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SHARON PHELAN

is an artist whose work spans performance, installation, writing and composition, with specific attention to sound, voice, resonance and poetics of place.

Sharon earned her PhD from the School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin and is a lecturer at the National College of Art and Design and The School of Art and Design, Technological University Dublin.

Her practice is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

In the field of improvisational music, Sharon has undertaken collaborations and shared performances with Eivind Aarset, Jeff Ballard, Bog Bodies, Karl Burke, Seán Carpio, Lisa Dowdall, Seán Mac Erlaine and Matthew Nolan among others. 

Recent festival performances include Fête de la Musique, Reception, Alternating Current, audiograft, Metronome, Beyond the Pale, and Earth Rising.

Forthcoming is a tape release with Diet of Worms (early 2025).



Instagram / Linktree / CV 

Contact:
sharonjphelan@gmail.com

2025

MARCH [tba]
Unit 44

FEBRUARY 23
Gem Beag Anseo

JANUARY 24
The Space Between
[postponed till February 21st due to Storm Éowyn]


2024

NOVEMBER 21 - DECEMBER 1
Dublin Art Book Fair 
NOVEMBER 16 & 17
Live score to I Am Not Legend, Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (Italy)

SEPTEMBER 20
Culture Night, Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin)

SEPTEMBER 12
Performance at the Irish Museum of Modern Art

AUGUST 4
Lughnasadh, Brennanstown Dolmen and Daylight Glasnevin

JUNE 23
Performance and panel discussion at Beyond The Pale Festival  (Wicklow)
JUNE 22
Happenings at Richmond Barracks (Dublin)
JUNE 21
Fête de la Musique, Museum of Literature (Paris/Live Stream) 

JUNE 14
Magnets, Muons, Metal, UNIT 44 (Dublin)

JUNE 10
Dublin Digital Radio,
Guest on The Nightfly
MAY 3
Sound!, The Passion of Joan of Arc 
(Derry)

APRIL 28
DCC Sensoria, The Fairy Tale Films of Lotte Reiniger
(Dublin)
APRIL 12 
University of Limerick Electronic Music Studio
(Limerick)

APRIL 6
Metronome +, The National Concert Hall

MAR 20-23
MotherKraft at The Project Arts Centre  

MAR 9
EVA Platform Comissions at
The Dock 

MAR 9
To Hold or to be Held (Book launch with Mark Garry) at Solstice Arts Centre

FEB 2
Reception, Unit 44 (Dublin) 

JAN 19
Keepers and Transmitters, presented by Foggy Notions,  The Fumbally Stables (Dublin)


2023

NOV 27
Guest on The Nightfly (with Ian Lamont), Dublin Digital Radio

NOV 7
Live soundtrack to The Birds, National Concert Hall (Dublin)

SEPT 28-30
Residency and  performance with Rita Evans at audiograft (Oxford)

SEPT 21-23
Keepers and Transmitters, Earth Rising, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin)

SEPT 16
Improvisation, Happenings Ireland (Dublin)

SEPT 15
Live soundtrack to The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ranelagh Arts (Dublin)

SEPT 1
Live performance at 40th EVA International (Limerick)

AUG 22
Live soundtrack to Metropolis, Stella Cinema (Dublin)

APRIL 1
Reception, The Complex

MARCH 16 METRONOME, National Concert Hall

JANUARY 29
Guest on The Nightfly, Dublin Digital Radio


2022

DECEMBER 2
audiograft, Modern Art Oxford

NOVEMBER 19
Seas Between, Museum of Literature, Ireland

OCTOBER 29
Nosferatu100, Pepper Canister Church