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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 11 EP09 Eamonn MaxwellClosing Season 11, Caren Sullivan talks to curator, art advisor and mentor Eamonn Maxwell in 2022. If you are an art collector or a novice in collecting art, this is a great episode to watch.Eamonn Maxwell has worked as a contemporary art curator and art advisor for more than 20 years. He curated numerous exhibitions across the world including the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011. From 2009 to 2016, he was Director of Lismore Castle Arts, where I programmed significant exhibitions by leading international and Irish artists. In more recent times, he worked as a c...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 11 EP08 Susan ButtnerOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to interdisciplinary artist Susan Buttner in 2022. Susan Buttner is an artist of emphatic morphology. Her artistic practice is a delicate evaluation of power relations, revealing tensions and forces by combining static elements, while highlighting the borderless, transgressive aspect of institutional critique. Working in sculptural form, painting, performance and film, a recent recipient of the Arts Council Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award, PLATFORM 31 Bursary Award, Draíocht Incubate Residency Award, RHA Residency Award. Selected residencies 2024 Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award, Fingal County Council2023 Fingal Arti...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 11 EP07 Victoria CantonsOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Victoria Cantons in 2022.Victoria Cantons’ ongoing preoccupation with metaphysical themes; concepts of time, memory and personal identity lends her works their multi-layered subject matter, fuelled by a variety of historical and literary sources as well as her experiences being raised in a multicultural and multi-religious home, and being a gay and transgender woman. She was an only child to European immigrants who had both experienced war in the countries they had come from –her mother was from Madrid and Catholic, and her father was French Algerian born to Russ...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 11 EP06 Mary-Ruth WalshOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Mary-Ruth Walsh in 2022.Dublin born, Mary-Ruth Walsh graduated from Goldsmiths College London (MA) and the National College of Art and Design (BA) Dublin. Walsh has participated in national and international exhibitions and the Artist’s Residency Programme in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Dublin; RHAs experimental drawing studio (Dublin); Aabenraa Artweek (Denmark) and Basekamp (Philadelphia). Mary-Ruth Walsh’s work is in the collection of Trinity College Dublin and private collections.'My practice explores buildings from frenetic shopping centers to the desolate loneliness of empty spac...
2025-03-1014 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP08 ANNEXOn this fascinating episode, closing Season 10, Caren Sullivan Talks to Architect Donal Lally and writer, architect, educator David Capener from ANNEX in 2022. You can also watch a glimpse of the interview on Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram (on link).ANNEX is a collaboration of artists, architects, and urban researchers born and/or based in Ireland who came together to curate the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021. ANNEX explores the material and cultural implications of large technical systems for the built environment with reference to architecture, art, computer science, and gaming platforms. Members include Sven...
2025-02-2625 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP07 Dr.Frank WasserOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Dr.Frank Wasser in 2022. Watch a glimpse of the Interview on Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram (on link).Dr. Frank Wasser is an Irish artist, writer, educator and researcher at TATe, based between Vienna and London. He is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.Originally from the Liberties, Dublin, Ireland, Wasser holds a PhD at the University of Oxford in Fine Art, BA in Painting and an MFA in Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland. Wasser has exhibited and lectured...
2025-02-2614 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP06 Joe DugganOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Joe Duggan in 2021.Joe Duggan is a Limerick born artist living and working in Buckinghamshire. He studied at the Royal College of Art London gaining an M.A. in Fine Art (Photography). His artistic practice includes sculpture, photography, video, publishing and installation. Through these various media his work considers ideas of value and identity. Focusing on themes of the family, the artists role in society and the influence of hierarchical systems, including religion, on culture. Across his projects Duggan’s work is inflected with a wry...
2025-02-2614 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP05 Karen DonnellanOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to psychic artist and energy healer, Karen Donnellan in 2021.Karen Donnellan (they/she) is a psychic artist and energy healer. After earning a Bachelor of Design in Glass from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and a MFA in Glass from the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, they served as Director of the National Casting Center Glass Studios; Associate Professor of Glass; and Chair of the Sculpture/Dimensional Studies Program at Alfred University, NY from 2014-2022.Donnellan has received numerous residencies, most notably at...
2025-02-2611 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP04 Maura Walsh FinneganOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Maura Walsh Finnegan in 2021, where we get a glimpse of her creative process in producing her intriguing and poignant pieces.Maura Finnegan is an artist based in the West of Ireland, graduate of the MA Creative Practice course at ATUHer work investigates the unspoken dialogue of furtiveness in the human psyche and trauma in its many forms. Her practice is sculptural assemblage, the method of communicating the effects of prolonged suffering and trauma is through materiality. Familiar domestic objects associated with the female become ’em...
2025-02-2614 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP03 Ishmael ClaxtonOn this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to photographer Ishmael Claxton in 2021, where we deep dive into his inspirations to create incredible photographs.Ishmael Claxton was born in New York and living in Dublin for 10 years. Ishmael turned to photography as a means of expression and embarked on his career as a professional visual artist. He continues to challenge his audience by raising awareness about issues like in ‘Migration/ Integration’ series and Capall Gang series. By holding a mirror up to society, his aim is to make sense of the every changing world. Ishmael is on...
2025-02-2614 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP02 Alan PhelanOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to multidisciplinary artist Alan Phelan in 2021.Alan Phelan works in sculpture, photography, film, museum interventions, public art and collaborations with other artists, writers and curators. Born Dublin, Phelan received BA, Dublin City University, 1989 and MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 1994.Selected exhibitions include: Casino Marino, Dublin; Luan, Athlone; The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin; Void, Derry; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; RHA, Dublin; The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon; The Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The LAB, Dublin; TBG+S, Dublin; LCGA, EVA International, Limerick; Solstice, Navan...
2025-02-2614 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP1 Array CollectiveOn this special episode opening Season 10, Caren Sullivan talks to Clodagh Lavelle, Emma Campbell and Thomas Wells, members of the collective Array Studios in 2021.Winners of Turner Prize 2021, Array Collective are a group of individual artists rooted in Belfast, who join together to create collaborative actions in response to the sociopolitical issues affecting Northern Ireland. Array’s studios and project space in the city centre acts as a base for the collective, however the participating artists are not limited to studio holders. Array Collective are known for projects that support "gay rights, marriage equality, feminism, reproductive ri...
