Ronan Devlin is a UK based artist whose work looks at the intersection of emotion, sense perception and the material world. Working across print, screen and multi-sensory installation, with a focus on audience engagement, he produces self-motivated and commissioned works which have been widely exhibited.
Public Artworks
2019 LOOM (With Michael Flückiger), Broadgate, London
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Veillance, White Box, Pontio, Bangor University
2014 In Flow, Un Deg Un, Wrexham (Oriel Wrecsam Offsite)
Select Group Exhibitions
2019 Winter Lights, Canary Wharf
2018 Lightwaves, Salford
2018 Light Up Lancaster
2018 LIGHTPOOL, Blackpool
2018 LIGHT NIGHT, Leeds
2018 Design West, Connemara Ireland
2018 Wal Wen, Pontio, Bangor
2017 OVER (T)HERE, Made in New York Media Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2017 LLAWN 05, Llandudno
2017 Here Comes Everybody, Global experimental online/cable channel
2017 Artificial Idiocracy, Raumschiff, Linz, Switzerland
2017 Winter Lights Festival, Canary Wharf
2016 LIGHTPOOL, Blackpool
2016 Lumen Prize Exhibition Tour, Shanghai, New York, London, Caerphilly Castle
2015 CALL, Haus of Helfa, resident and exhibiting artist, Llandudno, Wales
2015 Build Your Own exhibition and workshop, FACT, Liverpool
2015 Videoformes festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2014 Colony 14, Cardigan, Wales, UK
2013 CodeD, Manifest Gallery, Cincinatti, USA
Select Awards, Commissions, Grants, Residencies
2019 LOOM (With Michael Flückiger), Broadgate, London
2019 Winter Lights, Canary Wharf
2018 SHINE commission, Light Up The North
2018 Research and development grant, Arts Council of Wales
2017 Wal Wen, Pontio, Bangor (commission)
2017 Small project grant, Arts Council of Wales
2015/16 Finalist, Lumen Prize (& touring exhibition)
2015 Winner Open Call 2, The Space
2015 Shortlist, EVA International, Ireland
2015 Shortlist, ‘Secret’ Science Gallery, Dublin
2015 Large project grant, Arts Council of Wales
2015 ‘Question Spaces’, workshop commission, Oriel MOSTYN offsite
2015 ‘&’, workshop commission, Oriel MOSTYN
2015 Long list, Daiwa Anglo Japanese Art Prize
2014/16 Designer-in-residence, Pontio Innovation, Bangor University,
2014 Shortlist Open Call 1, The Space
2014 Criw Celf, workshop commission, Flintshire County Council
2013 Large project grant, Arts Council of Wales
2013 Gronant & Talacre Festival of Light: Commissioned artist
2012/13 R&D project award, Arts Council of Wales
Studio
41 Cleveland Road
North Shields
Tyne & Wear
United Kingdom
NE29 0NW
Contact
+44 (0) 75 7710 7438
info@ronandevlin.com
Social
Twitter: @Ronandevlin
Instagram: ronandevlinartist
Anomaly — Light installation artwork — Video projection, water screen. Commissioned by Collective Cymru / National Theatre Wales for Galwad, Unboxed Festival 2022 The work, installed on a lake in the slate mountains of Blaenau Ffestiniog (Wales) 2022, was central to the finale of an ambitious week-long live performance event that was televised on Sky… Read more »
Ronan Devlin & Michael Flückiger Loom 3 Broadgate, London Curated by Rosie Glenn An interactive public artwork, commissioned by British Land for the archway of 3 Broadgate. Referring to Broadgate’s textile making heritage and Orms Architects’ design for the building’s cladding, Loom weaves an electronic fabric which unfolds in response to individuals passing through the… Read more »
Aura Software artwork which reflects audience motion and emotion. The audio-visual installation uses biometric sense technology to capture audience form and feelings which are represented in real time as colour-coded body contours. The work’s audio-visual form, being generated by audience activity, can shift from quiet to loud, depending on participant number and activity. The result… Read more »
(T)here A screen-based drawing by Ronan Devlin and Michael Flückiger. https://www.michaelflueckiger.ch/ The idea for this collaboration came from a habit both artists have of using (meditative) distraction to help find ideas and solve problems. The resulting three channel work is made from footage of wanderings in rural Wales interwoven with software generated drawings which, breaking… Read more »
Veillance An audio-visual artwork generated in real time from the data its audience generates while browsing the internet in the exhibition space. The work subsequently reveals covert (data surveillance) conversations with which the public are unknowingly engaged through routine online activity. Our digital devices regularly share information with government agencies and third party companies for… Read more »
In Flow An artwork about material changes in state. The work adjusts its form in response to audience activity in the exhibition space. With two trangle graphs at its core, the work generates perpetually transitioning complex pattern from simple geometric form. Artist: Ronan Devlin Project Team: Mark Linnane, Developer http://marklinnane.net/ Ronan Devlin, sound (edition 1)… Read more »
LL Light sculptures. Custom LED lighting rhythmically illuminate pattern and text etched into the surface of Perspex sheets to create multiple variations in pattern and meaning. Artist: Ronan Devlin Project Team: John Story, Fabrication & custom electronics Commissioned by: CALL https://www.cultureactionllandudno.co.uk/ Supported by: Pontio Innovation https://www.bangor.ac.uk/about/pontio/pontio-innovation.php.en Exhibitions: Haus of Helfa, Llandudno 2015 https://www.cultureactionllandudno.co.uk/portfolio-posts/haus-of-helfa-2015/
Afterimage Each frame of the 16 min video is patterned on an identical two-dimensional grid. Transitions between frames are fluid and transfigurative creating a meditative audience experience. Artist: Ronan Devlin Music: David J. Knowles Exhibitions: Blinc, Conwy 2015 http://blincdigitalarts.com/ Videoformes festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2015 https://videoformes.com/ Pilgrim Pilgrimage, St Asaph Cathedral, Wales, 2015 Colony 14, Cardigan,… Read more »