Green On Red Gallery is proud to submit Suspended Particles for PHOTOFAIR Shanghai 2024, 25 - 28th April 2024 at Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Bringing together two artists who, in their unique approaches, and through various forms of expression, pose a profound challenge to the conventional understanding of artistic mediums, revelling in their differences, and blurring the boundaries that once defined them.

Aoife Shanahan’s work is driven by a scientific interest in camera-less photography. She creates unique images, often utilising labour-intensive techniques stemming from the 19th-century origins of photography. Her experimental approach towards traditional analogue materials allows her to explore their expressive possibilities and to question their contemporary relevance in a digital era. Her project 'BioTrace', translates the unseen presence of bacteria into striking photographic images. Initiated during the COVID-19 Pandemic, she exposed photographic film to bacteria, which feed on the particles of the film’s silver Gelatin emulsion, thus destabilising it. The resulting negatives are scanned and printed creating mesmerising abstract vistas, caught between photography, sculpture and painting.

The use of AI as a mode of translation is at the heart of Alan Butler's 'Deskscape' series. Butler’s heavily researched works draw from a complex web of cultural and contemporary histories, revealing depths between unseen layers. His 'Deskscape' series consists of large, laboriously hand-produced painted works. Oscillating between photography and painting, with 100s of hours of meticulous labour, the psychedelic abstractions are often mistaken for machine-fabricated, printed images. Butler’s 'Virtual botany' cyanotypes take their cue from 19th-century camera-less photography flora studies. The images document plant life that inhabits video games and VR environments. This virtual vegetation is then exposed through real sunlight onto photosensitive paper prepared using the original 19th-century cyan-blue photographic process.

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Green On Red Gallery exhibition of new and recent work by John Cronin, Niamh McCann, Scott Lyall and Nil Yalter at Art Düsseldorf, 11 - 14 April 2024, brings together the work of 4 artists from diverse backgrounds, generations and countries whose work challenges the viewer to engage differently, with greater conviction and even participation in the work.

John Cronin's new Artificial Beehive Colony ( ABC ) paintings display a process at once slick and crude, with elements of the works breaking down both compositionally and in their very materiality. Artificial Bee Colony is also known as the abc algorithm. This is a swarm-based optimisation technique that simulates the foraging behaviours of honeybees and is used to solve continuous optimisation problems in science.

Niamh McCann's recent work has mined the signs and symbols of colonialism and local religious and cultural expression in her recent award-winning exhibition in Washington and first shown in the Rudolph Sharpf Gallery at the Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen in 2022, called " Hairline crack/A Dialogue " and " Someone Decides; hawk or dove ", curated by René Zechlin, Director.

Scott Lyall Talents are comprised of two compressed sheets of glass. A mixture of nano-particles of gold and acrylic gel medium is applied by hand to the outside surface. In containing gold, the mixture also recalls the etymology of talent ( in Latin, the amount of metal in a coin ). Akin to golden backgrounds in Cimabue paintings, the gold creates an affect of groundlessness, the fundamental reality of abstraction itself. Simultaneously reflective and absorbing, the painted Talent oscillates between a world-reflecting image and an adventure of embodiment.

Nil Yalter's practice has been about shining a light on the edges of society; about migrant communities in Europe from the 1970s on, struggling to fit in and to define home. Yalter's practice has touched a raw nerve in society in her defence of the marginalised, her articulation of the struggles of women under oppressive patriarchies and about the forgotten. We will show her EarthQT/WarQT ( 2023 ) work in Düsseldorf, first shown last year in Clamour in Green On Red Gallery in support of Ukrainian artists. Two of the Ukrainian artists in Clamour - Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy- will represent Ukraine in the 60th Venice Biennale in Venice, also this month.

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