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JOY Breakfast on JOY 94.9Tuesday Breakfast – Episode 12 – with Mia and Mietta: ft. Siobhan Paterson & Eimear Cunningham (Melbourne Fringe)Join besties Mia and Mietta as they look back on the week that was! From pop culture meltdowns to deeply unserious “sport news,” the Tuesday JOY Breakfast girls are serving hot takes and the hottest new music to start your Tuesday right.
This episode, they’re joined by Fringe Festival darlings Siobhan Paterson and Eimear Cunningham, creators of the retail-rage comedy Would You Like to Speak to My Manager? (The Trials and Tribulations of a Retail Worker).
Topics include: Taylor Swift’s engaged!, the Swifties and the Gaylors are losing their minds and Mietta’s embarrasse...
2025-12-0230 min
This Magical LifeThe Power of Joy: Exploring, Sharing, and the Tale of King CormacIn this insightful episode, Eimear Burke delves into the transformative power of joy, drawing inspiration from Ingrid Fetell Lee's TED Talk "Where Joy Hides and Where to Find It." Eimear reflects on his personal sources of joy emphasizing the profound impact of exchanging positive experiences. The episode also transports listeners to ancient Ireland with the captivating tale of King Cormac, offering timeless wisdom about joy, connection, and the pursuit of authentic happiness. Join a global community in this enriching, thought-provoking journey toward discovering and embracing joy.
2025-06-2122 min
The Insight Podcast#149 | The Truth About "Adolescence" | Dr Sophie King-HillDr Sophie King-Hill is an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham. She specialises in sexual behaviours and assessment in children and young people, sexual health, sibling sexual abuse, misogyny, relationships & sex education and the importance of youth voice.
The focus of this episode is the Netflix series “Adolescence” and the response we’ve seen on social media and the news since its release.
I talk to Sophie about:
- What the program gets right
- Problems with the program and the response we’ve seen on the internet and in the news
- Her thoughts on the proposal to show the...
2025-04-0148 min
Pearls: Two Generations in DentistryWomen in Dentistry Special: 4. Dr Eimear KeenanDr Eimear Keenan received her dental degree from the University of Edinburgh and she has run her own private dental practice in Edinburgh since 1996.
Eimear is leading the way for women in dentistry. She is the first woman to ever be president of the Association of Dental Implantology and works hard to promote women in dentistry . She was also the first female dentist in the UK to gain her implant diploma from The Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh.
Eimear has been using CEREC technology since 2008 and believes the increased success of her practice has much to do with the implementation...
2024-07-291h 06
STAC PodcastNew Neighbours - Olivia O'Dwyer & Fergal StylesNew Neighbours brings together the work of Olivia O’Dwyer and Fergal Styles for the first time.Both artists work come from places of imagination and memory, of things half-remembered or dreamt, with playfulness and experimentation at the heart of each of their practices. Accompanying the exhibition will be a newly commissioned text by Neva Elliot. (You can download the essay HEREOlivia O’Dwyer’s work is influenced by 'Bad Painting' which refers to a deliberately raw style of figurative painting, rejecting traditional ideas of draughtsmanship, mixing art historical, popular, and personal sources. She examines ideas around qu...
2024-03-2222 min
STAC PodcastSophie Béhal - ThreadsunsThreadsuns - Sophie BéhalThreadsuns, a new body of work from Sophie Béhal, comes as the result of the Tipperary Artist Residency Award with STAC, supported by Tipperary Arts Office. This body of work comes from a period of engagement with new materials in a new place. Situated in a rural landscape in County Tipperary, it searches for a new way of being in this world and uses repetition, ritual and process to investigate this. The sun and circles are used as a rhythmic refrain and repeated throughout.The most reassuring of shapes, the ci...
2024-01-1921 min
STAC PodcastMoran Been-noon - Here Nor ThereWelcome to the latest episode of the South Tipp Arts Podcast!This time I sit down with artist Moran Been-noon to chat about her exhibition 'Here Nor There' which is currently running in the gallery here at STAC until December 2nd. 'Here Nor There' invites us to consider the connection between ethnicity and one's ability to belong.Mixing moving image and audio pieces with objects that symbolise fragments of the artist's ethnic identity, the artwork encourages us to perceive ethnicity as a multi-layered and intricate theme, and within this, consider the complexities of contemporary Irish identity.
2023-11-1715 min
STAC PodcastBroken Fields Collective - Kate O'SheaIn this latest Ep, I chat with artist Kate O'Shea from Broken Fields, a multi-disciplinary collective made up of individual practitioners Louise Harrington, Enya Moore, Aideen O’ Donovan and Kate O’ Shea. Broken Fields brings together experience, knowledge, and practice from the fields of socially engaged art, architecture, community work, activism, research, and writing. The name Broken Fields refers to the breaking down of disciplines, siloes, and fields. In the breaking down of these constructed boundaries, Broken Fields brings together the strengths of diverse practices in processes, projects and spaces that are deeply place-based.In partnership with...
2023-07-1426 min
STAC PodcastDorje de Burgh - Under the Same SkyIn this episoed, I chat with Dorje de Burgh about his exhibition 'Under the Same Sky', currently on show at STAC.. Following the artist's move to Carrick-on-Suir in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic due to his high-risk status, Under the Same Sky is a photographic documentation of the town and its surrounds. Representing an outsiders view, this work reflects the particular atmosphere of unease and alienation of that time, as well as being an observation on community, home and belonging. Dorje also strives to subvert familiar representations of the Irish landscape, and in doing so reflect the tensions inherent...
