Resume
dan shipsides
web email: hipsides@ntlworld.com
Orchid Studios
2nd Floor, 44-46 Corporation St
Belfast, BT1 3DE, N. Ireland. UK
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786 498 6940
d.o.b. 03/03/72
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2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
Awards Education Teaching Residencies Memberships
Upcoming / current exhibitions & projects * denotes solo exhibition / project
May 2008 Echo Valley / A Guiding Dilemma Touchstone Testpiece AHRC project. Void Gallery. Derry. Solo.*
July 2008 Soundeye. Festival of words. Group show. Cork.
July 2008 Games and Theory. Group Show. South London Gallery.
July 2008 Embedded2. Group show. Gimpel Fils. London.
Sep 2008 Users' End. Group show (with Denicolai & Provoost, Geys, Beggs, Moore) Be-Part Gallery, Waregem, Ghent, Belgium.
Nov 2008 Pressure of a sign Visible / Invisible. Central Electrica Gallery, Porto, Portugal. Group exhibition touring to Ireland and Poland.
2008/9 Figuring Landscapes. Touring video programme. UK and Australia. Inc. Tate Modern. Dundee Contemporary Arts and FACT, Liverpool.
Selected exhibitions / projects
March 2008 Drawing a line. Group show. International Photography Gallery of Haerbin, China.
Radical Architecture.Castlefield Gallery (curated by Salford Restoration Office) Manchester. Solo show.*
The Double Image. Curated by Dougal Mckenzie. GTgallery group show. Belfast
Art Rocks (Hillsborough Mountain Film Festival). Hillsborough, N.Ireland.*
Visual Deflections. Roxy Bar and Screen, London. Video screenings.
High Ground. Shepherd's Hut, Campsie, Glasgow.*
Movements of distraction. Videoism #8, Mains d'Oeuvres,
Saint-Ouen,
Group show, France.
Somethings you may have missed. GtGallery, Group show, Belfast.
New Art from Northern Ireland. Katzen Arts center, Group show, Washington.
Let's get High. Community outreach and billboard project. GtGallery, Belfast.
Malmeter scale (Route 95 Bruxelles) Public text work. BruxellesBravo art festival. Group show.
Elastic Frontiers.Solo project. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.*
Performance. Wings Art Project Space, Geneva, Switzerland. 2 person with Uriel Orlow
Uneasy Spaces. Group show 80 Washington Sq. East Gallery. New York.
Exchange places. Belfast / Quebec exchange. Optimism / pessimism. Performance.
Under plattan, ängen! Konsthall C / Lava Kulturhuset. Stockholm, Sweden.*
Drawing a line Grove gallery, St Patrick’s centre Downpatrick. Group show.
Breathing Ground Coed Hills rural art project. Group show. Wales.
Beauty Queens Art Gallery of Newfoundland, Canada. International touring show.
Flat pack vertigo Galerie Wandlebar. Solo exhibition. Gstaad, Switzerland.*
Masters MFA 25yrs on. Group show. OBG Belfast.
2005
24-7 Dwell Temporary public art project. Parliamentary triangle. Canberra. Australia.
No topless bathing - Belfast has suffered enough. Sala Naranja, Valencia, Spain.
In Place of Passing Bbeyond. International performances. North Antrim Coast.
Four Now ACNI & Arts Council Ireland collection - selector for Glucksman Gallery Cork.
Beyond landscape Royal West Academy. Lan2d Group show. Bristol.
Beauty Queens Art Gallery of Victoria, Canada. International touring show.
LOT. Posters pints pies Poster show. Group show. Bristol.
*Performance on an edge Circa art magazine. Spring 2005 issue.
The Belfast Way Museum of Herzilya, Israel.
Hit & Run ( Manta ray / San Lorenzo ) Smart Project Space / Platform, Istanbul.
Beyond landscape Deanclough Halifax.Lan2d.
Thinking of Ideas Group show. Golden Thread Galley, Belfast.
Beauty Queens Confederation Centre Gallery, PEI Canada. Touring group show.
