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BIOGRAPHY
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Born in Manchester, 1955
Resident in Cornwall, since 1994
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 |
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RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Ffotogallery, Cardiff
Galería Antonio de Barnola, Barcelona
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
MAC, Birmingham
Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
Plymouth Arts Centre
Sala Zapaterías, Pamplona
Universidad de Salamanca
Patrick Shanahan's photographs of Britain and Europe 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 dye-coupler (C-Type) exhibition prints are made using the LightJet 5000 printer.
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. We feel simultaneously connected to and spatially estranged from them and, in blurring the distinction between reality and imagination, Patrick’s photographs alter the way we see and relate to the world.
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