Ultraviolet Art Talks

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Olivia Normile in 2022.

Olivia Normile is a visual artist working across installation, drawing, animation and film.

Her practice engages with fictional storytelling by considering human to non-human relationships through opportunistic and structured moments. Recent residencies and awards include: Digital Media Practice Award (2024), Firestation Artists’ Studios Dublin, Arts Cou...

On this Halloween Special Episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alec Michael Wilson in 2022. you can watch the full performance on Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram (link on).

Alec Michael Wilson (Alphi Demp) is an artist, musician of the bands VistaFutur, Irate Yeats

VistaFutur VistaFutur crafts a captivating musical experience by blending guitar-driven melodies with expansive soundscapes, evoking a cinematic atmosphere that...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Róisín White in 2022.

Róisín White is a visual artist based in Dublin, working primarily with photography, while incorporating drawing, sculpture, and collage into her practice. Róisín holds a BA (hons) in Photography from DIT, and certificates in Ceramics, Sculpture and Drawing from NCAD. 

Róisín White’s work draws from found objects, images, and archival materials, where ...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist, curator and arts educator Claire Halpin in 2022.

Claire Halpin is a visual artist, curator and arts educator born and based in Dublin, Ireland.

Her work explores themes and concepts around contested territories and histories through painting, video and installation.

She has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in Ireland and internationally including The Narrow Ga...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to photographer Conor Horgan in 2022.

Conor Horgan is a visual artist and editorial photographer, based in Ireland. His work is concerned with identity, vulnerability, trust and the need for meaningful connections to self, others and the natural world. 

Equally happy on location and in the studio, he enjoys connecting with all kinds of people from all sorts of backgrounds; whether it...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Curator and Cultural Producer Julia Gelezova in 2022.

Julia Gelezova is a Cultural Producer and Curator, specialising in contemporary lens-based practices. She is General and Project Manager for PhotoIreland, producing events throughout the year like the annual PhotoIreland Festival and Critical Academy, while collaborating on ambitious projects like Creative Europe Photogr...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Aoife McCloughlin in 2022.

McCloughlin’s practice is concerned with the materiality of public space. She engages in the act of 'gleaning', drawing from everyday material configurations which often get overlooked. To glean is to gather excess material from disparate sources.

Influenced by filmmaker Agnès Varda’s documentary ‘The Gleaners and I’ (2000), which explores the act in ...

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

Born in County Limerick, Robert Ryan graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1987. He worked in Copenhagen and London before returning to Ireland in 1994.

In Ireland, Ryan’s work is viewed as somewhat unique. Referencing post-modern, it borrows qualities from European old masters, using traditional characteristics in a modern context.&n...

Closing Season 12, Caren Sullivan have a super chat with Ángel Luis González Fernández from PhotoIreland in 2022.

PhotoIreland grows the reputation of Irish artists globally through a 360 degree support framework and platform for contemporary photography, activated through a diversity of projects. These include events such as PhotoIreland Festival and Halftone print fair amongst others; resources such as the ...

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Doireann Ní Ghrioghair in 2022.

Doireann Ní Ghrioghair (b. 1983) graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design, London in 2010.

Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Eight Gallery, Dublin (2016) and CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork (2014). Notable group exhibitions include Tulca, The Headless City (2016); ARTWORKS, VISUAL, Carlow (2016); Veins, Molesworth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 brin...

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...

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 ...

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 Langmat...

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 ...

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...