2023-05-2631 min
STAC PodcastAustin McQuinn - Some signs are secret, some manifestAustin McQuinn ‘Some signs are secret, some manifest’ 31st March – 13th May 2023A Solo Exhibition of new paintings, sculpture, and live art performance, curated by Helena Tobin.‘Some signs are secret, some manifest’ is an exhibition of new work specifically created for the double-height atrium and gallery @STAC. Austin’s new paintings on ash wood panels and found antique prints are intensely gesso-ed, collaged and inked to psychedelic effect. The 17 foot ‘Tower’ of discarded Aran sweaters in the Atrium signals the unique Norman architecture of tower houses in South Tipperary, and echoes an earlier installation McQ...
2023-04-081h 04
Druidcast - A Druid PodcastFireside Chats with Eimear featuring Billy Stewart and Kate Collison - Bards, Ovates and Druids TartanShownotes for DruidCast Episode 190 Ostara - Deloraine = https://www.deloraine.cz/ Fireside Chats with Eimear - Billy Stewart and Kate Collison - Bards, Ovates and Druids Tartan - https://www.newforesttartan.co.uk/ Fireside Chat Video on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/live/2dtOp8s91H0 Holly king - Kim Thompsett - https://www.kimthompsett.com/ DruidCast theme - Hills they are Hollow - Damh the Bard - https://www.paganmusic.co.uk/ For more information on the Druid tradition - https://druidry.org/
2023-03-201h 01
STAC PodcastArtist Talk - Ita Freeney in convo with Katherine Boucher BeugIf you missed our latest artist talk, you can listen back here.Ita Freeney's artist talk on Saturday March 4th featured a conversation between Ita and fellow artist Katherine Boucher Beug. The discussion focused on the process behind Ita’s current series of paintings - from her choice of subject, to her focus on form, light, mood, and structure, and the making of the paintings.Water's Edge @STACFebruary 17th - March 18th 2023Ita Freeney’s Water’s Edge exhibition consists of a series of new paintings created over the last three years. The se...
2023-03-1428 min
STAC PodcastIta Freeney - Water's EdgeArtist Ita Freeney's 'Water's Edge' was officially opened here at STAC on 16th February by Catherine Marshall. It presents a body of ethereally beautiful paintings produced over the last three years. The sea is glimpsed at in all of these works but they are not seascapes per se. They play with abstraction and representation - finding and emphasising abstract forms in reality, while also observing nuances of colour, tone and form to evoke mood and atmosphere. It was a pleasure to sit down with Ita for a chat about her inspirations and her practice here at STAC on the...
2023-02-2427 min
STAC PodcastLOST - Annie HoggOur first exhibition of 2023 features a new body of work from Annie Hogg, coming as a result of her Tipperary Artist Residency Award with STAC, supported by Tipperary Arts Office. LOST is a keen consideration of what happens in a landscape after the land has gone through conversion to an industrial scale farming model, specifically a system of long established hedgerows.Through installation, incorporating pigments rendered from that landscape, soundscape devised on site and sculptural elements, the work asks the questions of what cost, other than financial has this action had. The artist has used materials which were...
2023-01-2743 min
STAC PodcastShe'll Give You All She Has...Welcome to the latest episode of the South Tipp Arts Podcast! In this Ep, we focus on the artists involved in 'She'll Give You All she Has' - Orla Barry, Chloe McKeown & Laura Fitzgerald.In 'She'll Give You All She Has', the artists create work addressing farming, feminism, farming practices and being an artist in rural Ireland, through a mixture of objects, sound, print, writing and video. The works are woven through with absurdity, tragedy, humour and the kind of emotional detachment familiar to readers of contemporary farming manuals.The exhibition, curated by Helena Tobin...
2022-11-2433 minSTAC PodcastThe Trotskys in Kilsheelan - Stephen BrandesIn this episode I chat to artist Stephen Brandes about his latest exhibition 'The Trotskys in Kilsheelan and Other Histories of Unreliable Origin', showing here at STAc until October 15th.If you've not had a chance to visit, pop in and see it before it closes.In the Winter of 1936, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalya Sedova were taken from their house arrest at a farm outside Oslo in Norway and put on an oil tanker, destined for a new life in Mexico. In order to avoid the seasonally devastating storms attacking the Eastern...
2022-10-1224 minSTAC PodcastEd Devane - PresenceEd Devane is a sound artist and instrument designer based in Donegal. Beginning his creative career as an electronic music producer, his work has broadened over the years to include interactive installation, electronic instrument design, community projects and workshop facilitation relating to music and sound. Much of the inspiration behind his installation work is to use technology and instrument building to encourage creative encounters and collaborations between participants. Ed has recently produced installations for Science Gallery Dublin, The Ark, Galway City of Culture 2020, Big Bang! Festival and Science Foundation Ireland, and most recently here at STAC during the recentJunction Arts...
2022-07-2931 minSTAC PodcastEpisode 75! INSIDE | OUT - Joe CaslinINSIDE | OUT - Joe CaslinJoe Caslin's latest temporary mural 'Come out to Play' has just been completed on the facade of the old museum/library on Parnell Street, Clonmel. In this episode I caught up with Joe to talk about his unique work and how his INSIDE | OUT mural represents a departure from his usually more serious subject matter.Joe is an Irish street artist, art teacher and activist, best known for his beautifully rendered pencil drawings, which manifest as towering pieces of street art. His highly accessible work engages directly with the social issues...
