Ultraviolet Art Talks

Closing Season 18 a wonderful, super positive chat with artist Àjàó Babátúndé Lawal in 2024. Always curious about what's is like to be inside an artist's studio? Watch full interview here . Àjàó is a Nigerian-born Irish artist whose work is elementally about his African heritage and the influence of his adoptive home country, Ireland. After exploring several career paths, including business, socia...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Artist and Curator Sharon Murphy in her studio in 2024. Curious about what is like inside an artist studio? Watch full episode here ! Sharon Murphy is a visual artist and curator based between Dublin and Paris whose practice encompasses photography, video and installation. Drawing on a background in theatre and informed by psychoanalysis and magic realism,...

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...

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 (NCA...

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 d...

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 la...

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...

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 Vi...

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,&nbsp...

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 o...

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 th...

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...

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...

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...

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 British art, 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 Auck...

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. a...

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...

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, we...

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 B...

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 re...

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:...

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...

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 Studen...

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,...

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 an...