Alan Butler
Dublin, Ireland / Singapore
T:+353 86 304 8310 / +65 8266 2680
E: alan [ at ] alanbutler.info

Education

2009
Masters of Art in Fine Art, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore.
2004
BA Fine Art (1st Class Honours), National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

Exhibitions

2009
Meme, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, Group Show curated by Dr. Ian Woo.
It Goes On…, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland, Curated Group Show.
The LASALLE Show 09, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. Student Degree Show.
This Must be the place, Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, Ireland. Group show curated by Sally Timmons.
Town and Country, Across the Way Gallery & Studios, Kinsealy, Co. Dublin. Group show between ATWG&S and MTG&S.
The La La, Praxis Gallery, Singapore. Group show organised by Tony Brown

2008
XMAS Show of some sort, Monster Truck Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland. Group show.
Works on Paper, Tickleart, Citylink Mall, Singapore. Group show in public art spaces curated by Susie Wong.
Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland. Group show.
Art is Good for You, A Bluetooth project around Thomas Street, Dublin, Ireland. Group show selected by Mike Stubbs for ISEA pre-symposium week.
Snappy Close-up, Praxis Space, Lasalle, Singapore. Group show curated by Betty Susiarjo and Gilles Massot.
Straylight, Darklight Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland. Off-site video art exhibition. Curated by Niamh Murphy.
ArtSwap, Monster Truck Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland. Group show.
The Garden of Digital Lies, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. New media group show curated by K. Bear Koss.
Bigfoot, Royal Hibernian Academy & Monster Truck Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland. Monster Truck Gallery & Studios retrospective group show.
Flat Earth Society, The Substation, Singapore Two person show with Hazel Lim funded by ASEF
Flat Earth Society, The LAB, Dublin, Ireland Two person show with Hazel Lim funded by ASEF
2007
Hindu Cow Meanders On Towards the Slaughterhouse, Two person show with Fergus Niland, Monster Truck Gallery & Studios, Dublin
Pass it On, Group Show, Monster Truck Gallery & Studios, Dublin
Screening: Play, Group Show, Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland. Group show curated by Claire Behan & Aideen D’Arcy.
Pass it On, Cula Space, Gorey, Co. Wexford, Ireland. Group show curated by Deirdre Byrne.
Pass it On, Castlepalooza, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Group show curated by Deirdre Byrne.
CE@Xperiments: ‘Contact’, ASEF 10th Anniversary, Singapore. Collaborative weblog project and exhibition featuring artwork by ASEF Alumni.
Galleri Barbara, Sunndal kulturhus, Sunndal, Norway. Group show curated by Magnhild Opdol.
2006
X-MASS the Spot, Draíocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland. Group show curated by Nevan Lahart.
Monster Truck Christmas Show, Monster Truck Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland. Open submission group show.
Dublin Electronic Arts Festival, Anseo, Camden St., Dublin, Ireland. Live electronic sound performance.
2005
Field of Vision: Extremes, Institute for New Media, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Show curated by artists from Asia, Europe and U.S.
Media Art Festival, Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia. International New Media Art exhibition curated by Eva Khachatrian.
Art in Arcadia, Larch Hill, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Work in Video Art Section of Art in Arcadia arts festival.
MAS, Old St Johns Church, Limerick, Ireland. One-day event of video art and live performance Curated by the MAS Collective.
New Leipzig, The Hub, Dublin, Ireland. Commissioned live video performance.
2004
Darklight Film Festival, The Digital Hub, Dublin, Ireland. Open Submission video art festival.
Field of Vision, Lab Gallery, New York, USA. Open Submission show curated by artists from Asia, Europe and U.S.
F5: Reload, Centro de Artes Visuales de Santiago, Chile. Open submission Internet and gallery based show.
National College of Art & Design: Fine Art Degree Show, Dublin, Ireland. Presented interactive video installation as part of Fine Art’s first Media degree show.
2003
Circuits, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland. Show curated by Dublin artists.
Mindjelly, Swords, Dublin/mindjelly.com, Ireland. Collaborative piece consisting of a website and advertising billboards.
9R33N, Cube @ Project, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland. Show curated by Dublin artists.

Curating

2008
Monster Truck at Dublin Art Fair ‘08, Main Hall Complex, RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland (with Monster Truck Curatorial Team).
Magnhild Opdol in Project Platform at Dublin Art Fair ‘08, Main Hall Complex, RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland. (with Niall Flaherty)
2007
The BiG Store, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin Ireland. (w/ Lola Rayne Booth)
Plasticine, Monster Truck Gallery & Studios, Dublin 8.
Group Show to Re-Launch the Monster Truck Gallery. (w/ Lola Rayne Booth)

2006
The Vending Machine Project
Co-curated and organised exhibition featuring over sixty artists and 800 artworks to be sold and distributed through vending machines around Dublin city as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2006. (w/ Lola Rayne Booth)

Project Management

2008
Art Finder, Interactive dynamic mapping tool for off-site/location based artworks; for Blackletter.ie.
2007
10×10x10, Series of skills exchange workshops for Blackletter.ie.
Dublin Art & Technology Association (DATA), Organising-committee member.
2006
The Vending Machine Project, Dublin Fringe Festival 2006, Project Arts Centre, Crawdaddy, Connolly Station, Dublin, Ireland. (see curating)
2005-Present
Co-Director of Blackletter Artist Group, Co-Running the website blackletter.ie which is an open-platform artist resource, with over 120 visual art practitioners as members.

