CONTEMPORARY STORYTELLER
Patrick Shanahan has been using his words, paintings, photography, design and motion pictures to craft stories for two decades. What started as bold paint on canvas transformed into visionary photography, eventually made its way onto motion picture film and evolved into designing spaces for hospitality in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. Shanahan’s designer and co owner of the award winning cocktail bar Watts & Ward and is opening his first hand-crafted restaurant, Peregrine, with celebrated Chef Saif Rahman.
“Space, to me, is everything. Whether it be a film of mine your watching, or a bar I’ve designed you may be sipping a Negroni in, I hope to transport you to another world, and the only way to do so is through manipulation of space.”