Ultraviolet Art Talks

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to film director, Glenn McQuaid in 2021. Glenn McQuaid is an Irish film director. He is known for his feature film debut I Sell The Dead and his involvement in the audio play anthology series Tales From Beyond the Pale, both of which were produced by frequent collaborator Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix. He has also directed a segment of anthology horror film...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Miguel Martin in 2021. Miguel is a Belfast-born artist exploring identity, the uncanny, and liminal spaces through drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation. His work investigates how digital masks and everyday anomalies reshape perception, blending sincerity and irony to question authenticity in a digitised world. Collaboration and playful e...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Sarah O'Brien in 2021. Sarah O’Brien, born in Cork, 1980. BA Painting, CCAD, Cork, 2003. MFA Painting NCAD, Dublin, 2007. PgDip Third Level Learning and Teaching, DIT 2012 Lives and works in Kinsale, Co. Cork.  Selected shows include: NEW LIGHT, Lewis Glucksman Gallery (2020), RHA OPEN 2020 (Invited Artist), PERIPHERIES Open 2019, Gorey Art Scho...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Emma Ferrer from her studio in Italy in 2021. Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer was born in Morges, Switzerland and grew up in Florence, Italy where her conscience became replete with a visceral exposure to Medieval and Renaissance iconography. As a young painter, Ferrer also spent extensive time in Spain where she became drawn to the works of Francisco d...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to writer, researcher and editor Michaële Cutaya and emerging curator and artist Sona Šmédková in 2021. Michaele Cutaya is a writer, researcher and editor on art living in County Galway. Her reviews and essays have been published in Irish Arts Review, The Stinging Fly and Art Monthly amongst others. She collaborates with artists towards specific art projects a...

Closing Season 8 on this special episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Isabel Nolan in 2021. Isabel Nolan has an expansive practice that incorporates sculptures, paintings, textile works, photographs, writing and works on paper. Her subject matter is similarly comprehensive, taking in cosmological phenomena, religious reliquaries, Greco-Roman sculptures and literary/historical figures, examining...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to curator Séamus McCormack in 2021. Séamus McCormack has developed curatorial projects both in Ireland and the UK including at Luan Gallery, Athlone; ArtBox, Dublin; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Bomb Factory, London; Lewisham Arthouse, London; No Show Space, London; The LAB, Dublin and Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford. He curates Commonage projects s...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Emma Roche in 2021. Her unique paintings has caught my immediate attention back in 2021, here she talks about her unique method of knitting paint. Education M.A. in Visual Arts Practices, I.A.D.T. Dublin, 2010  B.A. in Fine Art Painting, N.C.A.D., Dublin, 2006 Turps Banana Art School, London 2016-2019 Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions  ...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Joseph Heffernan in 2021. Joseph Heffernan is an Irish artist based in Backwater Artists Studios , Cork. His exquisite paintings transports the viewer to a different, magic era. Education 2013-2016: MFA(Painting), NCAD, Dublin. 2012-2013: Creative Ceramics Level 6, Colaiste Stiofain Naoife. 2005-2009: Hons BA(Fine Art), Crawford College of Art and De...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist, educator, Taffina Flood in 2021. Taffina Flood was born in Dublin. She has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad, and her work is held in many notable public and private collections.  In addition to painting and printmaking, Taffina lectures at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. Taffina’s art is characterised by dense, evocati...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talk to the duo Austin Hearne and Glenn McQuaid from Satin Shadow in 2021. Satin Shadow is a Goth, Industrial music duo by artist Austin Hearne and filmmaker and producer Glenn McQuaid. Concerns around the occupation of Ireland by the Roman Catholic Church are at the heart of Austin Hearne's practice. The majesty and misery of this institution are the poles which He...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to multidisciplinary artist Celina Muldoon in 2021. Identity, memory and surveillance are themes around which Celina Muldoon investigates relationships between socio-political structures and the body. Her work spans Live Performance, Film and Installation. She uses collaborative processes to test live performance methodologies in response to site and context....

