Ultraviolet Art Talks

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Niamh McCann at her studio (Temple Bar Gallery and Studios)I n 2024. Always curious about what is like to be inside an artist studio? Watch full Instagram episode here.Niamh McCann’s work is a considered, individual voice in contemporary Irish art; effortlessly correlating strands of three-dimensional work, painting/drawing and installation. This in itself is unpredictable and frequently humorous, as evidenced in the playful use of appropriated political figuration in her body of work, Furtive Tears. Layering and re-coding the given image, figure or cultural trope, a quasi-deified equilibrium is achieved when juxtaposed with globalised cultural imagery.McCann is recipient of the Norman Houston Commission Award, Washington DC and RHA Stephen McKenna Studio Fellowship. Commissions include Bile Buadha a large scale outdoors sculptural work at Termini Complex, Sandyford and PAVILION/MOTHER’S LAMENT an outdoors sculptural work at National Museum of Ireland, Museum of Country Life. In partnership with Logan Sisley and National Museum of Ireland, McCann co-curated the exhibition Tableaux Vivants at Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane looking at collection artworks as totemic messengers. The exhibition was centered around a series of McCann’s work acquired by the Hugh Lane. Artist residencies include Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris, Fire Station Studio Production Residency, Dublin, Penthouse Artist Residency, Brussels, Cemeti Arthouse, Indonesia and HIAP residency in Helsinki, Finland.Solo exhibitions include Hairline Crack [a dialogue] at the Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie des Wilhelm Hack Museum, Germany, Furtive Tears at Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane,La Perruque (Protest Song) at MAC Belfast and Just Left of Copernicus in Visual Carlow. Group exhibitions include: Future Perfect, Rubicon-Projects Brussels and Changing States, BOZAR, Belgium.Niamh McCann works are currently exhibiting on the 25th Biennale of Sydney (14 March - 14 June 2026). The Biennale of Sydney is one of the leading international contemporary art events. It plays an indispensable role in Australia’s engagement with the world, and a meaningful role in the life of the nation.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ulravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Niamh McCann on Instagram @niamhmccnn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Vanessa Jones at her studio in 2024. Always curios about what an artist studio looks like? Watch full Instagram interview here.Born in Tennessee, Dublin-based artist Vanessa Jones received her BA in Fine Arts in 2003 from the George Washington University in Washington DC. In 2021, she completed her MFA at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in Dublin.As a graduate, Vanessa was shortlisted for the RDS Art Prize in 2021 and received the R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award and the RDS Mason, Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award. Her portraits have been shortlisted in the Zurich Portrait Prize at the National Gallery Ireland in 2020, 2021 and 2022 where her work was awarded Highly Commended in 2021. She has her work included in Art Jakarta 2022; Mata Irlandia 2022 in the World Trade Centre, Jakarta; the OPW exhibition Person Presence Perception, Portlaoise; Páipéar at Hangtough Contemporary, Dublin; Prosopopoeia at Molesworth Gallery, Dublin; and Draíocht’s you breathe differently down here curated by Amanda Coogan, Blanchardstown. She was also the winner of the inaugural self-portrait Sequested Prize, 2021 based in London. Her work is in the OPW National Collection as well as private and corporate collections in both Ireland and abroad.Vanessa is also one of the 2022 Next Generation Artists Awardees from the Arts Council Ireland and is currently a part-time lecturer in the Painting Department at NCAD.For more interviews, follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Vanessa Jones on Instagram @vanessaleejones81 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Stephen Taylor on his studio in 2024. Always wanted to know what an artist studio looks like? Watch full Instagram interview here.Stephen Taylor is an Irish artist based in Dublin. He studied visual arts practice at IADT, and combines his work as an artist with working as part of the team at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Stephen’s paintings and drawings explore the strangeness of our optical experience, with ideas drawn from popular culture, memory, observation and imagination, cast a meticulous and mischievous eye on urban, suburban and domestic scenes that might otherwise go unnoticed. His subjects are dogs and their walkers, urban foxes, horses, trees, buildings, plants – all given an equal non-hierarchical respect and attention. His work has been acquired by collectors including the Office of Public Works, the Beacon Hospital, the British Embassy in Dublin, and Nova UCD.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalksFor more information, follow Stephen Taylor on Instagram @stephentails Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opening Season 18, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Van Tran on his studio in 2024. Want to know what an artist studio is like? Watch full Instagram interview here.Van Tran (b. 2000, Hanoi, Vietnam) is a visual artist working between Vietnam and Ireland. His practice centres on traditional Vietnamese lacquer, engaging themes of migration, ecological interdependence, and material memory.Through layered surfaces incorporating silver leaf, eggshell, and shell fragments, Tran constructs paintings that function as temporal archives. His work reflects lived experience across geographies, drawing parallels between avian migration and diasporic identity.He has exhibited in Ireland, Vietnam, China, and France, including exhibitions at the National Museum of Fine Art (Vietnam) and The Lab Gallery (Dublin).Artist statementPainting begins before its physical making. It exists first within memory, material, and inherited knowledge. My practice centers on Vietnamese lacquer, a medium shaped by generations of makers, including my parents, whose thirty-year engagement with lacquer forms the foundation of my relationship to it.Having grown up between Vietnam and Ireland, I experience identity as something continuously negotiated across distance. Places return altered; memories persist while landscapes shift. Lacquer mirrors this condition. Built through layering, sanding, concealment, and revelation, it records time through accumulation.Here, Where It Remains examines migration through the parallel movements of diasporic experience and bird migration. Birds appear not as symbols but as bodies guided by instinct, climate, and survival — navigating between departure and return.The works treat lacquer as a temporal surface where traces emerge and disappear. Silver leaf oxidizes, shells fracture, and pigments darken. These transformations echo how identity forms through erosion and persistence. Migration becomes neither loss nor arrival, but an ongoing state of becoming.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Van Tran on Instagram @van.trran Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Closing superbly this special Season 17, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Lee Welch in his studio. Also Watch full Instagram interview here.Lee Welch is an artist who works in painting, drawing, and installation, but his true medium is the space between knowing and not knowing—the familiar made strange. His paintings are fragments of a dream you can’t quite place: figures and objects pared to their essence, hovering in a world both intimate and alien. Emerging from the shadows of art history, architecture, literature, and tennis, as well as his own private archive, Welch’s work distills, abstracts, and rebuilds, creating a visual language entirely his own. Figures appear in domestic scenes or leisure, their mundane actions charged with eerie resonance. They feel close yet distant, their flattened forms and muted textures like memories just out of reach. Welch’s paintings are not just seen; they are felt—a faint ache, a distant hum, lingering long after you’ve looked away.Lee Welch was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1975 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 akin to love. In each subject’s specificity, the artist reveals the universal feelings that connect us to each other, and that stretch from our present moment back through time.Welch received his BFA from the National College of Art and Design in 2009 and his MFA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2011. Currently based at the dlr Baths Artist Studios, he has previously held residencies at NCAD, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and the Banff Centre for Arts, the latter supported by the Arts Council.Welch received his BFA from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in 2009 and his MFA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2011. He has since been widely exhibited internationally and received numerous awards. Recent exhibitions have taken place at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain; Glucksman Gallery, Cork; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin. His paintings are in private and public collections such as the MB Art Foundation, the Arts Council, Hugh Lane Gallery, and the OPW - State Art Collection.Lee Welch is part of the duo Hallahan & Welch, a curatorial partnership founded by Paul Hallahan and Lee Welch, two artists with a deep-rooted commitment to the Irish arts scene. Having established influential artist-led spaces in the late 2000s, Hallahan with SOMA (Waterford) and Welch with FOUR (Dublin), the duo has spent over a decade fostering platforms for contemporary art through economic and social shifts.Enjoying the podcast? