On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Shane Lynam in 2022.

Shane Lynam (b. 1980) is an Irish photographer based in Dublin. His first book, Fifty High Seasons, was published in 2018. He is represented by Galerie Bertrand Grimont in Paris who presented his work at Paris Photo and exhibited Fifty High Seasons in 2019.

He won the Gallery of Photography Solas award in 2015 and the Curtin O’Donoghue RHA award in 2018. He was selected for a residency at the Irish Cultural Centre Paris in 2019 which included an exhibition at the Centre. He was the recipient of the Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award in 2022.

By spending prolonged periods photographing built environments and overlooked public spaces, and weaving the images together to create intuitive narratives, he looks to provide a fresh perspective on how we regard public spaces.

“Having moved around a lot since my childhood, I found myself back living in Dublin in 2012 and slowly realised that I would be spending an indefinite period of my life here. I have been negotiating my relationship with the city ever since. This has involved obsessively photographing as much of the fabric of the city as I can. By returning over and over to the same sites and almost deconstructing the space, I then look to put these fragments back together to suggest an alternative representation of the city, somewhere between reality and my own experience. The work intends to challenge popular visual representations of the post-crisis period in Dublin by emphasising the subjective experience and how it can be reflected in the texture and physicality of the built environment.”__Shane Lynam

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Sorcha McNamara in 2022.

Sorcha McNamara lives and works in Mayo, Ireland, and sometimes elsewhere. She works in abstraction. 

Her approach to making things is simultaneously meditative and improvised; at once thoughtful and thoughtless. Her eye attends to the overlooked, unnoticed or disregarded aspects of the everyday, focusing her attention towards material, objects and fragments that are often discarded, salvaged, reclaimed holding traces of a previous existence, or entirely ambiguous in their origin.

Selected recent group exhibitions include VISUAL Carlow Centre for Contemporary Art (2024); Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2024); Draíocht Gallery, Dublin (2023); and The LAB, Dublin (2023). Solo projects include Echo/Locate, Linenhall Arts Centre (2025); Fathomless Arms, Ballina Arts Centre (2023); (dis)attachments, The Hyde Bridge Gallery (2022); and Oonagh Young Gallery (2022).

Recent residencies include Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2024); Zaratan Arte Contemporanea (2024); Totaldobze Art Centre (2022); and Tangent Projects (2021). Sorcha’s work has been supported through the Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award (2023, 2022, 2021) and a Mayo Artist Bursary Award (2023, 2022).

She holds an MA in Art + Research Collaboration from IADT Dún Laoghaire (2024) and a BA in Painting from Limerick School of Art & Design (2019). 

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Kitsch Doom in 2022 about their unique and fantastic works.

Kitsch Doom (Isabella Bonet) is an award-winning visual artist and filmmaker based in Ireland and the U.S. With a background in fine art printmaking, performance, photography, and video Kitsch combines elements of fine art and media. Kitsch graduated with a first-class honours in BA Fine Art and Visual Culture in 2019 and recently graduated from an MFA in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

Kitsch has won 4 awards for Best Experimental Film in New York Film Awards, Los Angeles Film Awards, Festigious Los Angeles and FilmCon for their video performance The Clothes Wear You (2020). Kitsch has exhibited work both nationally and internationally and is represented by Stoney Road Press.

Notable exhibitions include #ICPConcerned at the International Centre of Photography New York City, Ink Miami, London Original Print Fair, The RHA 190th, 191st, and 192nd Annual Exhibition and Galway International Arts Festival where they were awarded with the NUI Galway Purchase Prize. Kitsch’s work has been collected by NUI Galway, The United Arts Club, Wexford Arts Centre and other private collections. 

Inspired by theories on gender, sociology, and posthumanism, Kitsch transforms themselves and volunteers into fictional characters through acting techniques such as improvisation and the Method. Through performance, video, photography, print, and social media experiments Kitsch explores new ways of conceptualising ‘the self’.

Kitsch creates work about the many layering processes behind human identity, and how we are now living in a strange, chaotic time in the world that lies in-between dated traditional values and trailblazing digital realities. Undoubtedly, the imprint of man is changing. In a world where being human isn’t cutting it, where does our sense of self lie? 

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alan Raggett in 2022.

