Ultraviolet Art Talks

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Steven Maybury in 2020.

Irish artist – Living and working in Rotterdam. Piet Zwart Institute MFA 2019-2021.

Selected Solo and Two person shows include:

Three solo exhibitions created during a 6 month residency in The RHA Dublin in June / July 2014:

Jigsaw’s Combs and Rulers at The Eight Gallery, Radical Lines at Pallas Projects, Groove Chronicles at The Market Studios.

 Synthesis i– Eight Gallery and Synthesis ii– Tactic Gallery [2013]. With Irish artist Claire Mc Cluskey.

Selected group exhibitions include:

London/Irish Art Fair, Westminster Central Hall [2015], MART Experiments collaborating with poet Annemarie Ni Churreain curated by Moran Been-Noon [2014], VUE contemporary art fair, RHA [2014],  TULCA Art Fair in Galway [2014],  Block T members show [2014], Little Kingdoms Catalyst arts Belfast [2014], NLA IV, Irish Museum of Contemporary Art [2013], 183rd Royal Hibernian Academy Exhibition [2013], VUE Contemporary Art Fair, RHA, Dublin [2013], 40-40-40 OPW touring group show: Spain, Italy, Poland Ireland [2013], con.glom.er.ate Catalyst arts Belfast [2013], One year one day Talbot Gallery [2013], Re-act Market Studios [2012], Link Block T [2012], Mesh composition Block T and influx art fair Limerick [2012].

Steven’s works have been acquired by Office of Public works (OPW) State art collection, BIC Pen France, Google and Accenture

Private collections: Ireland, England, Germany, Austria, USA, Switzerland, Spain, Japan, Thailand, Netherlands.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist David Thomas Smith in 2020.

David Thomas Smith is a visual artist who specialises in Post- Photographic Processes.

David's work has been exhibited in several diverse locations around the world from the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris to the Hyundai Motor Studio in Beijing.

In 2017 David was nominated for one of photography's most prestigious awards The Prix Pictet.

David's work has also appeared in a variety of publications from Esquire, Russia to Wired in the United States and anthologies such as Robert Shore's: Post Photography - The Artist with a Camera. 

David Thomas Smith is a visual artist whose work interrogates the evolving relationship between technology, imagery, and the human experience. Engaging with Post-Photographic Processes, his practice explores how the digital realm reshapes our perception of reality, history, and memory. His work has been exhibited internationally, in venues from Gaîté Lyrique in Paris to Hyundai Motor Studio in Beijing, and he was nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2017. Smith’s work has appeared in Esquire, Wired, and other global publications.

David says; “My fascination with imagery stems from an ongoing interest in how it both reflects and shapes our collective experience. Having grown up in an era of accelerating digital technology, I have always been drawn to how imagery no longer merely documents reality, but actively constructs it. This duality—of reflection and distortion—drives my practice, compelling me to explore how images mediate our identities, memories, and relationships with the world around us.”

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Katrine Skovsgaard in 2020.

Katrine Skovsgaard, based and working in Copenhagen, DK and London, UK.

PhD student at Royal College of Art; graduated MA from Royal College of Art 2021; MFA, Fine Art, Funen Art Academy, 2016; recipient of the Sven Dalsgaard Honorary Award for young experimental artists and the 15th of June Foundations Honorary Award.

Works exhibited at Brandts, c4 Projects, Copenhagen Art Week, Kunsthal Aarhus, Middelfart Museum and The Psychiatry in Southern Denmark, Montez Press Radio, Sorø Art Museum, Vollsmose Culture House and elsewhere.

Curatorial work includes I SEE YOU ARE (NOT) THERE, exhibition and publication with c4 Projects and Gesture Press co-curated with Karin Hald, Rikke Ehlers Nilsson and Stine Gro; SW11NDOWS, lockdown exhibition in Battersea, Londonco-curated with Louise Ørsted Jensenand Anita Agarwal.

