Ultraviolet Art Talks

One this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Robert Armstrong in 2020. The sources of Robert Armstrong's paintings include references to art history, ancient geological maps, and current environmental catastrophes. The paintings present images of landscape, mountains, caves, clouds, water, and floods - familiar landscape motifs in a changing world. The paintings are not depictive of particular...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Paul Hallahan in 2020. Paul Hallahan is an Irish artist living and working at Fire Station Studio's Dublin whose work is primarily based in painting, but also looks to sculpture and video. Interests within his work expand into many areas but commonly focus on how we as a species relate and interact with nature, taking art as a form or by-product of n...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Ultra Contemporary Artist Jonathan Mayhew in 2020. Jonathan Mayhew is an Irish artist and occasional writer based in Dublin. Using poetry, literature, technology and theory, he manipulates physical and invisible materials creating works in a variety of media, questioning the world we live in. He is interested in how we think about technology and society, ho...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist William O’Neil in 2020. William O'Neill is a visual artist living and working in Meath, Ireland. He graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design in 2009. His paintings are process driven. He meticulously creates still life scenes which he photographs and works from. He's interested in these still life ar...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Amanda Doran in 2020. Born and raised in Co. Wexford in Ireland, Amanda Doran graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2012. She is a figurative painter with a passion for the obscure and bold, brash colour. Her paintings are thickly painted with wonderfully luscious colours and textures. Amanda took a career pause and is currently a...

On this episode, recorded in 2020,Caren Sullivan talks to artist Austin Hearne. 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 Hearne operates within. Photography is at the root of his practice, using this medium in its most experimental and expansive form to create...

In this episode Caren Sullivan talks to artist Bríd Murphy. Bríd Murphy is a visual artist from Portarlington, Laois. She recently graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with a BA in Sculpture and Combined Media. Her practice explores themes such as gender, anxiety and self-identity through a wide variety of media including video, drawing and performance. Her work has been exhibited in g...

In this Ultraviolet Art talks second episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Leah Hewson. 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  ‘Scinti...

In this first Ultraviolet Art Talks Episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Stephen Dunne in 2020. Stephen Dunne graduated from the Royal College Of Art, with an M.A in Painting in 200, his practice operates across the registers of painting, drawing, moving image and the investigation of speculative and theoretical fictions. The process of making, where each thing leads to the next through an expe...