On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Salvatore of Lucan in 2020.
Salvatore of Lucan (born 1994) (real name Salvatore Fullam ) is an Irish artist from Lucan, the eponymous suburb of Dublin. The artist primarily paints large-scale works most of which focus on his own life and often explore themes of home, identity and relationships.
Fullam is of mixed-race, being half Bangladeshi on his father's side and half Irish on his mother's.
According to the artist, he was not academically gifted and thus found it an "easy choice" to go to art college, where he studied Fine Art Painting but was initially interested in studying fashion. He graduated from the National College of Art And Design (NCAD) in 2016.
Fullam's first show, entitled "Show of Himself", took place in Pallas Projects, Dublin in 2018.In 2019, he won the Whyte's Award and received the Arts Council’s Next Generation Award'. The artist participated in Culture Night 2020 as part of an Arts Council showcase of paintings that had been recently added to its collection. Fullam's first time exhibiting paintings outside of Ireland was at the Meštrović Pavilion in Zagreb as part of Pallas Projects '6th Biennial of Painting' in October 2021.
He won the National Gallery of Ireland's Zurich Portrait Prize 30 November 2021 for his submission "Me Ma Healing Me" (2020), which was inspired by his mother's use of sound healing and reiki to care for him. Fullam's show Fancy Situations opened at Dublin's Kevin Kavanagh Gallery on 6 June 2024.
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