2022-05-1316 minSTAC PodcastINSIDE|OUT - Bringing the gallery onto the streets!In this episode we take to the the streets of Clonmel to showcase the 7 local artists whose work is currently brightening up the streets of our lovely town!-INSIDE/OUT is a project led by South Tipperary Arts Centre (STAC), as part of Faoin Spéir- In the Open Clonmel funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and in partnership with Tipperary County Council. INSIDE/OUT proposes to make the town of Clonmel an outdoor gallery, including mural/street art and large scale 2D art installations on buildings and walls around the town.This installation o...
2022-05-0642 minSTAC PodcastPauline Cummins & Frances Mezzetti - Walking in the WayWalking in the Way is a series of performances by Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti, begun in 2009, where the artists appear as men and represents a decade long collaboration between the artists. It is a timely showcase of contemporary thinking on gender issues and challenges the perceptions of what is culturally viewed as normal public realm negotiations from a gendered stance.Women throughout their lives experience vulnerability in public space, have a sense of not belonging, with the implication of impropriety or deviant sexuality for walking alone on a street – a fact once again all too close to th...
2022-04-0826 minSTAC PodcastJohn Kennedy - EdgelandsThis new body of work from John Kennedy, comes as the result of his Artist in Residence award with STAC and supported by Tipperary Arts Office. His work is primarily concerned with isolation, abandonment, and remoteness, while exploring the physical properties of paint and other less traditional materials. Edgelands focuses on expanses of land that exist in the margins. Rough and ready in the functionalism of their edifices, they are unappreciated by the average landscape lover. There is a silence and distance in the paintings, just outside of range of overhearing what is going on, evoking a feeling of being...
2022-01-1425 min
The Future of Photography208 Hello 22!Watch this on video | Join us on Discord for more TFOP chat!
Hello 2022! What will we see, do and enjoy this year? New year is always a good time to look forward. Sadly, it is also Eimear's last show with us so we take time to remembner some of the many enjoyable conversations since she joined us in May 2019.
Picks of the week: Data Streams Art, algorithms and artificial intelligence exhibition, Airtablem Jaw-dropping weather photos, AR measuring apps iPhone, Android
This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with Adrian Stock...
2022-01-1238 min
STAC PodcastA Christmas CarolWe were thrilled to be help Clonmel Theatre Guild to spread the festive cheer with their Christmas 2020 Radio Play, Dickens’ classic Christmas tale of redemption- ‘A Christmas Carol’ - It was originally broadcast on Pure Radio Tipperary and Tipperary Mid West Radio last Christmas, and you can hear this timeless Christmas classic again right here! Directed by Catherine McVicker.
2021-12-2350 min
STAC PodcastPres TY Hallowe'en Radio Play - The WomanTo get us in the mood for Hallowe'en, if you missed the broadcast of 'The Woman' by Presentation Clonmel TY Class of 2021 on Pure Radio Tipperary, you can listen back here! The Woman - an Original Radio Play, written, performed, and produced by the TY students of the Presentation Secondary School in Clonmel.The story centres around Lucy, who has been having terrible dreams of a mysterious woman. Her friends think she's crazy... but is she? Sit back and take a journey into the nightmare world of 'The Woman'This project was facilitated by...
2021-10-2913 minSTAC PodcastShelagh Honan - Water WitchingWater Witching is an exhibition of new work by artist Shelagh Honan. Her lens-based narrative features photography, sculpture, video, sound and installation, all of which pivot around an audio video called Aistear.The film touches on themes of mortality, transcendence, infinity and the abyss. Its co-ordinates are those of modernist poetic cinema, with long takes which are sometimes fixed in slow motion. The central figure moves through a series of landscapes and appears in a state of co-temporal elision, existing within her own frame of time and communing with nature through a dream-like sequence.Water Witching...
2021-10-2617 minSTAC PodcastHalloween 2021 SpecialThis episode focuses on what's on in Clonmel this year for Halloween - Colin Everitt of West Gate Creative shares what's planned around town for this years Halloween Celebrations:All events are free. Booking Required..see Eventbrite for more information.Brought to you by Clonmel Borough DistrictSpook Trail: 25th-31st October- Join the trail and find the clues.Drive in Movie: 31st October- Kids Halloween Movies and Uproar video screening- Marys Street Carpark 1-7pmLive Music: Westgate Carpark 8pmGreen Screen Photobooth: Marys Street Carpark 1-7pm.Facebook: @Halloween...
2021-10-1923 minSTAC PodcastSHUL @South Tipperary Arts CentreShul, (a Tibetan word for ‘track’, meaning "a mark that remains after that which made it has passed by”) sees artists Martina O’Brien and Christine Mackey respond specifically to Co. Tipperary, to sites/areas where humans have left our mark on, or in, the landscape.SHUL opens Friday 3rd September. The gallery is open 10-5pm Monday to SaturdayIn this episode, Martina O'Brien & Christine Mackey chat about their work for this residency and exhibition and the wealth of material, experience and inspiration gained throughout their Arts Council funded residency here at STAC. Mor...
2021-09-0330 min
The Future of Photography188 Photography and NFTsWatch this on video | Join us on Discord for more TFOP chat!
Jeremiah takes us on a highly compressed dive into how the NFT market has developed since we last talked about it and how to be part of it as a photographer. You'll learn how to buy ETH, how to get a wallet for it, and how to connect that wallet with different markets, so you can sell and buy your own NFTs. Different markets serve different purposes, here are a few of them: Rarible, Foundation, HEN, Mintable, Cryptovoxels, Ephimera
Eimear's Pick of the...
2021-07-1429 min
The Future of Photography187 What's New in Computational PhotographyWatch this on video | Join us on Discord for more TFOP chat!
