Ultraviolet Art Talks

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 Hibern...

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....

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 experi...

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 m...

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...

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 brin...

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 singl...

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 cur...

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...

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 heteronormativ...

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 In...

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 Artis...

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 Yeats VistaFutur VistaFutur crafts a captivating musical experience by blending guitar-driven melodies with expansive soundscapes, evokin...

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, a...

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 internationall...

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 so...

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 proje...

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)...

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 character...

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 oth...

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, Carlo...

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 Cur...

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 t...

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...

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 curat...