Awards

2008
Travel & Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland, Ireland.
2007
Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland, Ireland.
2006
New Work 2007 Project Grant, Arts Council of Ireland, Ireland. (w/ Blackletter)
Seeder Funding Grant, Dublin City Council, Ireland. (w/ Blackletter)
ASEF 2007 Project Grant, Asia Europe Foundation, Singapore.
Temple Bar Galleries and Studios, Dublin Ireland. Six months project occupancy.
2003
ASEF Creative Creative Camp, Awarded a place to represent Ireland on the Asia-Europe Foundation International Creative Symposium in Paris amongst 20 other artists from Europe and Asia.

Collections

Various, Private Collection.
Sonus, Canadian Electroacoustic Community, Canada.
Audiowork part of the CEC’s permanent digital audio collection.

Relevant Employment

2009
Visiting Lecturer, Interactive Media, Fine Art Media, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland
2008
Visiting Lecturer, Interactive Media, Fine Art Media, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland
2007
Visiting Lecturer: Art as the Last Free Space Seminar, IADT, Dublin, Ireland
2006
Facilitator, Volume III: Digital Audio & Sound Manipulation workshop, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
2006-2007
Director, Appointed to the Board of Directors of Monster Truck Gallery & Studios, 73 Francis Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.
2004-2007
Technical Assistant, Fine Art Media Department, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
Assisting BA and MA Fine Art students in creating new media artworks. Including teaching software skills and facilitating the creation of artworks at a production and postproduction level.
2005-2006
Tutor, Multimedia Project Development, Carlow Institute of Further Education, Carlow.

Reviews/Press

2009
Scheppe, Wolfgang (Eds), ‘Migropolis: Venice and the Global Atlas of a Situation”, Hatje Cantz Con prefazione di Angela Vettese, Venice, 2009
Butler, Alan & Booth, Lola-Rayne, ‘Magnhild Opdol Catalogue Essay’, The LAB, Dublin City Council, November 2009
Dunne, Aidan, ‘Her Natura,l Dark Materials’, The Irish Times, Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tipton, Gemma (Eds.), ‘The LAB Gallery: 40 Exhibitions 06-08’, Dublin City Council, 2009.
2008
Kerr, Seanán Oliver Manfred, ‘The Garden of Digital Lies’, Circa Online, http://www.recirca.com/reviews/2008/texts/garden.shtml , April 14th.
O’Neill, Elizabeth, ‘The Garden of Digital Lies’, The Arts Show, RTÉ Radio 1, Monday, 7 April.
Foley, Catherine, ‘On the Town’, The Irish Times: Weekend Review, Saturday, 26 January
2007
Fitzgerald, Des, Art Beat, Dublin City FM, 19 December.
Davenport, Fionn, Culture Shock, NewsTalk 106FM, 15 December.
Foley, Catherine, ‘Brainy Brass Knockers and a Teddy Bear Chair’, The Irish Times: Weekend Review, Saturday, 15 December.
Dunne, Aidan, ‘Store of the Show’, The Irish Times: The Ticket, Friday, 14 December.
Rocks, Sean, The Arts Show, RTE Radio 1, 13 December.
Egan, Rory & Douglas, Angela , Good Morning Dublin, Dublin City FM, 13 December.
Kelly, Michael, ‘What’s going on’, The Irish Times: Magazine, 8 December.
Mulholland, Al, The Sunday Times: Style Magazine Supplement, Sunday 23 September.
O’Brien, Paul, ‘New Media Art: An Irish Context’, Circa Magazine, June ‘07.
Dunne, Aidan, ‘Off the Beaten Palette’, The Irish Times, Thursday, May 10.
Tipton, Gemma, ‘The Ideas Factory’. The Irish Times Magazine, Saturday, April 28.
White, Lucy, ‘A Good Tongue for Art’, Metro, Monday, April 23.
2006
Falvey, Deirdre, ‘Festival says shorter fringe is a cut above’. The Irish Times, Thursday, August 10
Crawley, Peter, ‘Dublin’s Burning’. The Irish Times, Friday, August 19
Arts & Entertainment Show, News Talk 106FM, (Interview Regarding The Vending Machine Project). Saturday 2nd September.
‘Fringe Festival Gets Street-wise’, Sunday Tribune, 3rd September.
Kingsley-O’Hagen, Victoria, The 11th Hour, RTE Radio 1, Review of The Vending Machine Project, Saturday, 16th September.
In Dublin Magazine, ‘The Vending Machine Project’, 7th September ‘06.
Temple Bar Magazine, HKM Publishing, ‘The Vending Machine Project’, September 2006 issue.
Albany, Megan, Metro Ireland, ‘The Vending Machine Project’, 28th September.
In Dublin Magazine, ‘Capital Culture’, 14th September ‘06.

Internet Sites

www.newmediaart.co.uk
www.alanbutler.info
www.thevendingmachineproject.org
www.blackletter.ie