2025-02-2614 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 09 EP09 Maud CotterOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Maud Cotter in 2021.Maud Cotter’s recent solo exhibitions include a consequence of –, at The Irish Arts Center, New York, 2022; what was never ours to keep, at MOCA, Jacksonville, Florida, 2022; a consequence of – a dappled world, at The Hugh Lane, Dublin, 2021; a consequence of – a breather of air, at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, 2019; a consequence of – without stilling, at Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2018; Matter of Fact, at domobaal gallery, London, 2016. Current and recent group exhibitions include: Contradictory Senses, at Lismore Castle Arts, 2022; The Twin, Coventry Biennale of Contemporary Art, Coventry, UK, 201...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 09 EP08 Vera KluteOn this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Vera Klute in 2021.Vera Klute is a visual artist based in Co. Kilkenny. She was born in Germany but lives in Ireland since 2001. Her work utilises a range of different media such as sculpture, painting, drawing and video animation. Themes span from formal portraiture and public sculpture to kinetic installation. She is always interested in exploring new materials and processes and in this way her work has taken many different incarnations over the years. She has exhibited widely in Ireland and ab...
2025-01-3013 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 09 EP07 John GrahamOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist John Graham in 2021.John Graham graduated from the NCAD with a BA in 1993 and an MFA in 2006. With a foundation in drawing and printmaking, his practice has included video and sound installations, writing and curatorial projects. He has exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally, most prominently with Green on Red Gallery, Dublin and Yanagisawa Gallery, Saitama, Japan. Public collections include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, Chester Beatty Library, University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and New...
2025-01-3014 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 09 EP06 Randal PlunkettOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to award winner Irish film director, producer and leading advocate for rewilding, Randal Plunkett in 2021.Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany, is an Irish filmmaker, landowner and rewilding advocate. Plunkett is the holder of a peerage title, and holds Dunsany Castle, one of the longest-inhabited houses in Ireland, and its remaining estate.Plunkett succeeded to the Dunsany title upon the death of his father in 2011. In his professional life, he has directed a range of film shorts, worked on several dozen other film projects, and provided location...
2025-01-2914 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 09 EP05 Glenn McQuaidOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to film director, Glenn McQuaid in 2021.Glenn McQuaid is an Irish film director. He is known for his feature film debut I Sell The Dead and his involvement in the audio play anthology series Tales From Beyond the Pale, both of which were produced by frequent collaborator Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix. He has also directed a segment of anthology horror film V/H/S.McQuaid began his career at Glass Eye Pix, where he performed visual effects on films such as The Roost (2005) and The Last...
2025-01-2914 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 09 EP04 Miguel MartinOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Miguel Martin in 2021.Miguel is a Belfast-born artist exploring identity, the uncanny, and liminal spaces through drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation. His work investigates how digital masks and everyday anomalies reshape perception, blending sincerity and irony to question authenticity in a digitised world. Collaboration and playful exchanges of imagery are central to his practice, creating dynamic spaces where meaning and connection remain fluid.Visual artist, born Belfast, 1985
University of Ulster 2004 – 2008Lives and works in Hastings
Learning and Participation assistant, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea...
2025-01-2914 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 09 EP03 Sarah O'BrienOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Sarah O'Brien in 2021.Sarah O’Brien, born in Cork, 1980.BA Painting, CCAD, Cork, 2003. MFA Painting NCAD, Dublin, 2007. PgDip Third Level Learning and Teaching, DIT 2012Lives and works in Kinsale, Co.Cork. Selected shows include: NEW LIGHT, Lewis Glucksman Gallery (2020), RHA OPEN 2020 (Invited Artist), PERIPHERIES Open 2019, Gorey Art School, Gorey, Everything is in everything, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Wish Me a Wonder, Waterford (all 2019) and STREAM PROJECT, Limerick (2018).Sarah O’Brien’s work is in the collection of The Office of...
2025-01-2914 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 09 EP02 Emma Kathleen Hepburn FerrerOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Emma Ferrer from her studio in Italy in 2021.Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer was born in Morges, Switzerland and grew up in Florence, Italy where her conscience became replete with a visceral exposure to Medieval and Renaissance iconography. As a young painter, Ferrer also spent extensive time in Spain where she became drawn to the works of Francisco de Zurbaràn, and Symbolist painter Julio Romero de Torres.Among her other strong influences are Goya, Manet, Giorgio de Chirico, Edvard Munch, Arnold Böcklin, and Félix...
2025-01-2914 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 09 EP01 MACP at GMIT Galway (Michaële Cutaya &Sona Šmédková)On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to writer, researcher and editor Michaële Cutaya and emerging curator and artist Sona Šmédková in 2021.Michaele Cutaya is a writer, researcher and editor on art living in County Galway. Her reviews and essays have been published in Irish Arts Review, The Stinging Fly and Art Monthly amongst others.She collaborates with artists towards specific art projects and residencies. She continues a contextual writing and discursive practice in the west of Ireland and has regularly participated in public discussions on art and its broader social and poli...
2025-01-2914 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 08 EP09 Isabel NolanClosing Season 8 on this special episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Isabel Nolan in 2021. Isabel Nolan has an expansive practice that incorporates sculptures, paintings, textile works, photographs, writing and works on paper. Her subject matter is similarly comprehensive, taking in cosmological phenomena, religious reliquaries, Greco-Roman sculptures and literary/historical figures, examining the behaviour of humans and animals alike. These diverse artistic investigations are driven by intensive research, but the end result is always deeply personal and subjective. Exploring the “intimacy of materiality”, Nolan’s work ranges from the architectural – steel sculptures that frame or obstr...
2025-01-2214 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 08 EP08 Séamus McCormackOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to curator Séamus McCormack in 2021.Séamus McCormack has developed curatorial projects both in Ireland and the UK including at Luan Gallery, Athlone; ArtBox, Dublin; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Bomb Factory, London; Lewisham Arthouse, London; No Show Space, London; The LAB, Dublin and Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford. He curates Commonage projects space in Bethnal Green, London presenting solo exhibitions with artists including Hugo Brazao, Nat Faulkner, Hannah Lim, Tami Soji-Akinyemi, Tim Spooner and Taro Qureshi.He is Senior Curator, New Co...
2025-01-2214 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 08 EP07 Emma RocheOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Emma Roche in 2021. Her unique paintings has caught my immediate attention back in 2021, here she talks about her unique method of knitting paint.EducationM.A. in Visual Arts Practices, I.A.D.T. Dublin, 2010 B.A. in Fine Art Painting, N.C.A.D., Dublin, 2006Turps Banana Art School, London 2016-2019Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions 2023LOOP, Emergence Award, Wexford Arts CentreLined Out, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray20...
