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Archived Exhibition

Red Lines

Alan Phelan

16 November 2019 — 04 January 2020
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Zofia malanowska ii 620 430 90 c1
Alan Phelan
  • Date 16 November 2019 — 04 January 2020

About the Artist(s)

Alan Phelan studied at DCU, Dublin and RIT, New York. He was NCAD School of Fine Art Artist in Residence for 2019-20.
Recent projects include Our Kind, a work about Roger Casement, commissioned by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane for 2016/1916. He has exhibited widely including IMMA Dublin, LCGA Limerick, Solstice Navan, Kunstmuseum Bonn, BOZAR Brussels, OK11 Helsinki, Eastlink Gallery Shanghai, Chapter Cardiff, SKUC Ljubljana, SKC Gallery Belgrade and The Whitney Museum of American Art New York.

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This exhibition presented a new body of work by Alan Phelan. Alan Phelan has been working for the past three years on reviving the Joly Screen process, a forgotten colour photography process invented in the 1890s in Dublin by John Joly, a physics professor from Trinity College.

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This exhibition marked the first major exhibition of this new body of work. The photographs are small 4x5 sheet film sized images as they comprise of the sheet film from a large format camera and a colour screen. The Joly process is not a chemical process but instead filters light on exposure and display to create colour. The screen is made up of red, green and blue stripes which Phelan then engages as installation devices on walls and windows to reference the process and a wider art history of installation. The small images have the intensity of painted miniatures, illuminated by LED panels, slowing down the viewing of a photograph as well as allowing for a unique colour shift that happens on display.

The images shown had a nostalgic feel given muted colours and the content of this selection of work which referenced historic flower paintings made in collaboration with Dunboyne Flower and Garden Club*. For Phelan this was an opportunity to expand his interest in participatory practices, art making that involves working with others to expand the notion of authorship into a shared activity, one that remains unfixed and creating agency as well as new knowledge in the process.

Alan Phelan 2020



The above image references the work of Spanish painter Juan van der Hamen’s work from the 1620s.


*Alan Phelan and Dunboyne Flower and Garden Club were recipients of Meath County Council Cultural Services Creative Award 2019. This award is supported by the Meath County Council Creative Ireland Programme.

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