Helen Shanahan

Everything’s Great!

abandonments — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:40:05 +0000

Photo: Klaus-dieter Michel

A belated ad for the group exhibition Everything’s Great! featuring Louise Woodcock, Jennifer Mcdonald, Gary Fisher and me. Situation at The Hive gallery in the Wheatsheaf shopping centre, Rochdale, the show has already reached a wide and varied audience, from regular gallery-goers to very confused shoppers. The work was made largely in response to the space and its location. A bright, tacky aesthetic, undercut by an underlying tone of darkness and deviance makes for a ‘shopping experience’ that (from reading visitor’s comments) both amuses and unsettles. On until March 6th.

Matt Dalby has reviewed the show, in his usual hyperactive style, here.

photo: Klaus-dieter Michel

Jellyfish

abandonments — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:06:54 +0000

Look and Listen…

abandonments — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:53:34 +0000

music is sound, sound is art, when artists play sound as music, it sometimes sounds like:
Womb

Dolls house burning

abandonments — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:01:00 +0000

Dolls House (now destroyed)

abandonments — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:57:06 +0000

This week…

abandonments — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:14:33 +0000

I will be burning some of my work as part of the Manchester Artists’ Bonfire. This also forms part of my abandonments project as I will be abandoning a ‘real’ person in the burning house along with it’s fictional tenants.

New Stuff

abandonments — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:14:33 +0000

In photographs and collaborative

More to come…

Site Under Construction

abandonments — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:28:57 +0000

I’m still putting this together, and will be adding images and lots more info and links soon. I anticipate a decent archive of my work will be ready at least by the end of the month, so do come back for another look.

abandonments — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:01:56 +0000