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to filmmaker, writer, Richard Harvey in 2021. Richard Harvey is a writer and director from Dublin. His work is heavily influenced by Irish mythology and the horror genre and often deals with themes such as mortality, toxic masculinity and the dysfunctional family.    Some of his achievements include winning the 2020 YMVC at First Cut Youth Film...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Serena Caulfield in 2012. Serena Caulfield is an artist who makes paintings. Memories morph into tall tales. Invented imagery invites novel narratives. Transforming old to new, past to present, absence to presence, here to there, she likes to paint quickly and think slowly. Serena has exhibited regionally and nationally. Recent group shows include WI...

On this special episode closing Season 07, Caren Sullivan talks to singer Jack Lukeman in 2021. There is a second episode where jack Lukeman sings for Ultraviolet Art Talks, check it on @_ultravioletarttalks_ Lukeman first came to prominence in the summer of 1995 when he and The Black Romantics took up a residency at The Da Club (Dublin Arts Club) in Dublin selling out night after night. The band'...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Niamh O'Malley in 2021. Niamh O’Malley is interested in the exhibition as an architecture for scrutiny and attention. She is drawn to materials that display traces of their own making, labouring the surfaces of polished wood and graphite. There is a haptic, agitated quality to the edges and surfaces of her sculpture and drawings. When glass, a favour...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist David Beattie in 2021. David Beattie is an artist and lecturer in Art and Research Collaboration at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology. Beattie’s sculptural practice explores the material world through experiential, physical engagements with objects and non-objects. Recent projects have focused on the social and environmental imp...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Bernadette Kiely in 2021. Bernadette Kiely is a visual artist based on the quayside of the river Nore in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. Known for her powerful portrayals of the fragility of the natural and physical world, Bernadette draws particularly on her experiences as a child growing up on the quayside in Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary, where she wit...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Yero Adugna Eticha in 2021. Yero Adugna Eticha, born in Oromia/Ethiopia, is a Berlin/ Addis Abeba based photographer working for renowned culture Institut : Akadamie der Künste, Tanz im August , Festival of Future Nows, Studio Olafur Eliasson & his own different projects. As a spät passionate runner, he started his photographic career at the age...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Amy O'Riordan in 2021. Working both behind and in front of the eye of the camera lens, artist Amy O'Riordan oversees every detail of costumes, make up, extensive setting up of props, settings and locations. Her photographic images offer a privileged glimpse into an intimate world by challenging by gaze. O’Riordan presented a series of works that spec...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Tadhg Ó'Cuirrín in 2021. Tadhg Ó Cuirrín is an artist and teacher based in the west of Ireland. He received a BA in Fine Art, Painting from the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2009. He works in a variety of media, and his work was recently shortlisted for the Hennessey Craig Award at the RHA 192nd Annual Exhibition. In November 2022 he will pres...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist James Earley in 2021. James Earley produces abstracted figurative works that bring together traditions of painting, design and stained glass art. James Earley (b. 1981), is an Irish artist who lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Earley's practice is rooted in graffiti, graphic design and his family's heritage in stained glass. He creates artworks tha...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Liliane Puthod in 2021. Liliane Puthod's practice often takes the form of large-scale installations and sculptures using both handmade and industrial materials as a way to confront archaeological and commodified times. She appropriates and manipulates some of society’s existing modes of dissemination, display and production to subtly destabilize what...

On this episode, closing Season 6, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Andrew Carson in 2021. At the core of Andrew Carson’s practice is the exploration of the body and interpersonal interactions through the mediums of digital technology. Examining social structures, systems, and methods of communication, he is interested in the use and effects of digital devices and social media as the modern ubiquito...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alex Keatinge in 2021. Alex Keatinge  is a Visual Artist working across sculpture and photography. With mould making and photography being key tools in her practice, her work often explores the commonalities between the two and draws upon the intrapersonal and the material extended self to create objects that pace the line between knowingness an...