This website provides some basic (haphazard) information on selected projects from 1996 to today.

NB. this is a new website, under development and editing - please forgive occassional glitches

For those not familiar with my work a quick introduction might be through these projects:

Rochers à Fontainebleau
Radical Architecture
Gecko roof
The Stone Bridge
Elastic Frontiers
Bamboo Support
Sorry
Green line Sisyphus

My activities explore a creative relationship to space based on the experiential. It aims to find a way of exploring spaces usually with a physical engagement and produce "landscape" - both rural and urban - artworks based on that experience. Some projects seek to engage the experience of others.

My artwork or projects take many forms including, interactive sculpture, constructions, public intervention, video, photography, drawing, performance and text. It often enages the input of others.

My practice is at times irreverent, quickly made and fun and other times involves extended processes of research and is very sincere...

Biog.
Dan Shipsides (born 1972 Lancashire, England), Former co-director at Catalyst Arts, Belfast and is now an artist based in Orchid Studios and also currently a researcher at the School of Art & Design at the University of Ulster in Belfast.

In 2004 Dan Shipsides was awarded the ACNI Major Artist Award, in 2000 won the Nissan Art award IMMA (Bamboo Support) Dublin and 1998 won the Perspective award, OBG, Belfast (The Stone Bridge).

Recent solo and group exhibitions/projects include; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (Radical Architecture)Wings Project Art Space, Switzerland (Performance), Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (Elastic Frontiers), Konsthall C / Lava Kulturhuset. Stockholm, Sweden (Under plattan, ängen!), Galerie Wandelbar, Gstaad, Switzerland (Flat-pack Vertigo), ACT, Canberra, Australia (24-7 / Dwell). Platform, Istanbul (Hit & Run), Confederation Gallery, PEI, Canada (Beauty Queens/Pioneers) HEDAH, Maastricht (Rochers à Fontainebleau), Riga Sculpture quadrennial, Latvia (European Space), Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (Beta), Rialto Santimbrogio, Rome (Think Over), Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (Pioneers), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (Sporting Life). Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (Endure). The Alpine Club (Art&Mountains) and Gimpel Fils Gallery (Nature/Culture) London, Melbourne International Biennial, Australia (Signs of Life). Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, France (Edelweiss). Consortium Gallery, Amsterdam (the notice in this factory is Thursday). Art Gallery of Mississuaga and Art Gallery of Victoria, Canada (Performing Generations).

 

I gratefully acknowledge the continued support of:
The University of Ulster Art and Design Research Institute
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI)
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)