Ultraviolet Art Talks

One this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Robert Armstrong in 2020.

The sources of Robert Armstrong's paintings include references to art history, ancient geological maps, and current environmental catastrophes. The paintings present images of landscape, mountains, caves, clouds, water, and floods - familiar landscape motifs in a changing world.

The paintings are not depictive of particular places or events, but instead reveal the struggle between the certainty of the photographic source and the process used to create the image. The paint - whether thick or thin, opaque or transparent - mostly depicts itself. Regard for the material properties of paint and the methods of its application can obliterate or blur the image in favour of the autonomous pulse of the new painting.

In contrast to digital imagery, which can be grasped quickly and flicked away, the intention is to make paintings which demand and reward slow looking.

Born in Gorey, County Wexford, Ireland, Robert Armstrong lives and works in Dublin, and is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, also in Dublin. He is a Founder Member of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and was Head of Painting at the National College of Art & Design (NCAD) from 2002 until his retirement in 2018, having taught at the college since 1991. He has exhibited regularly in Ireland and abroad for more than forty years. His work is included in many private and public collections and has been the subject of essays by writers including Aidan Dunne, Declan Long and Colm Tóibín.

Selected exhibitions include;

2024 Artists' Picks, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen; 2023 After Mountains, More Mountains, (solo) Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin; 2022 ÖVERGÅNG, Kevin Kavanagh, with Robert Armstrong, Anna Bjerger, Petra Lindholm, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Bella Rune and Kathy Tynan; 2020 Three Distances, (solo) Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin; Vision X, curated by Diana Copperwhite, RHA Gallery, Dublin. Participating artists include Norbert Schwontowski, Joyce Pensato, Thomas Nozkowski (2019); Water Mountain - Made in Hong Kong, (solo) AVA HKBU, Hong Kong

(2019); Squeegee Paintings, (solo) Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin (2019); Slips and Glimpses, Robert Armstrong and Anna Bjerger, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery (2016); VOLTA New York, Solo Presentation with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery (2015).

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Paul Hallahan in 2020.

Paul Hallahan is an Irish artist living and working at Fire Station Studio's Dublin whose work is primarily based in painting, but also looks to sculpture and video.

Interests within his work expand into many areas but commonly focus on how we as a species relate and interact with nature, taking art as a form or by-product of nature and our civilisation. Using various methods and techniques his paintings are built up of thin layers, this allows the works to be shaped and guided over a long period of time, it also allows light move between the layers and when used on raw canvas allows light move through the works. This has always been of interest to Hallahan as he wanted the works to be active to the viewer and transcend the composition and initial image of the work.

In 2009 in conjunction with Waterford City Council he set and ran Soma contemporary till 2012, working with many national and international institutions and artists. He has exhibited widely over the next 10 years and in 2018 he won the Golden Fleece Award. In recent years he has had exhibitions at Hang Tough Contemporary (Dublin), The Complex (Dublin), Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin), The Lab (Dublin), Berlin Opticians Gallery (Dublin) and Roscommon Arts Centre In 2019 he was part of a two-person exhibition that was shown in the Lexicon Gallery Dublin, Garter Lane Gallery Waterford, Sternview Gallery Cork, Platform Arts Belfast. His work is part of the collections of The ArtsCouncil, DLR County Council, Industrial Development Agency Ireland (IDA), Trinity College Dublin, The Office of Public Works, Waterford City Collection and numerous private collections.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Ultra Contemporary Artist Jonathan Mayhew in 2020.

Jonathan Mayhew is an Irish artist and occasional writer based in Dublin.

Using poetry, literature, technology and theory, he manipulates physical and invisible materials creating works in a variety of media, questioning the world we live in. He is interested in how we think about technology and society, how we use it and how it in turn uses us, while exploring the blurring edges of fiction and reality. His works offers a poetic escape from the hyper reality we live in.

Recent shows, ‘EarthRising’ Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2023, ‘em-bracing’ Lab Gallery Dublin 2022, ‘Zurich Portrait Prize 2020’ National Galley of Ireland/Crawford Arts Centre, The wind steals music & brings it to me’ Pallas Projects Dublin 2019, ‘Scaffold’ The Bomb Factory, London 2019, ‘Agnes & I’ the Library Project Dublin, 2019, HIAP Spring Open 2019’, Helsinki, ‘digital_self’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2018; ‘Zurich Portrait Prize 2018’ National Galley of Ireland; ‘The stars turn and a time presents itself’, Risør Kunstpark, Norway, 2018; ‘Sørlandsutstillingen,’ Kristiansand Kunsthall, Norway, 2017; 'The Way Things Go' Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, 2017: ‘I Wanted to Write a Poem’ Wexford Arts Centre, 2017 (awarded in 2015). Emerging Artist for Wexford in 2016. Along side his artistic practice, he has also worked as director of One Gallery in Dublin and curator at Monster Truck Gallery.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist William O’Neil in 2020.

William O'Neill is a visual artist living and working in Meath, Ireland. He graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design in 2009.

His paintings are process driven. He meticulously creates still life scenes which he photographs and works from.

He's interested in these still life arrangements for their angles, shapes, the positive/negative space they create, how the objects interact with each other and their potential as subject matter.

