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    Three Accords, Shaan Bevan, 2023, oxidized iron, gum arabic, aluminium panel, galvanised steel, misting system, latex, oak, dracaena cinnabari, plastic tank, engraved steel, 150 x 240 cm

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    Adriamycin - femmes, farmers, pharma, Shaan Bevan, 2022, ruby, urine, mercury sulfide, volcanic ash, iron oxide, antidepressants, seawater, pencil, gum arabic, honey, 234.5 x 162.5 cm

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    Jwdqoehfqehfbiwej – Djfowejhfjkqhefkjejf –  Nwoenfoewnknn, Shaan Bevan, 2022, Iron filings, mercury sulfide, aluminum, opal, chromium oxide, caput mortuum, volcanic ocher, Verona green ocher, ruby, stil de grain, Andalusian red ocher, green quartz, linseed oil, gum arabic, honey, seawater, plastic tank, misting system, laboratory clamps, wood, 19th century blown glass female bed pan, 126.5 x 174.5 cm

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    Tremble wail for the whales, Shaan Bevan, 2022, oxidized iron and gum arabic on wood panel, seawater, plastic tank, misting system, laboratory clamps, wood, 19th century blown glass female bed pan, 249 x 174.5 cm

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    Exhibition image from CHORD / ACCORD, Shaan Bevan, 2023, Dracaena cinnabari, ethanol, pencil on paper

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Shaan Bevan – MA/MFA/PhD

Based between London and France, I work primarily with expanded field painting, drawing, writing and installation. My practice is largely material-led, utilising auto-destructive principles, symbolic figuration, and text to process my personal experience of disease, trauma and bodily transformation. The work functions as a tool to help me visualise my bodily phenomenologies, exploring the biochemical and poetic connections between earth systems and bodily systems. The goal of the work is therapeutic, with hopes of transcending a reductive sense of my material self experienced in clinical healthcare environments and within the confines of chronic illness itself, towards an expansive integration of my ecological interconnectivity and material multiplicity.