Group Exhibitions
Let's get the F@!#k outta here, Float Magazine, online exhibition and publication, October 2026.
404 Festival, Newcastle Contemporary Arts, 26th August – 4th September 2026.
Terra Null, Gallery North, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 12th March - 10th April 2026.
Everyday Algorithms, Newbridge Art Gallery, Newcastle 21st February – 17th April 2025.
Planetary Thinking, Bankley Art Gallery, Manchester, 1st-12rd November 2024.
Hyper Super Extra Large Boom! Forkingroom, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, South Korea - April 2024
Turner: Art, Industry and Nostalgia, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle - May 2024
Institutional Fieldworking, Lipman Experimental Studio, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 13th November - 3rd December - 2023.
Upstream Image Ex-Libris Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, March 2022.
Carbon Borders Voices - online via https://www.carbon-borders-voices.com/ 2021.
Times III - Terrain online via 87Gallery, Kingston Upon Hull, 2021.
Cosmotechnics online via Cosmotechnics.net, (May 20th, 2021.
Expanded Animation , Convento de São Pedro de Alcântara, Lisbon, Portugal, June 17th - 21st 2019.
Records and Wireframes NEoN Festival, CentreSpace, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, November 9 -19th 2017.
Land Engines, Queens Hall, Northumberland, January - March 2015.
Solo Exhibitions
Terra Datum, Proto, Gateshead, 1st May 2025.
Thermal Properties (Jan - April 16th 2024) Soho Photography Quarter, The Photographer’s Gallery, London.
Thermal Properties (July - October 2023) The Word, National Centre for the Written Word, South Tyneside.
Upstream Image (October 2022) Gallery North, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Spruce Pine, North Carolina (2018), (August 2018) Art-Gene.co.uk, Online.
Floating Point (October 2016), B&D Studios, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Forthcoming Publications:
Mineral Pasts and Futures, Dolan, P., O'Rourke, S. 9 Oct 2026, On a day like today we just need to look forward…, London, Art.Earth Books
Metabolic Breakdown in Generative AI and the Land of Fires in TETI Journal Volume 2: Metabolic Naples, TETI Press, Zurich, 2027.
Render Farms and Data centres: mapping the CGI rendering industry (Dolan, P., Howson, P.) in Animation and Sustainability, Bloomsbury, 2027.
Publications
Let's get the F@!#k outta here, Float Magazine, publication, September 2026
Technocapitalist Worldbuilding: modular asset kits and rapid datacentre expansionism, 2025, via Unthinking.Photography
Thermal Reconfigurations of the Industrial Landscape in TETI Journal Volume 1: On Transindustriality, TETI Press, Zurich, 2025.
Turner: Art, Industry and Nostalgia (2024) Exhibition Catalogue, Laing Art Gallery.
Howson, P, et al (2024) Crypto/Space: Computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 Exit zones, Political Geography,Vol 115, Elsevier.
Dolan, P (2022) Colocation, self-published, ISBN 9781861354976.
Dolan, P (2020) Recalcitrant Temporalities: Heterogeneous Time and the Simulated Image. In: P. De Assis and P. Guidici, ed., Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research (Orpheus Institute Series), 1st ed. Belgium: Leuven University Press.
Conferences
Dolan, P (2023) Render Farms, Data Centres and ontologies of the mass produced CG image, 34th Conference of Society for Animation Studies - Rowan University, New Jersey, US, 19th June 2023
Dolan, P. (2019a) From Silicon to Pixel: Exploring the material origins of the simulated image. The 31st Conference of the Society for Animation Studies - Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal. 20th June 2019.
Dolan, P. (2019b) Recalcitrant Temporalities: Heterogenous Time and the Simulated Image. 3rd Conference for Deleuze and Artistic Research, Orpheus Institute, Ghent. December 9th 2019.