Ultraviolet Art Talks

On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Lee Welch in 2020.

Lee Welch was born in Louisville, Kentucky and currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.

Welch creates gestural, atmospheric paintings that attest to the psychical and emotional depths of his chosen subjects and map out delicate negotiations between beauty, desire, and the painted image. Depicting figures from his own milieu, as well as from history, literature, music, and tennis,

Welch finds feeling in that which he depicts, always rendered with the intensity of his particular humanism; a close looking akin to love. In each subject’s specificity, the artist reveals the universal feelings that connect us to each other, and that stretch from our present moment back through time.

Welch received his BFA from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in 2009 and his MFA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2011.

He has since been widely exhibited internationally and received numerous awards. Recent exhibitions have taken place at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain; Glucksman Gallery, Cork; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.

His paintings are in private and public collections such as the Arts Council, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane and the OPW - State Art Collection.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Lar O'Toole in 2020.

Lar O’Toole is interested in an art/science interface and the cultural and psychological effects of expanded seeing; the insights into inner and outer space afforded to science by the application of lenses since the late 16th century.

The shift away from a heliocentric cosmology at this time spurred scientific inquiry and decentred mankind within the universe. Lar is drawn to the dilemmas that arise when considering our cosmic significance or insignificance.

His recent work and research explores the compression of astronomical distances and timescales relative to the human experience.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Liz Nielsen in 2020.

Liz Nielsen lives and works in Brooklyn and Newburgh, NY.

Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004, her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, and her BA in Philosophy and Spanish from Seattle University in 1997.

Nielsen's works have been reviewed in Artforum, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Financial Times, The British Journal of Photography, The New York Times, LensCulture, FOAM Magazine, and ArtSlant among others.

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On this Halloween Special episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to super talented singer, musician and actress, Camille O'Sullivan in 2020.

Camille O'Sullivan is an Irish singer, musician, and actress.

Born in London to a French mother and Irish father, she grew up in Cork, Ireland. O'Sullivan is known for her unique, dramatic musical style and covers of artists such as Radiohead, Tom Waits and David Bowie. As an actress, O'Sullivan has appeared in Mrs. Henderson Presents, Rebellion and Pick Ups.

The award-winning singer - one of the original cast members of the Olivier Award-winning La Soiree- has stunned audiences around the world with her sell-out performances including Sydney Opera House, London’s Royal Festival Hall,The Roundhouse and a show-stealing appearance on Later with Jools Holland BBC. Recently she sold out her 10 night run at Sydney Festival where she won a prestigious Australian Helpmann Award ‘Best Performance’.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Gabhann Dunne in 2020.

Gabhann Dunne is an Irish artist working with all kinds of subjects, from Landscape Paintings to Portraits. Using soft colour palettes and thick brushstrokes, Gabhann creates Oil Paintings with a romantic and poetic quality. Rich in colour and texture, his art is an examination of various different themes, ranging from power structures to the marginalisation of animals and their spaces. This Animal Art is a celebration of our natural environment and ultimately a defence of them that urges us to reconsider our relationship with nature.

Gabhann was born into an artistic environment. His mother was a Watercolour Painter, which encouraged him to explore his creative side from a young age. He went on to study a BA in Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology in 1997, and returned to his studies 13 years later to complete a MA in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. His work incorporates elements of the Abstract and the Figurative, and has been featured in solo and group shows across Ireland.

You'll find Gabhann's Paintings in numerous notable collections, such as Facebook, Deloitte and the Law Society of Ireland.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Mark Joyce in 2020.

Mark Joyce is an artist based in Dublin.

He studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London. He has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK and the USA, received awards from The British Council, Thomas Damman Trust and the Georgette Chen fellowship in 2016.

His work is in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Arts Council collections. 

In his painting, public commissions and teaching, he explores some of the anomalies and phenomenological strangeness of our human visual experience, inspired by ideas drawn from science and philosophy. 

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On this episode, closing Season 4, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Liliane Tomasko in 2020.

Born in Zurich, Switzerland. Lives and works in London.

Liliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour. The artist begins her investigation of the human psyche in the domestic sphere, offering attentive studies of bedding and clothing, the intimate textures of our lives.

Through the artist’s reflections, these prosaic materials open a gateway into the nocturnal realm of sleep and dreaming, articulating the creatively fertile space between ‘conscious’ and ‘unconscious’. Tomasko’s approach to abstraction is rooted, therefore, in the physical realm but ultimately transcends beyond it. Fusing material observation with intuition and association, the artist produces vigorous, imaginative expressions of familiar environments and psychological states. Intense colour, subtle tone, shadow, and painterly gesture allow space to come in and out of focus, oscillating between clarity and obscurity and emulating the atmospheric power of dreams and memories.

