Remote Control
In the past few years, we have all simultaneously experienced a contraction of our horizons into the domestic and out through the digital. Unable to travel, Australian based Irish artist Ronan Lane developed a new series of works that enabled him to translate and transport the intimate. Though initially these works were private explorations of place and memory, they have become statements that can freely navigate.
“Remote Control” is the shifting from the attentive, reactive document of drawing through the visual screen. Where the viewers attention is drawn now to the proximity, and immediacy of contradictions. Place though distant, casts a vista in front of us through time and a sense of collective memory.
Birds past the forest
Forgotten monuments
Morning, the sounds of
Off the mountains
Traced air over it
Stars on the ground
Light through the underground
Towards a new memory
Standing. Stone. Circle
Carved space with a word
Control comes from that moment of exploration; of trying to understand their surroundings. Through drawing Ronan redefines the natural and urban environment. Taking the abstract and allegorical, describing the rushing wind and poetry of barren spaces or heat from urban static.
Movement, and proximity became pivotal points. Out of this, Ronan delved into his investigative drawings. Pieces that were were responses to physical phenomena of place across continents. For “Remote Control” these intimate watercolour and pencil drawings have been reimagined as a limited edition of prints.
The works explore memory, place, myth and what remains.
Scope
The exhibition itself will consist of a series of photographs of people holding up the prints in their homes.
Each sale of a print will include detailed instructions of how to photograph the work.
As it develops, the exhibited photos will change.
The Exhibition aims to highlight aspects of a shared experience. A poetic resolve. One that spans the spheres of place and culture.
This balance is held tentatively and proudly up by the holder.
Technical
Large scale C Print photographs of works in situ.
Matt finish, 594 x 841 mm.
Unframed
Sales
Series of ten giclée prints on archival quality paper.
Six pieces on Awagami Mitsumata washi 95gsm.
Four pieces on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310gsm paper.
Colour matched to exacting standards.
Dimensions : paper size 420 x 594mm
Included with a set of canvas gloves and detailed instructions of how to photograph works.
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About
Ronan Lane is an Irish born painter now based in Australia. His work focuses on painting and drawing. It pays particular attention to the stories, or myths that stay with us in a temporal miasma of cultural memory in conjunction with an investigation into the physicality of painterly space.
Ronan has a Diploma in Fine Art (Painting) from the Crawford College of Art and Design (Cork, IRL). He has a Bachelors in Fine Art from the Aki academie voor Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving, ArtEZ (Enschede, NL). Currently he is a PhD Candidate at Curtin University (Perth, AUS).
Over the past 20 years he has been involved with artist initiatives, residencies and projects throughout Europe. Ronan has exhibited in Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany and Australia.
Upcoming
2022
Dec - Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany, WA, AUS.
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CV
2018 PhD candidate - Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
2011/12 Gasthörer - Seminar : Optics and Perspective in Early Modern Art (Sven Dupré), Bild und Text (Peter Geimer) - Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland.
2004 BFA - Aki academie voor Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving, ArtEZ, Enschede, Nederland.
2002 Diploma - Cork Institute of Technology; Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland.
selected exhibitions(Solo)
2022 - Remote Control, Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany, WA, AUS.
2022 - Remote Control, Gaffa, Sydney, NSW, AUS.
2022 - Remote Control, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, U.K.
2015 - Reductive Signal - Zig Zag Gallery, Kalamunda, AUS.
2011 - Drone - Pica Pica, Berlin, DE.
2007 - Obsidian - P9 Gallery, Cork, IRL.
2005 - Twekkelo - Bodega, Cork, IRL.
(Group)
2021 - Modern Holiday - Kamilè Gallery, Perth, AUS.
2021 - Paint 2 - Gallery Central, Perth, AUS.
2020 - Turning the line - Ellis House, Bayswater, AUS.
2019 - Paint - Ellis House, Bayswater, AUS.
2017 - Staff Room - Edwin Millen House, Victoria Park, AUS.
2015 - PUBLIC - Form Gallery, Victoria Park, AUS.
2013 - Tasty Morsels - Feast Your Eyes, Freemantle, AUS.
2011 - FITAX 1500 - Grimmuseum, Berlin, DE.
2011 - in_flux - Limerick, IRL.
2010 - Local Anesthetic - Wolfart Projectspaces, Rotterdam, NL.
2009 - Black Suns - Granary, Cork, IRL.
2009 - Pimps and Prostitutes - Gallery 182A, Rotterdam, NL.
2008 - Atelier Weekend Charlois - Rotterdam, NL.
2008 - ArtTrail - Outlaw Studio, Cork, IRL.
2008 - Spring Show - Shaw Gallery, Cork, IRL.
2007 - Christmas Show - Oisín Gallery, Dublin, IRL.