Ultraviolet Art Talks

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to multidisciplinary artist Maurice Leoni-Osion in 2023.

Maurice Leoni-Osion is a Multidisciplinary Artist and Program Director based in Berlin, DE, and Richmond, VA in US. His multicultural approach to Hip-Hop, combined with a deep love for Sci-Fi Thrillers, Afrofuturism, and Record-Artchiving, informs his artistic practice that spans across various mediums: poetry, literature, sound art, music production, film, art programs, exhibitions, and immersive performances—driven by a desire to celebrate and preserve the powerful, untold stories that lie at the intersection of the eyemaginariums of his youth and ancient “tecknowledgey” of his ancestors.

Within the layered entendre of his music youniverse, Maurice sees Hip-Hop as a constant companion and presence likened to a kindred, extended family member, deeply intertwined with a sense of collective memory. His work is often rooted in research from an underground artchivediscovered at a young age, stemming from his grandmother’s beloved record collection, which inspired a love for visual storytelling and ancestral lineage celebrated in album art and liner notes.

These formative experiences would cultivate an environment that fueled Maurice’s unconventional practice as an artist, performer, and director, empowering him to REvolve living narratives that connect the accounts of our experience to the past, present, and future.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to multimedia artist and popstar Roibí O'Rua in 2023.

Roibí is a multimedia artist utilising music, video, animation, and digital media to explore ideas of queerness as it exists within Generation Z.

Roibí occupies the space between popstar and fine artist, while referring to their own experiences as a 'Transfemme'.

The work explores ideas of identity through the idea of the self as a digital persona.

Roibi considers digital space as a means of socialisation and the development and expansion of subcultures.

Her latest body of work;

'DIGITRYN: REVo/eLu/aTION' was completed as part or

'Full Stack Feminism in

Digital Humanities' Artist Residency (Jan 23-Jep 23).

'DIGLTR4N: REVo/eLu/aTION'

is a continuation of the Geeter dody hi work

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transness as it exists in cyberspace. This latest of work refers to

biblical armageddon, acting as a response to 'The Transgender Debate',

Roibí claims the apocalyptic, abominable power that is projected onto the Trans Community by their opposition and used it to imagine a Transgender Supremacist, Post-Apocalyptic , High-Kitsch chaos; a world where trans people have the power to reshape the paradigms of society, force feminisation, hyper sexualisation, bimbofied, Yassified and queer.

Most recent work;

XR Lab: MXNIFESTO Workshop April 2025 Digital Arts Studios

1 Exchange PlaceBelfast, Northern Ireland

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Kate Fahey in 2023.

Kate Fahey is an artist and researcher working with print, sculpture, moving image, sound and installation. She received an MA in Fine Art Print at the Royal College of Art in 2015 and in 2020 she completed a practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London, supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council TECHNE Studentship.

She has exhibited her work widely at galleries and project spaces including Arti et Amiticiae, Amsterdam; Visual, Carlow; Commonage London; Gossamer Fog, London; The Bluecoat, Liverpool and the ICA, London. She has completed numerous residencies including ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin; Leitrim Sculpture Centre; The British School at Rome; Guest Projects, London; Callan Workhouse Union, Kilkenny and the Royal Scottish Academy.

Previously, she has taught and guest lectured at Arts University Bournemouth, London College of Communication, Manchester School of Art, Winchester School of Art and Kingston School of Art. Alongside her role at Falmouth University, she is a lecturer and module leader in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Sadhbh Mowlds in 2023.

Sadhbh Mowlds is visual artist who was born and raised in Dublin.

After receiving her bachelor in Craft Design (Hons) from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland (2014), she relocated to Germany. There, she worked as a freelance glass blower and instructor out of Berlin Glassworks. In 2019 she moved to the U.S, where she received her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2022). 

Mowlds works in a variety of materials to create jarring, bodily sculptures that initiate critical dialogue about the destructive effects of living within pre-determined, often patriarchal, constructs.

Captivated by the susceptibility of consciousness, Sadhbh responds to the absurdity of human beliefs, perceptions and behaviours by questioning what it truly means to be self-aware in an abrasive, modern society.

Recent residencies include the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, STARworks (NC, USA) and WheatonArts (NJ, USA). Mowlds has participated in numerous international exhibitions, regularly showing throughout Europe and the USA. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Kunstsammlungen der Coburg, Germany and the Museum of American Glass, NJ, USA.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to interdisciplinary artist Aaron Smyth in 2023.

Aaron Alexander Smyth, is an Irish interdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates identity and its formation. His work explores how our experience is visually coded within systems of power and how these codings, in turn, shape us, reflecting on the contradictions and truths cradled between our realities and fictions.

His work draws from art historical, cinematic, and archival imagery, weaving these elements together and contrasting them with a dynamic range of materials.

This fusion constructs a world suspended between the real and the subconscious, a reflection on our contradictions and truths, a silhouette of the present and mutual truth that is timeless.

Smyth holds a BA (Hons) with distinction in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design (Ireland) and has recently been awarded an MFA with distinction from the Glasgow School of Art (United Kingdom).

