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 by Emily Jacir, Pádraic E. Moore, and Matt Packer 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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Contact:
sharonjphelan@gmail.com

2025

NOVEMBER 8
Metronome, National Concert Hall, Dublin

OCTOBER 12
Exhibition opens at Brown Mountain Diamond, Kilkenny

OCTOBER 8
Ireland Pavilion, Osaka

SEPTEMBER 11
Dublin [TBA]

AUGUST 15
Artist Talk, Kilkenny

JULY 17
1 Little Green Street, Dublin

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
The Fumbally, Dublin

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

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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:

Kilkenny Arts Office

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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