Shane Vaughan is an artist working with lens-art and letters. His work explores highly charged psychological states, emotional distress, anxieties and mental anguish. Drawing from an interest in horror cinema, he creates tone poems and experimental moving image for screen and installation.
He works from Julia Kristeva’s philosophy of ‘Abjection’ and Plato’s ‘Catharsis’: for Vaughan, art and art-making is a tool for both purge and release.
His work has been screened online, in cinema, for festivals and for galleries. His experimental tone poem That Which Devours You has been described as “Hitchcock meets Koyaanisqatsi”, and has been screened or performed at K-Fest (2021), Cork Indie Film Festival (2021), Limerick School of Art & Design (2021), and Mountshannon Arts Festival (2022). His photographic series On Paranoia was created for a residency with the Gallery of Photography Ireland (2021), and several of his photographic prints have been displayed for Noorderlicht Photo Festival in the Netherlands. A recent collaboration with Ph. D candidate Joseph Hendal has resulted in the short film Output 13: Man Living Up to Own Expectation which explores concepts of male identity at the intersection with technology. This work was screened at the Richard Harris International Film Festival. His latest work I Know You exhibited as part of the MA Art & Process in Crawford College of Art & Design (2022).
Currently a member of Spacecraft Studio in Limerick, Vaughan is a nebulous and wide-thinking creator.