Katrine’s practice is supported by the Danish Art Workshops, Beckett Foundation, Merchant L.F. Foght’s Foundation, The Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Foundation, Augustinus Foundation, Knud Højgaard’s Foundation, William Demant Foundation and Lizzi and Mogens Staal Foundation.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Damien Flood in 2020.

Damien Flood b. 1979, is an Irish artist based in Dublin.

His work is grounded in early writings on philosophy, theology, alchemy and the natural sciences and explores the mutability of 'reality' and language.

Solo shows include: A Place for Lost Things, Weber & Weber, Turin, 2023, Dig, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin 2022, Tilt, RHA Gallery,Dublin, 2021, Shape of Things, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, LA, 2019, The Figure in the Carpet, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, 2018, Theory of Two Centres, Stephane Simoens, Knokke, 2017, Infinite Plane, Grey Noise, Dubai, 2015, Interior Sun, Green On Red Gallery, 2014, Theatre of the World, Ormston House, Limerick, 2012, History of the Visitation, Green On Red Gallery, 2011, Counter-Earth, Green On Red Gallery, 2010.

Recent group shows include: Liminal Salon, Liminal Gallery, Margate, 2023, Tenderness, Liminal Gallery, Margate 2023,  Damien Flood, Niamh McCann, Courthouse Gallery, Clare, 2021, DF/HW, Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne,2018, Known Unknowns, Limerick City Gallery, Wouldn’t it be nice if we could dream together? Diane Rosenstein Gallery, LA (both 2017), The Studio Chroniclesat RH Contemporary, New York (2015), Product Recall, Galway Arts Centre, Galway (2015), NGORONGORO, Lehder Strasse 34, Berlin (2015), Cú Chulainn Comforted, Basic Space, Dublin (2015), Promise of Palm Trees, Breese Little, London, (2015), Pull Bite Rally, NCAD Gallery, Dublin (2014). Renew, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin (2014,) Was Uns Trend, Glue, Berlin (2014). In 2013, he exhibited in the group exhibition Island: New Art From Ireland in Galleria Civica diModena, Italy; in the three-person show Flood/NiBhriain/Vari at DOMOBAAL, London; and the group show Cafe Paradiso (Least common denominator, or Rustenschacher) at M1, Hohenlockstedt, Germany. In 2012, he was part of the group show Making Familiar at Temple Bar Gallery, Crystalline at Millennium Court Arts Centre and Last at Douglas Hyde Gallery.

In 2014 he was the recipient of the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel Bursaryadministered by the Royal Hibernian Academy and in 2015 was awarded the DLR Lexicon 2016 Commission. Most recently Flood was awarded the Eigse Hotron Award 2017.

He has been a tutor at Belfast College of Art, Limerick College of Art, Wexford College of Art, Sligo College of Art, Burren College of Art and has been a Visiting Lecturer at the National College of Art, Dublin and currently teaches at the RHA School and Bray Institute of Further Education.
Damien Flood is represented by Green On Red Gallery, Ireland

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Vera Ryklova in 2020.

Vera Ryklova is a visual artist who works across the media of photography, video, performance and installation, and who has been developing her practice over the past nine years. She has received several awards, including Studio Residency at The Dean Art Studios (2022-24), Visual Arts Bursary (2023) and represented PhotoIreland at Futures Europe-based platform for photography. She was shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait Prize (2016), which exhibited at the National Gallery of Ireland. 

Vera presented four solo exhibitions as well as exhibited in a number of group shows held in Ireland and the UK, including the FiLiA Feminist Conference. Her work has been featured in photography journals and art publications and is included in public art collections by the OPW State Art Collection, Trinity College Dublin and The Arts Council. 

In her practice Vera explores the concept of the self and the events that impact its social construction. She often investigates her own lived experiences and uses her own body to make her work. Producing material that confronts the condition of womanhood she exposes a conflict between two realities. She uses her practice as a distancing device that may allow her to experience a state of catharsis. The link between the artistic execution and the liberating emotional discharge is also at the centre of her interest.

Her activities are also engaged in curatorial practice. As a curator she presented two group exhibitions in Dublin. 