Retreat Citylights, Any minute now, group show, Melbourne Australia.
European Space International Sculpture Quadrennial. Riga, Latvia.
Frieze revolution / Rochers à Fontainebleau HEDAH.Solo show. Maastricht.*
Beta. GtGallery. Belfast.*
The Short Span Millennium Court gallery. Portadown. N. Ireland*
Rogues gallery Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
*Rochers à Fontainebleau Context Gallery, Derry.
Radio Radio Radio broadcast Pioneers: Curated by B Haines / D Chennell. London.
Think Over Rialto Santambrogio. Rome.
*Pioneers Temple Bar Gallery. Dublin.
Pioneers Source photographic magazine. Inc. audio CD.
Bridges Lan2d. University of Western England. Group show.
Vacuum - Raffle Fundraising exhibition. Belfast Exposed.
Edelweiss Centre Chorégraphic National de Montpellier, France.
New additions. National Self-Portrait Collection. Limerick. Ireland.
Videoserver Smart Project Space. Liste03 Basel. Switzerland.
Factotum presents. Context Gallery, Derry.
The National Gallery Return Gallery, Goethe Institute, Dublin.
The Quest of the Golden Fleeced Vacuum issue 3. Publication, Belfast.
Art + Mountains conquistadors of the useless Alpine Club. London.
Endure Smart Project Space, Amsterdam.Blood Cell Sequence / Swammerdam groove.
20/20 Group show. Temple Bar Gallery. Dublin.
Cluster Bowes Bar, Temple Bar Gallery project, Dublin.
NIFCA / Network North Residency. Faroe Isles.*
Appropriation OBG, Belfast.
Precinct Billboard project. Catalyst Arts. Belfast.
Cast Oriel Mostyn Open. Llandudno, Wales.
09061337770 Proposition Gallery. Belfast.*
2001
EV+A Limerick. Ireland.
It’s all over, again Proposition Gallery, Belfast.
The way to Cold Mountain Morning Star publications. Edinburgh.
Place in the Market Transfer Market. Bbeyond. St. Georges Market, Belfast.
National Live Art Review platform Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
Sporting Life 2000 Sydney Olympics Arts Festival. MCA, Sydney, Australia.
Sydney Rock Climbing Club 50th Anniversary after dinner talk. Katoomba,Australia.*
Bamboo Support Nissan Art Project for the Millenium. IMMA. Dublin.*
The notice day in this factory isThursday Consortium, Amsterdam
Perspective 2000 OBG. Belfast.
Same as last year Proposition Gallery Belfast.
Dopplarity Bank Tube Station and Hiscox Gallery. London.
The notice day in this factory isThursday Golden Thread Gallery. Belfast.
barbie on the beach Group show. Proposition Gallery, Belfast.
Performing generations Art Gallery of Victoria, Canada.
Passport Morning Star publication, Edinburgh.
Culture / Nature Gimpel Fils Gallery. London.
Culture / Nature Hales Gallery. London.
HorseHead International public art project. Belfast.
Signs of Life Melbourne International Biennial, Australia.
The Grotesquesness of Desire insideART gallery. Chicago.
Performing generations group show. Art Gallery of Mississuaga/Toronto.
Studio workings University of Ulster. ex-MFA students. Belfast.
Perspective 98 Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
MUU festival video screening. Helsinki.
V/O Catalyst Arts group collaboration.Belfast.
Hardline Catalyst Arts, Belfast. Group exhibition - drawings.
Fables of Desire Video screening Fix 98. Belfast.
Radar Generator. Dundee. collaboration with R. McKinley.
The green man. R.A.P. Limerick.
Reverend Tods Full House Grassy Knoll, Belfast.
Still to Real Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
Inca Trail Slide exhibition. Transmission Gallery. Stockholm Art Fair. Sweden.
Under a frogs arse at the bottom of a coalmine Catalyst Arts, Belfast 2 person show.
No.11 John Cabot Close Moving. City Projects. Bristol.
Connected Northern gallery for Contemporary art. Sunderland.