'Luminous Gatherings' his first solo exhibition took place at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in April 2022. He was the recipient of the Solstice Visual Arts Award at Solstice Arts Centre (2021). In 2019, he was shortlisted for the RHA Hennessy Craig Award. Group exhibitions include, Surveyor 2022, Surveyor 2021, Surveyor 2020, Solstice Arts Centre, (2020, 2021 & 2022); 188th, 189th, 190th, 191st & 193rd RHA Annual Exhibitions, RHA (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2023); 139th RUA Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, (2020); Winter Open 2019, Rua Red, (2019); Island Life, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery (2018); Island Life, Custom House Studios (2018).

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Amanda Doran in 2020.

Born and raised in Co. Wexford in Ireland, Amanda Doran graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2012. She is a figurative painter with a passion for the obscure and bold, brash colour.

Her paintings are thickly painted with wonderfully luscious colours and textures.

Amanda took a career pause and is currently a content creator on Instagram.

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On this episode, recorded in 2020,Caren Sullivan talks to artist Austin Hearne.

Concerns around the occupation of Ireland by the Roman Catholic Church are at the heart of Austin Hearne's practice. The majesty and misery of this institution are the poles which Hearne operates within.

Photography is at the root of his practice, using this medium in its most experimental and expansive form to create performances, installations, films, music and mise-en-scéne. Playing with fact and fiction Hearne creates worlds, characters and scenarios to satirise, demonise and embellish. Alongside all this he brings in the stuff of the painting and decorating industry to make wallpapered interiors decorated with painted photographic objects and furniture.

Austin Hearne is supported by the Arts Council Bursary Award 2020,2021, 2022.

Recent projects include Requiem for Raymo (solo) at the RHA Gallery (which included a weekly performance as part of the installation.), (Nov 22 to Jan 23). His film Whispers was shown as part of the Gaze Film Festival where it won Best Irish Short

(2022).

Select solo shows include Slabs at The Complex, Dublin (2021); and Love Letters To Cardinal Raymo at Gorey School of Art, Co. Wexford (2021). Select group shows include WEAREFET/SHISTS curated by James Merrigan), Garter Lane, Co Waterford (2022); Speech sounds (curated by larlaith Ni Fhearois), VISUAL, Co. Carlow (2022); Images Are All We Have, Photolreland Festival, Dublin Castle (2022); Silver/Celebrating 25 years of Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin (2019), Periodical Review #8, Pallas Projects, Dublin (2018).

Austin is in the post punk, goth band Satin Shadow with Glenn McQuaid, they have released 2 albums on Bandcamp.

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In this episode Caren Sullivan talks to artist Bríd Murphy.

Bríd Murphy is a visual artist from Portarlington, Laois. She recently graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with a BA in Sculpture and Combined Media. Her practice explores themes such as gender, anxiety and self-identity through a wide variety of media including video, drawing and performance.

Her work has been exhibited in group shows, such as PeakShow and K-FEST.

More recently she has shown work in the National Museum of Ireland, Castlebar and the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.

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In this Ultraviolet Art talks second episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Leah Hewson.

Leah Hewson has a First-Class BA(Hons) degree in Fine Art from IADT, Dublin Ireland. Solo exhibitions include 'Kin Connection', The Royal Hibernian Academy (2024), ‘Blowout’ Stoney Road Press, INK Miami(2022), 'Ammo Veil' , Hillsboro Fine Art gallery (2018) and ‘Scintilla’, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2017) which was the culmination of work produced during a six-month residency at The RHA School. Other residencies include Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, New York (2018), SIM Residency, Berlin (2019) and Wilton Park Studios Residency, Dublin in (2019 -20), Facebook AIR program (2020).

Hewson won the Whyte's Award for painting at the 190th RHA Annual Exhibition, was shortlisted for the Hennessy Craig Biennial Award in 2019 and is accredited with the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel Bursary Award 2018.

Hewson's work continues to be collected internationally, including being auctioned at Sotheby's, while public collections include The Trinity College Dublin History of Art collection, The Office of Public Works, Dublin, The Law Society of Ireland, the Microsoft Collection, Fidelity Investments and The Cleveland Clinic.  

Hewson recently created an installation for Art on Paper in New York in 2022, and more recently Beyond the Pale Festival and has painted murals at Stoney Road Press and Kicky's restaurant in Dublin.

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In this first Ultraviolet Art Talks Episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Stephen Dunne in 2020.

Stephen Dunne graduated from the Royal College Of Art, with an M.A in Painting in 200, his practice operates across the registers of painting, drawing, moving image and the investigation of speculative and theoretical fictions. The process of making, where each thing leads to the next through an experimental and intuitive approach is at the core of this work. The work is realised as painting installations, books, printed matter, works on paper, animations, and as collective artworks (made collaboratively with others). Critical to this processes is an interest in drawing on aspects of the subconscious, to enable freer, less conscious or less self-reflexive aspects to come through in the final work.

Selected exhibitions include: Worms In Your Head, A Journey, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon Co. Clare, May 2019; Shackled To Belligerent Ghosts, Triskel Arts Center, Cork, April 2019; Uchronia, Not As It Was, But As It Might Have Been, Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, February 2019; Wilder Beings Command, Irish Museum of Modern Art, July 2017; As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, Irish Museum of Modern Art, April -August 2017

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