Alan Raggett (b.1977, Kilkenny, Ireland) is a visual artist, living, and working in Kenmare, Co. Kerry.

​Raggett is a fully committed and energised professional with a strong track record as a practicing artist, art collections coordinator and project manager, working for 25 years in the arts industry in Ireland, alongside curators and other artists to bring exhibitions to domestic and international audiences.

Working primarily in oil paint, Raggett’s work is ambitious, original, and distinctive. It deals mainly with the abstraction and retelling of the source image. Images, found and self-documented, are retold by means of collage, rephotographing, cropping and manipulation. These manipulated images become the starting points for his paintings where he explores ideas of repetition, contemporary landscape, and storytelling.

He has exhibited regionally and nationally, and his work is held in private collections worldwide.

Selected solo and group shows 

March 2024

GRILSE GALLERY

-be good if you can-

Killorglin, Co. Kerry

2024 

Salon du Kerry, Crane Visual, Cork

‘Bucolica’ Open call, Mount Congreve Gardens, Waterford.

K-FEST, Killorglin, Co. Kerry -KFEST ART PRIZE Finalist 2024

2022 Grilse Gallery, Killorglin, Co Kerry

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Sian Costello in 2022.

Sian Costello (b. 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Limerick City, Ireland.

Since graduating from Fine Art Painting in Limerick School of Art and Design in 2020, Costello has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently with her solo show Baby Obey Me at Modern Animals, Zurich, and the group show girls, girls, girls at Lismore Castle Arts, curated by Simone Rocha.

She has been the recipient of the individual bursary award from the Arts Council of Ireland and project funding from Culture Ireland. Her work has been profiled in The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, British Vogue, Another Magazine, The Visual Artist’s Newsletter, and The Irish Arts Review. She is currently preparing work for two solo shows at Paragon Studios at PS2, Belfast, and at Ormston House, Limerick.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Day Magee in 2022.

Day Magee is a performance-centred multimedia artist based in Dublin. Since 2011, they have performed as part of live art organisations such as Livestock and the Dublin Live Art Festival, before pursuing a BA in Sculpture & Combined Media in Limerick School of Art & Design in 2017, during their time there staging group live art events with the collective Evil, and by their third year exhibiting work as part of Galway’s Tulca Festival 2019, group shows in Dublin and Manhattan, as well as being put forward for the Future Generation Art Prize 2020 by its Irish partner platform Pallas Projects Studios, and shortlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Awards. They are most recently commissioned by Arts & Disability Ireland and Live Art Ireland in 2021.

Magee’s work concerns the grieving of futurity as per the subjectivity of a queer sick body - queerness navigated via fundamentalist Christianity, and illness as manifest in chronic pain. Taking the form of performative multimedia, from live performance to image-making, the written word and music, they manifest and chronicle a self-mythology

Selected works;

2022

-February: ‘you breathe differently down here’ at Draoícht Blanchardstown - Work: ‘A Thing Least Like Eternity’ [Video]

-March: Solo show ‘Contraindications of the Cross’ at Pallas Projects/Studios

2021

-March: ‘Sam’s Eden’ at Catalyst Arts, Belfast [Online] - Work: ‘The Garden of Jarman’ [Video]

-May: Solo exhibition with Emerge Arts Magazine [Online] - Work: ‘Triloquy’ [Video]

-May: Bealtaine Festival 2021 [Online] - Work: ‘A Male Keening (vi)’ [Performance]

-May: ‘Rally’ Graduate Show at Limerick School of Art & Design [Online] - Work: ‘A Thing Least Like Eternity’ [Video]

-September: Gaze Film Festival 2021, IFI Cinema - Work: ‘Unprotected’ as part of ‘Shame//Less” [Video]

-November: Revision Performing Arts Festival, Flax Art Studios, Belfast - Work: ‘Bethesda’ [Performance]

-December: ‘Pathology of Energy’ with Arts & Disability Ireland [Online] - Work: ‘Body Without World’ [Video]

-December: ‘Virtually Alive & Steaming’ with Live Art Ireland [Online] - Work: ‘Eat the Good of the Land’ [Video]

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Ute Klein in 2022, a fascinating chat and deep dive into her intriguing and beautiful paintings.

