TITLE
SUMMIT STAMMER (SLIEVE BEARNAGH) - ha ha. 2023
ARTIST
Dan Shipsides
ABOUT THE WORK
Playing with the unreliable unfurling of flags, Dan Shipsides explores the fragile contingency of language and the unknowable success of partial utterances. Drawing on his own experience of stammering, the work considers whether partially unfurled words might carry other, more magical and generative potentials. It also centres laughter and the spontaneous guttural voicing of joy and pain as part of the creative energy animating the human and non-human universe. ‘Ha ha’ is also Bosse-de-Nage’s pataphysical measure of time, space and creativity in Jarry’s seminal Dr. Faustroll.
In this image, the synchronicity of the two flags unfurling in the wind at the precise moment the camera shutter was released represents a syzygetic event—a moment of portent.
DATE
2026
DIMENSIONS
23.8cm x 31.4cm x 3.4cm
MEDIUM
Framed archival giclée print on hahnemühle paper mounted on dibond
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
Edition of 5
ABOUT THE ARTIST
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 rooted in an embodied fascination with the outdoors. Mountains, crags, waterways and coastlines hold a particular attraction, though woodlands are equally valued. His practice is hybrid and cross-disciplinary, encompassing drawing, print, video, sculpture, sound and diverse forms of making and doing.
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TITLE
SUMMIT STAMMER (SLIEVE BEARNAGH) - ha ha. 2023
ARTIST
Dan Shipsides
ABOUT THE WORK
Playing with the unreliable unfurling of flags, Dan Shipsides explores the fragile contingency of language and the unknowable success of partial utterances. Drawing on his own experience of stammering, the work considers whether partially unfurled words might carry other, more magical and generative potentials. It also centres laughter and the spontaneous guttural voicing of joy and pain as part of the creative energy animating the human and non-human universe. ‘Ha ha’ is also Bosse-de-Nage’s pataphysical measure of time, space and creativity in Jarry’s seminal Dr. Faustroll.
In this image, the synchronicity of the two flags unfurling in the wind at the precise moment the camera shutter was released represents a syzygetic event—a moment of portent.
DATE
2026
DIMENSIONS
23.8cm x 31.4cm x 3.4cm
MEDIUM
Framed archival giclée print on hahnemühle paper mounted on dibond
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
Edition of 5
ABOUT THE ARTIST
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 rooted in an embodied fascination with the outdoors. Mountains, crags, waterways and coastlines hold a particular attraction, though woodlands are equally valued. His practice is hybrid and cross-disciplinary, encompassing drawing, print, video, sculpture, sound and diverse forms of making and doing.
DELIVERY AND POSTAGE
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