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Alan Phelan - STAUNCH
Estimate:
€600 - €1,000
Sold
€800
Timed Auction
Arthouse 2023 - Day 1
ARTIST
Alan Phelan
Size
30.5 x 30.5 cm
Category
Description
About artist: Alan Phelan (b. 1968) is an artist based in Dublin whose practice began in photography and has extended into many different media and mediums with a focus on interpretation, language and collaborations with other artists, writers and curators. He studied at DCU (1989) and RIT, New York (1994) under a Fulbright scholarship. He has had significant solo exhibitions at CCI Paris (2021), Void Derry (2020), RHA (2020), Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane (2016) and the IMMA (2009). Gallery solos also include the Molesworth Gallery (2023), 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), EcoShowBoat (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). His work is included in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Arts Council, Trinity College Dublin, Limerick City Gallery of Art, The National Self-Portrait Collection, the Office of Public Works, Dublin City Council and several private collections. Residencies include Wilton Park Studios RHA/IPUT, NCAD, Dublin, CCI Paris, HIAP Helsinki, URRA Argentina and FSAS Dublin. Recent awards include an Arts Council bursary (2021 and 2017), Creative Ireland MCCCS (2019), and the Hotron Éigse Art Prize (2016). Public works include DCC/Sculpture Dublin, the O'Connell Plinth Commission, City Hall (2021-23), Dublin; Void Offsites (2022), Derry; Kevin Street Library (2016); Fr Collins Park (2011), IMMA formal gardens (2009).
About artwork: This painting is acrylic on a printed canvas – this gives the work crisp lines without masking. Using Phelan's signature RGB colours, this text painting is part of a body of work first shown earlier this year at the Molesworth Gallery and stemming from his work in TONE SNP1, a screen-printed art text journal he co-edits with James Merrigan and Laura Fitzgerald. This particular work uses a quote from the notorious and iconic 1975 documentary Grey Gardens. The film explored the eccentric lives of mother and daughter Edie and Edith Bouvier Beale, where they retell deluded tales of a glamourous earlier lives and faded hope for the future as they have fallen into penury and squalor. Several of Little Edie ramblings have become prime comic material, tragic and all as it is, notably drag star Jinkx Monsoon has brought the films and characters to a wider audience.
Website: https://www.alanphelan.com
Instagram: @phelanlikealan
Condition
Excellent Condition
Medium
acrylic
Signature
Yes