Originally from the Czech Republic, Vera moved to Ireland in 2007. Brought by a pure desire for a life change, this has been a journey of personal discovery which resulted in pursuing an artistic career. In this very sense she is proud to consider herself an Irish artist.

Based in Dublin, Vera has also been resident in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. In 2021 she completed an MA in Art and Research Collaboration at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire. In 2015 she graduated from the same Institute with a BA (Hons) in Photography. 

She is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to visual artist Aideen Barry in 2020.

Aideen Barry is a practising Visual Artist based in Ireland but with international representation. In 2020 she was elected to the RHA. She is a member of Aosdána and Lectures in several universities and schools of visual art in Ireland, the US and Europe.

 Barry is an artist whose work encompasses a vast range of disciplines and subjects, such as domestic labour, environmental fracture, and human vulnerability. Her work meditates on feminism, classism, intersectionality, and inequality. Utilising archives, museums, and other dialectic processes, she seeks to transfer the unknown through the experiential; democratising access to visual culture and complex ideas of otherness through clever ploys of collaboration and plot devices that seduce the viewer into her multi spatial experiences. Her works reflect her commitment to confronting unsettling truths and addressing gaps in the canon.

Selected projects include exhibitions at: Salzburg Kunstverein (AT) , New Art Dealers (US), Centre for the Less Good Idea (SA), Elephant West ( UK), Mothers Tankstation ( IRE), The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Oaxaca (Mex), Louise T. Blouin (UK), Moderne Mussett Sweden, The Loop Biennale (ESP), Matucana 100 (Chile), FRIEZE Art Fair (UK) ,The Wexner Centre Ohio, The Royal Hibernian Academy, the Museum des Beaux Arts (FR), The Crawford Municipal Gallery, The Butler Gallery, The Banff Centre Canada, the Headlands Centre for the Arts San Francisco, Liste Art Fair Basel Switzerland, BAC Geneva, Arco Art Fair (ESP), CH ACO (Chile) and Catherine Clark Gallery US. Barry has received numerous awards for her practice including recent awards: A Culture Ireland Award 2018, The Vermont Studio Centre Fellowship Award 2017, Project New Work Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Awards, Modern Ireland in 100 Art Works 2015 award from the Royal Irish Academy, the Silent Light Film Award at the Cork Film Festival, Travel and Training Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, AIB Prize shortlisted, In 2021 she won the Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award, The Golden Fleece Award and a Project New Work Award from the Arts Council. In 2022 she was awarded the International Studio & Curatorial Project Residency & Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Award and undertook her residency in January 2023.

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On his episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Peter Burns in 2020.

Born in 1979, Peter Burns earned his BA in Sculpture and MFA in Painting from the National College of Art And Design, Dublin. He lives and works in Co.Mayo, Ireland.

Peter Burns presented new paintings and sculptures with Gibbons & Nicholas at Art Projects, LAF 2018 and Context NYC & Miami (2017). He participated in Fables of the Reconstruction at David & Schweitzer Contemporary, NY (2017).

Other recent exhibitions include, Futures Anthology at The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2015), Self Portraits at BravinLee Programs, NY, (2016) Works on Paper at Exhibition A, NY, (2016) coinciding with the release of a limited edition print.

Past solo exhibitions were held at Fenderesky Gallery Belfast, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin and Claremorris Gallery. Selected group exhibitions include Last, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Making Familiar, Temple Bar Gallery and None went Mad, None Ran Away, Rubicon Gallery. Burns has been featured in Wall Street International Magazine, The Sunday Times and ArtForum among others. He is a recent recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist, Becks Butler in 2020.

Becks have a successful career in visual arts and curatorial practice. Their works have been purchased by the Royal Irish Academy, the OPW state collection, and various private collectors both in Ireland and internationally.

Within their commercial practice, Becks has worked on design projects for clients such as Guinness, REPEAL Campaign and Style Club and her editorials have been published by The Guardian UK, Quartz NYC, Over Journal, and The Irish Times.

