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Daniel Shipsides

Daniel Shipsides

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2309-6952

  • York Street, Belfast Campus

    BT15 1ED Belfast

    United Kingdom

20002023

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Overview

Dan Shipsides moved to Belfast in 1995 and graduated with an MFA in 1997. He held a Post Doctoral AHRC Fellowship from 2001-2004. He was a committee director at Catalyst Arts (96-98), and Bbeyond (2002-2007) and since 1997 has been based in and central to the artist-run Orchid Studios in Belfast. He is senior lecturer Course Director the MFA Fine Art at the Belfast School of Art. 

His multidisciplinary practice of (intervention, installation, image, moving image, drawing, music and performance +) might be considered a creative form of geography, exploring landscape and spatial narratives around cultural, social, political and environmental matters.

His term ‘pata-perception’ gives a frame to explore and accommodate the hybridisation of overlapping fields of imaginative and experiential enquiry.

He has been awarded several prestigious awards including:

  • AHRC Landscape and Environment Award (2006)
  • ACNI (Arts Council Northern Ireland) Major Artist Award (2004)
  • AHRC Creative Fellowship (2001)
  • Nissan Art Award (2000) and the Perspective Award (1998)

His work is in several national and international public and recently was the subject of podcasts looking at art and the natural environment through the lens of rock-climbing (e.g. From Deep Blue to Pale Blue, BBC Radio 3, BBC Sounds). Since 2004 he also works within the collaborative art duo; Shipsides and Beggs Projects.

National and international exhibitions include:

  • American University Museum - Katzen Gallery (Another Fine Mess)
  • La Cuisine, France (The Lament of the Accolade Tree)
  • L'Orangerie Bastogne, Belgium (Still not out of the Woods)
  • Microclima, Venice (The Iron Way)
  • ACCA, Melbourne (Desire Lines)
  • The MAC, Belfast (Still Not Out Of The Woods)
  • Aliceday Gallery, Brussels (Vigil|Star)
  • South London Gallery (Games & Theory)
  • Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (Radical Architecture)
  • Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (Elastic Frontiers)
  • Platform Guranti, Istanbul (Hit & Run)
  • Confederation Gallery, Canada (Beauty Queens)
  • HEDAH, Maastricht (Rochers à Fontainebleau)
  • Riga Sculpture Quadrennial, Latvia (European Space)
  • Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (Pioneers)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (Sporting Life)
  • Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (Endure)
  • Melbourne International Biennial, Australia (Signs of Life)

For more information visit Dan's website.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
    SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
  4. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  5. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  6. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  7. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  8. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  9. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water
  10. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land
  11. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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  • DECIMATION in A-flat and F-minor

    Shipsides, D. (Artist) & Neal, B. (Artist), 16 Jun 2018

    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

    Open Access
    File
    91 Downloads (Pure)

  • Zombie Line

    Shipsides, D. & Beggs, N., 7 Nov 2015

    Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

    Open Access
    File
    90 Downloads (Pure)

  • Where the Lines End

    Shipsides, D. (Artist) & Neal, B. (Artist), 13 Jul 2020

    Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

  • The Lament of the Accolade Tree

    Shipsides, D. & Neal, B., 16 Jun 2018

    Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition

    Open Access
    File
    110 Downloads (Pure)

  • The Crossings

    Shipsides, D. (Artist) & Neal, B. (Artist), 13 Jul 2020

    Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

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