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Lee Welch on Instagram @_leewelch_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Matthew Coll in 2024 in a super studio visit! Watch full Instagram episode here.Matthew Coll is an Irish artist based in Dublin. He graduated from NCAD’s Fine Art Painting BA in 2022 and works predominantly in painting, sculpture and installation. His work is part of several private and public collections, including the Office of Public Works, St Vincent’s University Hospital and Teeling Whiskey Distillery. He has received several awards, including NCAD's Clancy Quay Studio Graduate Residency Award 2023/2024, the Arts Council’s Agility Award 2023 and Fingal County Council's Artists’ Support Scheme Bursaries 2023 & 2025.His current work focuses on the subject matter of crowds, exploring the influence between the collective and the individual, how shared energies of bliss or discontent become channelled into constructive and destructive forces. Utilising found imagery and photography from daily life as a starting point for source imagery. Painting actual and imagined gatherings, ranging from joyous raves to turbulent riots, aiming to depict a reality slipping away, where Real and Unreal become indistinguishable. Distorting the origin of the image through the painting process, often dragging, sanding, scraping and pouring paint across the surface and occasionally deconstructing structural components, pursuing a simultaneous harmony and conflict between points of representation and abstraction. Whilst frequently working on found or discarded materials as the painting surface.Enjoying studio visits episodes? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Matthew Coll on Instagram @matthewcoll.art Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan visits artist Leah Hewson in her studio in 2024. Always wanted to know what is like to be inside an artist studio? Watch full Instagram interview here.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 Whyte's Award for painting at the 190th RHA Annual Exhibition, was shortlisted for the Hennessy Craig Biennial Award in 2019 and is accredited with the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel Bursary Award 2018.Hewson's work continues to be collected internationally, including being auctioned at Sotheby's, while public collections include The Trinity College Dublin History of Art collection, The Office of Public Works, Dublin, The Law Society of Ireland, the Microsoft Collection, Fidelity Investments and The Cleveland Clinic.  Hewson recently created an installation for Art on Paper in New York in 2022, and more recently Beyond the Pale Festival and has painted murals at Stoney Road Press and Kicky's restaurant in Dublin.Artist Statement;"“Beneath the threshold of conscious awareness lies the unconscious mind. Accounting for approximately 95% of total brain activity, this domain governs much of human cognition through automatic and affective mechanisms. It serves as a dynamic archive of experiences, memories, and associative patterns that shape our perception, decision-making, and behaviour. These shared unconscious processes also connects us as humans on a deeper level across cultures through our collective unconscious.I aim to explore this hidden space through an introspective painting practice. My goal is to find freedom in expression—free from social expectations or aesthetic rules. Inspired by Jung’s theory of Individuation, I access the unconscious through practices that create a state of flow, such as meditation, automatic writing, and movement. In the studio, I adopt an impulsive and instinctive relationship to colour, materials, and techniques, remaining open to any possibility. I listen to hypnotic repetitive music through headphones and work on multiple pieces at once in order to let go of control and create the optimal environment for flow state to emerge. The work begins with pure abstract movement and evolves into a dialogue between unconscious gestures and conscious symbols. Through this process, a visual language of layered patterns and grids emerges that is complex yet playful and invites a contemplative platform between individual and collective experience.The dance between elements and layers in the paintings signals the impossibility of remaining solely in the realm of the unconscious. Taking these elements from my abstract lexicon, I extend my artistic expression into supplementary forms such as installation, sculpture, and murals. This is an attempt to hold the unconscious experiences that feature in the present reality and offer them a space of their own to exist as symbols and beacons of the unconscious.”Enjoying this podcast? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Leah Hewson on Instagram @leahewson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opening a Special Season 17, Caren Sullivan visits artist Mia Shattock in her studio in 2024, find out what happens behind the scenes of an artist studio!You can also watch full interview here.Mia Shattock is a painter from Dublin, Ireland, interested in how film narratives permeate our understanding of reality and how media imagery moulds our sense of self in the digital age. Her large scale oil paintings capture the unseen elements of media portrayal. She uses a monochrome palette, building some up in full colour glazes to exude a dreamlike quality, or leaving the underpainting as its final form. The work dismantles ideas of hyperreality, prompting viewers to acknowledge the pervasive presence of media constructs, initiating a dialogue between film and philosophy and unravelling the intricacies of human emotion and perception as they intersect with cinema.Education2023          MFA in Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland.2022          CFA Introduction to the Creative Use of Archives, IADT, Dublin, Ireland2022-23     London Fine Art Studios Representational Art Course series, Online, London Fine Art Studios2018-22    Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Studio Plus), National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland, awarded first class honours2017-18     QQI Level 5 in Art, Graphics and Print-making, Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin, IrelandSelected Exhibitions2024           Artworks 2024: Behind the Curtain, group show, VISUAL Carlow, Old Dublin Road, Carlow.2024          NCAD MFA Graduate Showcase, NCAD, Thomas Street, Dublin, Ireland2024           Cracks in the mirror, workshop and display, Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland2023          Art Riddler Exhibition, group show, 10 Wicklow Street, Dublin, Ireland2023          Dublin Modular: SUSTAIN, group show, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, Ireland2023           Bigger Than Us, group show, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland2022          Art Riddler Exhibition, group show, 10 Wicklow Street, Dublin, Ireland2022           NCAD Degree show, NCAD, Dublin, Ireland2022           Painting as an Expression of Humanity, group show, National Treasury Management Agency, Dublin, Ireland2022           Narrative Structures of Anticipation, NCAD Margaret Clarke Gallery, Dublin, Ireland2021           Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual, Collective Zine, Temple bar gallery and studios, Dublin, Ireland2021            Positives: Painting in the Pandemic 2021, Online group show, National Treasury Management Agency, Dublin, Ireland2020           Ballyfermot College 30 year anniversary exhibition, Group show, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, Ireland (postponed) Awards, Residencies and Publications2022          Clancy Quay Superprojects Professional Development Programme2022          Awarded Arts Council Visual Arts Agility Award2022          Shortlisted for Ormond Art Studios Graduate Residency Award2021           Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual, Collective Zine, Temple bar gallery and studios, Dublin, IrelandCollections2024          Private collections2023          Private collections2022         National Treasury Management Agency, Dublin, Ireland2022          Private Collections2018          Ballyfermot College of Further Education Art Collection, Dublin, IrelandEnjoyed this episode? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Mia Shattock on Instagram @miashattockartist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Closing Season 16, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Maeve Brennan in 2023.Maeve Brennan is a painter working in oils. Her work is detail oriented, precise and time consuming. It is realist and utilises photography as source material. It moves between the current and the past making connections between both, often merging these via multiple images of the same object or place. She is interested in the symbolism of the seemingly mundane-the everyday in objects and spaces, and the emotions they provoke. Light plays an integral role, particularly in my interior paintings. Feelings of vulnerability, fragility and sentimentality are her typical starting points which can provoke a sense of painful nostalgia. The resulting work strives to draw attention to the details of the human condition, and to catalogue a sense of her own place in the world.Enjoyed this episode? