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 holds a 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.
Working with improvisation, field recording, voice and synthesis, Sharon has collaborated and performed with Eivind Aarset, Jeff Ballard, Natalia Beylis, Bog Bodies, Karl Burke, Seán Carpio, Lisa Dowdall, Seán Mac Erlaine, Neil O Connor and Matthew Nolan among others.
Recent festival performances include Fête de la Musique, Reception, Alternating Current, Body & Soul, Audiograft, Metronome, Beyond the Pale, and Earth Rising.
She was one of six artists selected for the Platform Commissions programme of the 40th EVA International.
Sharon has given talks at events such as Scoring the City (Darmstadt Summer School), Sonic Urbanism: Reverberations in a New Field (IKLECTIK), Sonic Displacements (Project Arts Centre), Loud Objects Moving Air (CRiSAP), Sounding Out the Space (GradCAM), The Sound of Memory Symposium (Goldsmith’s University London), Crafting a Sonic Urbanism (Theatrum Mundi), and The Golden Age (CTM Festival).
She was a curator with Monster Truck Gallery & Studios from 2008-2013 and has worked as an arts journalist for print (Totally Dublin) and radio (Culture File).
Forthcoming is a tape release with Diet of Worms, a public art commission with Brown Mountain Diamond, and a collaboration with the artist Mark Garry (2025).
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PhD
Vocal Artefacts: a sonic imagination of the human microphone (TCD)
MPhil
Sound conversing with space (TCD)
BFA
Rhizomusicosmology: simplicity, complexity and emergence in music, science and art (NCAD)
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Instagram / Linktree / CV
Contact:
sharonjphelan@gmail.com
is an artist whose work spans performance, installation, writing and composition, with specific attention to sound, voice, resonance and poetics of place.
Sharon holds a 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.
Working with improvisation, field recording, voice and synthesis, Sharon has collaborated and performed with Eivind Aarset, Jeff Ballard, Natalia Beylis, Bog Bodies, Karl Burke, Seán Carpio, Lisa Dowdall, Seán Mac Erlaine, Neil O Connor and Matthew Nolan among others.
Recent festival performances include Fête de la Musique, Reception, Alternating Current, Body & Soul, Audiograft, Metronome, Beyond the Pale, and Earth Rising.
She was one of six artists selected for the Platform Commissions programme of the 40th EVA International.
Sharon has given talks at events such as Scoring the City (Darmstadt Summer School), Sonic Urbanism: Reverberations in a New Field (IKLECTIK), Sonic Displacements (Project Arts Centre), Loud Objects Moving Air (CRiSAP), Sounding Out the Space (GradCAM), The Sound of Memory Symposium (Goldsmith’s University London), Crafting a Sonic Urbanism (Theatrum Mundi), and The Golden Age (CTM Festival).
She was a curator with Monster Truck Gallery & Studios from 2008-2013 and has worked as an arts journalist for print (Totally Dublin) and radio (Culture File).
Forthcoming is a tape release with Diet of Worms, a public art commission with Brown Mountain Diamond, and a collaboration with the artist Mark Garry (2025).
