23.5cm x 28cm x 5.5cm

About artist: Alan Phelan (born 1968 Dublin, Ireland) received BA, Dublin City University, 1989 and MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 1994 on a Fulbright and John F Kennedy Fund scholarships. He worked at the George Eastman House subsequently and obtained a Certificate in Photographic Preservation and Archival Studies. It was there that he first came cross Joly screens as a small Irish connection in the vast collections of George Eastman Museum. He has exhibited Joly screen photographs at Casino Marino Dublin (2024); PhotoIreland Festival Dublin (2021 and 2022); Centre CultureI Irlandais Paris (2021); Void Derry (2020); Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin (2020); and The Dock Carrick-on-Shannon (2019). He has been awarded the Grand Prix at the forthcoming Rotlicht the international festival for analogue photography, Vienna, this November 2024. His practice that began in photography has extended into many different media and mediums with a focus on interpretation, language, and collaborations with other artists, writers, and curators. His work has recently been concerned with queer counterfactual temporalities, where histories are revised, recovered and reassembled into artworks and scenarios. Other exhibitions include Dublin City Gallery; The Hugh Lane (2016) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2009); Oonagh Young Gallery (2015 and 2013); Golden Thread Belfast (2014); The Black Mariah Cork (2011) and Mother's Tankstation Dublin (2007). Group exhibitions/projects include: Self-Determination; IMMA (2023); MOE Communal (2023); TONE/TOLD/TEXT/TALK (2022-23); CCA Derry (2021); Garage Rotterdam (2020); EVA International (2016); Bonn Kunstmuseum (2015); Treignac Projet (2014); Bozar Brussels (2013); Feinkost Berlin (2007); The Whitney Museum of American Art (2004).
About artwork: This work is a Joly screen photograph, a unique image of a flower arrangement. It is based on the an advertorial fashion photographer did for designer JW Anderson were flowers were arranged in the style of Constance Spry, the noted floral artist who made her name in London (after fleeing Dublin) in the post-War period. Her innovative designs included using hedgerow plants, weeds and vegetables like kale. There is a distinct symmetry that she created which is reflected in the photograph, centred here on deep purple peonies. The title of the image, like many of these floral Joly photographs made for exhibitions in The Dock, RHA, Void and CCI Paris, includes references and a political date when the original image or work was made. In this instance it is the marriage equality referendum of 2015, a appropriate homage for Outhouse and the great work they do. The work is mounted on acrylic panels, attached to a wall by metal profiles and illuminated by a small LED panel. The image is a 2 part transparency, made from a colour striped filter and a B&W 4x5 sheet film. The Joly process was the first to prove colour can be made from red, green and blue light. It is an additive process, colour is added to B&W film, with the filter used on exposure and display to create colour from light, not chemistry as with contemporary film and prints. Phelan is the only practitioner using this process, having revived it in 2018.
Website: https://alanphelan.com/portfolio/portfolio-joly-photographs-folly-diction-2020/
Instagram: @phelanlikealan
Framed: Yes; 23.5cm x 28cm x 5.5cm

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