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Maeve Brennan on Instagram @maevebrennanartist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Alexa Müen in 2023.Alexa Müen is a synesthetic European conceptual artist and curator, She is based between Spain and the UK. Her art is a junction of interconnecting layers of emotion, spirituality, materiality, technology and traditional craft.Traditionally trained in Andalucía and Florence, Alexa was called to the materiality oil painting. "I loved how oil paint could be applied in transparent or opaque layers, in particular how glazing and colour interacted with light, how a poppy oil glaze could reflect light so strongly you couldn't see the colour it was glazing, hiding the truth under a veil of reflected light”.Moving from oil painting to light based work in 2017/18 was a natural progression, mixing both the craft of oil painting with programable LED lights and projection .The choice of materials add conceptual layers to the pieces, conveying a tension implicit in the interconnection of technology and nature, which is key in modern life.Her multimedia techniques and materials, range from painting in inks, encaustic wax, oil or acrylic paint,. Tapestry using organic hand woven wool yarn from a Welsh women's cooperative, referencing the historical hidden female artist who worked in embroidery on jute sacking cloth or linen canvas.. In contrast she also uses contemporary technological and industrial materials such as, acrylic panels, clear vinyl, aluminium, copper, insulation materials, motors, bike batteries, projectors, and the key material, the programmable colour changeable LED lights, which also have variable intensity of emission.Her installations are based around anthropological questions, delving into the psychology of personal relations versus society, what was valued, when and how, what is reviled or worshipped, what is hidden or revealed, rather then exploration of a particular medium.Enjoying the series? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Alexa Müen on Instagram @elegantpunk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Visual Artist Felipe Ikehara in 2023.**Please note this episode is entirely in Portuguese (Brazil) language. Watch the full episode with English Subtitles on Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram** on this link:https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtG_bRIMkQK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==Born in 1987 in São Paulo, Felipe Ikehara is a visual artist who develops paintings on canvas, murals, and drawings, these being the processes manifested as his main artistic vehicles.The technical development of drawing and painting is combined with research into visual references from the nature of the world and the human being. Within a decidedly figurative work, particular and universal symbolisms structure the thematic pillars of the works. Simultaneously, rigidity and organicity are exalted through pastel tones to compose images that translate the sensation that emerges from a lapse in daily life and results in a moment of introspection.Selected recent works and shows include; commission work for @meta São Paulo @hon_magurobr show @diasporagalleria projects with @muraisspArtist Statement;“The choice of palette manifests itself in pastel tones and more muted colors as a counterpoint to the exacerbated saturation of daily life.In urban life, we become accustomed to surviving surrounded by glaring information in every synesthetic sense of the word. Sounds and noises exceed humanly acceptable decibel levels, people express themselves in an imposing and aggressive manner to be noticed, colors and movements explode in all the amplitude that the eye can reach.The saturation of everything around us is an indication of the anesthesia of the reception of being in addition to the uncontrolled need for recognition and manifestation.The way I present the colors and themes of my work is a desaturated manifesto, because I believe that, starting from the most static state, the smallest movements are highlighted.In a daily life where saturation prevails, I seek to illustrate a place of refuge where subtleties have value and strength. I present my work, for myself and whoever may receive it, as a reminder that there is a place where energy is not spent unnecessarily and its smallest manifestation can be recognized and contemplated.In our daily lives we do not lack colors, we lack perceiving the subtleties that exist between them.”Enjoyed this episode? Follow Ultraviolet Art talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Felipe Ikehara on Instagram @fe.ikehara also @casa.meio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Kat Lalor in 2023.Kat Lalor is a Queer Visual Artist, generating performative lens-based work concerned with the multi-facets of Queer intelligibility. Through drag, fiction, and language, they explore a navigation of the world as other. Drawing from subjective experience laced with threads of Queer theory and fiction, Lalor’s work is interested in moments of tension, choice and slippage.SHOWS2024 WAYSTATION, The Complex Gallery2023 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery2023 Gaffer-Tape, Phizzfest, Phibsboro Tower2022 RDS Visual Arts Award Exhibition, RDS2022 Graduate Exhibition, Technological University Dublin2021 Éalú, Virtual Exhibition and Printed Publication2020 (C)overt, Virtual Exhibition2020 Metamorphosis, Virtual Exhibition2019 Evocation of Entities, Temple Bar Gallery + StudiosAWARDS2025 WOWTE Residency Award, A4 Sounds2022 Fire Station Artist Studio’s Graduate Award2022 RDS Visual Art Award2022 Arts Council Agility AwardEnjoying the podcast? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Kat Lalor on Instagram @katlalor.va Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Head Of Collections at Hugh Lane Gallery, Logan Sisley in 2023.Logan Sisley is currently Head of Collections at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, which includes a fine collection of Britishart, particularly from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is from Aotearoa, New Zealand, where he studied art history at the universities of Otago and Auckland. He previously worked at the National Library of Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and Edinburgh College of Art. He has published widely on modern and contemporary art and architecture, including on Francis Bacon and John Lavery, and has a particular interest in artistic relations between Britain and Ireland.Enjoying the podcast? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Logan Sisley on Instagram @logansisley Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Resuming Season 16, on this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Nuala O'Donovan in 2023 about her practice and her exquisite otherworldly sculptures.Nuala O'Donovan is an Irish Artist, living and working in Cork City on the south coast. She is a graduate of Middlesex University, U.K. and MTU, (Crawford College of Art and Design), Cork, Ireland.O'Donovan worked in design in the U.K., U.S.A. and Australia. She returned to Ireland where she taught design at MTU before returning to education to undertake an MA by research in the Ceramics Department at the Crawford college of Art and Design in Cork, completed in 2008.Her research area: Irregularities in Patterns in Nature & The Geometry of Natural Forms. Her artwork has been exhibited and published internationally, and she has been an invited speaker and teacher at workshops and International Conferences in Museums, Galleries and Universities.“My starting points are detailed drawings of plants, shells and seeds. In order that the form of the finished work is consistent with the qualities of the source material, I use a set of constraints based on a combination of regular and irregular geometric principles which are found in nature. I am interested in the history of the use of the geometry of natural forms in European art – in particular classical Greek art and architecture. I use these principles of Classical geometry when making decisions about the proportions of my work, and combine them with fractal or irregular geometry by using the principles of fractal geometry in the creation of the pattern. The form of the individual pattern is repeated in the outcome of the overall work – the “inherent design carried within itself”, so that each outcome is unique even if the starting point is similar. Each sculptural piece carries, within itself, its own narrative from the time during which it was made". __Nuala O'DonovanEnjoyed this episode? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ Follow, rate and comment!For more information, follow Nuala O'Donovan on Instagram @nualaodonovan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Carl Hickey in 2023.Carl Hickey graduated with a BA in Fine Art specialising in Painting from NCAD in 2022, where he received The Dean Residency Award for his graduate show.Since graduating he has gone on to have two solo shows “In-Between Stops” in Liberty Ink (2022) and “Everything and Nothing” with gallery, Atelier Now (2023). He has published a book From the Top Deck of the Bus with Driftwood Editions (2023) and has featured in multiple group shows including “In the Press” with Hypha Studios in London (2025).He completed a residency with Cill Rialaig Arts in Co. Kerry, Ireland in 2025 and had his third show in The Horse Gallery in October 2025.Hickey’s work is almost a compilation of everyday situations and events – the chaotic and the organised.His work is an ode to the on-going rambles of life and he uses oil paint as his main tool to portray the city and suburbs and to convey his subjects – Dublin’s civilians and spaces – in a different context. Hickey also uses video and written work juxtaposed.