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Ultraviolet Art Talks
Hosted by Caren Sullivan · EN
Created and hosted by Caren Sullivan, Ultraviolet Art Talks is a podcast/videocast series of fascinating interviews exploring the human side of artists, curators, musicians and people involved in the art scene, going strong over 6 years in its18th Season also on Instagram. More recently in Seasons 17 and 18, face to face interviews in the artist studios. You will be stepping into the fascinating inner world of creative minds, if you're passionate about the Arts, this is the place! For more, follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ for live interviews. Motion graphics, editing and filming by conceptual artist Jonathan Mayhew @jonathanmayhewart
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Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP08 ANNEX
Feb 26, 202500:25:37Tap to summarizeOn this fascinating episode, closing Season 10, Caren Sullivan Talks to Architect Donal Lally and writer, architect, educator David Capener from ANNEX in 2022. You can also watch a glimpse of the interview on Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram (on link).ANNEX is a collaboration of artists, architects, and urban researchers born and/or based in Ireland who came together to curate the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021. ANNEX explores the material and cultural implications of large technical systems for the built environment with reference to architecture, art, computer science, and gaming platforms. Members include Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Donal Lally, Clare Lyster and Fiona McDermott.David Capener is a theorist, educator, writer, architect, and designer. His practice critically examines the spaces produced by our contemporary technological condition. He has taught on the masters programme at Queen’s University School of Architecture and the Belfast School of Architecture at Ulster University. He has written for The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and numerous other print and online publications.Donal Lally is an architect and co-founder of the architectural office zero-degree machine [z-dm]. He has recently published articles in Strelka Magazineand Archplus, and given talks at the Floating University (Berlin), Berlin University of the Arts, and at the UCD School of Architecture. Donal is an assistant lecturer in design theory at the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Donal Lally nd David Capener on Instagram @donal_lally @annex_irl @david.capener Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP07 Dr.Frank Wasser
Feb 26, 202500:14:59Tap to summarizeOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Dr.Frank Wasser in 2022. Watch a glimpse of the Interview on Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram (on link).Dr. Frank Wasser is an Irish artist, writer, educator and researcher at TATe, based between Vienna and London. He is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.Originally from the Liberties, Dublin, Ireland, Wasser holds a PhD at the University of Oxford in Fine Art, BA in Painting and an MFA in Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland. Wasser has exhibited and lectured internationally: most recently at Jerwood Arts (London) Tate Modern and Tate Britain (London) Villa Empain (Brussels) Damian and the Love Guru (Brussels) Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art (Newcastle) In December 2020 he will publish a book with the imprint MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE. Wasser was the recipient of the Inger Lawrence Award (2019) and the Art Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary (2018) Wasser has been an invited visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art and University of Reading.Most recent Exhibition,‘Debt’ Annual Exhibition of the members of the Salzburger Kunstverein 202414 December 2024 – 16 February 2025Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, Follow Dr. Frank Wasser on Instagram @frankwasserartist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP06 Joe Duggan
Feb 26, 202500:14:58Tap to summarizeOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Joe Duggan in 2021.Joe Duggan is a Limerick born artist living and working in Buckinghamshire. He studied at the Royal College of Art London gaining an M.A. in Fine Art (Photography). His artistic practice includes sculpture, photography, video, publishing and installation. Through these various media his work considers ideas of value and identity. Focusing on themes of the family, the artists role in society and the influence of hierarchical systems, including religion, on culture. Across his projects Duggan’s work is inflected with a wry wit and a playful DIY aesthetic in which he conveys deeper lying concerns. He also curates and produces exhibitions. Most recent show : 2025: Irish Art Now, 7 - 28 Jan, Embassy of Ireland, 17 Grosvenor Place, London, UK. co-curated by Joe duggan and Orla Jackson.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Joe Duggan on Instagram @joe_duggan_artist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP05 Karen Donnellan
