VARIO MEDIUM STORYTELLER
For twenty years, Shanahan has been using various mediums to craft his art. What started as painting on canvas transformed into photography, which after college made its way onto motion picture film, and has now evolved into designing and running hospitality concepts in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. Shanahan is designer and co owner of the award winning cocktail bar Watts & Ward and his hand-crafted restaurant, Peregrine, with celebrated Chef Saif Rahman.
“It’s all coming from the same place in my minds, no matter what I’m using. It all starts as a blank canvas, a blank page, or an empty space, and whether it be a film of mine your watching, or a space I’ve designed, it’s my hope to transport folks to another world, and the only way to do so is through manipulation of some base emptiness. Really, it starts and ends in the same way, and my aim is to create beauty from nothing.”