2025-01-2210 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 08 EP06 Joseph HeffernanOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Joseph Heffernan in 2021.Joseph Heffernan is an Irish artist based in Backwater Artists Studios, Cork. His exquisite paintings transports the viewer to a different, magic era.Education2013-2016: MFA(Painting), NCAD, Dublin.2012-2013: Creative Ceramics Level 6, Colaiste Stiofain Naoife.2005-2009: Hons BA(Fine Art), Crawford College of Art and Design.Selected Exhibitions Solo2023: A Thousand Years, Studio 12 Gallery, Backwater Artists Studios, Cork2022: The Golden Age, Blue House Gallery, Schull, West Cork...
2025-01-2213 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 08 EP05 Taffina FloodOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist, educator, Taffina Flood in 2021.Taffina Flood was born in Dublin. She has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad, and her work is held in many notable public and private collections. In addition to painting and printmaking, Taffina lectures at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin.Taffina’s art is characterised by dense, evocative, jewel-like colour patterns. Her prints for Behaviour & Attitudes were devised as a series of imagined windows into the language and forms of gardens – crossing the m...
2025-01-2213 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 08 EP04 Satin ShadowOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talk to the duo Austin Hearne and Glenn McQuaid from Satin Shadow in 2021.Satin Shadow is a Goth, Industrial music duo by artist Austin Hearne and filmmaker and producer Glenn McQuaid.Concerns around the occupation of Ireland by the Roman Catholic Church are at the heart of Austin Hearne's practice.The majesty and misery of this institution are the poles which Hearne operates within.Photography is at the root of his practice, using this medium in its most experimental and expansive form to create performances...
2025-01-2214 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 08 EP03 Celina MuldoonOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to multidisciplinary artist Celina Muldoon in 2021.Identity, memory and surveillance are themes around which Celina Muldoon investigates relationships between socio-political structures and the body. Her work spans Live Performance, Film and Installation. She uses collaborative processes to test live performance methodologies in response to site and context. Her unique live installations and videos generate uncertainty through satire and wit. Critical triggers of Muldoon's live work rely upon audience participation and interaction. Audio and live installation elements work in tandem to manifest highly charged emotional...
2025-01-2214 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 8 EP02 Richard HarveyOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to filmmaker, writer, Richard Harvey in 2021.Richard Harvey is a writer and director from Dublin. His work is heavily influenced by Irish mythology and the horror genre and often deals with themes such as mortality, toxic masculinity and the dysfunctional family. Some of his achievements include winning the 2020 YMVC at First Cut Youth Film Festival for the music video for ADT’s Even the Sun Don’t Shine on Lonely Hearts in Shadow. The music video also screened at DISFMF 2020 and went on to be nominated for an E...
2025-01-2214 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 8 EP01 Serena CaulfieldOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Serena Caulfield in 2012.Serena Caulfield is an artist who makes paintings. Memories morph into tall tales. Invented imagery invites novel narratives. Transforming old to new, past to present, absence to presence, here to there, she likes to paint quickly and think slowly.Serena has exhibited regionally and nationally. Recent group shows include WIDE OPEN SPACE, at Wexford Co. Council Buildings, BEEP Painting Biennial, Wales, GENERATION2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny and Zurich Portrait Prize, at the National Gallery of Ireland and...
2025-01-2213 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 07 EP09 Jack Lukeman Weekend SpecialOn this special episode closing Season 07, Caren Sullivan talks to singer Jack Lukeman in 2021. There is a second episode where jack Lukeman sings for Ultraviolet Art Talks, check it on @_ultravioletarttalks_Lukeman first came to prominence in the summer of 1995 when he and The Black Romantics took up a residency at The Da Club (Dublin Arts Club) in Dublin selling out night after night. The band's set included interpretations of Jacques Brel along with several of Jack's own compositions. The band recorded the album Wax in 1995 before splitting in 1997.Lukeman established himself as a so...
2025-01-0314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 07 EP08 Niamh O'MalleyOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Niamh O'Malley in 2021.Niamh O’Malley is interested in the exhibition as an architecture for scrutiny and attention. She is drawn to materials that display traces of their own making, labouring the surfaces of polished wood and graphite. There is a haptic, agitated quality to the edges and surfaces of her sculpture and drawings. When glass, a favoured material is seen it is sometimes tinted, and encountered as slivers of edged, translucent, solidness, potentially directing us to observe, re-observe and filter. Niamh O’Malley also uses...
2025-01-0312 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 07 EP07 David BeattieOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist David Beattie in 2021.David Beattie is an artist and lecturer in Art and Research Collaboration at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology. Beattie’s sculptural practice explores the material world through experiential, physical engagements with objects and non-objects. Recent projects have focused on the social and environmental impact of digital technologies, haptic robotics and machine learning. He was awarded the Harpo Foundation Award in 2010 and was a recipient of the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection, 2016. In recent years, he has been commissioned to...
2025-01-0314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 07 EP06 Bernadette KielyOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Bernadette Kiely in 2021.Bernadette Kiely is a visual artist based on the quayside of the river Nore in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.Known for her powerful portrayals of the fragility of the natural and physical world, Bernadette draws particularly on her experiences as a child growing up on the quayside in Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary, where she witnessed many flood events which have continued throughout her life as an adult living on the river Nore in Co. Kilkenny. The effects of flooding and decay on...
2025-01-0314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 07 EP05 Yero Adugna EtichaOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Yero Adugna Eticha in 2021.Yero Adugna Eticha, born in Oromia/Ethiopia, is a Berlin/ Addis Abeba based photographer working for renowned culture Institut : Akadamie der Künste, Tanz im August , Festival of Future Nows, Studio Olafur Eliasson & his own different projects. As a spät passionate runner, he started his photographic career at the age of 29 by covering Berlin party events und alte heim. From 2008 to 2011, he joined Ostkreuzschule in Berlin to study photography. He developed an individual documentary style while focussing on social and politics issues, it´s s...
2025-01-0314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 07 EP04 Amy O'RiordanOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Amy O'Riordan in 2021.Working both behind and in front of the eye of the camera lens, artist Amy O'Riordan oversees every detail of costumes, make up, extensive setting up of props, settings and locations. Her photographic images offer a privileged glimpse into an intimate world by challenging by gaze. O’Riordan presented a series of works that specifically addressed subverting gender roles, explored female empowerment and investigated the female gaze. Her work makes references to both the historical tradition of painting and popular culture to ex...
