BIOGRAPHY

Andrew Folan was born in Belfast in 1956 and attended the Slade School of Fine Art, London, graduating in 1981. His practice is a culmination of print, photography and sculpture, and more recently he has combined digital processes and print to create multi-layered photomontages. Folan’s work is primarily conceptual, but process always becomes an important factor of his work. Recently he has engaged with concepts of a social, psychological and scientific nature. He is an active collaborator in scientific, medical and architectural projects and participated in the Digital Surface at Tate Britain in 2003. He is currently a Fine Art Print Lecturer at National College of Art and Design, Dublin (NCAD).

Folan has exhibited widely throughout Europe and is a member of The Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA). His solo exhibition of printed sculptures Arterial Ink toured to a number of venues in Ireland as well as London, Paris and Stockholm (1991-2001). His solo exhibition of digital lambdachromes Stray Light was shown at the Ashford Gallery, Dublin in 2002. He participated in a group exhibition Dead Bodies at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in 2003. In 2006 he completed a sculptural installation The Fleet Morph at the Mater Hospital Dublin. In 2008 he completed a commission Anatomy of an Instrument for the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, using CT scanning as the central research component. He presented a paper,Grasping the Untouchable at The International Symposium on Electronic Art, Belfast, 2009.

His work is housed in the collections of Trinity College, Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), The Arts Council of Ireland, and The Central Bank of Ireland, amongst others.