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Carl Hickey on Instagram @carl.hickey_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opening Season 16, a super special chat with CEO, Founder and Creative Director of Odyssey Studios Mark Maher in 2023.Mark Maher is CEO, Founder and Creative Director at Odyssey Studios, a State of the Art model making studio based in Limerick, Ireland and one of the largest permanent model making studios in Europe.The studio supplies blockbuster film and TV productions with miniature models, weapons, armour, props and prosthetic makeup.He has brought 17 years of international experience in the industry as a Concept, Lead or Head Model Maker to Odyssey Studios which he started to bring world class model making to the world.His credits include The Hobbit (The Battle of the Five Armies, The Desolation of Smaug and An Unexpected Journey), Alice Through the Looking Glass, Penny Dreadful, Into the Badlands, Wednesday series on Netflix to name a few.He can be seen building miniature cities, spaceships, Apes, Aliens, Zombies, Dinosaurs and more.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, Follow Mark Maher on Instagram @markmahersculptor @odysseystudios.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Closing Season 15, a super high energy chat with Director, Programming and Educator at Irish Arts Center, Rachael Gilkey in 2023.Rachael Gilkey is a Director, Programming & Education at Irish Arts Center based in New York City, New York.Previously, Rachael was a Director, Communication, Education & Outreach at Irish Arts Center and also held positions at The Battery.Rachael received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College and a Master from University of Galway. She is also Committee Member at Bronx Book Festival. Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more Information, Follow Rachael Gilkey and Irish Arts Center on Instagram @rachaelusgilkinius @irishartscenter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Gary Farrelly from the super duo Office For Joint Administrative Intelligence in 2023.Office For Joint Administrative Intelligence O.J.A.I. is the co-authored practice of artists Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly. It functions since 2015 as a hyperbolic bureaucratic para-intelligence agency operating between Brussels and Berlin. Drawing on obsessive research in the fields of corporate architecture, urban peripheries, tunnels, institutional power, and magic. Public manifestations of O.J.A.I. are performances, installations, publications, artefacts, and a radio show. Work by O.J.A.I. has been presented at Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht), Damien and the Love Guru (Brussels), Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin), Contemporary Art Centre (Cincinnati), Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris), De Garage (Mechelen), Complex Arts Centre (Dublin), among many others.Recent projects;Administrative Embrace, an one-hour audio work commissioned by @radiophreniaglasgow. The transmission moves through tunnels, flyovers, debris fields, and rustbelt landscapes -encountering states of decline, delirium, and heroic obedience through modular sound, spoken word, sonic residue, and bureaucratic fiction (April 2025). Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow O.J.A.I. on Instagram @jointintelligence @garry__farrelly @thegreencorridor.brussels Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to multidisciplinary artist Maurice Leoni-Osion in 2023.Maurice Leoni-Osion is a Multidisciplinary Artist and Program Director based in Berlin, DE, and Richmond, VA in US. His multicultural approach to Hip-Hop, combined with a deep love for Sci-Fi Thrillers, Afrofuturism, and Record-Artchiving, informs his artistic practice that spans across various mediums: poetry, literature, sound art, music production, film, art programs, exhibitions, and immersive performances—driven by a desire to celebrate and preserve the powerful, untold stories that lie at the intersection of the eyemaginariums of his youth and ancient “tecknowledgey” of his ancestors.Within the layered entendre of his music youniverse, Maurice sees Hip-Hop as a constant companion and presence likened to a kindred, extended family member, deeply intertwined with a sense of collective memory. His work is often rooted in research from an underground artchivediscovered at a young age, stemming from his grandmother’s beloved record collection, which inspired a love for visual storytelling and ancestral lineage celebrated in album art and liner notes.These formative experiences would cultivate an environment that fueled Maurice’s unconventional practice as an artist, performer, and director, empowering him to REvolve living narratives that connect the accounts of our experience to the past, present, and future.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Maurice Leoni-Osion on Instagram @mauriceleoniosion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to multimedia artist and popstar Roibí O'Rua in 2023.Roibí is a multimedia artist utilising music, video, animation, and digital media to explore ideas of queerness as it exists within Generation Z.Roibí occupies the space between popstar and fine artist, while referring to their own experiences as a 'Transfemme'.The work explores ideas of identity through the idea of the self as a digital persona.Roibi considers digital space as a means of socialisation and the development and expansion of subcultures.Her latest body of work;'DIGITRYN: REVo/eLu/aTION' was completed as part or'Full Stack Feminism inDigital Humanities' Artist Residency (Jan 23-Jep 23).'DIGLTR4N: REVo/eLu/aTION'is a continuation of the Geeter dody hi work• whicnexplorestransness as it exists in cyberspace. This latest of work refers tobiblical armageddon, acting as a response to 'The Transgender Debate',Roibí claims the apocalyptic, abominable power that is projected onto the Trans Community by their opposition and used it to imagine a Transgender Supremacist, Post-Apocalyptic , High-Kitsch chaos; a world where trans people have the power to reshape the paradigms of society, force feminisation, hyper sexualisation, bimbofied, Yassified and queer.Most recent work;XR Lab: MXNIFESTO Workshop April 2025 Digital Arts Studios1 Exchange PlaceBelfast, Northern IrelandFollow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_Follow Roibí O'Rua on Instagram @roibiorua Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Kate Fahey in 2023.Kate Fahey is an artist and researcher working with print, sculpture, moving image, sound and installation. She received an MA in Fine Art Print at the Royal College of Art in 2015 and in 2020 she completed a practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London, supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council TECHNE Studentship.She has exhibited her work widely at galleries and project spaces including Arti et Amiticiae, Amsterdam; Visual, Carlow; Commonage London; Gossamer Fog, London; The Bluecoat, Liverpool and the ICA, London. She has completed numerous residencies including ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin; Leitrim Sculpture Centre; The British School at Rome; Guest Projects, London; Callan Workhouse Union, Kilkenny and the Royal Scottish Academy.Previously, she has taught and guest lectured at Arts University Bournemouth, London College of Communication, Manchester School of Art, Winchester School of Art and Kingston School of Art. Alongside her role at Falmouth University, she is a lecturer and module leader in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Kate Fahey on Instagram @kate_fahey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Sadhbh Mowlds in 2023.Sadhbh Mowlds is visual artist who was born and raised in Dublin. After receiving her bachelor in Craft Design (Hons) from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland (2014), she relocated to Germany. There, she worked as a freelance glass blower and instructor out of Berlin Glassworks. In 2019 she moved to the U.S, where she received her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2022). Mowlds works in a variety of materials to create jarring, bodily sculptures that initiate critical dialogue about the destructive effects of living within pre-determined, often patriarchal, constructs.Captivated by the susceptibility of consciousness, Sadhbh responds to the absurdity of human beliefs, perceptions and behaviours by questioning what it truly means to be self-aware in an abrasive, modern society.Recent residencies include the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, STARworks (NC, USA) and WheatonArts (NJ, USA). Mowlds has participated in numerous international exhibitions, regularly showing throughout Europe and the USA. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Kunstsammlungen der Coburg, Germany and the Museum of American Glass, NJ, USA.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Sadhbh Mowlds on Instagram @sadhbh.mowlds Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to interdisciplinary artist Aaron Smyth in 2023.Aaron Alexander Smyth, is an Irish interdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates identity and its formation. His work explores how our experience is visually coded within systems of power and how these codings, in turn, shape us, reflecting on the contradictions and truths cradled between our realities and fictions.His work draws from art historical, cinematic, and archival imagery, weaving these elements together and contrasting them with a dynamic range of materials.This fusion constructs a world suspended between the real and the subconscious, a reflection on our contradictions and truths, a silhouette of the present and mutual truth that is timeless.Smyth holds a BA (Hons) with distinction in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design (Ireland) and has recently been awarded an MFA with distinction from the Glasgow School of Art (United Kingdom).Exhibited extensively nationally and internationally with works held in public and private collections, he has been awarded Artist-in-Residence positions alongside GUM Collective in The National Gallery of Ireland, The Royal Hibernian Academy and Black Church Printmakers. Recent awards include the Leverhulme Master of Fine Art Bursary for academic excellence and the RSA John Kinross Scholarship for extended research.