By Oonagh McAteer
The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.
This week its just a quick chat from me - Oonagh McAteer about a new thing on my to do list - resting!
If you have any comments or suggestions or would lie to take part or do a podcast takeover please get in touch with me either by messaging via instagram @oonaghmcateer or @buoyparkart
Drydan Wilson returned to Belfast School of Art to Study his for his master’s degree after graduating in 2016 from BA Fine Art. In 2017 he was the returning artist in residence. Drydan has taken part in several residencies, both virtually and physically, including one on the Copeland Bird Observatory and is a member of the Copeland Arts Collective. From 2014 to 2015 Drydan worked, studied and lived in Finland, developing his practice and exhibiting his work. Drydan has created several commissioned public artworks, some located in Cork, Dublin and Rostrevor to name a few. He has also shown work in numerous group and solo exhibitions both locally and internationally.
My practice examines how we negotiate space, exploring the politics of space through questions raised by skateboarding and similar subcultural practices. I am interested in the social distortion created through the re-appropriation of landscape and its architecture and how the positioning or use of the body in space can be used to critique social, capitalist and regulatory structures.
Combining my artistic and skateboarding practices I am interested in questioning and challenging the boundaries of what a contemporary art practice can be. I take a multi-disciplinary approach, employing sculpture, text, sound, drawing and video as ways of developing work. Skateboarding from a young age, I naturally use the medium to explore, interact, and think about the world, therefore skateboarding has become the starting point, methodology, and/or subject for much of my work.
Whether, using materials and forms that reflect skateboarding terrain, replicating camera angles from skate videos, or incorporating skate terminology as text within the work, I aim to make work through isolating and combining various fragments of the subculture to highlight the creative potential, artistic formalities, and affordances of the material to create artworks that evoke a new way of looking and thinking about space and its potential.
For Drydan's latest exhibition visit https://catalystarts0.wixsite.com/e-quadrantmfa2021/e-quadrant-1
This week Oonagh speaks with Lauren Ciara McCullough about some of the highlights and challenges of having a virtual art show having recently taken part in the second part of the E-Quadrant show. We also get to hear about how lockdown has affected Lauren’s work and process as a painter as she settles into her new home.
Lauren Ciara McCullough is recent graduate of the BA Course in Fine art at Ulster University, attaining a First-Class Honours. Her practice focuses centrally on painting; however, it stems into areas such as drawing, poetry, collage, photography and most recently walking. The sublime is the central motif of McCullough’s practice. A practice of questioning whether it is possible to convey something beyond self and the earthly reality, through image and paint? As an emerging artist McCullough has shown in multiple group exhibitions since her graduation in 2019 and has gone on to pursue an associate fellowship in Higher Education alongside her Masters.
McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.
Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’
The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.
You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or
email [email protected]
#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast
Sponsorships: off for this episode
The virtual show mentioned is and link below has images and further artist information.
E-Quadrant 1 Tours - 14th-15th Jan
1. Drydan Wilson
2. Emily Esdale
3 NokuLunga Mazibuko
4. Oonagh McAteer
5. Susan Hughes
https://catalystarts0.wixsite.com/e-quadrantmfa2021/exhibition
more information on the RIGHT TO CREATE project mentioned:
https://pssquared.org/projects/right-to-create
McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.
Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’
The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.
You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or
email [email protected]
#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast
Sponsorships: off for this episode
Oonagh McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.
Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’
The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.
You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or
email [email protected]
#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast
Alison Lowry
Alison Lowry is a glass artist living and working from her studio, ‘Schoolhouse Glass’ in Saintfield, Co. Down. In 2009 she graduated from Ulster University with an Honours degree in Art and Design. Since then she has won numerous awards including first place in the category, ‘Glass Art’ at the Royal Dublin Society in 2015 and 2009, the Silver Medal at the Royal Ulster Arts Club’s Annual Exhibition in 2010, the Warm Glass Prize in 2010 and 2011 and more recently the Bronze Award at Bullseye Glass’ exhibition for emerging artists, ‘Emerge’. Alison exhibits nationally and internationally, and her work is held in several public and private collections.
In 2016 the National Museum of Ireland acquired a large pâte de verre vessel for their ‘Contemporary Collection of Design & Craft’ and have recently also purchased the sculpture, ‘A New Skin’ for the collection. Alison Lowry is currently the only Irish artist to have been awarded a month long residency (April 2014) at the Studio of the world-renowned Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York.
Her current solo exhibition, ‘(A)Dressing Our Hidden Truths’, is inspired by such traumatic histories as the Tuam Mother & Baby Home, domestic violence and Ireland’s Magdalene Laundry system. It runs at the National Museum of Ireland- Decorative Arts and History Division, at Collins Barracks in Dublin until the end of 2020.
Oonagh McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.
Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’
The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.