Chris presents three new devleopments from computational photography and videography. Relighting (portraits) will keep the light, shadows, color and even specular highlights realistic when swapping out a background. Good old StyleGAN2, the neural net that, among other things, creates artificial humans has received an upgrade with several improvements. If you're a film maker, how about making your virtual car chases much more realistic by transferring the style of lush green German mountains to the dry hills of California.
Picks of the week: Chris...
2021-07-0728 minSTAC PodcastFocus on Junction Festival 2021This week we celebrate Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, celebrating it's 20th Anniversary this year. We at STAC are always delighted to work with our festival friends and this year we collaborate on 4 of the events. I was delighted to catch up with artists Claire Murphy, Sean Taylor, Rachel Rothwell and Jack Moroney (representing LIT), for a chat and to talk about their involvement with the festival this year. Claire Murphy - Here is where I am (exhibition at South Tipp Arts Centre)Sean Taylor - Clonmel Community Manifesto (various outdoor locations around Clonmel)Rachel...
2021-07-0229 minSTAC PodcastCruinniú na nÓg 2021This week we focus on Cruinniú na nÓg 2021. Here at the Arts Centre we have a full day of online fun with our resident kids art tutor Mags Rudnicka, who will deliver 4 workshops (via Zoom) around the theme of 'The Dragon Inside Me' - allowing children to explore and express their emotions through creativity. I caught up with Mags earlier this week to hear about her plans for this years Cruinniú actiities.Cruinniú Tipperary Co-Ordinator Róisin O' Grady also joins me this week to give us a run down of all the Cruinniú Tipperary events that are pl...
2021-06-1120 minSTAC PodcastNa Cailleacha @STAC (Part 2)Na Cailleacha (The Witches) are a collective of eight older women, all based in Ireland but coming from Holland, England and Switzerland, as well as Ireland – six artists, one musician and an art writer/curator – bent on exploring ways of working together, taking stock of collective experience over many years, attitudes to ageing and to the wider community, their bodies and how they relate to culture and heritage, and their experience of Covid-related isolation. This exhibition, the first ever showing of work from the collective, is the result of a month long residency they undertook together at the Ballinglen Arts Foun...
2021-05-2847 minSTAC PodcastNa Cailleacha @STACNa Cailleacha (The Witches) are a collective of eight older women, all based in Ireland but coming from Holland, England and Switzerland, as well as Ireland – six artists, one musician and an art writer/curator – bent on exploring ways of working together, taking stock of collective experience over many years, attitudes to ageing and to the wider community, their bodies and how they relate to culture and heritage, and their experience of Covid-related isolation. This exhibition, the first ever showing of work from the collective, is the result of a month long residency they undertook together at the Ballinglen Arts Foun...
2021-05-1438 min
The Future of Photography175 That New Camera SmellWatch this on video | Join us on Discord for more TFOP chat!
Ok, so Eimear wants a new camera. It's been 17 years (not typo!) since she last bought one so safe to say a new one should have some improvements. But which to pick? And what views do the rest of the team have?
Picks of the week: NFT April Fool, Polarr app selections, Samuel Bourne, Katharina Bosse.
This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with Adrian Stock https://twitter.com/Ade968, Eimear King https://www.instagram.com/apostroph__e...
2021-04-0748 minSTAC PodcastDara McGrath - Project CleansweepThis week I’m delighted to be joined by photographer Dara McGrath, whose exhibition Project Cleansweep opens to virtual viewing on April 6th here at South Tipperary Arts Centre.It’s a long term project, with Dara having begun his research in 2011, on reading an article about a recently published report form the British Ministry of Defence. Project Cleansweep takes its name from this MoD report, identifying sites in the UK where tens of thousands of tonnes of mustard gas, phosgene and other lethal chemicals were, since World War 1, made, processed, stored, burned and dumped in Engla...
2021-04-0226 min
STAC PodcastCuppa Culture - Peter O'Toole - When the shed light is onThis week my guest is Peter O'Toole (Hothouse Flowers) whose documentary celebrating the Men's Sheds of Tipperary premieres on Friday 26th March on Youtube @7pm here:https://youtu.be/cOZJ5cmgxzoPeter's journey around the Mens Sheds of Tipperary through music and chat, gives us an insight into the powerful work done by the Mens Sheds, and what it means to be involved in the sheds and how it benefits lives and most importantly, what the members miss now that the sheds are closed. The documentary is part of Healthy Ireland Initiative and Tipperary...
2021-03-2617 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture - Helena Tobin - STAC's 2021 Programme revealed!This week, I was delighted to catch up with my colleague and friend Helena Tobin, Artistic Director here at South Tipp Arts Centre for a socially distanced cuppa, where we chatted about the exciting and varied programme that she has planned for the year ahead. For obvious reasons, the programme has had to be rescheduled completely and we are very excited to finally be able to announce the schedule and details of what we can look forward to at STAC in the coming months.Helena Tobin is an artist, curator, researcher and educator based in rural...
2021-03-1919 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture - Michelle Moloney King - Experimental PoetMichelle Moloney King is a postmodern poet, asemic poet, and experimental non-fiction writer and editor living in Co. Tipperary, with her husband and family. She has been nominated for a Pushcart in poetry and published in many journals for poetry and visual poems.A full time Primary School teacher, she has an undergrad in computer science from University of Limerick, a post-grad in education from Hibernia College and is currently studying for a masters in change leadership in artistic fields. Her interest in string theory along with her qualification in Hypnotherapy aid in her work.As...