In from the outside Site gallery, part of Elastic frontiers. Sheffield.
The last minute Time based/video Festival. Cooper Gallery, Dundee.
*Between margin and the main Context gallery, Derry.
Burgwedel e.v. Irish & Scottish art Hanover, Germany.
Phooey!! 3 Month Gallery. Video installation. Liverpool. Two person show.
*Bivouac Belfast Exposed Gallery. Belfast.
Tutor with an idea 3 Month Gallery. Liverpool.
2 ½ years from now MFA. Belfast.
Antimatter 3 Month Gallery. Video screenings. Liverpool.
Video cats - Catalyst Arts. Video artists - touring compilation show. Belfast.
Art 97 London art fair. Representing / presenting Catalyst Arts. London.
Proposition Proposition Gallery, Belfast. 3 person show.
1996
Open plan Catalyst Arts, group members show. Belfast.
Splatter site specific group exhibition. Crawfordsburn Hse. N. Ireland.
Tangled Ross’ Court Gallery, 3 week performance. Belfast.
House Style Bedroom Gallery,. Belfast.
Disinformation project Leeds.
Stain Bedroom Gallery, Installation. Belfast.*
Oceanic Chat Noir gallery, 3 person show. London.
AHRC Landscape and Environment award.2006-07.
ACNI New York short residency 2006.
ACNI Major artist award 2004-05.
AHRB Fellowship 2001-4.
Nissan Art Award. IMMA. Dublin 2000.
Perspective Award. OBG Belfast 1998.
ACNI Individual Artist Award 2007, 2003, 2001, 1998.
ACNI Travel Awards 2006 New York, 2003 Rome, 2002 Faroes.
New Projects award 2003. Arts Council of Ireland.
Artflight awards: 2000 Amsterdam, 1997 New York.
Visual arts bursary , Arts Council of Ireland 1999.
Material / documentation award, The Arts Council of Ireland 1999.
Go See Award, Arts Council Of Ireland 1998.
96 - 97 MFA. Fine Art. Belfast. Distinction.
95 - 96 PGDip. Fine Art. Belfast. Distinction.
90 - 93 BA Hon. Fine Art. Leeds.
88 - 90 Blackpool College of Art.
Course co-leader MA Art in Public. University of Ulster. 2008 - cont..
Lecturer in Art & Design. University of Ulster 2006 - cont..
Research Fellow and Visiting lecturer, University of Ulster. 1997 - 2004.
External examiner Limerick Inst. Design and Technology 2004 - 2008.
Visiting lecturer NCAD, Dublin 2000.
Visiting Lecturer Limerick College of Art 1999, 2000.
Visiting Lecturer UNSW Sydney, Australia 2002.
Canberra School of Art. Australia 2000, 2005.
Visiting lecturer Sligo College of Art 1997.
ACNI New York - short term residency. 06
Konsthal C Stockholm, Sweden 2005 and 2006.
Galerie Wandelbar, Gstaad, Switzerland 2005.
Can Serrat. Residency, Barcelona, Catalonia 2004.
AHRB Fellowship University of Ulster 2001-2004.
Network North Residency. Faroe Isles 2002.
MCA / Sydney Rock Climbing Club, Australia 2000.
Catalyst Arts @ IMMA Artist Works Programme, Dublin 1998.
2005 - Fire Station International Studios. Board member. Dublin.
2002-2007 Directors / board committee Bbeyond, Belfast.
2004 - Research Fellow. University of Ulster, Belfast.
2001 - Maiden Voyage Board member. ( Dance organisation ), Belfast.
2001 - 2004 AHRB Research Fellowship. University of Ulster.
1997 - 2003 OBG Gallery technician, Belfast.
1997 - 1999 Catalyst Arts Co director, Belfast.
1996 - Orchid Studios. Co Director. Belfast.
1995 - 1996 Disinformation member. Leeds.
1993 Oblong Studios. Founder member. Leeds.
1990 - 1995 Lackadayzk, Rug and Box band member. Leeds.
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