You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or
email [email protected]
#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast
Skills backed by years of experience
Alison Matthews or Ali for short is a Virtual Assistant (hence the business name VirtuAli). Started VirtuAli Administrative Solutions in 2015 to help busy business owners be less busy and concentrate on the ‘ing’ in their business teaching, coaching, painting, training!
As a business owner she understands the complexities of running a business, of juggling all the hats and getting swamped in the business rather than having time to work ON it and the thing you love.
With 20 years+ experience in a host of administrative roles worldwide, Alison have always been highly organised and loves now helping business owners streamline their administrative processes so they are more productive, waste less time on nitty gritty admin and have a better work life/balance and time to breathe!
Specialising in helping entrepreneurs automate processes around running courses/events (online and face to face) to be a virtual set of hands, eyes and ears!
Alison's passions are wild swimming, community projects and connecting people
The services she offers include organisational hours, accountability buddy and online courses guiding business owners how to work more efficiently in their business and to feel more in control. The list of her services is available at https://virtuali.uk/getting-organised-with-ali/
And her latest course Jumpstart Your Efficiency starts on 5th Jan -link here
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/manage/events/130733885571/tickets
Oonagh McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.
Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’
The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.
You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or
email [email protected]
#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast
Featuring Haley Morris-Cafiero
Part performer, part artist, part provocateur, part spectator, Haley Morris-Cafiero explores the act of reflection in her photography. Morris-Cafiero’s photographs have been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, and have been featured in numerous newspapers, magazines and online including Le Monde, New York Times and Salon. Born in Atlanta, she is a graduate of the University of North Florida, where she earned a BA in Photography and a BFA in Ceramics in 1999. Nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2014 and a 2016 Fulbright finalist, Morris-Cafiero holds a MFA from the University of Arizona in Art. The Magenta Foundation published her monograph, The Watchers, in 2015 and Fall Line Press published her second monograph, The Bully Pulpit, in 2019. Morris-Cafiero is a Lecturer in photography at the Belfast School of Art at Ulster University.
Oonagh McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.
Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’
The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.
You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or
email [email protected]
#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast
Duncan Ross is a visual artist, illustrator and arts educator. He studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee graduating with a BA in Fine Art in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 was a co-director of Cinilingus, a new media organisation specialising in screening documentary film in unusual spaces. Between 2003 and 2014 he illustrated for the publishing company Factotum and their newspaper, The Vacuum. In 2009 he completed an MFA at Ulster University and from 2009 to 2011 was creative technician at the Digital Arts Studios. He has worked on participatory and public art programmes with, amongst other organisations: PS2, The Golden Thread Gallery and Young at Art; and completed several Re-imaging Communities public art commissions. He has exhibited in the UK, Ireland, Portugal, Germany and China and has undertaken artistic residencies in New York, Kathmandu and Cushendall.
Oonagh McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.
Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’
The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.
You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or
email [email protected]
#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast
Bronagh Lawson is an artist living in Belfast but originally from Strangford and Portaferry ,co founder of the Hydrangea project a Belfast Chicago collaboration with Adjunct Professor Suellen Semekoiski of School of art institute Chicago. She completed her Diploma in foundation art in Bristol Polytechnic now West of England University and graduated from Winchester School of art with a first class degree in Textiles and fashion, specializing in knitwear. During her time as a Fulbright scholar she attended Parson school of Design in New York (now the New school). Returning to Northern Ireland pre ceasefire she started as a participant on some cross community development programme’s then spent 13 years setting up and running, cross border, cross community development programme’s in interface areas of Belfast and was chair of the Women’s Tec and an equality specialist and member of the Women’s Co alition. Returning to artistic practice via the Belfast print workshop where she started with a night class on etching then became chair. Making a series of Prints called the ebb and flow of East Belfast , shown in Dublin as part of the Easter Rising centenary supported by the British Council .She set up and ran a community ning website voluntarily for the artists community called creativechangeni for 3 + years for which she won a NI Regional digital heroes award from Talk Talk. Other prizes include one from the Alzheimer’s society for the dementia and art project she helped develop with the live and learn team. In 2019 she published her first book called Belfast : City of light, looking and listening to Belfast, come with me based on her experience as a non church attendee of visiting every church in Belfast for a service over a 10 year period. She writes a weekly art round up for the Belfast media group , published online and in the Andersonstown news.
City of light available to purchase on the link below:10% off with FESTIVE10 code
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bronagh-lawson/belfast-city-of-light/paperback/product-1z7ympqj.html?fbclid=IwAR1O9eWRcse4bYLphjLCzNjaSEc0gcBtvxWSKZIU6qFpVv0wjw1L7ldfcAA&page=1&pageSize=4
Oonagh McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.
Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’
The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.
You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or
email [email protected]
#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast
The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.