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Aaron Smyth on Instagram @plasticyouth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Resuming Season 15, Caren Sullivan talks to photographer and film-maker Jenny Keogh in 2023.Jenny Keogh is a trained photographer with a (BA HONS 1999) degree and is qualified as a non-fiction filmmaker since 2010. Following the International success of her award-winning short film ‘Story Bud?’ she went on to make a mini-series of short films celebrating and preserving Irish slang (aka the Hiberno-English language). She set up her own video production company, Stand Out Films, in 2016 and over the years has become the go-to person for Artists, Crafters, Creative Businesses and Educators to work with, to produce profile-films and video content for their websites and social media platforms.She is also the founder, programmer and host of The Documentary Room – a cinema night in Dublin 8 dedicated to screening documentary films on Art, Music and Culture.Jenny is also the Member Liaison and Events Manager at FLUX.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Jenny Keogh on instagram @jennykeogh Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opening Season 15, Caren Sullivan talks to Art Historian and Curator Dr. Margarita Cappock in 2023.Dr. Margarita Cappock is a Curator and Art Historian. She joined Dublin City Council in 1999 as Project Manager of the Francis Bacon Studio Project at the Hugh Lane Gallery, where she was subsequently Head of Collections and Deputy Director until 2018 when she transferred to Dublin City Arts Office. She has written extensively and curated several exhibitions on Irish Art. She has overseen major exhibition collaborations with international museums (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; BOZAR, Brussels). She is the lead on a major project to digitally document the Public Art Collection of Dublin City Council and coordinates the Dublin City Arts Office Residency Programme. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in History of Art and French, an MA in Irish Art and Architecture from University College Dublin and a Ph.D. in History of Art (NUI). Dr. Margarita Cappock is currently the curator of LAB Gallery.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Dr.Margarita Cappock on Instagram @margaritacappock Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Closing Season 14, Caren Sullivan have a great chat with Prof. Kevin Rafter in 2022.Kevin Rafter is Full Professor of Political Communication at Dublin City University and a specialist in the politics and media of contemporary Ireland. His books include Taoisigh and the Arts (2022) and Resilient Reporting: Media & Elections in Ireland since 1969 (2019). He is an experienced non-executive director and Board Chair with significant involvement in regulation in the legal, financial and broadcast sectors. He has chaired the two national bodies responsible for the arts in Ireland, the Arts Council and Culture Ireland, and has served as a board member of several commercial and non-for-profits organisations.Kevin has a book recently published 'Dillon Rediscovered', a Biography of EJ Dillon, a foreign correspondent at the Daily Telegraph.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information about publications and updates, follow Prof.Kevin Rafter on Instagram @rafter_kevin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Ruby Wallis in 2022.Ruby Wallis often works with gendered experiences through photography, installation and moving image. She engages in a haptic way, using the close-up to simulate touch and direct experience through the lens. Her work focuses on the immediacy of an embodied approach. She twists and turns, working with fragmentation, shadows, and materiality. Her practice is becoming increasingly collaborative, operating through conversations, sound, images, and texts. She is interested in an investigation of intersectional viewpoints to disrupt a singular dominant voice and gaze.She builds on the tension between the wild and the domestic, disorder and order, human and non-human. These ideas manifest through experimentation with psychogeography, reclaiming perilous spaces as a nocturn.In order to disrupt the smooth surface of the photograph, she experiments with early photographic processes using exposure to sunlight, analog, layering and cutting, to create slippages between conscious and unconscious modes of perception and knowing.Ruby Wallis holds a 2015 PhD Fine Art Media – The National College of Art and Design, Dublin.Selected shows2025 Fantasy Island, book of contemporary Irish Photography to be published by Rotten Magazine, BelfastBetween Dog and Wolf (working title), Lismore Castle Arts, A Space for Lismore (Upcoming August)2024 UnReal Ireland, University Gallery, Quadrangle, University Galway Dlúthpháirtíocht, P21 Gallery, London(Invited but cancelled my participation to support StrikeGermany) Changing States, Photomuseum Ireland, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin DLR Lexicon Library Intervention - A Woman Walks Alone at Night with a Camera, curated by Moran Been NoonWhistling Through Nighttown (walk/event) Brigit Dublin A Whistling Space, Installation O' Connell Street, Brigit Dublin FestivalFollow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Ruby Wallis on Instagram @rubywallis_com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Mia Shattock in 2022.Mia Shattock is a painter from Dublin, Ireland with a MFA in Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland (2023).She is interested in how film narratives permeate our understanding of reality and how media imagery moulds our sense of self in the digital age. Her large scale oil paintings capture the unseen elements of media portrayal. She uses a monochrome palette, building some up in full colour glazes to exude a dreamlike quality, or leaving the underpainting as its final form. The work dismantles ideas of hyperreality, prompting viewers to acknowledge the pervasive presence of media constructs, initiating a dialogue between film and philosophy and unravelling the intricacies of human emotion and perception as they intersect with cinema.Selected shows;2024 Artworks 2024: Behind the Curtain, group show, VISUAL Carlow, Old Dublin Road, Carlow.2024  NCAD MFA Graduate Showcase, NCAD, Thomas Street, Dublin, Ireland2024  Cracks in the mirror, workshop and display, Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin, IrelandFollow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Mia Shattock on Instagram @miashattockartist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to multidisciplinary artist Michelle Malone in 2022.Michelle Malone’s multidisciplinary practice presents an autobiographical narrative of growing up in a variety of socioeconomically disadvantaged urban areas, mainly Oliver Bond Flats in Dublin’s inner city. Through installations comprised of sculptural objects, image-making, audio and text, she aims to bring forward discussions of class, taste, belonging, identity and community. Using pop culture iconography relating to childhood and adolescent memory, as well as family and peer storytelling, Michelle Malone presents materials that are specific to site/time and that intend to evidence ethnographic, phenomenological and experiential meaning. In addition to her interests in developing installations and a body of work that discusses class concerns she is also developing a practice of creative writing that supports her projects. Although the audio, text and sculpture parts of the installations can be experienced independently they exist to unfold a narrative that displays a material capital that converses both a personal and a collective Irish identity.Michelle Malone graduated from Technological University Dublin with a first class honours BA in Fine Art. She was awarded the RDS Whyte’s Award 2020, Fire Station Artists' Studios Graduate Award 2020, Mont Kavanagh Graduate Award 2020, John Creagh Student of Excellence Award 2020. Michelle Malone self-organised a solo exhibition of her graduate installation titled Summer Project 1997in The Complex, 2020. Selected shows 2024Installation for Frank Sweeney film , A Few Can See, at The Dock Arts, 2024 EVA international Following Threads, Group Exhibition, Curated by Anne Boaedarrt Crawford Art Gallery 2023  Níl Aon Tintean, Curated by Helena Tobin South Tipperary Arts Centre Poor Auld Anna Livia, Studio 1, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Love you my Sweaty, Curated by Sara Muthi, The Library Project  Black Church Emerging Curator exhibition Irelands Eye, Curated by Mark Joyce World Trade Center 2, Jakarta Indonesia Poor Auld Anna Livia, RHA Annual Exhibition Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Michelle Malone on Instagram @michelle_malone_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Szymon Minias in 2022.Szymon Minias graduated in 2022 from SETU Wexford School of Art & Design with a degree in art and specialises in paint and portraiture.Largely an unfolding process of developments, Szymon sees painting as a study of “abstraction of the real”, where every element should have a life of its own when ruthlessly singled out.On a personal level, Szymon said painting serves as an outlet to visualise his emotional reaction to the subject, where style — the appearance and relationship between elements inside the work – becomes the main language.His fixations pay attention to rhythm, various angles of attack the painting can be observed from and the constant re-examination of the work’s presence.Szymon was shortlisted in the RDS Visual Art Awards 2022, exhibiting artists from some of the best BA & MA visual art graduates from all over Ireland.