Dan Shipsides is an artist based in Belfast and Course Director of the MFA Fine Art programme at the Belfast School of Art. His work has a distinct geographic lean—a form of creative geography shaped by an embodied fascination with the outdoors.
ARTIST BIO
Shipsides was awarded the CQAF award, Belfast in 2023 (ha ha, Syzygetically Speaking). In 2017 he completed a moving image commission (Three Points Down to Zero) supported by AEMI and Dublin Docklands. He was awarded an AHRC Landscape and Environment Award in 2026 (Touchstone Testpiece), ACNI Major Artist Award in 2004 (Lateral Practice and Climbing), in 2000 won the Nissan Award IMMA (Bamboo Support) Dublin and 1998 won the Perspective Award, OBG, Belfast (The Stone Bridge). He (inc. Shipsides and Beggs Projects) has exhibited nationally and internationally including; Katzen Gallery, American University (Another Fine Mess), La Cuisine, France (Lament of the Accolade Tree), L'Orangerie Bastogne, Belgium (Still not out of the Woods), Microclima (Venice Biennale collateral, The Iron Way), ACCA, Melbourne (Desire Lines), The MAC, Belfast (Still not out of the Woods), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (Radical Architecture), Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (Elastic Frontiers), Platform Guranti, Istanbul (Hit & Run), Confederation Gallery, PEI, Canada (Beauty Queens), Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (Beta), Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (Pioneers), MCA, Sydney (Sporting Life). Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (Endure), Melbourne International Biennial, Australia (Signs of Life).
Above: Zombie Line, Shipsides and Beggs Projects, 2015, SNOOTW Installation view, Belgium.
Top left: SUMMIT STAMMER (SLIEVE BEARNAGH) - ha ha, Dan Shipsides, 2026, Framed archival giclée print on hahnemühle paper mounted on dibond, 23.8cm x 31.4cm x 3.4cm
Absurdist, anarchist and pataphysical principles infuse Shipsides’ approach. Themes of unreliable language, occluded knowledge, ecological perspectives, unorthodox methods and speculative ‘what ifs’ and ‘why nots’ animate his work, underpinned by a slow and attentive phenomenological practice of being present. He has developed the term pata-perception to describe this mode of imaginative looking, doing and being.
MOUNTAIN Collage 97, Dan Shipsides, 2016, Joyce Bracht leading Genesis (5.12) Redgarden Wall, Elderado Canyon. Ph. Harvey Arnold. Framed magazine collage.
Surf chart drawings (White Rock 1), Dan Shipsides, 2001
Mountains, crags, waterways and coastlines hold a particular attraction, though woodlands are equally valued. His hybrid, cross-disciplinary practice encompasses drawing, print, video, sculpture, sound and other forms of making and doing.
SUMMIT STAMMER (SLIEVE BEARNAGH) - ha ha, Dan Shipsides, 2026, Framed archival giclée print on hahnemühle paper mounted on dibond, 23.8cm x 31.4cm x 3.4cm
TITLE
On silent air (no.10)
ARTIST
Charys Wilson
ABOUT THE WORK
On silent air is a new edition of works the size of a handheld tablet by Charys Wilson. The plants and flowers featured in this edition of 10 individual works have been sourced from the immediate vicinity of The Living House, North Belfast; a collaboration between Household and MMAS Architects to inhabit and re-animate the building as a site for artistic and social exchange They create domestic landscapes intended for the home, which, through recycled polarised TV screens, provide partly obscured glimpses of organic growth. On silent air speaks of a mediated, digitalised, and disembodied experience of accessing a rapidly fading, tactile natural world through a technological interface.
DATE
2026
DIMENSIONS
24 cm (h) x 17 cm (w) x 3 cm (d)
MEDIUM
Wood, pins, dried plant, section of recycled tv screen, artist glass
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
1/10 original works
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charys Wilson’s practice centres on installation and small-scale sculptural works. Drawing on a background in printmaking, her attention is often directed towards alignment, layering and the subtle relationships between materials, light and space. Elements of the outside are brought indoors, creating quiet encounters through illusion, mimicry, light and shadow.
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