Exhibited extensively nationally and internationally with works held in public and private collections, he has been awarded Artist-in-Residence positions alongside GUM Collective in The National Gallery of Ireland, The Royal Hibernian Academy and Black Church Printmakers. Recent awards include the Leverhulme Master of Fine Art Bursary for academic excellence and the RSA John Kinross Scholarship for extended research.

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Resuming Season 15, Caren Sullivan talks to photographer and film-maker Jenny Keogh in 2023.

Jenny Keogh is a trained photographer with a (BA HONS 1999) degree and is qualified as a non-fiction filmmaker since 2010.

Following the International success of her award-winning short film ‘Story Bud?’ she went on to make a mini-series of short films celebrating and preserving Irish slang (aka the Hiberno-English language). She set up her own video production company, Stand Out Films, in 2016 and over the years has become the go-to person for Artists, Crafters, Creative Businesses and Educators to work with, to produce profile-films and video content for their websites and social media platforms.

She is also the founder, programmer and host of The Documentary Room – a cinema night in Dublin 8 dedicated to screening documentary films on Art, Music and Culture.

Jenny is also the Member Liaison and Events Manager at FLUX.

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Opening Season 15, Caren Sullivan talks to Art Historian and Curator Dr. Margarita Cappock in 2023.

Dr. Margarita Cappock is a Curator and Art Historian. She joined Dublin City Council in 1999 as Project Manager of the Francis Bacon Studio Project at the Hugh Lane Gallery, where she was subsequently Head of Collections and Deputy Director until 2018 when she transferred to Dublin City Arts Office. 

She has written extensively and curated several exhibitions on Irish Art. She has overseen major exhibition collaborations with international museums (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; BOZAR, Brussels). 

She is the lead on a major project to digitally document the Public Art Collection of Dublin City Council and coordinates the Dublin City Arts Office Residency Programme. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in History of Art and French, an MA in Irish Art and Architecture from University College Dublin and a Ph.D. in History of Art (NUI). Dr. Margarita Cappock is currently the curator of LAB Gallery.

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Closing Season 14, Caren Sullivan have a great chat with Prof. Kevin Rafter in 2022.

Kevin Rafter is Full Professor of Political Communication at Dublin City University and a specialist in the politics and media of contemporary Ireland. His books include Taoisigh and the Arts (2022) and Resilient Reporting: Media & Elections in Ireland since 1969 (2019).

He is an experienced non-executive director and Board Chair with significant involvement in regulation in the legal, financial and broadcast sectors. He has chaired the two national bodies responsible for the arts in Ireland, the Arts Council and Culture Ireland, and has served as a board member of several commercial and non-for-profits organisations.

Kevin has a book recently published 'Dillon Rediscovered', a Biography of EJ Dillon, a foreign correspondent at the Daily Telegraph.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Ruby Wallis in 2022.

Ruby Wallis often works with gendered experiences through photography, installation and moving image. She engages in a haptic way, using the close-up to simulate touch and direct experience through the lens. Her work focuses on the immediacy of an embodied approach. She twists and turns, working with fragmentation, shadows, and materiality. Her practice is becoming increasingly collaborative, operating through conversations, sound, images, and texts. She is interested in an investigation of intersectional viewpoints to disrupt a singular dominant voice and gaze.

She builds on the tension between the wild and the domestic, disorder and order, human and non-human. These ideas manifest through experimentation with psychogeography, reclaiming perilous spaces as a nocturn.In order to disrupt the smooth surface of the photograph, she experiments with early photographic processes using exposure to sunlight, analog, layering and cutting, to create slippages between conscious and unconscious modes of perception and knowing.

Ruby Wallis holds a 2015 PhD Fine Art Media – The National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Selected shows

2025 

Fantasy Island, book of contemporary Irish Photography to be published by Rotten Magazine, Belfast

Between Dog and Wolf (working title), Lismore Castle Arts, A Space for Lismore (Upcoming August)

2024 

UnReal Ireland, University Gallery, Quadrangle, University Galway 

Dlúthpháirtíocht, P21 Gallery, London

(Invited but cancelled my participation to support StrikeGermany) Changing States, Photomuseum Ireland, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin 

DLR Lexicon Library Intervention - A Woman Walks Alone at Night with a Camera, curated by Moran Been Noon

Whistling Through Nighttown (walk/event) Brigit Dublin 

A Whistling Space, Installation O' Connell Street, Brigit Dublin Festival

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Mia Shattock in 2022.

Mia Shattock is a painter from Dublin, Ireland with a MFA in Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland (2023).

She is interested in how film narratives permeate our understanding of reality and how media imagery moulds our sense of self in the digital age. Her large scale oil paintings capture the unseen elements of media portrayal. She uses a monochrome palette, building some up in full colour glazes to exude a dreamlike quality, or leaving the underpainting as its final form. The work dismantles ideas of hyperreality, prompting viewers to acknowledge the pervasive presence of media constructs, initiating a dialogue between film and philosophy and unravelling the intricacies of human emotion and perception as they intersect with cinema.

Selected shows;

2024 Artworks 2024: Behind the Curtain, group show, VISUAL Carlow, Old Dublin Road, Carlow.

2024  NCAD MFA Graduate Showcase, NCAD, Thomas Street, Dublin, Ireland

2024  Cracks in the mirror, workshop and display, Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland

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