Feb 26, 202500:11:41Tap to summarizeOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to psychic artist and energy healer, Karen Donnellan in 2021.Karen Donnellan (they/she) is a psychic artist and energy healer. After earning a Bachelor of Design in Glass from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and a MFA in Glass from the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, they served as Director of the National Casting Center Glass Studios; Associate Professor of Glass; and Chair of the Sculpture/Dimensional Studies Program at Alfred University, NY from 2014-2022.Donnellan has received numerous residencies, most notably at the Toledo Museum of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, the Creative Glass Center of America, and Pilchuck Glass School. Their artwork, encompassing sculpture, installation, music, words, and video, is held in public and private collections and has been shown at venues internationally, including the Smithsonian Museum, Corning Museum of Glass, Tushanwan Museum, and the Museum of American Glass.As an energy healer, Donnellan is a practitioner and teacher of the Rising Star, Prema Birthing, Reiki, and Seichem modalities. They are also an active member of AerachAiteachGaelach, a collective of LGBTQ+ Irish speaking artists, researchers and activists. They are currently based on the West coast of Ireland in Co. Sligo, with a studio at The Model.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Karen Donnellan on Instagram @cosmicwetness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP04 Maura Walsh Finnegan
Feb 26, 202500:14:57Tap to summarizeOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Maura Walsh Finnegan in 2021, where we get a glimpse of her creative process in producing her intriguing and poignant pieces.Maura Finnegan is an artist based in the West of Ireland, graduate of the MA Creative Practice course at ATUHer work investigates the unspoken dialogue of furtiveness in the human psyche and trauma in its many forms. Her practice is sculptural assemblage, the method of communicating the effects of prolonged suffering and trauma is through materiality. Familiar domestic objects associated with the female become ’embodiments of pain & loss.’ Nylon tights, bedding, bandage, undergarments, upholstery foam are some of the materials she uses. Her soft/sculptural forms are exposed to an almost violent deconstructive creative process – ripping, tearing, knotting, slicing, piercing, burning etc – exposing the bruised contents. The thread of materiality undergoing this transmutational force both reveals & conceals simultaneously.Artist Statement:"Creativity shows up differently in every Artist’s studio.This Artist’s Creativity was not a cheery sort. This Artist’s Creativity was a beast with an unfiltered, unapologetic darkness within.For had it not been ignored, suppressed and jeered at for countless years, waiting?One night, Creativity spat at the Artist;“Bring me the stuff of your ordinary life, your daily grind, your lived experience. Bring me thematerials you discard, the dirt, the grime, your tears and pain. Bring me the labours of your mother,grandmothers and all your history – and I will show you, Artist, who you really are …."Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Maura Finnegan on Instagram @biddy_turner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP03 Ishmael Claxton
Feb 26, 202500:14:58Tap to summarizeOn this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to photographer Ishmael Claxton in 2021, where we deep dive into his inspirations to create incredible photographs.Ishmael Claxton was born in New York and living in Dublin for 10 years. Ishmael turned to photography as a means of expression and embarked on his career as a professional visual artist. He continues to challenge his audience by raising awareness about issues like in ‘Migration/ Integration’ series and Capall Gang series. By holding a mirror up to society, his aim is to make sense of the every changing world. Ishmael is one of the cofounders of ÍOVA Club, a photographer-led club that gives voice to image makers. The group has presented three Culture Night group shows, presentations, gallery visits all to help build the photography community in Ireland.Ishmael has exhibited widely, both in Ireland and internationally. In 2023 his work was included in 39 exhibitions which included Outset Gallery, 126 Galway, Rua Red Gallery, Carlow Visual, and Ulster Museum. His portrait of artist Seán Hillen was selected for the Lens Culture Portrait Choice Awards 2023. His work was featured in a solo exhibition in Gallery X, Dublin in 2022, Round Rabbit, Dublin in 2023 and National Concert Hall and the Irish Georgian Society in 2024. Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Ishmael Claxton on Instagram @ishmaelclaxtonphotos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP02 Alan Phelan
Feb 26, 202500:14:59Tap to summarizeOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to multidisciplinary artist Alan Phelan in 2021.Alan Phelan works in sculpture, photography, film, museum interventions, public art and collaborations with other artists, writers and curators. Born Dublin, Phelan received BA, Dublin City University, 1989 and MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 1994.Selected exhibitions include: Casino Marino, Dublin; Luan, Athlone; The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin; Void, Derry; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; RHA, Dublin; The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon; The Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The LAB, Dublin; TBG+S, Dublin; LCGA, EVA International, Limerick; Solstice, Navan; Chapter, Cardiff; Bonn Kunstmuseum; Detroit Stockholm; Treignac Projet, France; Bozar, Brussels: ŠKUC, Ljubljana; SKC Gallery, Belgrade; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Public works include Kevin Street Library; Fr Collins Park, IMMA formal gardens and Void Offsites, Derry. His most recent public work is for DCC/Sculpture Dublin, the O’Connell Plinth Commission, a temporary sculpture outside City Hall, Dublin which was moved to the TU Dublin Grangegorman campus on longterm loan.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Alan Phelan on Instagram @phelanlikealan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 10 EP1 Array Collective