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Szymon Minias on Instagram @szymon.minias Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Fiona Gordon in 2022.Fiona Gordon is a visual artist working in video and digital processes. She outlines her own version of female experience to embrace the surreal and bizarre, using her image to challenge perceptions of femininity and capture that all-consuming online and screen-based existence.Fiona graduated from LSAD in 2021 and is currently based between Limerick and Kildare. Since graduating she has exhibited as part of six group shows including the 2021 RDS Visual Art Awards and the 39th EVA International. She is currently undertaking a residency with Digital Arts Studios, Belfast as part of their Future Labs Foundation Programme.Most recently, Fiona has exhibited on Imma Living Canvas with the video VIRTUAL ARMOUR + EXCESSIVELY CHAOTIC UTOPIAN ESCAPE in March 2025.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Fiona Gordon on Instagram @fnioagrdn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to writer, curator and editor Ilaria Sponda in 2022.Ilaria Sponda is a freelance writer, curator and editor at Der Greif. Prior to this, she studied a BA in arts, media and cultural events at IULM University, Milan, and an MA in culture studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Her words have featured in C41 Magazine, Lampoon, Over Journal and Trigger. Her focus of interest lies in photographic art, media ecologies, globalisation and image circulations.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Ilaria Sponda on Instagram @ilariasponda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opening Season 14, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Venus Patel in 2022.Venus Patel is a performance artist, experimental filmmaker based in Dublin, Ireland.Patel’s work concerns her experience as a trans femme of colour, trying to navigate the world. Through the use of costuming and loose gender expression, she encapsulates the campy blend of her queer identity. Venus questions the heteronormative society we live in, why the need to conform is so heavily enforced, and how that affects the perceptions of ourself, others, and the world around us. Although her work deals with serious subject matter, she utilises a unique mix of humour, absurdity, and abjection to create multi-faceted performances and experiences.Education2018-2022 BA Fine Art, First Honours TU Dublin Grants & Awards 2022- Taylor Art Award     RDS Visual Art Awards2022- Image Now Award2022- Judge's Choice Award      Dublin Fringe Festival Exhibitions & Festivals2023- Monsters of the Apocalypse2022-3-Periodical Review 12        Pallas Projects2022- RDS Visual Art AwardsFollow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more info, follow Venus Patel on Instagram @msvenuspatel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Closing Season 13 superbly, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist, researcher Ofri Cnaani in 2022.Ofri Cnaani an artist and resarcher who works across perfromance and media. Cnaani makes art and writes about data and coloniality in cultural instituions, somatic knowledge in the age of network spatiality, and performance as a model to create critical technology. She is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Visual Culture, TU Wien, Austria and a research fellow at the internationally Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. Until recently Cnaani was an associate lecturer at the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. Prior to her move to London, Cnaani was based in New York City, where she was a faculty at the School of Visual Arts’s Visual and Critical Studies. At SVA she also ran the 'City as Site: Performance + Social interventions' program. In 2016 she co-founded, with Roxana Fabius, the ‘Unforgettables Reading/Working Group’ at A.I.R Gallery, NYC. Her work has appeared at Tate Britain, UK; Venice Architecture Biennale; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; PS1/MoMA, NYC; Inhotim Institute, Brazil; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Chile; Israel Museum; Tel-Aviv Museum of Art; Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC; The Fisher Museum of Art, L.A.; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Moscow Biennial; The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, among others. Since 2021, Cnaani co-orgenizes Choreographic Devices, a three-days chorographic symposium at ICA, London.Follow Ultraviolet Art talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Ofri Cnaani on Instagram @ofricnaani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Olivia Normile in 2022.Olivia Normile is a visual artist working across installation, drawing, animation and film. Her practice engages with fictional storytelling by considering human to non-human relationships through opportunistic and structured moments. Recent residencies and awards include: Digital Media Practice Award (2024), Firestation Artists’ Studios Dublin, Arts Council Agility Award (2022), (2021), Dublin City Council St. Patrick’s Lodge Residency (2019), Emerging Irish Artist Award, Burren College of Art (2018), Ormond Art Studios Graduate Award (2018). Exhibitions include: Dog-Eared Paradise, screen service (2023), Matters of Table, Periphery Space, Gorey School of Art (2023), Remembering The Future, VISUAL (2023), Deliverables, Pallas Projects/Studios Artist Initiated Projects (2022).Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Olivia Normile on Instagram @olivia_normile Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this Halloween Special Episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alec Michael Wilson in 2022. you can watch the full performance on Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram (link on).Alec Michael Wilson (Alphi Demp) is an artist, musician of the bands VistaFutur, Irate YeatsVistaFutur VistaFutur crafts a captivating musical experience by blending guitar-driven melodies with expansive soundscapes, evoking a cinematic atmosphere that resonates deeply with listeners. Their sound draws inspiration from the experimental edge of Radiohead and the genre-bending creativity of Gorillaz, while also incorporating elements reminiscent of The Caretaker's nostalgic depth. Subtly integrating pop sensibilities into their atmospheric textures, VistaFutur creates music that is both hauntingly familiar and emotionally immersive.Their debut album, *...is the black box projector of a once-derelict cinema*, released in 2023, served as a bold statement of intent for the band. The album introduced their signature style, weaving intricate layers of melody and atmosphere to craft a visceral journey through memory and imagination. With its evocative title and richly layered compositions, *black box projector* established VistaFutur's artistic vision, marking them as a distinctive voice in contemporary music. Far from being just an introduction, the album set the tone for their creative direction, projecting a sonic narrative that is mesmerizing and profoundly impactful.*Tinselcrown*, in late 2024. Spanning nearly 20 tracks, the album takes listeners into more abstract and, at times, brutal sonic terrain. Unlike its predecessor, *Tinselcrown* presents each track as an individual vignette, exploring fragmented yet cohesive narratives through experimental, raw soundscapes.Irate Yeats are a Galway/Wexford based duo who have been writing and performing music together for over 10 years.Taking inspiration from artists such as Sonic Youth, New Order, Soundgarden, Radiohead, The White Stripes and The Cure, Irate Yeats seek to combine their multiple grunge, electronica, garage-rock and post-punk influences into potent radio-friendly unit-shifters.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Alec Michael Wilson on Instagram @vistafutur__ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Róisín White in 2022.Róisín White is a visual artist based in Dublin, working primarily with photography, while incorporating drawing, sculpture, and collage into her practice. Róisín holds a BA (hons) in Photography from DIT, and certificates in Ceramics, Sculpture and Drawing from NCAD. Róisín White’s work draws from found objects, images, and archival materials, where she is interested in exploring lore and the fictional narrative that can be discovered in discarded imagery and objects. Storytelling and process are central parts of White’s practice. She is currently developing her photographic work into a more sculptural practice, using fabric, wood, resin, and furniture, all with a photographic root. She works with her hands, generally printing in the darkroom where possible, using sculpture and interventions in the gallery or the landscape as modes of experimentation and play within the project's delivery or development. White has exhibited her work in Ireland and across Europe, including the Finnish Museum of Photography, PhotoIreland Festival, and the Capa Centre. She was selected to represent PhotoIreland at Futures Photography platform, and was selected from an international open call to take part in Parallel European Photography Platform in 2018/9. Her project “Lay Her Down Upon Her Back” was selected for the third edition of New Irish Works in 2019, the Blow Photo Fuse Photobook Residency, and the Landskrona Photobook award, who will publish the book in late 2023.