2021-03-1222 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture - Róisín Maher - Finding a VoiceThis week I caught up with Roisin Maher, Artistic Director of 'Finding a Voice' at the start of what's going to be a very busy weekend for her. Finding a Voice is a four-day concert series based in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary that focuses exclusively on music by women composers through the ages, in celebration of International Women's Day - 8th March. Founded in 2017 by sisters Roisin Maher (Curator - Lecturer at CIT Cork School of Music) and Clíona Maher (Administrator - Director of Clonmel Junction Arts Festival), over the past four years the concert series h...
2021-03-0511 minSTAC PodcastConnect, Create, Inspire Series - Brigid Teehan'Connect, Create, Inspire' - is our Spring series celebrating the importance of creativity to our health and wellbeing, especially in these challenging times. It sees us collaborate with some fantastic Arts & Health practitioners to bring you a month full of diverse and enriching creative activities to soothe your soul and reconnect with yourself.My guest this week is Brigid Teehan of Beehouse Arts. Brigid passionately believes that everyone has creative potential and when that potential is realised it has a powerful role to play in peoples' physical, mental and social wellbeing.Beehouse Arts develops, coordinates and...
2021-02-2613 minSTAC PodcastConnect, Create, Inspire Series - Alan Wells'Connect, Create, Inspire' - is our Spring series celebrating the importance of creativity to our health and wellbeing, especially in these challenging times. It sees us collaborate with some fantastic Arts & Health practitioners to bring you a month full of diverse and enriching creative activities to soothe your soul and reconnect with yourself.My guest this week is Alan Wells of Mael Loga, an artist and energy healing practitioner, whose 10-day meditation 'challenge' is well underway on Zoom at 11am, who shares his perspective on the importance of nurturing our creativity, and the many forms that can take...
2021-02-1914 minSTAC PodcastConnect , Create, Inspire Series - Annie Hogg'Connect, Create, Inspire' - is our Spring series celebrating the importance of creativity to our health and wellbeing, especially in these challenging times. It sees us collaborate with some fantastic Arts & Health practitioners to bring you a month full of diverse and enriching creative activities to soothe your soul and reconnect with yourself.My guest this week is Annie Hogg of The Wild Hedge Ink Company, a specialist in Botanical Ink-making, who features in the programme with some a talk and workshops demonstrating the processes involved in both ink and charcoal from various botanical materials. Join...
2021-02-1219 minSTAC PodcastConnect, Create, Inspire Series - Maria Coleman'Connect, Create, Inspire' - is our Spring series celebrating the importance of creativity to our health and wellbeing, especially in these challenging times. It sees us collaborate with some fantastic Arts & Health practitioners to bring you a month full of diverse and enriching creative activities to soothe your soul and reconnect with yourself.My guest this week is Maria Coleman of Comhcheol Arts & Wellness, who features in the programme with some workshops including the innovative 'Yoga Drawing Jam'. Maria has a varied educational and vocational background in fine art, music, multimedia,research, teaching, community development...
2021-02-0530 min
Opera Bluffs The PodcastGood King BlufferslasThe Bluffers bring you something you never asked for....a Christmas Special!! Challenge accepted! King Wenceslas we're coming for you!! If you would like to support us please copy and paste the link below: https://www.patreon.com/operabluffsAll songs referenced can be found on our Spotify playlist:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1cyMUXduglZlcOt7X6Dr7dAnd Instagram for all our visual references:https://www.instagram.com/operabluffs/Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/OBluffs
2020-12-2438 minSTAC PodcastAfter The Fall - Contemporary Woodturning at STACFrom December 4th, STAC is delighted to present After The Fall, an exhibition of contemporary Irish woodturning, curated by Stephen O’Connell and kindly supported by DCCI and Tipperary County Council. This exhibition represents a survey of the very best practitioners of this craft form, with a strong emphasis on sculptural work. The selected artists/makers reflect a diverse range of methods and material approaches, as well as enviable skill and invention, showcasing what is possible within contemporary woodturning.In this Episode, I'm joined by curator Stephen O'Connell to discuss the exhibition, with contributions from some of...
2020-12-1137 minDruidcast - A Druid PodcastFireside Chat with Eimear presents - Austrian OBOD member SiggyShownotes for DruidCast Episode 164 Forget me Not - The Golden Apple - https://thegoldenapple.co.uk Gosling Goose (Little Grey Goose) - S J Tucker - https://sjtucker.com Boudicca - Sharon Knight and Winter - https://sharonknight.net Dìoghras (Passion) - The Affinity Triangle - https://www.facebook.com/theaffinitytriangle36/ Interview by Eimear Burke with Siggy Massenbauer - https://www.facebook.com/21449529836/videos/647039282850569 Winter's End - King Jamsheed - https://snd.click/vws4pnn Girl with the Golden Ball - S J Tucker...
2020-11-1759 min
STAC PodcastReturn of the Cuppa Culture - Hallowe'en Radio Plays at the SourceThis week we return to our Cuppa Culture format due to the level 5 restrictions across the country.I was delighted to chat with writer Fran O'Brien, part of the team that has brought this series of Spooky radio plays to the Source Arts Centre in Thurles this Hallowe'en. We are delighted to host this work in our podcast space and look forward to hearing more from them.Listen here: https://www.spreaker.com/show/samhain-the-source-radio-playsThese audioplays were created for Hallowe’en and are part of the Source Arts Centre in Thurles Actor’s Ense...