2025-01-0314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 07 EP03 Tadhg Ó'CuirrínOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Tadhg Ó'Cuirrín in 2021.Tadhg Ó Cuirrín is an artist and teacher based in the west of Ireland. He received a BA in Fine Art, Painting from the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2009. He works in a variety of media, and his work was recently shortlisted for the Hennessey Craig Award at the RHA 192nd Annual Exhibition. In November 2022 he will present new work at TULCA Festival of Visual Art in Galway. In March 2023 he will present a new exhibition at the Custom Hous...
2025-01-0314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 7 EP02 James EarleyOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist James Earley in 2021.James Earley produces abstracted figurative works that bring together traditions of painting, design and stained glass art.James Earley (b. 1981), is an Irish artist who lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Earley's practice is rooted in graffiti, graphic design and his family's heritage in stained glass. He creates artworks that are timeless in their aesthetic and rich in their conceptual narrative.The pieces are produced using digital tools to create analogue artworks. Fusing computer-aided fabrication with traditional hand-made techniques...
2025-01-0314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 7 EP01 Liliane PuthodOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Liliane Puthod in 2021.Liliane Puthod's practice often takes the form of large-scale installations and sculptures using both handmade and industrial materials as a way to confront archaeological and commodified times. She appropriates and manipulates some of society’s existing modes of dissemination, display and production to subtly destabilize what she considers the fabrication of desire and subjectivity in relation to objecthood. Investigating the temporality of everyday life’s consumption, her work questions its perceived value within our globalised world.Liliane Puthod, born in F...
2025-01-0314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 6 EP9 Andrew CarsonOn this episode, closing Season 6, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Andrew Carson in 2021.At the core of Andrew Carson’s practice is the exploration of the body and interpersonal interactions through the mediums of digital technology. Examining social structures, systems, and methods of communication, he is interested in the use and effects of digital devices and social media as the modern ubiquitous means of contact.Influenced by Transhumanist thought, questions that continuously arise for Carson include; how do we reconcile virtual and physical realities, and can we overcome the psychological distances inherent in di...
2024-11-2314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 6 EP 8 Alex KeatingeOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alex Keatinge in 2021.Alex Keatinge is a Visual Artist working across sculpture and photography. With mould making and photography being key tools in her practice, her work often explores the commonalities between the two and draws upon the intrapersonal and the material extended self to create objects that pace the line between knowingness and uncertainty. Selected exhibitions2024 Early Plastic, Green Service two person online show2023 art Works! PP/S, Irish Georgian Society, Dublin2022 D...
2024-11-2314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 6 EP7 Audrey Rangel AguirreOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Audrey Rangel Aguirre in 2021 about her unique and exquisite projects.Audrey Rangel Aguirre is an Interdisciplinary Mexican artist based in England, researching at the intersection of art and science, focusing on artistic intuition to create new systems and speculative scenarios that belong to the future of human civilisation. Currently developing the research project Terras Lux, focusing on the relation between energy on microbial microecosystems on soil and the energy on human body.The core and intellectual structure of my project Terras Lux...
2024-11-2314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 6 EP6 Helena HamiltonOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Helena Hamilton in 2021.Belfast-based artist Helena Hamilton works both visually and sonically. Her practice crosses the lines between creating objects, sound, digital interaction, and action/performance. Her current research focuses on creating works between digital and physical environments while negotiating the relationship between the sonic and visual. Helena has previously exhibited and performed in both gallery spaces and contemporary music/sound festivals across UK & Ireland as well as Berlin, Rome, Tokyo and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Virtual Matter [Amb...
2024-11-2314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 6 Special Valentines Day MundyOn this Valentines Day Special Episode, Caren Sullivan talks to super talented musician Mundy in 2021. Watch video version of his exclusive performance for Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram. Mundy is an Irish singer-songwriter and founder of the independent record label Camcor Records.He released his debut album Jelly Legs in 1996 on the Epic Records label. The album included the song "To You I Bestow", which was featured on the best-selling soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation Romeo + Juliet.In 2000, Mundy was dropped by Epic while working on his second album, The Moon...
2024-11-2314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 6 EP4 Matthew CollOn this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Matthew Coll in 2021. It is a very candid episode, where we can hear how Matthew (an art student at the time) and his fellow pupils were coping with lockdowns and future uncertainties.Matthew Coll is an Irish artist based in Dublin. He graduated from NCAD’s Fine Art Painting BA in 2022 and work predominantly in Painting, Sculpture and Installation. His practice explores the experience of "Being" and Memory, with recent work focusing on the subject matter of crowds. Utilising AI-image generation tools, found imagery and phot...
2024-11-2313 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 6 EP3 Mark O'KellyOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist and educator Mark O'Kelly in 2020.The studio painting practice at the centre of O’Kelly’s artistic research demonstrates a sustained engagement with theories of materiality, representation, reproduction, display and quotation, towards investigations around questions of cognitive representation and the inherent psychological poetry of the image. The imagined public spaces that result within this architecture of pictures narrate consciousness-formation in the public interaction within contemporary cosmetic image cultures. Mark O’Kelly lives and works in Dublin and Limerick. He attended the National College of Art and Design...
2024-11-2314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 6 EP2 Neil DunneOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist and educator Neil Dunne in 2020.Neil Dunne, an artist and educator based in Dublin, Ireland, embarks on a multifaceted exploration at the intersection of art and the urban landscape, drawing inspiration from the profound ideas of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. His expanded print practice serves as a research vehicle, delving into the amalgamation of printed matter and paint, with a keen awareness of the distinct abilities each medium possesses to respond to the built environment.Informed by the Situationist ethos...
2024-11-2314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 6 EP1 Alison PilkingtonOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alison Pilkington in 2020.Alison Pilkington in her own words;"In my painting practice I tap into my inner world and personal experiences to conjure up strange and unsettling worlds where all is not entirely at ease. Humour, the absurd and private jokes abound in strange unsettling landscapes. Bizarre figures are recurring motifs. They can be viewed as tragi-comic and quasi- philosophical in tone. I strive to communicate a range of thoughts and emotions through the medium of painting. My work draws from a...
2024-11-2314 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 5 Christmas Special Paddy CaseyOn this Christmas Special episode, Caren Sullivan talks to super talented musician Paddy Casey in 2020. Paddy Casey received his first guitar when he was 12 and left home soon after and began busking and gigging for about 12 years. At about the age of 24 he was approached by Sony A&R Scout Hugh Murray at the International Bar in Dublin, while performing at the singer/songwriter night hosted by Dave Murphy. Sony gave Casey some studio time in Sun Studios Dublin where he recorded 9 tracks in 2 days. Sony decided that they liked the tracks so much that they...