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Róisín White on Instagram @how_fascinating Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist, curator and arts educator Claire Halpin in 2022.Claire Halpin is a visual artist, curator and arts educator born and based in Dublin, Ireland. Her work explores themes and concepts around contested territories and histories through painting, video and installation.She has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in Ireland and internationally including The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now, IMMA, 38th EVA International, Limerick City Gallery; 189th RHA Annual, Dublin; Painting Then and Now, Highlanes Gallery, and Artisterium VI, Tbilisi, Georgia and Red Sheep Gallery, Sweden, Elysium Gallery, Wales. Recent solos exhibitions at Cabaret Voltaire Rome, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin and The LAB Gallery, Dublin. Group Exhibitions: Panorama, Aisling Conroy | Claire Halpin | Mark Redden, Uxval Gochez Gallery, Barcelona, 13 - 31 March 2025.Most recently, Claire has joined Hillsboro Fine Art.Her work is represented in the collections of IMMA, TCD Art Collection, OPW State Art collection, UCC Art Collection among others.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Claire Halpin on Instagram @clairehalpinartist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to photographer Conor Horgan in 2022.Conor Horgan is a visual artist and editorial photographer, based in Ireland. His work is concerned with identity, vulnerability, trust and the need for meaningful connections to self, others and the natural world. Equally happy on location and in the studio, he enjoys connecting with all kinds of people from all sorts of backgrounds; whether it be working on a commission, an experimental film or shooting a story in a distant country. He also work as a writer and film director, and bring these narrative skills to bear when telling stories through stills, motion, the written word or a combination of all three. Selected Solo exhibitionsPost-State - The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Oct – Nov 2022 En résidence - Permanent installation of portraits of artists-in-residence. Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris, from November 2021Selected group exhibitionsChanging States: Ireland in the 21st Century - Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin - 2024Winter Show - SO Fine Art Prints, Dublin - 2022, 2023, 2024Annual Exhibition - Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin - 2024Prism Inside - Íova Group - Tøn Gallery, Dublin - 2024Summer Show - SO Fine Art Prints, Dublin - 2023, 2024Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Conor Horgan on Instagram @conorhorgan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Curator and Cultural Producer Julia Gelezova in 2022.Julia Gelezova is a Cultural Producer and Curator, specialising in contemporary lens-based practices. She is General and Project Manager for PhotoIreland, producing events throughout the year like the annual PhotoIreland Festival and Critical Academy, while collaborating on ambitious projects like Creative Europe Photography Platforms—Parallel and Futures. Julia is co-editor of OVER Journal: The Critical Journal of Photography and Visual Culture for the 21st Century. In 2024, she has founded vicinities.network - a peer network for Visual Arts curators and professionals based in Ireland. She has ample experience in producing exhibitions and events, including curatorial work and project management, has vast and successful experience in personal and collective application writing for bodies like the Arts Council of Ireland and local councils. She has participated in portfolio reviews, acted as visiting lecturer, and also worked in an editorial capacity and translation for artists and other arts professionals, including work for The Routledge Guide to Photography and Visual Culture. Most recently, she curated the 2021 edition of PhotoIreland Festival and was the Centre Culturel Irlandais cultural producer resident 2022. She is a member of the AICA International Association of Art Critics.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Julia Gelezova and PhotoIreland on Instagram @julia.gelezova @photoireland Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Aoife McCloughlin in 2022.McCloughlin’s practice is concerned with the materiality of public space. She engages in the act of 'gleaning', drawing from everyday material configurations which often get overlooked. To glean is to gather excess material from disparate sources. Influenced by filmmaker Agnès Varda’s documentary ‘The Gleaners and I’ (2000), which explores the act in urban and rural settings, Mc Cloughlin feels compelled to appropriate abandoned objects. Beginning with photographing found objects in their respective locations, she attempts to understand the objects’ economies of use and the patterns of these material arrangements. No longer fulfilling their intended function, the objects found in their dislocated states lend themselves to reimagining. Through material manipulation, the utility of the objects is subverted by pushing the limitations of the object’s form. Ultimately the work aims to raise awareness around the circulation of mass-produced materials and how they embody the marks we leave as humans.Aoife McCloughlin has recently joined Provost's Curatorial Fellow at The Douglas Hyde in Ireland (April 2025).Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow The Douglas Hyde gallery on Instagram @dhg_dublin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Robert Ryan in 2022.Born in County Limerick, Robert Ryan graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1987. He worked in Copenhagen and London before returning to Ireland in 1994.In Ireland, Ryan’s work is viewed as somewhat unique. Referencing post-modern, it borrows qualities from European old masters, using traditional characteristics in a modern context. Robert Ryan paints landscape, but his work cannot be described as ‘landscape painting’. Allegorical concepts including the infinity of space and time, solitude, vulnerability, fragility and the cycle of life are explored in his paintings and drawings in which a generic four-legged creature is central. This creature inhabits another world, a universal landscape. Ryan has cultivated his images, of both place and it’s inhabitants, into a hybrid, a non-specific and as a result the viewer is left to reflect on essential truths. This is work that ultimately celebrates the commonality between man and all other creatures – past, present and future.An interest in zoology and travel has hugely informed Ryan’s work. He has travelled widely, visiting over sixty countries on all continents where he has encountered many different eco-systems, experiencing first hand how all living things interact and how they respond to their environment, how man responds to other evolutionary groups and how we value that fact. This knowledge forms a major part of the work. Robert Ryan lives and works in Lough Gur, Co Limerick. Lough Gur is a small placid lake, surrounded by rugged limestone hills and deciduous woodland. it has been continuously inhabited since the arrival of neolithic people five thousand years ago and is of outstanding archaeological significance. Ruins and artefacts from many periods of irish history have been found there. The evocative qualities of this environment have been a constant source of inspiration for Robert Ryan.  Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Robert Ryan on Instagram @robertryanireland   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Closing Season 12, Caren Sullivan have a super chat with Ángel Luis González Fernández from PhotoIreland in 2022.PhotoIreland grows the reputation of Irish artists globally through a 360 degree support framework and platform for contemporary photography, activated through a diversity of projects. These include events such as PhotoIreland Festival and Halftone print fair amongst others; resources such as the PhotoIreland Collection, a specialised research library of photobooks, and Ireland’s Art Bookshop, The Library Project; via publishing with projects such as OVER Journal and TLP Editions; professional development support through networking and consultancy opportunities; and empowering early and mid-career photographers via our international partnerships, most relevantly through Creative Europe co-funded platforms such as FUTURES and Parallel. A new cultural hub in the Dublin’s North Docklands opening Summer 2025 will strengthen PhotoIreland's work supporting Photography in Ireland.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow FotoIreland on instagram @photoireland Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Doireann Ní Ghrioghair in 2022.Doireann Ní Ghrioghair (b. 1983) graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design, London in 2010. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Eight Gallery, Dublin (2016) and CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork (2014). Notable group exhibitions include Tulca, The Headless City (2016); ARTWORKS, VISUAL, Carlow (2016); Veins, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin (2016); After the Future, Eva Biennial (2012) curated by Annie Fletcher, Limerick. She was selected three times to exhibit at Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London (2015, 2013 & 2011 curated by Lisa Milroy, Ceri Hand and Phyllida Barlow respectively). She was commissioned to create an installation, Beyond Excess, at Shunt, London Bridge (2011). She has received Arts Council of Ireland bursaries and was an award winner at Now Wakes the Sea, Kinsale Arts Festival (2013). She was selected to participate in the WARP Artist Village, Bruges (2015). Future projects include a solo exhibition at Platform Arts, Belfast (2017) and a two-person show at Arthouse1, London (2017).Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Doireann Ní Ghrioghair on Instagram @doireanndoireann Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Shane Lynam in 2022.Shane Lynam (b. 1980) is an Irish photographer based in Dublin. His first book, Fifty High Seasons, was published in 2018. He is represented by Galerie Bertrand Grimont in Paris who presented his work at Paris Photo and exhibited Fifty High Seasons in 2019. He won the Gallery of Photography Solas award in 2015 and the Curtin O’Donoghue RHA award in 2018. He was selected for a residency at the Irish Cultural Centre Paris in 2019 which included an exhibition at the Centre. He was the recipient of the Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award in 2022. By spending prolonged periods photographing built environments and overlooked public spaces, and weaving the images together to create intuitive narratives, he looks to provide a fresh perspective on how we regard public spaces.“Having moved around a lot since my childhood, I found myself back living in Dublin in 2012 and slowly realised that I would be spending an indefinite period of my life here. I have been negotiating my relationship with the city ever since. This has involved obsessively photographing as much of the fabric of the city as I can. By returning over and over to the same sites and almost deconstructing the space, I then look to put these fragments back together to suggest an alternative representation of the city, somewhere between reality and my own experience. The work intends to challenge popular visual representations of the post-crisis period in Dublin by emphasising the subjective experience and how it can be reflected in the texture and physicality of the built environment.”__Shane LynamFollow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Shane Lynam on Instagram @shanelynam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Sorcha McNamara in 2022.Sorcha McNamara lives and works in Mayo, Ireland, and sometimes elsewhere. She works in abstraction. Her approach to making things is simultaneously meditative and improvised; at once thoughtful and thoughtless. Her eye attends to the overlooked, unnoticed or disregarded aspects of the everyday, focusing her attention towards material, objects and fragments that are often discarded, salvaged, reclaimed holding traces of a previous existence, or entirely ambiguous in their origin.Selected recent group exhibitions include VISUAL Carlow Centre for Contemporary Art (2024); Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2024); Draíocht Gallery, Dublin (2023); and The LAB, Dublin (2023). Solo projects include Echo/Locate, Linenhall Arts Centre (2025); Fathomless Arms, Ballina Arts Centre (2023); (dis)attachments, The Hyde Bridge Gallery (2022); and Oonagh Young Gallery (2022). Recent residencies include Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2024); Zaratan Arte Contemporanea (2024); Totaldobze Art Centre (2022); and Tangent Projects (2021). Sorcha’s work has been supported through the Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award (2023, 2022, 2021) and a Mayo Artist Bursary Award (2023, 2022). She holds an MA in Art + Research Collaboration from IADT Dún Laoghaire (2024) and a BA in Painting from Limerick School of Art & Design (2019). Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Sorcha McNamara on Instagram @sorcha.mcnamara Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Kitsch Doom in 2022 about their unique and fantastic works.Kitsch Doom (Isabella Bonet) is an award-winning visual artist and filmmaker based in Ireland and the U.S. With a background in fine art printmaking, performance, photography, and video Kitsch combines elements of fine art and media. Kitsch graduated with a first-class honours in BA Fine Art and Visual Culture in 2019 and recently graduated from an MFA in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Kitsch has won 4 awards for Best Experimental Film in New York Film Awards, Los Angeles Film Awards, Festigious Los Angeles and FilmCon for their video performance The Clothes Wear You (2020). Kitsch has exhibited work both nationally and internationally and is represented by Stoney Road Press. Notable exhibitions include #ICPConcerned at the International Centre of Photography New York City, Ink Miami, London Original Print Fair, The RHA 190th, 191st, and 192nd Annual Exhibition and Galway International Arts Festival where they were awarded with the NUI Galway Purchase Prize. Kitsch’s work has been collected by NUI Galway, The United Arts Club, Wexford Arts Centre and other private collections. Inspired by theories on gender, sociology, and posthumanism, Kitsch transforms themselves and volunteers into fictional characters through acting techniques such as improvisation and the Method. Through performance, video, photography, print, and social media experiments Kitsch explores new ways of conceptualising ‘the self’.Kitsch creates work about the many layering processes behind human identity, and how we are now living in a strange, chaotic time in the world that lies in-between dated traditional values and trailblazing digital realities. Undoubtedly, the imprint of man is changing. In a world where being human isn’t cutting it, where does our sense of self lie? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Kitsch Doom on Instagram @kitschdoom Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alan Raggett in 2022.Alan Raggett (b.1977, Kilkenny, Ireland) is a visual artist, living, and working in Kenmare, Co. Kerry.​Raggett is a fully committed and energised professional with a strong track record as a practicing artist, art collections coordinator and project manager, working for 25 years in the arts industry in Ireland, alongside curators and other artists to bring exhibitions to domestic and international audiences.Working primarily in oil paint, Raggett’s work is ambitious, original, and distinctive. It deals mainly with the abstraction and retelling of the source image. Images, found and self-documented, are retold by means of collage, rephotographing, cropping and manipulation. These manipulated images become the starting points for his paintings where he explores ideas of repetition, contemporary landscape, and storytelling.He has exhibited regionally and nationally, and his work is held in private collections worldwide.Selected solo and group shows March 2024GRILSE GALLERY-be good if you can-Killorglin, Co. Kerry2024 Salon du Kerry, Crane Visual, Cork‘Bucolica’ Open call, Mount Congreve Gardens, Waterford.K-FEST, Killorglin, Co. Kerry -KFEST ART PRIZE Finalist 20242022 Grilse Gallery, Killorglin, Co KerryFollow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Alan Raggett on Instagram @alan.raggett Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Sian Costello in 2022.Sian Costello (b. 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Limerick City, Ireland. Since graduating from Fine Art Painting in Limerick School of Art and Design in 2020, Costello has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently with her solo show Baby Obey Me at Modern Animals, Zurich, and the group show girls, girls, girls at Lismore Castle Arts, curated by Simone Rocha. She has been the recipient of the individual bursary award from the Arts Council of Ireland and project funding from Culture Ireland. Her work has been profiled in The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, British Vogue, Another Magazine, The Visual Artist’s Newsletter, and The Irish Arts Review. She is currently preparing work for two solo shows at Paragon Studios at PS2, Belfast, and at Ormston House, Limerick.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Sian Costello on Instagram @siancostelloart Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Day Magee in 2022.Day Magee is a performance-centred multimedia artist based in Dublin. Since 2011, they have performed as part of live art organisations such as Livestock and the Dublin Live Art Festival, before pursuing a BA in Sculpture & Combined Media in Limerick School of Art & Design in 2017, during their time there staging group live art events with the collective Evil, and by their third year exhibiting work as part of Galway’s Tulca Festival 2019, group shows in Dublin and Manhattan, as well as being put forward for the Future Generation Art Prize 2020 by its Irish partner platform Pallas Projects Studios, and shortlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Awards. They are most recently commissioned by Arts & Disability Ireland and Live Art Ireland in 2021.Magee’s work concerns the grieving of futurity as per the subjectivity of a queer sick body - queerness navigated via fundamentalist Christianity, and illness as manifest in chronic pain. Taking the form of performative multimedia, from live performance to image-making, the written word and music, they manifest and chronicle a self-mythologySelected works;2022-February: ‘you breathe differently down here’ at Draoícht Blanchardstown - Work: ‘A Thing Least Like Eternity’ [Video]-March: Solo show ‘Contraindications of the Cross’ at Pallas Projects/Studios2021-March: ‘Sam’s Eden’ at Catalyst Arts, Belfast [Online] - Work: ‘The Garden of Jarman’ [Video]-May: Solo exhibition with Emerge Arts Magazine [Online] - Work: ‘Triloquy’ [Video]-May: Bealtaine Festival 2021 [Online] - Work: ‘A Male Keening (vi)’ [Performance]-May: ‘Rally’ Graduate Show at Limerick School of Art & Design [Online] - Work: ‘A Thing Least Like Eternity’ [Video]-September: Gaze Film Festival 2021, IFI Cinema - Work: ‘Unprotected’ as part of ‘Shame//Less” [Video]-November: Revision Performing Arts Festival, Flax Art Studios, Belfast - Work: ‘Bethesda’ [Performance]-December: ‘Pathology of Energy’ with Arts & Disability Ireland [Online] - Work: ‘Body Without World’ [Video]-December: ‘Virtually Alive & Steaming’ with Live Art Ireland [Online] - Work: ‘Eat the Good of the Land’ [Video]Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Day Magee on Instagram @daymagee Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.