2020-10-3011 minSTAC PodcastNew Work - Making Art in a PandemicNew Work presents painting, installation and text made by three Tipperary-based artists selected as part of South Tipperary Arts Centre’s Curator-in-Residence programme 2020. Independent Curator Anne Mullee mentored the artists to produce new work, initiating a series of meetings and professional development workshops which began in February. The programme quickly had to adapt to the online world as the Covid-19 crisis emerged.Featuring Anne Mullee, Lorraine Cleary, Sheenagh Geoghegan and Nocht Studio (Philip Ryan and Martin McGloin).visit www.southtippartscentre.ie to learn more.We invite you to follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Tw...
2020-10-0953 minSTAC PodcastLaurence O' Dwyer - The Lighthouse JournalLaurence O’Dwyer is a poet from Clonmel, Co Tipperary, whose second collection, The Lighthouse Journal (Templar, 2020), was launched on Culture Night 2020 in cooperation with the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival and supported by Tipperary County Council Arts Office.Stemming from time spent working on a lighthouse in Norway, The Lighthouse Journal explores the past, present and future of Litløy Fyr, a small island located six miles from the Norwegian coast and one hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. This work is a celebration of a remote environment, as well as an ode to the comradery of man...
2020-09-2535 minSTAC PodcastBrendan Maher - Source Arts Centre - Culture Night 2020In this episode we focus on the Source Arts Centre in Thurles, where we meet Brendan Maher, Artistic Director to talk about the challenges posed in recent months, as well as the first exhibition of the Source Autumn Programme - Hypercarbon - by Austin McQuinn, which opens this weekend, and their plans for Culture Night 2020, which falls on Friday 18th September this year. All the Tipperary events have their own website this year:https://www.culturenighttipperary.ie where you can browse the entire programme or alternatively you can see what's happening all over the country at www.culturenight.ie
2020-09-1123 min
STAC PodcastJohn Burke Retrospective SpecialJohn Burke was one of Ireland's most innovative and influential sculptors of the 20th Century. This exhibition aims to reignite interest and awareness in his own home town; Clonmel.The exhibition will be composed of a number of maquettes of key projects, as well as a newly commissioned 6 x 8ft photograph of Red Cardinal in situ. Many of the pieces in this show will be on exhibit for the first time, offering audiences a unique opportunity to engage with the work of one of Ireland’s masters of modernist sculpture and public art.Artists Vivienne Roche, Maud Co...
2020-08-281h 23STAC PodcastAustin McQuinn - HypercarbonIn Hypercarbon, Austin McQuinn uses a range of carbon-based materials including Chinese Ink, bog oak, bog deal, packing paper, quartz, bees wax and his own body to make new work for this exhibition in Thurles. The intense energy in the work expresses a hypersensitivity to these materials, forging connections between the molecular and the cosmological. This is Austin’s first solo exhibition in Tipperary, where he lives and works, and was specially commissioned by The Source Arts Centre, Thurles.
Artist and writer Austin McQuinn has exhibited widely with solo shows at DCP, San Francisco; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, and thre...
2020-08-1436 minSTAC PodcastProtectorate - Denis Mortell @South Tipperary Arts CentreThis will be the first in a new series of the SouthTipp Arts Podcast and fits in beautifully with the reopening of South tipp arts centre. This first episode focuses on our reopening exhibition, Protectorate by Photographer Denis Mortell. Using the phenomenon of Brexit as a starting point, the exhibition considers themes such as Britishness, cultural difference, and social and political history. It looks at how myth and myth making, memory and place form part of national identity and community.While some images reflect on borders, borderlands and territory; a puritan approach to food and...
2020-07-3137 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture Ep13 - CJAF Festival Team -behind the scenesClonmel Junction Arts Festival started almost 20 years ago as a celebration of touring theatre and live music. Over the years, it has grown into a week-long arts festival where national and international acts share a stage with some of the best local talent.Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, one of the key arts events of the summer in the South-East, is currently underway – but in a re-worked and re-imagined fashion. With a theme of 2020:Visionaries, the festival will bring its audience a host of events from 4th – 12th July that are taking place in a virtual context, as well as a serie...
2020-07-0613 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture Ep12 - Fiona Kearney - Glucksman Gallery, UCCThis week we were delighted to catch up with Fiona Kearney, Director of the Glucksman Gallery at UCC, who have been playing a blinder throughout the lockdown period, with initiatives like their 'Creativity at Home' project, 'Home from Home' - a reworking of a planned gallery exhibition, and their Billboard exhibition 'New Light' - presented in a series of exploratory walks around the city. http://www.glucksman.orgFiona Kearney is the founding Director of the Glucksman, a contemporary art museum that promotes ambitious art for all ages and abilities. In this position, she has curated...
2020-06-2922 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture Ep11 - Tom Creed - NCFAThis week Helena and Eimear chat to Tom Creed, opera/theatre director about the National Campaign for the Arts #savethearts campaign. Through their years of hard work (NCFA was established in 2009) they have lobbied on behalf of the arts in Ireland and in recent weeks have secured an unprecedented commitment from government to help #savethearts. We can each play our part in amplifying the message by visiting http://ncfa.ie and informing ourselves about things we can do to help. “The National Campaign for the Arts is a volunteer-led, grassroots movement that makes the case for the ar...
2020-06-2218 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture Ep10 -BeCreative Clonmel, with Niamh Curry and Kevin PowerBe Creative Clonmel is a project designed by Clonmel artists Niamh Curry and Kevin Power who have put together a series of short video tutorials suitable for budding creatives of all ages. The sessions will bring you through Abstract Art, Portrait Drawing and Video & Photography for mobile phones. They invite the people of Clonmel to participate and to share their masterpieces with us all in a pop up gallery in shop windows around the town, painting the town with colour for this years Clonmel Junction Arts Festival in July.Submissions can be sent to projects@junctionfestival.com...