2024-11-2114 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 5 Episode 8 Jaki IrvineOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Jaki Irvine in 2020. It was a very unique episode where the artist decided to appear in the interview as a digital foam entity, a delight!Using video installation, photography, music composition and writing, Jaki Irvine explores the complex ways we imagine ourselves and the world around us, a process which, for Irvine, has both philosophical and political implications.Jaki Irvine has written many critical texts and short writings on other artists work in the past, including Extinction Beckons, for Mike Nelson, a book commissioned by Ma...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 5 Episode 7 Colin MartinOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Colin Martin in 2020.Colin Martin was born in Dublin in 1973. He graduated from DIT in Fine Art- Painting in 1994 and completed a post-graduate year in printmaking in 2005. He completed an MFA at the National College of Art and Design in 2010. He lives and works in Dublin. In 2008 he was elected an associate member of the RHA. He has been the recipient of numerous Awards including, in 2008 Thomas Dammann Travel Award; 2005 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, 2005 RHA Hennessy Craig Scholarship, 2004 Golden Flee ce Merit...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 5 Episode 6 Lee WelchOn this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Lee Welch in 2020.Lee Welch was born in Louisville, Kentucky and currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Welch creates gestural, atmospheric paintings that attest to the psychical and emotional depths of his chosen subjects and map out delicate negotiations between beauty, desire, and the painted image. Depicting figures from his own milieu, as well as from history, literature, music, and tennis, Welch finds feeling in that which he depicts, always rendered with the intensity of his particular humanism; a close looking a...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 5 Episode 5 Lar O'TooleOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Lar O'Toole in 2020.Lar O’Toole is interested in an art/science interface and the cultural and psychological effects of expanded seeing; the insights into inner and outer space afforded to science by the application of lenses since the late 16th century. The shift away from a heliocentric cosmology at this time spurred scientific inquiry and decentred mankind within the universe. Lar is drawn to the dilemmas that arise when considering our cosmic significance or insignificance. His recent work and research explores th...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 5 Episode 4 Liz NielsenOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Liz Nielsen in 2020.Liz Nielsen lives and works in Brooklyn and Newburgh, NY. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004, her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, and her BA in Philosophy and Spanish from Seattle University in 1997. Nielsen's works have been reviewed in Artforum, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Financial Times, The British Journal of Photography, The New York Times, Le...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 5 Episode 3 Camille O'Sullivan (Halloween Special)On this Halloween Special episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to super talented singer, musician and actress, Camille O'Sullivan in 2020. Camille O'Sullivan is an Irish singer, musician, and actress. Born in London to a French mother and Irish father, she grew up in Cork, Ireland. O'Sullivan is known for her unique, dramatic musical style and covers of artists such as Radiohead, Tom Waits and David Bowie. As an actress, O'Sullivan has appeared in Mrs. Henderson Presents, Rebellion and Pick Ups.The award-winning singer - one of the original cast me...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 5 Episode 2 Gabhann DunneOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Gabhann Dunne in 2020.Gabhann Dunne is an Irish artist working with all kinds of subjects, from Landscape Paintings to Portraits. Using soft colour palettes and thick brushstrokes, Gabhann creates Oil Paintings with a romantic and poetic quality. Rich in colour and texture, his art is an examination of various different themes, ranging from power structures to the marginalisation of animals and their spaces. This Animal Art is a celebration of our natural environment and ultimately a defence of them that urges us to reconsider our relationship with nature.
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 5 EP1 Mark JoyceOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Mark Joyce in 2020.Mark Joyce is an artist based in Dublin. He studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London. He has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK and the USA, received awards from The British Council, Thomas Damman Trust and the Georgette Chen fellowship in 2016. His work is in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Arts Council collections. In his painting, public commissions and teaching, he explores some of the anomalies and phenomenological strangeness of our human v...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 4 EP11 Liliane TomaskoOn this episode, closing Season 4, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Liliane Tomasko in 2020.Born in Zurich, Switzerland. Lives and works in London.Liliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour. The artist begins her investigation of the human psyche in the domestic sphere, offering attentive studies of bedding and clothing, the intimate textures of our lives. Through the artist’s reflections, these prosaic materials open a gateway into the nocturnal realm of sleep and dreaming, articulating the creatively fertile space between ‘conscious’ and ‘unconsciou...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 4 EP10 Peter RichardsOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist and Director of the Golden Tread Gallery, Peter Richards in 2020.Peter Richards is an artist based in Belfast, in the North of Ireland. He works in a range of media including forms of photography, installation and performance. His works can be seen as artistic enquiries into subjects, such as: how understanding is formed and truth is subscribed to; how we have the capacity to suspend disbelief in order to continue believing in chosen truths. Richards often engages with interactions between re-presentation, time and referencing. He ex...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 4 EP9 Alex HudsonOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alex Hudson in 2020.Born 1976, London, UK MA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK. Lives and Works in Malmö, Sweden, Alex Hudson is a contemporary artist whose body of work is deeply rooted in the history of painting. More specifically, Hudson creates mesmerising images that very often draw from the work of the old masters up until early forms of Modernism. He does so in a way that when looking at his work there is a simultaneous sense of strangeness as well as familiarity —his...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 4 EP8 Elaine HoeyOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Elaine Hoey in 2020.Elaine Hoey works mainly creating interactive based installations, appropriating contemporary digital art practices and aesthetics to explore the politics of digital humanity and our evolving relationship with the screen. She describes her process as ‘experimental’ and is interested in exploring digitally native and new forms of art. Her work often addresses and critiques themes arising from identity, place and the biopolitical body. She works through a wide variety of mediums such as, virtual reality, artificial intelligent systems, programming, video, instal...
