Shane vaughan
Shane Vaughan is an artist working with lens-art and letters. His work explores highly
charged psychological states and how the brain functions or disfunctions. Drawing
from horror, he creates work for script, screen and installation.
Vaughan’s work explores Julia Kristeva’s philosophy of ‘Abjection’, Plato’s ‘Catharsis’
and Mark Fisher’s “The Weird and The Eerie”: for Vaughan, art and art-making is a tool
for both purge and release.
Vaughan’s work has been screened online, in cinemas, at festivals, and in galleries.
Notable work includes the tone poem That Which Devours You (2021), which screened
at LSAD, Mountshannon Arts Festival, and K-Fest; On Paranoia (2021) a photo series
developed for a residency programme with Photo Ireland; I Know You (2022) which
showcased at Crawford School of Art & Design; and Chromatic Construct (2024), a
series of analogue-to-digital experiments installed at the Courthouse Gallery,
Ennistymon.
Vaughan also collaborates widely with other artists. These collaborations have resulted
in works such as Output 13: Man Living Up to Own Expectation (2022), A collaboration
with Joseph Hendal which screened at the Richard Harris International Film Festival; An
Intermingled Thing (2022), made with writer Naoise McGuinnes which screened at The
Lord Hath Commanded group exhibition; and Dialects, (2023), an audio-visual
installation-album created with musician Paddy Mulcahy.
In addition to Visual Art, Vaughan has an increasing role in the film industry. In 2023 his
short film The Gambler’s Curse won first place at Ennis Film Festival’s 48 Hour Film
Competition. In 2024, his film Primed won the Film Track One Shot Competition.
Vaughan has helped mentor young people with Fresh Film and Emerging Limerick
Filmmakers. Most recently Vaughan’s film script Moloch was shortlisted for
development with Engine Short Film Scheme and is slated for release in 2025/26.
Currently a member of Spacecraft Studios in Limerick, Vaughan is a nebulous and
wide-thinking creator who engages with multiple art disciplines to explore dark and
difficult ways of being.
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