sarah isolde phelan


PJ-663

2023 -
On-going print series which sets out to extract & exact more from our televisual archives.
Thermal prints on facsimile paper, 21 x 29.7 cm


Graph Paper Prayers
2023  -
Inspired by the stark interiors of Calvinist churches, as depicted in seventeenth century Dutch paintings, this print series documents modernist churches and their changing forms in the UK.



Happiness as a position2023 -
Print series looking into the iconography of football, focusing on both moments known and events forgotten. 
Thermal prints on facsimile paper, 21 x 29.7 cm
& Riso prints, 29.7 x 42 cm

Instant Alpha, James Ensor
2017 -
Digital series drawing on popular televisual imagery, inverting and abstracting recognisable forms until they lose most but not all of their reference points.
Digital collage, 21 x 29.7 cm


Documents of days that did not work
2022 - 2023
Prints inspired by all things preparatory, provisional & personal. 
Inkjet monoprints, and thermally printed forms, on facsimile paper.
Drafts, notes, improvisations & text printed with a digital typewriter,
21 x 29.7 cm
A Public Fax Forum: Exacting MoreHidden Door,
Edinburgh 2023
Installation
Riso prints on card, thermal prints on facsimile paper.
All presented in glass & flourescent perspex clip-frames, 21 x 29.7 cm
Fax machine, rolls of facsimile paper, pre-printed with inkjet monoprints
Red Riso Series
2022
Untitled
Riso prints on card, 21 x 29.7 cm

A Public Fax Forum: Public Submissions
2022
Untitled 
Photographs submitted from members of the public via an eFax line thermally printed onto rolls of facsimile paper, overlaid with inkjet monoprints.
A Public Fax ForumOut of the Blue Drill Hall, 
Leith 2022
Installation
Riso prints on card, presented in glass & flourescent perspex clip-frames, 21 x 29.7 cm
Fax machines, rolls of facsimile paper, pre-printed with inkjet monoprints & overalid with xeroxed imagery.



sarah isolde phelan