2020-06-1514 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture Ep9 - Róisín O'Grady - Cruinniú na nOg 2020Ireland is the first, and only, country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people under 18. Cruinniú na nÓg is a flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme’s Creative Youth plan to enable the creative potential of children and young people. This year, Cruinniú - now in it's 3rd year will be a completely digital festival with a myriad of online events taking place throughout the country on Saturday 13th June.This week Roisin O'Grady, Tipperary's Cruinniú na nÓg Co-Ordinator joined us for a cuppa culture to talk ab...
2020-06-0812 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture Ep8 - James Horan, SculptorWelcome to the latest episode of the Cuppa Culture from South Tipp Arts Podcast! We were delighted this week to be joined by Sculptor James Horan, who some of you might remember from “Sticks and Stones” and exhibition at South Tipp Arts Centre in 2017, which saw James and fellow sculptor Denis Lynch share the space to great effect. You can have a look back at that exhibition here: https://youtu.be/3i-1fh7GpMgBut during the lockdown, James has begun to explore paint as a medium, and we caught up with him to see how he’s...
2020-06-0113 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture Ep7 - Cliona Maher, Clonmel Junction Arts FestivalThis week we take the opportunity to have a virtual cuppa with our friend Cliona Maher, Director of Clonmel Junction Arts Festival. This year the Junction team have taken the decision not to cancel the festival, but rather to adapt and adjust the festival programme to suit the current restrictions that we all find ourselves under. This years Junction festival promises again to showcase the best of local and international talent, albeit in different ways. We can't wait for it!Visit http://www.junctionfestival.com for details of what's coming up this year, and subscribe to their newsletter...
2020-05-2512 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture Ep6 - Roisin Hahessy, IllustratorOn this week’s Cuppa Culture we finally get to have a chat with Brazil based illustrator Róisín Hahessy, from Clonmel. After the Skype gremlins thwarted our last attempt, we were keen to catch up with Róisín and see how she was getting along...If you'd like to see Roisin's work, you can find her at any of these links:https://rosha.iehttps://www.instagram.com/roshaillustrationhttps://m.facebook.com/roshaillustrationhttps://www.boredpanda.com/english-idioms-illustrations-roisin-hahessyContact the podcast: southtippartspodcast@gmail.comT...
2020-05-1810 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture Ep5 - Jeremiah ChechikThis week our guest is Jeremiah Chechik - Director, Producer, Writer and Photographer. Jeremiah told us about how life in lockdown in California has been detrimental to some aspects of his work, but has gifted him more time for learning and getting creative in his home studio. You can see more of Jeremiah's work at www.chechik.com Both Jeremiah and Eimear contribute to a photography podcast called 'The Future of Photography', look for us wherever you get your podcasts or visit www.thefutureofphotography.comThanks for listening!Contact the podcast at southtippartspodcast@gmail.com
2020-05-0421 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture Ep4 -Brendan Collins, BaritoneThis week on the Cuppa Culture we were delighted to be joined by Baritone Brendan Collins for a chat about life in lockdown. Like countless others, Brendan has seen his work schedule evaporate as the COVID19 restrictions continue. However, he has come up with a clever way to stay connected to his audience from behind closed doors. He established a Facebook page ‘Songs for Social Distancing - an isolation recital’ : https://www.facebook.com/isolationrecital/ Brendan, along with a host of colleagues aim to post a performance almost every day, and he has discovered that he is busier than...
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STAC PodcastCuppa Culture Ep3 - Amanda Coogan & Jimmy FayThis week we were delighted to be joined by performance artist Amanda Coogan & partner Jimmy Fay (Lyric Theatre, Belfast) for a chat about life under the COVID-19 restrictions, and how they are adapting plans for 2020 projects in light of the current event postponements/cancellations.Amanda Coogan is an Irish performance artist. She studied under the performance artist Marina Abramović at the HBK Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Braunschweig, Germany. In her performance art, she also produces video and photographs from live performances.http://www.amandacoogan.comThe Work presents with John Kelly - https://youtu.be/9c...
2020-04-2016 minSTAC PodcastEpisode 2 -Cuppa Culture - Noel Kelly, Director, VAIWelcome to Episode 2 of the Cuppa Culture from South Tipp Arts Centre, a pared-back version of our regular podcast.This week we chat with Noel Kelly, Director of the VAI (Visual Artists Ireland) about how he, and his team are adapting to keep the wheels turning in their organisation, and have moved much of their activity to the online space as a response to the COVID restrictions.The VAI's primary purpose is the support of visual artists throughout their careers and at this time they have gathered a list of resources and supports on the landing page...
2020-04-1324 minSTAC PodcastCuppa Culture Episode 1 - South Tipp Arts PodcastWelcome to this new series of bite-sized conversations with members of the Arts community as we navigate the new landscape we now find ourselves in. How can we continue to practice and thrive in the coming weeks and months? Our first episode is a chat with Anne Mullee, our current curator in residence. Anne has been working with the selected artists since late January and talks about how the Covid-19 crisis has affected the progress of the project, and how the participants and herself are working around the current restrictions. Featuring Helena Tobin, South Tipp Arts Centre's Artistic Director.
