Shane assembles artworks from interactive contemporary technologies, found objects and traditional artistic media. His work is based in rural environments and examines technologies in human and nonhuman entanglements.

He always collaborates. Most recently working with lichen, artists, epidemiologists, historians, gorse and fungi. As part of his practice he organizes and runs collaborative projects with artists and researchers.

Shane has been awarded Artist In Residency in Ireland, Austria, the UK and Canada. He has co-founded the art collective and workspace ^ in Manorhamilton, IRE in 2022 for experimental collaboration and research around art, landscape and technology. Shane has received an Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award, and Agility Awards and has been funded by Culture Ireland, Creative Europe, Wicklow Arts Office, Leitrim Arts Office and the Irish Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media: Decade of Centenaries.

Shane was invited by Crux Arts and part supported by Artlink, Fort Dunree to carry out artistic research. He traveled to Newfoundland in September 2024 for a 3 week research residency. He spent time investigating the place and history of the first few transatlantic telegraph cables laid in the 1850s and the current fiber optic ones that carry internet signal. He spent time with our beaches, our lichen and meeting key members of our community.

During his research, Shane visited the cable landing site and museum at Heart's Content where he began work on a video installation about subsea communications infrastructure.

Shane Finan