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PhD
Vocal Artefacts: a sonic imagination of the human microphone (TCD)
MPhil
Sound conversing with space (TCD)
BFA
Rhizomusicosmology: simplicity, complexity and emergence in music, science and art (NCAD)
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Instagram / Linktree / CV
Contact:
sharonjphelan@gmail.com
2025
OCTOBER 12
Exhibition opens at Brown Mountain Diamond
JUNE 9
Guest on The Nightfly, Dublin Digital Radio
MAY 22
International Literary Festival Dublin
MAY 1 - MAY 31
Residency with Brown Mountain Diamond
APRIL 18
Improvisation with Matt Nolan at The Fumbally
APRIL 1
Launch of issue two of .pdf magazine
MARCH 27
Performing Traffic Piece by Sebastian Adams
MARCH 22
Spatial Music Concert 006
MARCH 18
The School of Wild Listening
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)
JULY 14
The Dock
JUNE 28
Live soundtrack to Metropolis, Stella Cinema (Dublin)
JUNE 16
Body & Soul
APRIL 1
Reception, The Complex
MARCH 16
METRONOME, National Concert Hall
JANUARY 29
Guest on The Nightfly, Dublin Digital Radio
2022
DECEMBER 19
Acoustic Atlas
DECEMBER 2
audiograft, Modern Art Oxford
NOVEMBER 19
Seas Between, Museum of Literature, Ireland
OCTOBER 29
Nosferatu100, Pepper Canister Church
SEPTEMBER 9
Launch of a row of trees, Volume 1, Issue Two
JUNE 19
Performing with The Kino Quartet, Happenings Ireland
JUNE 7
Sonic Displacements at Project Arts Centre
MAY 1
Reception Concert
MARCH 20
Seas Between, Newman House
JANUARY 28
Launch of Abolition A-Z
OCTOBER 12
Exhibition opens at Brown Mountain Diamond
JUNE 9
Guest on The Nightfly, Dublin Digital Radio
MAY 22
International Literary Festival Dublin
MAY 1 - MAY 31
Residency with Brown Mountain Diamond
APRIL 18
Improvisation with Matt Nolan at The Fumbally
APRIL 1
Launch of issue two of .pdf magazine
MARCH 27
Performing Traffic Piece by Sebastian Adams
MARCH 22
Spatial Music Concert 006
MARCH 18
The School of Wild Listening
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)
JULY 14
The Dock
JUNE 28
Live soundtrack to Metropolis, Stella Cinema (Dublin)
JUNE 16
Body & Soul
APRIL 1
Reception, The Complex
MARCH 16
METRONOME, National Concert Hall
JANUARY 29
Guest on The Nightfly, Dublin Digital Radio
2022
DECEMBER 19
Acoustic Atlas
DECEMBER 2
audiograft, Modern Art Oxford
NOVEMBER 19
Seas Between, Museum of Literature, Ireland
OCTOBER 29
Nosferatu100, Pepper Canister Church
SEPTEMBER 9
Launch of a row of trees, Volume 1, Issue Two
JUNE 19
Performing with The Kino Quartet, Happenings Ireland
JUNE 7
Sonic Displacements at Project Arts Centre
MAY 1
Reception Concert
MARCH 20
Seas Between, Newman House
JANUARY 28
Launch of Abolition A-Z
WORKS
*website in progress
click HERE for previous site
ōs
How to set the ossicles in motion
Echoes of Sappho
limen
Katábasis
Keepers and Transmitters
Pli Selon Pli
Citizens United: A Speech Act
Radio Ocean
Soil Matrix
APRIORI
Echoes on Echoes
Lines of Enclosure ||
Lines of Flight
Fossil
At the Threshold
“Mic Check! Mic Check!”
Surface Tension
Electroluminescence
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Commissions:
Brown Mountain Diamond
EVA International
Alternating Current
Galway Jazz Festival
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Recent Press / Interviews / Responses:
The Contemporary Music Centre
RTÉ Arena
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Irish Times
EVA International
Visual Artists Newsheet
Oxford Contemporary Music
The Wire
The Journal of Music
Georgia Tech Laptop Orchestra
Sonic Displacements
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Artist-in-Residence:
Brown Mountain Diamond
audiograft
Interface Connemara
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*website in progress
click HERE for previous site
ōs
How to set the ossicles in motion
Echoes of Sappho
limen
Katábasis
Keepers and Transmitters
Pli Selon Pli
Citizens United: A Speech Act
Radio Ocean
Soil Matrix
APRIORI
Echoes on Echoes
Lines of Enclosure ||
Lines of Flight
Fossil
At the Threshold
“Mic Check! Mic Check!”
Surface Tension
Electroluminescence
* * *
Commissions:
Brown Mountain Diamond
EVA International
Alternating Current
Galway Jazz Festival
* * *
Recent Press / Interviews / Responses:
The Contemporary Music Centre
RTÉ Arena
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Irish Times
EVA International
Visual Artists Newsheet
Oxford Contemporary Music
The Wire
The Journal of Music
Georgia Tech Laptop Orchestra
Sonic Displacements
* * *
Artist-in-Residence:
Brown Mountain Diamond
audiograft
Interface Connemara
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