Becks Butler is a Lecturer at Griffith College Dublin where they also chair the EDI Committee and sit on the Academic and Professional Council. Becks is proudly partner and co-founder at New Wave Innovation Agency. New Wave helps businesses and organisations create innovative solutions and achieve growth with a portfolio of clients including Kerry Group, ICON, DPP Skillnet, Cosentino.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Salvatore of Lucan in 2020.

Salvatore of Lucan (born 1994) (real name Salvatore Fullam ) is an Irish artist from Lucan, the eponymous suburb of Dublin. The artist primarily paints large-scale works most of which focus on his own life and often explore themes of home, identity and relationships.

Fullam is of mixed-race, being half Bangladeshi on his father's side and half Irish on his mother's.

According to the artist, he was not academically gifted and thus found it an "easy choice" to go to art college, where he studied Fine Art Painting but was initially interested in studying fashion. He graduated from the National College of Art And Design (NCAD) in 2016.

Fullam's first show, entitled "Show of Himself", took place in Pallas Projects, Dublin in 2018.In 2019, he won the Whyte's Award and received the Arts Council’s Next Generation Award'. The artist participated in Culture Night 2020 as part of an Arts Council showcase of paintings that had been recently added to its collection. Fullam's first time exhibiting paintings outside of Ireland was at the Meštrović Pavilion in Zagreb as part of Pallas Projects '6th Biennial of Painting' in October 2021.

He won the National Gallery of Ireland's Zurich Portrait Prize 30 November 2021 for his submission "Me Ma Healing Me" (2020), which was inspired by his mother's use of sound healing and reiki to care for him. Fullam's show Fancy Situations opened at Dublin's Kevin Kavanagh Gallery on 6 June 2024.

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Closing Season 2 on this very special episode, Caren Sullivan talks to renowned international artist, painter, sculptor, once member of post-punk legendary band Virgin Prunes, Guggi, in 2020.

Born and working in Dublin, Guggi is an artist working with drawing, painting and sculpture, Guggi digs deep into a personal yet universal subject matter: the quotidian beauty of household objects.

He committedly revisits his signature motifs of bowls, jugs and vessels, using repetition and abstraction to conjure an almost meditative state. In his paintings and works on paper, their forms appear tentative: broken outlines against resonant washes of abstract colour. And yet when Guggi continues his investigations as sculpture, these humble instruments are bestowed with a renewed majesty and power: polished bronze or fibreglass forms that seem to harness and heighten energy, with the simplicity and timelessness of prehistoric artefacts. Connecting both approaches is a sense of openness and fluidity, an attentiveness to prosaic details.

CURRENT & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2024 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (Solo, 19 January - 24 February)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Memory to Form, Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France; curated by Dr. Jon Wood

2022 A Retrospective, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France

2021 Time, Galerie 75 Fauborg, Paris,France

2019 Broken, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Broken, Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan My Cup Overflows, Arcane Space, Venice,CA

2018 Château La Coste, Le Puy-Saint-Réparade, Provence

2017 Black and White in Colour, Yoshii Gallery, Paris

2016 This is not a hotel, Yoshii Gallery, New York

2013 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

2012 Accademia Fine Art, Monaco

Be Palermitano Gallery, Buenos Aires 2011 Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany

2010 Yoshii Gallery, New York

2009 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

2005 Solomon Galley, Dublin

2004 Osborne Samuel Gallery, London 2002 Solomon Gallery, Dublin

Permanent Installation, Beacon Court,Dublin

2001 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Solomon Gallery, Dublin

1997 Permanent Installation, Clarence Hotel, Dublin

1993 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

1991 Two-person exhibition with Sibylle Ungers, Ric Urmel Gallery, Gent, Belgium 1990 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Two-person exhibition with Sibylle Ungers, Gallerie Schurr, Stuttgart

1989 Two-person exhibition with Sibylle Ungers, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France Akureyi Municipal Art Gallery, Iceland The Clarence Hotel, Dublin Kelly's Resort Hotel, Wexford

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