Falmouth, Cornwall,
Born in Manchester, 1955.<br>Resident in Cornwall, since 1994.<br><br>Patrick Shanahan's photographs...
About the artist
Joined In 2010
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About the artist
Joined In 2010
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Born in Manchester, 1955.
Resident in Cornwall, since 1994.
Patrick Shanahan's photographs investigate the contemporary cultural landscape, offering a seductive and unsettling re-imaging of modern urban environments.
Making full use of the scenographic, artificial aspects of large-scale photography, Patrick produces topographic images that are close to the kinds of minimalism found in painting and sculpture. His largely unpopulated compositions are subjected to a pristine finish and treatment of light, colour and space that help to establish a tension between a real and constructed landscape - a landscape in which the distinction between reality and imagination seems to blur and we are left with a peculiar sense of spatial estrangement.
Patrick works with a variety of medium and large-format cameras and shoots on colour negative film. The film is digitally scanned and then worked on in Photoshop. Large-scale chromogenic prints are produced in limited editions - see artist website for details.
The result is hyperreal and illusory images that transform the environs we may be used to seeing into something disturbing and strange - images that pose the artificial and natural in opposition to one another. W...
EDUCATION:
PhD by Project, Royal College of Art, London;
MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London;
BA(Hons) Fine Art, Stourbridge College of Art;
Foundation Diploma, Warrington College of Art.
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno;
Ffotogallery, Cardiff;
Oriel Davies, Newtown;
John Hansard, Southampton;
MAC, Birmingham;
Universidad de Salamanca;
Galera de Barnola, Barcelona.,