Ultraviolet Art Talks

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Niamh O'Malley in 2021.

Niamh O’Malley is interested in the exhibition as an architecture for scrutiny and attention.

She is drawn to materials that display traces of their own making, labouring the surfaces of polished wood and graphite. There is a haptic, agitated quality to the edges and surfaces of her sculpture and drawings. When glass, a favoured material is seen it is sometimes tinted, and encountered as slivers of edged, translucent, solidness, potentially directing us to observe, re-observe and filter. Niamh O’Malley also uses video for its role as an animator; capturing and arresting attention and reminding us of our compulsion to gather and to make still. Her moving image works deliberately mark the observational tone or document of the film as subjective and delimited. The partial or the glimpse can be enough.

Born Co. Mayo, Niamh O’Malley studied at University of Ulster, Belfast and lives and works in Dublin. 

She has made numerous solo exhibitions including representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale (2022), mother’s tankstation (2020); Royal Hibernian Academy (2019); Lismore Castle Arts (2019); Grazer Kunstverein (2018); Bluecoat Liverpool (2015); Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2017) & (2015); a five venue solo show called ‘The Mayo Collaborative’ Ireland (2013); ‘Garden’, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2013); Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway (2012); ‘Model’, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2011); ‘Island’, Centre Culturel Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2010); ‘Frame, Glass, Black’ Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France (2010); ‘Echo’, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2010); ‘No Distance’, Void, Derry, Northern Ireland (2009).

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist David Beattie in 2021.

David Beattie is an artist and lecturer in Art and Research Collaboration at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology.

Beattie’s sculptural practice explores the material world through experiential, physical engagements with objects and non-objects. Recent projects have focused on the social and environmental impact of digital technologies, haptic robotics and machine learning. He was awarded the Harpo Foundation Award in 2010 and was a recipient of the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection, 2016. In recent years, he has been commissioned to produce a number of temporary and permanent public artworks including VOID Commissions, Derry (2021), Reflectors, Bray, Co.Wicklow and Patterns of Illumination, Griffith Barracks Multi-denominational School, Dublin. 

Solo exhibitions include Tulca Festival, 2024, Berlin Opticians (2019), NUI Maynooth (2017), CCA Derry-Londonderry (2017), Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (2011), The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh (2010), Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Visual Art, Toronto (2010) and Oonagh Young Gallery (2009); Group exhibitions include Circadian Rhythms, The Glucksman (2019), Berlin Opticians (2018+2019) TULCA Art Festival, Galway (2017), As above, so below, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2017), In the Line of Beauty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2013), O Brave New World, Rubicon Projects, Brussels (2013) All Humans Do, The Model Sligo and Whitebox, New York (2012); Feedback, Galway Arts Centre (2011); Holding Together Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2010); La Part des Choses, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris, and Quiet Revolution, Hayward Touring, UK (2009). 

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Bernadette Kiely in 2021.

Bernadette Kiely is a visual artist based on the quayside of the river Nore in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.

Known for her powerful portrayals of the fragility of the natural and physical world, Bernadette draws particularly on her experiences as a child growing up on the quayside in Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary, where she witnessed many flood events which have continued throughout her life as an adult living on the river Nore in Co. Kilkenny. The effects of flooding and decay on land and human lives have been an enduring theme in her practice for over 25 years expanding in scale and intensity along with the urgency of the present climate emergency.

Bernadette is represented by Taylor Galleries, Dublin and is a member of Aosdana, the governmental body of artists who are deemed by their peers to make a continuing significant contribution to the arts in Ireland.

“Bernadette Kiely’s Don’t Need No Country, Don’t Fly No Flag at the Paintwork’s Gallery in Galway during the summer was a wonder. it’s a visual arts exhibition about borders and a warming world. Flooded landscapes, drawing from memories, past emotions, the flooded street, the flooded house, river rats, debris and how you live through it all on the river Nore. A haunting exhibition that lingers in the mind.” Rita Ann Higgins, Poet and member of Aosdana.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Yero Adugna Eticha in 2021.

Yero Adugna Eticha, born in Oromia/Ethiopia, is a Berlin/ Addis Abeba based photographer working for renowned culture Institut : Akadamie der Künste, Tanz im August , Festival of Future Nows, Studio Olafur Eliasson & his own different projects. As a spät passionate runner, he started his photographic career at the age of 29 by covering Berlin party events und alte heim. From 2008 to 2011, he joined Ostkreuzschule in Berlin to study photography. He developed an individual documentary style while focussing on social and politics issues, it´s staging and in the end, humanity. "Yeroo Kenyaa", his project about youth movement, took him to different citys in Ethiopia.

His most recent project and passion is Black in Berlin; 

When Breonna Taylor and George Floyd were murdered by police officers in 2020, the global protest movement Black Lives Matter got high attention. In Berlin, like many other places, people demonstrated their solidarity. Yero Adugna Eticha (b. in Oromia, Ethiopia; lives and works in Berlin) decided to get active and document Black life in Berlin. He walked through the streets of Berlin handing out flyers inviting Black people to be photographed by him. In the following two years, Adugna Eticha portrayed over 512 people, listened to their stories and learned the mundane but moving details of their lives during the encounters. 

Black in Berlin presents a selection of these encounters. They are 100 portraits of the multifaceted realities of the Black diaspora’s life in Berlin: the author, the opera singer, the white-collar single mom, and the pensioner. With a conversation between Yvette Mutumba and the artist.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Amy O'Riordan in 2021.

Working both behind and in front of the eye of the camera lens, artist Amy O'Riordan oversees every detail of costumes, make up, extensive setting up of props, settings and locations.