Ute Klein, studied at the University of Bern and the M+F Lucerne Design School, and was an artist in residence at the Plüschow Castle (Germany), the Nairs Foundation (Switzerland), the Cité des Arts Paris (France), and Melbourne (Austria).

Exhibitions have included the Museum Langmatt Baden (2016), the Thurgau Art Museum (1999, 2001, 2013, 2018, 2020), Kassel (2002, 2009), the Kunstraum Vaduz (2011), and the Nairs Art Gallery in Scuol (2017). She has held regular solo exhibitions at the Adrian Bleisch (Arbon) and Sylva Denzler (Zurich) galleries, and previously at the Schönenberger Gallery (Kirchberg, St. Gallen), as well as several sponsorship awards and commissions for art in architecture. Lives and works in Amriswil.

“My painting develops in collaboration with circumstances and chance.

I paint by pouring paint onto flat canvases, which I then tip over.

The relationships in space, between pigments, and to underlying layers are as influential as the forces that cause the diluted paint to flow.

My painting is a representational thought of movements: movements of and in liquids, masses of rock, in and between cells, of crowds of people, of the behavior of different crowds toward one another, of growth, dissolution, and fusion.

My painting is a fragile, ambivalent reflection on inner and outer life processes.” —Ute Klein

(Translation in English from the original text by Dr. Katharina Ammann, Prof. Dr. M.Holzner / Prof. Dr. W.Kinzelbach).

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Anne Ryan in 2022.

Anne Ryan is a contemporary artist who creates highly coloured constructed paintings of figures. Her subjects dance, party, pose and generally indulge themselves, in scenarios that draw on diverse sources from visual culture and the world around her.

Born in Limerick, Ireland, Anne Ryan studied at Limerick School of Art and Birmingham University and was Abbey Fellow in Painting at the British School at Rome in 2016. She has taught at a number of leading UK art schools, including Turps, and has exhibited work at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, CAPC Bordeaux and Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt. Anne lives and works in London and is represented by greengrassi.

Ryan is renowned for her ‘cutouts’ – virbant, three-dimensional paintings made from card, collage, canvas, ceramic and metal. Many of her cutouts focus on the physicality of the human form – often depicting groups of figures dancing, posing, swimming, frolicking in the woods, even cutting loose in a mosh pit – and are inspired as much by scenes found in nightclubs and cinema as by classical painting and sculpture.

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Closing Season 11, Caren Sullivan talks to curator, art advisor and mentor Eamonn Maxwell in 2022. If you are an art collector or a novice in collecting art, this is a great episode to watch.

Eamonn Maxwell has worked as a contemporary art curator and art advisor for more than 20 years. 

He curated numerous exhibitions across the world including the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011. From 2009 to 2016, he was Director of Lismore Castle Arts, where I programmed significant exhibitions by leading international and Irish artists. In more recent times, he worked as a collection advisor to the Arts Council of Ireland, Goldsmiths and private art collectors.

He regularly lectures at universities and art schools in Ireland and internationally. He offers curating and advisory services to a huge variety of clients, including artists, art collectors, public galleries, universities and various arts related bodies. 

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to interdisciplinary artist Susan Buttner in 2022.

Susan Buttner is an artist of emphatic morphology. Her artistic practice is a delicate evaluation of power relations, revealing tensions and forces by combining static elements, while highlighting the borderless, transgressive aspect of institutional critique. Working in sculptural form, painting, performance and film, a recent recipient of the Arts Council Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award, PLATFORM 31 Bursary Award, Draíocht Incubate Residency Award, RHA Residency Award.  

Selected residencies 

2024 Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award, Fingal County Council

2023 Fingal Artist's Support Scheme Award

2023 Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency, Paris

2023 Loughshinney Residency Award, Fingal County Council

2022 Carlow Arts Festival Bursary Award

2022 PLATFORM 31 Bursary Award

Selected group and solo exhibitions

2024 Pallas Projects Studios, For Palestine Exhibition, The Bank, Digital Hub, Dublin

2024 Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts 194th Annual Exhibition, Dublin

2023 Love You My Sweaty, curated by Sara Muthi, The Library Project, Dublin

2023 Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts 193rd Annual Exhibition, Dublin

2022 Court House Gallery Annual Exhibition, Clare

2022 Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts 192nd Annual Exhibition, Dublin

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