The Warrior Artist

'I want to insert myself right into the material', visual artist Orla O'Byrne shares her creative process [16]

Listen Later

Cork based Orla O’Byrne explores overlooked histories of sites and artefacts.  She works across a variety of media and techniques such as drawing, photography and sculpture. Orla rebelled against going to art college after school, travelled and lived abroad, before having children, setting up a bakery business and eventually went to art college aged 35.  She has an MA in Art & Process and a BA in Fine Art from The Crawford College of Art and Design.  She is a member of the board of directors of the Backwater Artists where her studio is based.  Some of her awards include The Lavit Gallery Student of the Year and the CIT Registrar’s Prize.   Orla talks to Éadaoin Glynn about:

  • Rebelling against going to art college until she was 35
  • Her love of drawing
  • Her deep affinity with her materials
  • Coade stone
  • Maverick casting
  • Casting from a cast
  • Writing about art
  • Recording the Crawford Art Gallery on the cusp of change
  • Physical material signs of the stories contained within a building
  • Looking Up
  • Examining old glass slides used for teaching
  • Overwhelm
  • Analog processes
  • Her studio: time management, organisation and storage
  • Peeling the skin off stone
  • Her relationship with colour
  • About rejection
  • Advice
  • Upcoming exhibition with the F Project group, in Chapel Hill School of Art, Macroom about how we perceive light.

    • Full shows and images available in the blog.

    www.orlaobyrne.com

    Instagram: @orla_o_byrne


    Contact Eadaoin

    www.eadaoinglynn.com

    Instagram: @eadaoin_glynn

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store
    The Warrior ArtistBy Éadaoin Glynn
    • 5
    • 5
    • 5
    • 5
    • 5

    5

    2 ratings

    More shows like The Warrior Artist

    View all
    Do It For the Process: For The Artists by Emily Jeffords by Emily Jeffords

    Do It For the Process: For The Artists by Emily Jeffords

    334 Listeners

    Learn to Paint Podcast by Learn to Paint Podcast

    Learn to Paint Podcast

    307 Listeners

    Hard Fork by The New York Times

    Hard Fork

    5,471 Listeners