Her photographic images offer a privileged glimpse into an intimate world by challenging by gaze. O’Riordan presented a series of works that specifically addressed subverting gender roles, explored female empowerment and investigated the female gaze. Her work makes references to both the historical tradition of painting and popular culture to examine female identity.

In her more recent works she presents a series of intimate allegorical self portraits which she stages in her home in Clonsilla, Dublin which further examine complex questions regarding female gender as well as her own female identity. Her photographs again are staged, complete with photographic tableaux, make up with a strong element of performance and theatricality. By being both behind and in front of the eye of the camera, she maintains complete bodily autonomy of her own image and creates her very own visual language.

Ten years ago, O’Riordan experienced a life changing accident which left her with a permanent spinal injury, requiring nine spinal surgeries needing a bionic spinal implant and she lives with chronic nerve pain. By focusing and creating art professionally has given her a tremendous sense of joy, purpose and catharsis despite her physical challenges

Selected Solo exhibitions

2021, March“Intimations of Immortality” solo online photographic exhibition at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin March 2021

Selected Group exhibitions

2022,  Through the lens,  selections from the Limerick City Gallery of Art Permanent Collection. Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square, Limerick.

2022, The RHA 192ND Annual Exhibition, The RHA Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin 2, Ireland

2022, Opening the Gates, PhotoIreland Festival

2023, The RHA193rd Annual Exhibition, The RHA Gallery, Dublin.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Tadhg Ó'Cuirrín in 2021.

Tadhg Ó Cuirrín is an artist and teacher based in the west of Ireland.

He received a BA in Fine Art, Painting from the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2009. He works in a variety of media, and his work was recently shortlisted for the Hennessey Craig Award at the RHA 192nd Annual Exhibition. In November 2022 he will present new work at TULCA Festival of Visual Art in Galway. In March 2023 he will present a new exhibition at the Custom House Studios in Westport. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include "The Unexamined Life" in July 2021, and "Magic, Metallic Saliva” with Karen Conway at 126 Artist Run Gallery in March 2022.

His work is supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, the Arts Council of Ireland, and Galway County Council.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist James Earley in 2021.

James Earley produces abstracted figurative works that bring together traditions of painting, design and stained glass art.

James Earley (b. 1981), is an Irish artist who lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Earley's practice is rooted in graffiti, graphic design and his family's heritage in stained glass. He creates artworks that are timeless in their aesthetic and rich in their conceptual narrative.

The pieces are produced using digital tools to create analogue artworks. Fusing computer-aided fabrication with traditional hand-made techniques, he embraces technology to create complex, layered, highly charged compositions. Earley's principle aesthetic focus is to visualise deconstructed stained glass windows, where the architectural forms of the window (lead, glass) hang in suspended tension, depicted through a graphic language of line, colour and halftone forms.

Earley's work deals with wide ranging themes of power, societal imbalances, religion, politics and ultimately, the inhumanity of man. His artworks are a visual meditation and reflection of these themes.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Liliane Puthod in 2021.

Liliane Puthod's practice often takes the form of large-scale installations and sculptures using both handmade and industrial materials as a way to confront archaeological and commodified times.

She appropriates and manipulates some of society’s existing modes of dissemination, display and production to subtly destabilize what she considers the fabrication of desire and subjectivity in relation to objecthood. Investigating the temporality of everyday life’s consumption, her work questions its perceived value within our globalised world.

Liliane Puthod, born in France lives and works in Dublin. She graduated from a Master in Fine Arts at HEAD Geneva in 2013.

Selected exhibitions include: Longest Way Round Shortest Way Home exhibited at the Dublin Port, Temple Bar Gallery+Studios, Dissolving Histories: An Unreliable Presence, Golden Thread Gallery, curated by Mary Cremin and Peter Richards (2020); Display, Link and Cure, The Complex, curated by Paul McGrane and Mark O’Gorman (2019); How Long After Best Before, Pallas Projects/Studios (2019); Everything Must Go, PS2, Belfast (2019); Awards include; Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary (2019); Summer Studio Residency, TUD, Dublin (2019); Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain (FCAC) Geneva (2015); Fire Station Sculpture Workshop Award (2014).

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On this episode, closing Season 6, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Andrew Carson in 2021.

At the core of Andrew Carson’s practice is the exploration of the body and interpersonal interactions through the mediums of digital technology. Examining social structures, systems, and methods of communication, he is interested in the use and effects of digital devices and social media as the modern ubiquitous means of contact.

Influenced by Transhumanist thought, questions that continuously arise for Carson include; how do we reconcile virtual and physical realities, and can we overcome the psychological distances inherent in digital interaction? 

Carson’s work is installation based, often as a response to, and in conversation with, specified spaces. He works in a variety of media, including digital sound and image, print, and paper

Andrew Carson is based in Dublin, recently finished an MFA in NCAD in 2019, having graduated from DIT with a BA Fine Art in 2010. He has shown in solo and group exhibitions extensively around Ireland, the UK, Greece, Italy, Spain, Poland and Japan. His work is featured in private and the OPW state

collections.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alex Keatinge in 2021.

Alex Keatinge is a Visual Artist working across sculpture and photography.

With mould making and photography being key tools in her practice, her work often explores the commonalities between the two and draws upon the intrapersonal and the material extended self to create objects that pace the line between knowingness and uncertainty.

Selected exhibitions

2024 Early Plastic, Green Service two person online show

2023 art Works! PP/S, Irish Georgian Society, Dublin

2022 Deliverables, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin

2022 You Breathe Differently Down Here, Draiocht, Blanchardstown

2019/2020 Periodical Review #9 , Pallas Projects/Studios , Dublin City

Keatinge lives and works between Kildare and Dublin. She is currently supported by the Arts Council Agility Award (2023). 

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