Feb 26, 202500:14:57Tap to summarizeOn 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 WellsSelected recent works;Array’s current show ‘The Goose and the Common', Rua Red, Feb 2025. An Dún, IMMA Dublin, 2024Self-Determination: A Global Perspective, Interventions, IMMA Commissions 2023-24Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Array Studios/Collective on Instagram @arraystudios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 09 EP09 Maud Cotter
Jan 30, 202500:14:58Tap to summarizeOn this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Maud Cotter in 2021.Maud Cotter’s recent solo exhibitions include a consequence of –, at The Irish Arts Center, New York, 2022; what was never ours to keep, at MOCA, Jacksonville, Florida, 2022; a consequence of – a dappled world, at The Hugh Lane, Dublin, 2021; a consequence of – a breather of air, at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, 2019; a consequence of – without stilling, at Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2018; Matter of Fact, at domobaal gallery, London, 2016. Current and recent group exhibitions include: Contradictory Senses, at Lismore Castle Arts, 2022; The Twin, Coventry Biennale of Contemporary Art, Coventry, UK, 2019; backyard sculpture, at domobaal gallery, London, 2019; 2116: Forecast of the next century, at Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2016 touring to Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, MI, USA. She lives and works in Cork, Ireland. Cotter has lectured in Art and Architectural Colleges in Europe and America. She is co-founder of the National Sculpture Factory and a member of Aosdana. Her practice is represented by domobaal gallery.Artist’s statement “I like to think of the gallery as a mercurial landscape of the mind, a place where matter and consciousness mingle. The work seeks to assert the importance of this duo of forces, cerebrally presented and fully existing emotionally at the same time, connecting our bodies with our minds. I strive to use this kind of interactive intelligence as a totality of force, one that is necessary to intuit and explore changing spatiality and understandings. The work seeks to unsettle the conventional account of reality, the cul de sac spun by corporate values, so vividly and forcefully delivered to our minds through contemporary culture; to build an adaptive and sustainable relationship with the world we inhabit.The work explores material reality as one of compliance and contradiction, one in which no rule applies. In this world of upheaval, lies an endless range of evolving possibilities which can become manifest visually through the enactment of will within the agency of matter.Macrophysicality finds its point of incision; conscious and insightful, it enters the molecularly complex world of the object. These actions orchestrate new formation in that amorphous bank of matter behind appearance – consciousness modelling form. Interiority within an exterior condition.”__Maud Cotter.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Maud Cotter on Instagram @maudcotter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 09 EP08 Vera Klute
Jan 30, 202500:13:32Tap to summarizeOn this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Vera Klute in 2021.Vera Klute is a visual artist based in Co. Kilkenny. She was born in Germany but lives in Ireland since 2001. Her work utilises a range of different media such as sculpture, painting, drawing and video animation. Themes span from formal portraiture and public sculpture to kinetic installation. She is always interested in exploring new materials and processes and in this way her work has taken many different incarnations over the years. She has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad since graduating from IADT in 2006, including solo exhibitions at the RHA, the Butler Gallery, Limerick City Gallery (2-person show), the Molesworth Gallery, QSS Gallery and the LAB.Her work is represented in many collections, including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Office of Public Works and the Arts Council and she has won numerous awards. These include the Anita Young Award (2022) and the Hanley Energy Sustainability Excellence Award (2021), the Solomon Fine Art Award for sculpture (2020), the Hennessy Portrait Prize at the National Gallery and the Hennessy Craig Scholarship at the RHA (both 2015), the K+M Evans Award (2013) and the EVA Award at Wexford Arts Centre (2009). She has received several Arts Council Bursary Awards and was elected Associate Member of the RHA in 2018 and is a full member since 2023. Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Vera Klute on Instagram @veraklute1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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