For more information, follow Liliane Tomasko and Kerlin Gallery on Instagram @lilianetomasko @kerlingallery

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist and Director of the Golden Tread Gallery, Peter Richards in 2020.

Peter Richards is an artist based in Belfast, in the North of Ireland. He works in a range of media including forms of photography, installation and performance. His works can be seen as artistic enquiries into subjects, such as: how understanding is formed and truth is subscribed to; how we have the capacity to suspend disbelief in order to continue believing in chosen truths. 

Richards often engages with interactions between re-presentation, time and referencing. He exhibits internationally and, in 2005, participated in Northern Ireland’s inaugural presentation at the Venice Biennale, ‘The Nature of Things – A Long Weekend’. 

Having grappled with comprehending how understanding is formed and truth is subscribed to, Richards has, throughout his practice, questioned: how he chooses what he believes?; how this is informed?; and how he can suspend disbelief in order to continue to believe in seemingly temporary constructs of a truth?

Often early works took as their starting point an engagement with forms of mediated experience, such as: how he could defer questioning the edits in movies in order to enjoy and believe in a filmic reality?; or how a combination of text and/or image influenced his thinking. 

He has been director of the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast since 2001.

Richards has had solo exhibitions at venues including: Millennium Court Art Centre, Portadown; ZDSLU gallery, Ljubljana; The Naughton Gallery, Belfast; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Studio Lipoli & Lopez, Rome; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo;

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alex Hudson in 2020.

Born 1976, London, UK MA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK. Lives and Works in Malmö, Sweden, Alex Hudson is a contemporary artist whose body of work is deeply rooted in the history of painting. 

More specifically, Hudson creates mesmerising images that very often draw from the work of the old masters up until early forms of Modernism. He does so in a way that when looking at his work there is a simultaneous sense of strangeness as well as familiarity —his imagery is purposely ambiguous which allows the artist to flirt with notions of belonging and displacement. Alex Hudson’s work is somehow a conceptual inquiry on painting itself, an entanglement of approaches and veiled references that crystallises in scenes, portraits or landscapes where allegories and refined philosophical ideas coexist with humorous, explicit or vulgar images.

Even the most anecdotal motifs find themselves a suitable place in Hudson’s compositions —it is indeed his technical dexterity that makes each and every one of his paintings a truly enjoyable experience Hudson imbues his oeuvre with a strong psychological charge that is intensified by the characters and the scenes he chooses to depict which tend to be outcasts, acrobats or nomads usually performing intimate or domestic activities.

Solo Exhibitions

2023 - Guru, Galleri Fredland, Arild, SE

2021 - Anytime Now, New Art Projects, London, UK

2018 - Mute Monolith Reflector, Apartment Projects, Zermatt, CH

2015 - The Promise, Kremanskis, Berlin, DE

2010 - Golden Mean, Vegas Gallery, London, UK

Awards

2009 - Whitechapel Gallery, Studio Bursary

2008 - Bloomberg New Contemporaries

Collections

Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, USA

Hugo and Carla Brown Collection, NL

Private Collections

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Elaine Hoey in 2020.

Elaine Hoey works mainly creating interactive based installations, appropriating contemporary digital art practices and aesthetics to explore the politics of digital humanity and our evolving relationship with the screen. 

She describes her process as ‘experimental’ and is interested in exploring digitally native and new forms of art. Her work often addresses and critiques themes arising from identity, place and the biopolitical body. 

She works through a wide variety of mediums such as, virtual reality, artificial intelligent systems, programming, video, installation and live remote cyber performance.

Selected exhibitions include; Bone Of What Absent Thing, Living Canvas, Wilton Park (2022-2023); Prosthetic Knowledge, The Glucksman (2022); Screentime, SilentGreen, Berlin (2022); Mimesis, at Solstice Art Center Navan (2021); Desire; A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age at the Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin (2019-2020); Unflattering at The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (2020) and Citizen Nowhere Citizen Somewhere at The Crawford Gallery, Cork (2020); The Dictionary of Evil, Gangwon International Biennale, South Korea (2018); Design and Violence MOMA and Science Gallery (2016-17); Dublin Futures, The RHA, Dublin; Turbulence, The Model Sligo; Oracle at Scena9. Bucharest (2018); Open Codes, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany; Surface Tension, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2018); FILE SP Fiesp Cultural Centre, São Paulo, Brazil (2019); This is not Architecture (2017) at Highlanes, Drogheda; The Ground Opened Up, The National Sculpture Factory, Cork (2017); 

Elaine is a recipient of the Taylor Art Award and the R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award and the CCI Residency Award from the RDS Visual Arts Awards. She is a part time lecturer in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

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