Selected projects:

Shipsides and Beggs Projects:

SWAMP THINGS / Abridged. 2023. (Boat, drawings, animation)
SHEEBANG. 2023 (Boat and legacies)
ZOMBIE LINE. 2015. (HD video with animation)
DECIMATION IN A Flat and D Minor (composed for piano)- 2018. (Audio artwork 12" record - 33min)
THE LAMENT OF THE ACCOLADE TREE - La Cuisine, France. 2018 (Exhibition, performance of music/sound, spoken word and video)
THE IRON WAY - Venice Biennale. 2017 (Performance of music/sound, spoken word and video)
WABASH CANNONBALL - Granite, Quartz, Iron. Citizenguage, Bbeyond, Belfast 2019 (Video - Performative street lecture)
ANOTHER FINE MESS - Katzen Art Centre American University Museum 2020. Mixed media exhibition. (Covid - virtual)
WHERE THE LINES END - 2020 (HD video in 3 parts 58min)
THE CROSSINGS - 2020 (music composition - phased development)
Fingers grow gnarled in the watery pass / Icy hands hold us afloat. AFM 2020 (Painting canoe sculptures)
STARMAPS : BORDERLANDS. 2020 (Painted ordinance survey maps of the ROI/NI borderlands)
BIVACCO - 2011 (HD video)
YUPA STAR - some kind of memorial - 2012 (SBP Video installation)
STILL NOT OUT OF THE WOODS - Belfast. 2012. The Mac, Belfast (Sculptural / audio / video installation)
STILL NOT OUT OF THE WOODS - Bastogne. 2015 (Sculptural / audio / video installation)
STILL NOT OUT OF THE WOODS - Chateau Gontier. 2015 (Sculptural suspended twig-text)
NOTTANUM - Nantes. 2017 (Performance Sculptural / audio / video installation)
Reason, Hope & Fear. 2023 (Sculptural shadow projection installation)
RED FLOWERS ROUNDABOUT - 2015 (HD video)
WAVE FRONTIER - 2015 Bel Ordinaire, Pau, France. (Audio performance / sculpture / video / drawing installation)
NOT Entertaining - 2019 Hubhug, Rennes, France (Shipsides and Beggs Projects and friends - music performance / video)
ALPHABET CLIMB - 2004 (Shipsides and Beggs Projects - video)

Dan Shipsides:

My current favourite projects (not in any order...):

ha ha Syzygetically Speaking - 2023 (public artworks for Cathederal Quarter Arts Festival)
Summit Stammer - Bernia Ridge 2022 ( ha ha syzygetic experiment)
Summit Stammer - Bearnagh 2023 ( ha ha syzygetic experiment)
ha ha Headland - Portet 2022 (ha ha syzygetic experiment)
What We Didn't Know Was... 2021 (Drawing exhibition)
Three Points Down to Zero 2017 (HD video and animation - expedition)
Syzygetic Experiment No. 5 2022 (Sculptural syzygetic landscape intervention)
'ha' 'ha' hiatus 2015 (Bespoke right and left VW van door panels)
The Passion considered as a Somme summit cross. 2018 (sculptural installation)
Mass Hermit Volume 2013 (HD video animation)
Deep Blue to Pale Blue. 2021 BBC Radio 3 Slow Radio. Produced by Peter McManus. (Broadcast / podcast)
SHUMMIT 2016-7 (HD video and animation)
Three Triangles 2015 (HD video and animation)
CROSSOVERSTAR 2014 (HD video and animation)
MOUNTAIN collages 2014-16 (Magazine collages - framed work)
YUPA STAR - some kind of memorial 2012 (SBP Video installation)
6 Star 2010/2011 (Sculptural intervention)
MORTAR | DEVICE 2011 (HD Video animation)
Summit Stars 2013 (Ongoing landscape interventions)
Via Ferrata (ACCA)2012 (Site specific rope drawing on ACCA, Melbourne)
Sorry 2004 (Site specific hillside public intervention & photographic)
Pata-perception in the Cove 2017 - CMIT (performative conference presentation)
Pata-perception; Misadventures in Art and Climbing 2016 - (performative presentation)

Photographic, graphic, painting, objects & text:

Tree drawings (lockdown) 2020/21 (compressed charcoal drawings)
Accolade Tree 2018 (silk screen prints)
'ha' 'ha' hiatus 2015 (Bespoke right and left VW van door panels.)
The Passion considered as a Somme summit cross. 2018 (sculptural installation)
UVF AMBULANCE 2015-16 (screen prints)
Miscellaneous works 1993-2018 (Exhibiton Fenderesky Gallery 2018)
Bivacco | Star 2011 (Sculptural intervention, video and objects)
FREEDOM CORNER 2015-16 (screen prints)
Scopes FREEDOM CORNER / LADY SIGNALLERS / UVF AMBULANCE 2014 (Interactive kaleidescopes)
Woodenshapes 2013-14 (Painted made objects)
Star~Spirals 2018-22 (Painted made objects)
Syzygetic Experiment No. 5 2022 (Sculptural syzygetic intervention)
Woodenstars 2013 (Painted made objects)
LOVE 2011 (Painted made object)
The Angel 2011 (pinbadge and newspaper sheet)
YERP - YUPA 2010 (various text lanterns)
Vigil | Star 2011 (Sculptural intervention and objects)
Rainbow Rock Knives 2014 (Painted made objects)
Summit Stars 2013 (Ongoing landscape interventions)
Metal plates 2011 - ongoing (Etched / painted metal plates)
Grid paintings 2014 (Painted and assembled found objects)
6 Star 2010 (Sculptural intervention)
Capella Head Point (series) White ink on lambda photo prints.
Evilsport 2012 (interactive magazine collection and reading table)
The Hanging and other relating work 2008 (Collaborative with Neal Beggs and Thibaut Espiau)
Sorry 2004 (Site specific public intervention & photographic)
Climb poems 2000 / ongoing (Text + video)
Cioch : Bone Scale 2011 (Text / video)
Montgros - 32 days 2005 (Drawn video animation)
Saanen valley drawings 2006 (Drawn video animation)
Untitled landscapes 1999 - (ongoing photographic series)
09061337770 2001 (Drawing, photographic, sculpture)
Cast 2002 (Photographic slide installation)
Banshee 1998 (Site specific text and audio installation)

Video & animation:

Three Points Down to Zero 2017 (HD video animation)
SHUMMIT 2016-7 (HD video animation)
Mass Hermit Volume 2013 (HD video animation)
CROSSOVERSTAR 2014 (HD video animation)
MORTAR | DEVICE 2011 (HD Video 2min)
YUPA STAR 2012 (SBP Video installation)
Via Ferrataferatu 2010 (Video)
Pan 360 2008/ongoing (Ongoing series of video landscapes)
Dolerite, Solarized Pigmatosis 2008 (Single Channel, Subtitled, SD Video 12min)
Fugla 2002 (Video)
Temporary viewpoint - the topology of Israel 2005 (Construction, video - interactive)

Video & performance:

The Stone Bridge 1998 (Performance, video, installation)
Conduit 2014 (Performance - audio - drawing)
The Hanging and other relating works 2008 (Mixed media and collaborative work with Neal Beggs and Thibaut Espiau)
Abstraction for Beginners 1999 (Video)
Rubli via ferrata / Vertical Dream 2006 (Site specific installation, video - interactive)
Edelweiss 2002 (Site specific performance , video)
Green Line Sisyphus 2005 (Video)
San Lorenzo Direct 2004 (Video)
Penguin & the Guillemot 1999 (Site specific performance and video installation)
Apa i Bur 2005 (Video - two screen / projection)
Swammerdam Groove 2002 (Video)
Skogskyrkogården 2006 (Video)
Högalidsgatan 2006 (Video)
Frieze revolution / Made at HEDAH 2003 (Video)
Leaps into the abyss 1996 (video, performance)
Under a frogs arse @ the bottom of a coalmine 1997 (Site specific performance, installation, video)

Interactive /particpatory: sculptural / photographic / video (working with others):

The Cove 2012 Echo Echo Dance and Dan Shipsides collaboration inc. VNB (Touring dance installation)
Vertical. Nature. Base. 2011. Including The Cove (Site and context specific collaborative climbing / art / dance project)
Radical Architecture 2007 (Construction, photographic / drawing, contextual - interactive)
Rochers à Fontainebleau 2003/5 (Photographic, video, animation, construction, drawing)
Elastic Frontiers 2005/6 (Construction, video, photographic, drawing, educational intervention)
Touchstone 2008 (Echo Valley / A Guiding Dilemma: climbing with a blind person - video / text installation)
Gecko Roof 2000 (Landscape specific construction - interactive)
Pioneers 2003 (Photographic / drawing, audio)
Generation Art School 2009 (public interaction)
T5 Field Cinema (participatory wild remote film screening expeditions in a VW van)
Let's Get High 2007 (Public community action)

Installation, public art, invention:

Via Ferrata (ACCA)2012 (Site specific rope drawing on ACCA, Melbourne)
Sorry 2004 (Site specific public intervention & photographic)
Public Commission 2012 (linkable via an onsight QR code)
Sequenced problems on contemporary art (Frieze) 2007 (Interactive installation)
Dans un chaos 2005 (Construction - public interaction)
6 Moves on the Castle 2000 (Landscape specific construction - interactive)
Angel’s Wall 1999 (Landscape specific construction - interactive)
Blood Cell Sequence 2002 (Site specific construction - interactive)
Flat-pack Vertigo - Hochsitz 2006 (Site specific construction - interactive)
Flat-pack Vertigo - Galaxian Crack 2006 (Interactive wall sculpture)
Manta Ray 2004 (Site specific construction - interactive)
Low Level Movement 2006 (Site specific construction - interactive)
Flyttblock & Klipphällar 2006 (Site specific public interaction, drawing, photographic)
Handrail route 2000 (site specific installation)
Pessimism / Optimism (Sadshel) 2006 (Site specific public intervention and performance)
Malmeter Scale 95 bus route, Bruxelles 2007 (Public text work)
Escape the system* 2001 (Site specific public photographic installation)
Bamboo Support 2000 (Site specific intervention)

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