2020-04-0615 minSTAC PodcastEpisode 30 - Lucy Phelan - @onthevergeofartThis week I'm joined by Fethard born artist Lucy Phelan, who's work is currently on display at Blackwater Valley Makers Arts Centre in Fermoy. We chatted about this as well as her other ongoing projects, and about Lucy's passion for 'Slow Art', and the importance of community engagement within the arts, especially in rural areas. Lucy also talks about her newest project, based around the Ancient Irish Epic An TÁIN BÓ CÚALNGE. (see below for link to the text)From blackwatervalleymakers.com :'Lucy Phelan tells stories and explores the interaction between people and their world thr...
2020-02-2134 minSTAC PodcastEpisode 29 - Aine Ryan -Paddy Goes To PetraÁine Ryan is an actor and playwright from Upperchurch, Co Tipperary. On Saturday 29th February, her latest work 'Paddy goes to Petra' will premiere at The Source in Thurles. The play tells the story of Paddy, played by Cork actor Brendan Dunlea, who, grieving the sudden loss of his son, decides to travel to the ancient city of Petra to escape his heartache, and so begins his journey of recovery. Visit www.thesourceartscentre.ie for ticketsHere's a clip from previous work 'Up the Hill Jackie' starring Aine and her sister Erin to give you an i...
2020-02-1422 minSTAC PodcastEpisode 28 - Mixtape - Aideen Barry - LSAD @South Tipp Arts CentreThis week we take a look at our latest exhibition, Mixtape, curated by Helena Tobin and comprising works from Year 3 students of Limerick School of Art and Design Photography, Film & Video & Sculpture & Combined Media programmes. Their lecturer, artist Aideen Barry had a chat with Eimear during a break from the labour-intensive installation process about the development of the project. Featured also in this episode is Centre Director Helena Tobin who talked about the programme of ancillary events that the students will be devising during the exhibition. You can find out more about these by keeping an eye on our social...
2020-01-2026 minSTAC PodcastEpisode 27 - Roisin Maher, Curator of Finding A Voice 2020This ep: Roisin Maher - Curator, Finding a Voice 2020Happy 2020 everyone, and Happy Nollaig na mBan to Mná na hÉireann go léir! To celebrate - this episode features Róisín Maher, Curator of Finding A voice, which celebrates the female composers both of the past and the emerging talent of the moment. Róisín details some of the talented composers and musicians that will feature in this year's programme as the build-up to the 2020 festival begins.Finding a Voice is a three-day concert series based in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary that focuses exclusively on musi...
2020-01-0621 minSTAC PodcastEpisode 26 - Focus on Kilcash - Mia CarneyKilcash, as many of you, will know is a little village nestled in the foothills of Sliabh na mBan, made famous, of course, by the song, which no doubt every child in the county if not the country has heard at some point during their primary education. It has always been a vibrant community, but in recent times has been positively bustling with activity. The hugely successful Music on the Mountain series kicked off last August with a stunning performance from ‘The Wood of O’ - Breege Phelan and Will McClellan and has gone from strength to strength since. On inve...
2019-12-0926 minSTAC PodcastEpisode25 - Roisin Hahessy - IllustratorEpisode 25 - Roisin Hahessy - IllustratorRóisín was born and raised in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, and graduated from The Irish School of Animation in Ballyfermot in Dublin. Today she works from her bright little ‘Ateliê’ in sunny Brazil, which is where she has been based since 2015, and manages to visit home about once a year.Róisín loves bright colours (especially yellow!), experimenting with shapes and lines, and enjoys creating charming and exciting worlds for her characters.She has illustrated a number of children’s books for publishers such as Little Tiger Press, Igloo Books...
2019-12-0223 minSTAC PodcastEpisode 24 - Gerry Lawless - Suirfest 2019Clonmel World Music was established in 2009 and since then has been responsible for bringing the absolute cream of the crop in terms of world music to our little town here in the heart of the golden vale. Raheen house, which is the usual venue, has over the years played host to some amazing musicians from Ireland and all over the world. The man responsible for making it all happen is Gerry Lawless, who with his team has consistently delivered an unmissable programme each year with little to no budget available….Clonmel World Music’s latest event is a fi...
2019-11-2039 minSTAC PodcastEpisode 23 - John Davies - 2 Faces Of The Same CoinJohn Davies is familiar to many in the catchment area of South Tipperary Arts Centre, having moved to the area in the '90s and since becoming as much a part of the local landscape as his beautiful watercolours, for which he is best known. What many may not be so aware of is John's work at the Aislinn Centre in Ballyraggett, Co Kilkenny, where he spent 19 years working with young adults affected by addiction. In this episode, I was delighted to talk to John about his Exhibition "2 Faces of the Same Coin", which brings together some of...
2019-11-1829 minSTAC PodcastEpisode 22 - The cast of 'Merry Go Round' - pre tour chat!In this episode, meeting Director Catherine and the cast of 'Merry Go Round' as they prepare to go on tour. The women talk about their experiences of getting to know their characters and the challenges of working in the very specific style of Forum theatre. There will be a FREE public performance (details below) at @LIT Clonmel. This project is the culmination of many months of work by Catherine and her cast and crew and is both tragedy and comedy, a thought-provoking insight into one young woman's journey to crisis point. Merry-Go-Round public performanceLIT Clonmel Campus
2019-11-1124 minSTAC PodcastEpisode 21 - Author Michael F Kennedy - "990"This Week:Michael F Kennedy is a man with an extraordinary story, one that saw him go from enduring his young life in an industrial school from the age of 2 to the theatres and opera houses of Europe. The early part of this journey is captured soulfully in "990", which tells the story of Michael's early years spent in the cold surroundings of Ferryhouse, and is the first in a series of autobiographical novels. In this episode, Michael and I chat about "990" (his conviction order number at the age of 2), and about what kept him going, discovering...
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