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Oliver Whelan, ANCAD, MA
Lecturer, Painting

Oliver Whelan is a Multi Media artist working from Dublin. He has exhibited in major solo shows in Australia Mexico Britain and Ireland, and has represent his country in Europe and Australia, He has also had, extensive representations in group exhibits, organised by the state, art community, art critics, institutions and galleries.

Over the twenty years working as an Artist Oliver has received a number of major awards, The Australian European award, which covered a period of one year in Australia, and included a studio, extensive travel and exhibition, he also received awards from Richard Demarco, for, travel throughout Europe and Exhibition, Department of Foreign Affairs exhibition awards, with a number of other travel, exhibition and Bursary awards. He was the founder member of the first Artist studio / complex in Ireland, he has also been a committee member of the Irish Exhibition of living Art, one of Irelands Premier Exhibitions, He is also Board member and Chairperson of CIRCA, an Irish and International arts Magazine.

Painting as a process, depiction as an enactment.
The Digital surface, Oliver Whelan

The work questions the inherent nature of painting, its processes, depiction, and function as other. These are all examined through the mediums of digital scanning /photography / video.

The digital image allows for different vantage points of surface, material, and space.

The works set out to give the viewer a new position, an alternative relationship to a painted image, to this end, the paintings are digitally scanned, disseminated, slowed and extended, developing a new location, were the actual process of painting, examines itself.

It also permits a stretching of time, creating a dialogue over the extended view, with each principle element existing in its own time and space, each having an effect on the previous, and in so doing, reflecting the art processes itself. The outcome therefore, is to create a new type of reentry, a claiming back of the inner world of process. A space that is very difficult to explore or define within a static art frame.

The use of a high-resolution camera, allowed for a deeper examination of the surface. Using this I could digitally scan the surface, move around it, and more importantly, enter in and out of the spaces created by gestures/mark, to look at them as a location or event, a place which reflected the actions of the studio, reliving the decisions, time, and thought process, slowing them down and allowing for their own intrinsic nature to be revealed. In this sense it still pursues a dialogue with painting but equally allows for a vital new ways of perceiving it.

Although there remains a substrate of expressionistic abstraction in the final result, it takes a very different direction once you negate the pictorial object, giving priority to the residue of actions.

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