2024-10-1114 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 4 EP7 Kurb JunkiOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Kurb Junki (Niall Cullen) in 2020.Contemporary visual artist Niall Cullen, formerly know as Kurb Junki, holds a first class honours degree in sculpture from the NCAD, Dublin. In his early days as a street artist and filmmaker, Kurb Junki spent years spreading his signature hand-drawn hamburger motifs which populate the various surfaces of Dublin's inner city. His work investigates themes around identity, public space, mark making, re-appropriation of data and imagery while he also explores a collaborative practice with other artists, r...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 4 EP6Child Naming CeremonyOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to members of the art collective Child Naming Ceremony in 2020.Child naming Ceremony was s a collective formed by visual artists 2021: Michelle Hall, Austin Hearne, Celina Muldoon, Frances O'Dwyer 2017-2020: Ella Bertilsson, Ulla Juske.Their live performances were very dynamic and full of intriguing meanings. The artists are currently in solo projects, for more information, follow them on Instagram. @austinhearne @michelles_hall @celina_muldoon @ella_bertilsson @ullajuskeFollow Ultraviolet Art talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 4 EP5 Margaret O'ConnorOn this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to Designer, DJ and artist Margaret O'Connor in 2020.Margaret O’Connor is an Irish-based Independent Accessories Designer, DJ, and Conceptual Artist. She is best known for her work as an accessory designer, launching her accessory range in the HUGH lane Gallery 2023, The National Gallery of Ireland in 2022.Margaret was trained by some of the ‘leading lights of the Millinery industry’ such as; Philip Treacy, Noel Stewart, Kristin Scott, Sarah Cant, and Yvette Jelfs. While surrounded by the landscape of her hometown in the Burren...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 4 EP4 Brian FayOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Brian Fay in 2020.Brian Fay is an Irish artist living in Dublin, his practice is rooted in drawing and he uses the materiality of pre-existing artworks and objects to examine our complex relationship to time. In 2021 he was awarded a 3 year studio membership with Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin. He undertook an artist residency at the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation, Connecticut, USA in 2022. He recently completed a national touring survey show which will opened in the Highlanes Gallery Drogheda then to Limerick Ci...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 4 EP3 Wendy JudgeOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Wendy Judge in 2020.Wendy Judge graduated at Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design.AWARDS: 2022 Arts Council Project Award (strand 1 ) 2020 Arts Council Bursary, 2019 Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award, 2016 Arts Council of Ireland Bursary, 2016 Arts Council Travel and Training Award, 2013 DLR COCO Bursary, 2011 Arts Council Bursary, 2010 Arts Council Bursary, 2004 Arts Council Bursary, RESIDENCIES: selected, 2020 The Darkroom.ie Artist in Residency (travel) 2018Resort, Fingal Co Co, 2016 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh , 2016 Heinrich Böll Cottage, Achill Island , 2013 Cill Rialaig, Co KerryCOLLECTIONS: Prints and Drawings collection...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 4 EP2 Atsushi KagaOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Atsushi Kaga in 2020.Behind the playful, surreal façade of Atsushi Kaga’s work lurks significantly darker territory; wherein the artist confronts serious issues of cultural politics, mental health – personal insecurities, paranoia (particularly a fear-of-missing-out), and the complex search for identity and the philosophical crises presented by daily routine. Through the eyes of a self-proclaimed ‘Otaku’, and fascinatingly influenced by a mixture of the Japanese storytelling cultures of Manga, Anime and Irish satirical Irish literature, from Swift to Myles na gCopaleen, Kaga’s razor-sharp wit and extraordinary imagination takes the viewe...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 4 EP1 Orla WhelanOn this Episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Artist Orla Whelan.Orla Whelan is a visual artist whose practice is rooted in painting. Her approach is to consider the visual language and materials of the medium as tools to reimagine contemporary possibilities for transcendence. She is motivated by an existential anxiety, and a belief that abstraction is a viable means to address metaphysical uncertainties. In addition to oil paint on linen, she uses non-traditional painting materials which refer to the materiality and tropes of painting. These expanded forms include: wood veneers on panel...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 EP12 Francis FitzpatrickClosing Season 3, Caren Sullivan talks to 7 times Emmy Winner an BAFTA winner, Francis Fitzpatrick in 2020.Emmy Award-winning, BAFTA winner, couple Denise and Francis Fitzpatrick, created the children’s series "Jakers!". Francis is the founder of FuturumKids, a state-of-the-art animation and media company that specialises in producing, distributing and licensing thrown Ip for the global tv marketing.The company comprises a multi-Emmy Award winning team of principals, with a major track record of global success. The company is a collaboration of the team that produced 7-time Emmy Award winning "Jakers!" and th...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 EP11 Shane GriffinOn this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Shane Griffin in 2020.Griffin grew up in Dublin, and relocated to New York City in 2012, where he recently set up his independent practice, GRIF Studio. Specializing in both art and commercial design, the studio works on diverse projects through a wide range of mediums.The studio’s portfolio includes an impressive array of clients, from Apple to Nike to LG and more. What’s interesting to note is how Griffin’s personal projects and artwork inform his commercial pieces. One such project is his...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 EP10 Vanessa Donoso LopezOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Vanessa Donoso Lopez in 2020.Vanessa Donoso López (born Barcelona, Spain) lives and works between Dublin and Barcelona. She studied at the School of Arts and Design Llotja, Barcelona, the University of Barcelona and the Winchester College of Art, UK. Vanessa's work develops within an installation process through a dialogical relationship between a variety of media and mechanisms including, drawing, painting, arqueological- scientific experimentation and repetitive object making. Her practice is committed to exploring concepts of transitional phenomena relevant to contemporary migrant life. It seeks to...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 EP9 Steven MayburyOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Steven Maybury in 2020.Irish artist – Living and working in Rotterdam. Piet Zwart Institute MFA 2019-2021.Selected Solo and Two person shows include:Three solo exhibitions created during a 6 month residency in The RHA Dublin in June / July 2014:Jigsaw’s Combs and Rulers at The Eight Gallery, Radical Lines at Pallas Projects, Groove Chronicles at The Market Studios. Synthesis i– Eight Gallery and Synthesis ii– Tactic Gallery [2013]. With Irish artist Claire Mc Cluskey.Selected group exhibitions include:Lo...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 EP8 David Thomas SmithOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist David Thomas Smith in 2020.David Thomas Smith is a visual artist who specialises in Post- Photographic Processes. David's work has been exhibited in several diverse locations around the world from the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris to the Hyundai Motor Studio in Beijing.In 2017 David was nominated for one of photography's most prestigious awards The Prix Pictet.David's work has also appeared in a variety of publications from Esquire, Russia to Wired in the United States and anthologies such as Ro...