Shaan Bevan
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.