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Window Dressing Art 09 2010
Green Papaya - No Soul for Sale - Tate Modern
ignite 4
fenor bog - book installation index gallery
Punchinello Garter Lane 2009
fenor bog weave
Noosa Sunrise 1.2

September 2010 Weave Art Installation at Gateways Festival, Co. Wicklow more info ->
September 2010 ‘Window Dressing Art in a …temporary art space’ site specific installation of mixed media sculptures, catalogue and performance art documentation more info->
August 2010 Attended opening of Kathleen Delaney's exhibition, Thomastown, Kilkenny Art Festival.
July 2010 Photographing beautiful scenery in Carna, Co. Galway.
May 2010 'Volunteered' with Green Papaya Art Projects at the Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary, No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents in the Turbine Hall. - Founded in 2000 by Norberto Roldan and Donna Miranda Green Papaya provides a platform for intellectual exchange, critical dialogue and creative-practical collaboration among the artistic community in the Philippines. www.greenpapayaartprojects.org
April 2010 Collaboration: 20 slides from Australia Zoo, 2006, chosen to accompany the Rain Forest Aviary sound pieceby miXile - ignite 4,' at the Science Gallery (Trinity College, Dublin, during Trinity Week) IgniteDublin.
March 2010 Launch of Ambient Electronic Noosa Sunrise by miXile: commissioned artwork and Video Art Installation at Soma Contemporary ArtBox Waterford.
March 2010 Opened "Rockscapes & Surfaces" - recent work by Bernard Queally and Millia Tsaoussis Maddock at Garter Lane Arts Centre.
January 2010 Volunteered at re-opening SOMA Gallery with “POP [won't eat itself]” - Live Art Installation 'Phoenix' survived the move but not the renovations!
December 2009 Graduated with First Class Honours : MA Arts & Heritage Management | MA (Hons) :-)
October 2009 Enjoyed Chris Watson & Simon Fisher Turner at The National Gallery London.
July 2009 Group exhibition Punchinello @ SprÓg at Garter Lane Arts Centre, more info - >
June 2009 'Phoenix' living scultpure : installation at SOMA Contemporary Art Box.
January 2009 Curated exhibition of Selected Works from Waterford Central Library Art Collection at Index Gallery, Lady Lane more - >
November 2008 dreamcatcher - solo exhibition at Index Gallery, 15th to 29th; Waterford City Council Central Library, Lady Lane Waterford more info here ->
June 2008 Unfamiliar Territory - Solo exhibition 'Journeys' plus new work at Foleys on the Mall, Lismore, Co. Waterford more info here -> Part of the Immrama Festival
April 2008 Recent work exhibited at opening of Book-a-Room new offices by Minister Martin Cullen, in collaboration with Waterford Chamber, photo here ->
February 2008 Launch of Ambient Electronic Nullarbor CD by miXile: artwork and photography
January 2008 Gozo : Photographic Journal of journey
October 2007 Exhibition of recent works : Bodega, Waterford, IMAGINE Arts Festival. Collection inspired by two journeys taken in 2006.
May 2007 Extended Blue (2), June, Solstice (3) "Dialogue" more info on anamait
January 2007 "Dialogue" collaboration with miXile: Can you see where I am coming from (Part 1)
October 2006 LIVE Art, open art studio, work shown at Greyfriars Gallery | Review of Festival
September 2006 Expressionism and the Art of Website Design, Workshop with members of Network Waterford, at Tower Hotel Waterford ... info here ->
Summer 2006 Expedition across Australia : WA: Perth, Bibbulmun, Kalamunda, Mundaring Dam, Kalgoorlie, Western Desert, Norseman, Nullarbor , Australian Bight. NSW: Blue Mts, Great Dividing Range, Sydney, Great Escarpment. Queensland: Noosa, Australia Zoo.
March 2006 Seven days painting in Tavernelle, North Tuscany, Italy; a tiny village set among hills covered with chestnut forests and the last stop before crossing the Apennines.
November 2004 Started "Rosetta Stone" project
September 2003 Started "Boundary Wall" series en route to Network Ireland National Executive meeting in Galway!
  window dressing art in a ...temporary art space | green papaya at the tate | ignite 4 | art book in library | |punchinello at Garter lane 2009 | Fenor Bog : Weave, oil on canvas 2008 | Can you see where I am coming from?
  © Chris O'Brien Shanahan 2006- 2012, all images, paintings, photographs © Christine O'Brien Shanahan