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 EP7 Katrine SkovsgaardOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Katrine Skovsgaard in 2020.Katrine Skovsgaard, based and working in Copenhagen, DK and London, UK.PhD student at Royal College of Art; graduated MA from Royal College of Art 2021; MFA, Fine Art, Funen Art Academy, 2016; recipient of the Sven Dalsgaard Honorary Award for young experimental artists and the 15th of June Foundations Honorary Award.Works exhibited at Brandts, c4 Projects, Copenhagen Art Week, Kunsthal Aarhus, Middelfart Museum and The Psychiatry in Southern Denmark, Montez Press Radio, Sorø Art Museum, Vollsmose Culture House and e...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 EP6 Damien FloodOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Damien Flood in 2020.Damien Flood b. 1979, is an Irish artist based in Dublin. His work is grounded in early writings on philosophy, theology, alchemy and the natural sciences and explores the mutability of 'reality' and language. Solo shows include: A Place for Lost Things, Weber & Weber, Turin, 2023, Dig, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin 2022, Tilt, RHA Gallery,Dublin, 2021, Shape of Things, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, LA, 2019, The Figure in the Carpet, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, 2018, Theory of Two Centres, Stephane Simoens, Knokke, 2017, ...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 EP5 Vera RyklovaOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Vera Ryklova in 2020.Vera Ryklova is a visual artist who works across the media of photography, video, performance and installation, and who has been developing her practice over the past nine years. She has received several awards, including Studio Residency at The Dean Art Studios (2022-24), Visual Arts Bursary (2023) and represented PhotoIreland at Futures Europe-based platform for photography. She was shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait Prize (2016), which exhibited at the National Gallery of Ireland. Vera presented four solo exhibitions as well as exhibited in a n...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 EP4 Aideen BarryOn this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to visual artist Aideen Barry in 2020.Aideen Barry is a practising Visual Artist based in Ireland but with international representation. In 2020 she was elected to the RHA. She is a member of Aosdána and Lectures in several universities and schools of visual art in Ireland, the US and Europe. Barry is an artist whose work encompasses a vast range of disciplines and subjects, such as domestic labour, environmental fracture, and human vulnerability. Her work meditates on feminism, classism, intersectionality, and inequality. Utilising archives, museums, and oth...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 EP3 Peter BurnsOn his episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Peter Burns in 2020.Born in 1979, Peter Burns earned his BA in Sculpture and MFA in Painting from the National College of Art And Design, Dublin. He lives and works in Co.Mayo, Ireland.Peter Burns presented new paintings and sculptures with Gibbons & Nicholas at Art Projects, LAF 2018 and Context NYC & Miami (2017). He participated in Fables of the Reconstruction at David & Schweitzer Contemporary, NY (2017).Other recent exhibitions include, Futures Anthology at The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2015), Self Portraits at BravinLee Programs, NY, (2016) Works on...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 EP2 Becks ButlerOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist, Becks Butler in 2020.Becks have a successful career in visual arts and curatorial practice. Their works have been purchased by the Royal Irish Academy, the OPW state collection, and various private collectors both in Ireland and internationally. Within their commercial practice, Becks has worked on design projects for clients such as Guinness, REPEAL Campaign and Style Club and her editorials have been published by The Guardian UK, Quartz NYC, Over Journal, and The Irish Times.Becks Butler is a Lecturer at...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 3 Ep 1 Salvatore Of LucanOn 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...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 2 GuggiClosing Season 2 on this very special episode, Caren Sullivan talks to renowned international artist, painter, sculptor, once member of post-punk legendary band Virgin Prunes, Guggi, in 2020.Born and working in Dublin, Guggi is an artist working with drawing, painting and sculpture, Guggi digs deep into a personal yet universal subject matter: the quotidian beauty of household objects.He committedly revisits his signature motifs of bowls, jugs and vessels, using repetition and abstraction to conjure an almost meditative state. In his paintings and works on paper, their forms appear tentative: broken...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 2 Georgina JacksonOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Dr.Georgina Jackson in 2020.Dr.Georgina Jackson is the Director of The Douglas Hyde. She is responsible for the vision of the organisation and works closely with the team and board to realise this. Georgina's first encounter with the gallery was working on the front desk while studying History of Art at Trinity College, an experience that was foundational in her relationship with contemporary art. She went on to be the Exhibitions Curator at the Hugh Lane, a Project Curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the...
2024-08-2912 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 2 Paul McGraneOn this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist, curator, Paul McGrane in 2020.Paul McGrane (b. 1991, Dublin) is an artist & curator working in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from Technological University Dublin in 2015 with a BA in Fine Art.His practice focuses predominantly on painting and sculpture. His interests lie in public spaces such as places of worship, stadiums and sensory rooms. Nostalgia guides the creation of his work, drawing from personal memories rooted in family and place. McGrane's paintings are expressed using various facets of abstraction - colour, shape, light, motif. He uses a...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 2 Anita GroenerOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Anita Groener in 2020.Anita Groener was born and raised in the Netherlands and moved to Dublin, Ireland, where she is based. Questions of migration, memory, place, time and what it means to be human today have catalysed the artist's practice since she left her native country. She works through drawing, sculpture, painting, video, animation and installation.Her work constitutes a profound meditation on war, loss, displacement, exile, resilience, renewal, and hope through installations that painstakingly transform discarded materials such as twigs, twine, and cardboard into...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 2 Harry Walsh ForemanOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Harry Walsh Foreman in 2020.Harry Walsh Foreman Contemporary urban street life is full of distinctive characters and personalities. In his work he imagines the hidden everyday narratives of these individuals. These ideas formed the framework of his comic series 'First World Problems. In consumer terms, Western society has never had so much or needed so little. 'First World Problems' is a comic apologia for those who moan over trivial matters.A key aspect of his work is the attempt to create a more interactive fusion...
