Alan Phelan
Alan Phelan works in sculpture, film, museum interventions, public art and collaborations. Born Dublin, 1968, Phelan received BA, Dublin City University, 1989 and MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 1994.
Phelan’s work engages with ideas of political history and cultural theory. He is interested in the narrative potential surrounding an artwork. This can be exploited or explored from actual and historical events, ideas, things, and places as well as their fictional counterparts. What results are artworks that might appear fixed but are in a process of shifting interpretation and mediation. Phelan places process as central to the artwork which he describes as provisional, unfinished, or unmade. This allows for the final object or project to maintain potentiality, allowing for wider and often humorous connections across narratives, objects, and situations.
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