On this special episode opening Season 10, Caren Sullivan talks to Clodagh Lavelle, Emma Campbell and Thomas Wells, members of the collective Array Studios in 2021.

Winners of Turner Prize 2021, Array Collective are a group of individual artists rooted in Belfast, who join together to create collaborative actions in response to the sociopolitical issues affecting Northern Ireland. Array’s studios and project space in the city centre acts as a base for the collective, however the participating artists are not limited to studio holders. Array Collective are known for projects that support "gay rights, marriage equality, feminism, reproductive rights and anti-austerityactivism".

Array Collective's activities have included placard-making workshops and participating in activist events and demonstrations with elaborate costumes and props.

Collective members: Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell, Jane Butler, Emma Campbell, Alessia Cargnelli, Mitch Conlon, Clodagh Lavelle, Grace McMurray, Stephen Millar, Laura O'Connor, Thomas Wells

Selected recent works;

Array’s current show ‘The Goose and the Common', Rua Red, Feb 2025.

An Dún, IMMA Dublin, 2024

Self-Determination: A Global Perspective, Interventions, IMMA Commissions 2023-24

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