2024-08-2914 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 2 Colm Mac AthlaoichOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Colm Mac Athlaoich in 2020.Colm Mac Athlaoich's paintings deal with ideas of materiality, process and perception. His works sit between figuration and abstraction, exploring the space between. He draws from his varied background in music as well as years of working for the Press media to question our relationship with the mass produced image. Sourcing material from online social platforms as well as self documentation form a starting point to explore ideas of contemporary pathos and idyll.Colm Mac Athlaoich (b. 1980, Dublin, Ireland), studied at...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 2 Sheena BarrettOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to curator Sheena Barrett in 2020.Sheena Barrett joined Dublin City Council in 2006 as Assistant Arts Officer and Curator to lead the development of the LAB Gallery as a critical platform for emerging arts practice in Ireland.Having previously held roles at Breaking Ground Public Art Commissioning Programme, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, the National Gallery of Ireland and the National Museum of Ireland, she has extensive curatorial experience, supporting artists and audiences through ambitious public programmes and commissioning. Barrett is part of the curatorial team for Living Canvas...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 2 Cecilia DanellOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Cecilia Danell in 2020.Cecilia Danell (b.1985) is a Swedish artist based in Galway, Ireland.Her practice is process based, where accumulated research into landscape and the psychology of place is coupled with a strong interest in materiality and making. For over ten years, Danell has returned to her family farm in Sweden to walk and gather research material for paintings.The experience of being in the landscape, along with the physical process of painting in the studio, results in works that detach...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talk Season 2 Marcia MisawaOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Marcia Misawa in 2020.Marcia Misawa, is a visual artist, illustrator and designer, passionate about childhood and the ethical development of the mind.She started her career in Ul/UX Design, then dove deeply into children's books illustration, path that brought her a huge experience in the field of Communication, Design and Illustration.Her works combine Technology with traditional Arts & Crafts techniques, and she navigate seamlessly between watercolor paints, x-acto knives and softwares. Also, interaction design is one of her favourite themes to explore...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 2 Diana CopperwhiteOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Diana Copperwhite in 2020.Copperwhite's work stems from an idiosyncratic practice that embraces the temporal nature of painting practice. This encompasses working with large-scale wall installations, large canvases, drawing and an ongoing interest in the human portrait.Recent solo exhibitions include ONOMATOPOEIA, curated by Aoife Ruane, touring exhibition, Highlanes Gallery / Limerick City Gallery of Art / Galway International Arts Festival (2023). Reflections in a Darker Mirror, Thomas Jaeckel, NewYork (2022). Vanishing Apertures, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2021). Works on Paper, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin (2021). Lockdown Series, Online exhibition, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2020). Proto...
2024-08-2909 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 2 Elaine GraingerOn this Episode, opening Season 2, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Elaine Grainger in 2020.Elaine Grainger is a visual artist she lives and works in Dublin. Graduated in 2018 with a Fine Art Masters Degree from NCAD.Her graduate exhibition work was selected for The RDS Visual Arts Awards 2018 curated by Amanda Coogan. She was the winner of The RDS Visual Arts, Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award 2019. She is also the recipient of the RHA Peer Residency Award 2019.Recent Exhibitions include RDS Visual Artist Award Exhibition 2018, Barely hardly there MFA Degree show 2018...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 1 Robert ArmstrongOne this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Robert Armstrong in 2020.The sources of Robert Armstrong's paintings include references to art history, ancient geological maps, and current environmental catastrophes. The paintings present images of landscape, mountains, caves, clouds, water, and floods - familiar landscape motifs in a changing world.The paintings are not depictive of particular places or events, but instead reveal the struggle between the certainty of the photographic source and the process used to create the image. The paint - whether thick or thin, opaque or transparent - mostly depicts itself...
2024-08-0113 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 1 Paul HallahanOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Paul Hallahan in 2020.Paul Hallahan is an Irish artist living and working at Fire Station Studio's Dublin whose work is primarily based in painting, but also looks to sculpture and video.Interests within his work expand into many areas but commonly focus on how we as a species relate and interact with nature, taking art as a form or by-product of nature and our civilisation. Using various methods and techniques his paintings are built up of thin layers, this allows the works to be shaped...
2024-08-0114 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 1 Jonathan MayhewOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Ultra Contemporary Artist Jonathan Mayhew in 2020.Jonathan Mayhew is an Irish artist and occasional writer based in Dublin.Using poetry, literature, technology and theory, he manipulates physical and invisible materials creating works in a variety of media, questioning the world we live in. He is interested in how we think about technology and society, how we use it and how it in turn uses us, while exploring the blurring edges of fiction and reality. His works offers a poetic escape from the hyper reality we live...
2024-08-0111 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 1 William O'NeilOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist William O’Neil in 2020.William O'Neill is a visual artist living and working in Meath, Ireland. He graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design in 2009.His paintings are process driven. He meticulously creates still life scenes which he photographs and works from.He's interested in these still life arrangements for their angles, shapes, the positive/negative space they create, how the objects interact with each other and their potential as subject matter....
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 1 Amanda DoranOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Amanda Doran in 2020.Born and raised in Co. Wexford in Ireland, Amanda Doran graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2012. She is a figurative painter with a passion for the obscure and bold, brash colour.Her paintings are thickly painted with wonderfully luscious colours and textures.Amanda took a career pause and is currently a content creator on Instagram.Watch this episode on Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more info check Amanda Doran Instagram...
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Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 1 Austin HearneOn this episode, recorded in 2020,Caren Sullivan talks to artist Austin Hearne.Concerns around the occupation of Ireland by the Roman Catholic Church are at the heart of Austin Hearne's practice. The majesty and misery of this institution are the poles which Hearne operates within.Photography is at the root of his practice, using this medium in its most experimental and expansive form to create performances, installations, films, music and mise-en-scéne. Playing with fact and fiction Hearne creates worlds, characters and scenarios to satirise, demonise and embellish. Alongside all this he brings i...
2024-07-3009 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 1 Bríd MurphyIn this episode Caren Sullivan talks to artist Bríd Murphy.Bríd Murphy is a visual artist from Portarlington, Laois. She recently graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with a BA in Sculpture and Combined Media. Her practice explores themes such as gender, anxiety and self-identity through a wide variety of media including video, drawing and performance. Her work has been exhibited in group shows, such as PeakShow and K-FEST.More recently she has shown work in the National Museum of Ireland, Castlebar and the National Museum of Ir...
2024-07-3008 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 1In this Ultraviolet Art talks second episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Leah Hewson.Leah Hewson has a First-Class BA(Hons) degree in Fine Art from IADT, Dublin Ireland. Solo exhibitions include 'Kin Connection', The Royal Hibernian Academy (2024), ‘Blowout’ Stoney Road Press, INK Miami(2022), 'Ammo Veil' , Hillsboro Fine Art gallery (2018) and ‘Scintilla’, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2017) which was the culmination of work produced during a six-month residency at The RHA School. Other residencies include Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, New York (2018), SIM Residency, Berlin (2019) and Wilton Park Studios Residency, Dublin in (2019 -20), Facebook AIR program (2020).Hewson won the Whyt...
2024-07-2913 min
Ultraviolet Art TalksUltraviolet Art Talks Season 1In this first Ultraviolet Art Talks Episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Stephen Dunne in 2020.Stephen Dunne graduated from the Royal College Of Art, with an M.A in Painting in 200, his practice operates across the registers of painting, drawing, moving image and the investigation of speculative and theoretical fictions. The process of making, where each thing leads to the next through an experimental and intuitive approach is at the core of this work. The work is realised as painting installations, books, printed matter, works on paper, animations, and as collective artworks (made collaboratively with others...
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