Ultraviolet Art Talks

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Audrey Rangel Aguirre in 2021 about her unique and exquisite projects. Audrey Rangel Aguirre is an Interdisciplinary Mexican artist based in England, researching at the intersection of art and science, focusing on artistic intuition to create new systems and speculative scenarios that belong to the future of human civilisation. Currently developing t...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Helena Hamilton in 2021. Belfast-based artist Helena Hamilton works both visually and sonically. Her practice crosses the lines between creating objects, sound, digital interaction, and action/performance. Her current research focuses on creating works between digital and physical environments while negotiating the relationship between the sonic and...

On this Valentines Day Special Episode, Caren Sullivan talks to super talented musician Mundy in 2021. Watch video version of his exclusive performance for Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram. Mundy is an Irish singer-songwriter and founder of the independent record label Camcor Records. He released his debut album  Jelly Legs  in 1996 on the Epic Records label. The album included the song "...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Matthew Coll in 2021. It is a very candid episode, where we can hear how Matthew (an art student at the time) and his fellow pupils were coping with lockdowns and future uncertainties. Matthew Coll is an Irish artist based in Dublin. He graduated from NCAD’s Fine Art Painting BA in 2022 and work predominantly in Painting, Sculpture and Installat...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist and educator Mark O'Kelly in 2020. The studio painting practice at the centre of O’Kelly’s artistic research demonstrates a sustained engagement with theories of materiality, representation, reproduction, display and quotation, towards investigations around questions of cognitive representation and the inherent psychological poetry of...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist and educator Neil Dunne in 2020. Neil Dunne, an artist and educator based in Dublin, Ireland, embarks on a multifaceted exploration at the intersection of art and the urban landscape, drawing inspiration from the profound ideas of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. His expanded print practice serves as a research vehicle, delving into the...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alison Pilkington in 2020. Alison Pilkington in her own words; "In my painting practice I tap into my inner world and personal experiences to conjure up strange and unsettling worlds where all is not entirely at ease. Humour, the absurd and private jokes abound in strange unsettling landscapes. Bizarre figures are recurring motifs. They can be viewed...

On this Christmas Special episode, Caren Sullivan talks to super talented musician Paddy Casey in 2020. Paddy Casey received his first guitar when he was 12 and left home soon after and began busking and gigging for about 12 years. At about the age of 24 he was approached by Sony A&R Scout Hugh Murray at the International Bar in Dublin, while performing at the singer/songwriter night hosted by...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Jaki Irvine in 2020. It was a very unique episode where the artist decided to appear in the interview as a digital foam entity, a delight! Using video installation, photography, music composition and writing, Jaki Irvine explores the complex ways we imagine ourselves and the world around us, a process which, for Irvine, has both philosophical an...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Colin Martin in 2020. Colin Martin was born in Dublin in 1973. He graduated from DIT in Fine Art- Painting in 1994 and completed a post-graduate year in printmaking in 2005. He completed an MFA at the National College of Art and Design in 2010. He lives and works in Dublin. In 2008 he was elected an associate member of the RHA . He has been the recip...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Lee Welch in 2020. Lee Welch was born in Louisville, Kentucky 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 mili...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Lar O'Toole in 2020. Lar O’Toole is interested in an art/science interface and the cultural and psychological effects of expanded seeing; the insights into inner and outer space afforded to science by the application of lenses since the late 16th century. The shift away from a heliocentric cosmology at this time spurred scientific inquiry and decentr...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Liz Nielsen in 2020. Liz Nielsen lives and works in Brooklyn and Newburgh, NY. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004, her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, and her BA in Philosophy and Spanish from Seattle University in 1997...

On this Halloween Special episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to super talented singer, musician and actress, Camille O'Sullivan in 2020. Camille O'Sullivan is an Irish singer, musician, and actress. Born in London to a French mother and Irish father, she grew up in Cork, Ireland. O'Sullivan is known for her unique, dramatic musical style and covers of artists such as Radiohead, Tom Waits and David...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Gabhann Dunne in 2020. Gabhann Dunne is an Irish artist working with all kinds of subjects, from Landscape Paintings to Portraits. Using soft colour palettes and thick brushstrokes, Gabhann creates Oil Paintings with a romantic and poetic quality. Rich in colour and texture, his art is an examination of various different themes, ranging from power st...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Mark Joyce in 2020. Mark Joyce is an artist based in Dublin. He studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London. He has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK and the USA, received awards from The British Council, Thomas Damman Trust and the Georgette Chen fellowship in 2016. His work is in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Arts Council collectio...

On this episode, closing Season 4, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Liliane Tomasko in 2020. Born in Zurich, Switzerland. Lives and works in London. Liliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour. The artist begins her investigation of the human psyche in the domestic sphere, offering attentive studies of bedding and clothing, the intimate text...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist and Director of the Golden Tread Gallery, Peter Richards in 2020. Peter Richards is an artist based in Belfast, in the North of Ireland. He works in a range of media including forms of photography, installation and performance. His works can be seen as artistic enquiries into subjects, such as: how understanding is formed and truth is subscribed...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alex Hudson in 2020. Born 1976, London, UK MA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK. Lives and Works in Malmö, Sweden, Alex Hudson is a contemporary artist whose body of work is deeply rooted in the history of painting.  More specifically, Hudson creates mesmerising images that very often draw from the work of the old masters up until e...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Elaine Hoey in 2020. Elaine Hoey works mainly creating interactive based installations, appropriating contemporary digital art practices and aesthetics to explore the politics of digital humanity and our evolving relationship with the screen.  She describes her process as ‘experimental’ and is interested in exploring digitally native and new for...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Kurb Junki (Niall Cullen) in 2020. Contemporary visual artist Niall Cullen, formerly know as Kurb Junki, holds a first class honours degree in sculpture from the NCAD, Dublin.  In his early days as a street artist and filmmaker, Kurb Junki spent years spreading his signature hand-drawn hamburger motifs which populate the various surfaces...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to members of the art collective Child Naming Ceremony in 2020. Child naming Ceremony was s a collective formed by visual artists  2021: Michelle Hall, Austin Hearne, Celina Muldoon, Frances O'Dwyer 2017-2020: Ella Bertilsson, Ulla Juske. Their live performances were very dynamic and full of intriguing meanings. The artists are currently in solo projects,...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to Designer, DJ and artist Margaret O'Connor in 2020. Margaret O’Connor is an Irish-based Independent Accessories Designer, DJ, and Conceptual Artist. She is best known for her work as an accessory designer, launching her accessory range in the HUGH lane Gallery 2023, The National Gallery of Ireland in 2022. Margaret was trained by some of the ‘leading lights...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Brian Fay in 2020. Brian Fay is an Irish artist living in Dublin, his practice is rooted in drawing and he uses the materiality of pre-existing artworks and objects to examine our complex relationship to time.   In 2021 he was awarded a 3 year studio membership with Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin. He undertook an artist residency at...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Wendy Judge in 2020. Wendy Judge graduated at Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design. AWARDS :  2022  Arts Council Project Award (strand 1 )  2020  Arts Council Bursary,  2019  Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award,  2016  Arts Council of Ireland Bursary,  2016  Arts Council Travel and Training...