Ultraviolet Art Talks

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Created and hosted by Caren Sullivan, Ultraviolet Art Talks is a podcast/videocast series of fascinating interviews exploring the human side of artists, curators, musicians and people involved in the art scene, going strong over 4 years in its18th Season on Instagram and Facebook. More recently in Seasons 17 and 18, face to face interviews in the artists studios. You will be stepping into the fascinating inner world of creative minds, if you're passionate about the Arts, this is the place! Follow the official Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ to watch Seasons 17-18 episodes in the intimate space of artists studios. Motion graphics, visuals and logo created by Caren Sullivan, and executing, editing and filming by conceptual artist Jonathan Mayhew @jonathanmayhewart Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 17 EP01 Mia Shattock

    4 DAYS AGO

    Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 17 EP01 Mia Shattock

    Opening a Special Season 17, Caren Sullivan visits artist Mia Shattock in her studio in 2024, find out what happens behind the scenes of an artist studio! You can also watch full interview here. Mia Shattock is a painter from Dublin, Ireland, 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. Education 2023          MFA in Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland. 2022          CFA Introduction to the Creative Use of Archives, IADT, Dublin, Ireland 2022-23     London Fine Art Studios Representational Art Course series, Online, London Fine Art Studios 2018-22    Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Studio Plus), National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland, awarded first class honours 2017-18     QQI Level 5 in Art, Graphics and Print-making, Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin, Ireland Selected Exhibitions 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 2023          Art Riddler Exhibition, group show, 10 Wicklow Street, Dublin, Ireland 2023          Dublin Modular: SUSTAIN, group show, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, Ireland 2023           Bigger Than Us, group show, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland 2022          Art Riddler Exhibition, group show, 10 Wicklow Street, Dublin, Ireland 2022           NCAD Degree show, NCAD, Dublin, Ireland 2022           Painting as an Expression of Humanity, group show, National Treasury Management Agency, Dublin, Ireland 2022           Narrative Structures of Anticipation, NCAD Margaret Clarke Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2021           Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual, Collective Zine, Temple bar gallery and studios, Dublin, Ireland 2021            Positives: Painting in the Pandemic 2021, Online group show, National Treasury Management Agency, Dublin, Ireland 2020           Ballyfermot College 30 year anniversary exhibition, Group show, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, Ireland (postponed)   Awards, Residencies and Publications 2022          Clancy Quay Superprojects Professional Development Programme 2022          Awarded Arts Council Visual Arts Agility Award 2022          Shortlisted for Ormond Art Studios Graduate Residency Award 2021           Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual, Collective Zine, Temple bar gallery and studios, Dublin, Ireland Collections 2024          Private collections 2023          Private collections 2022         National Treasury Management Agency, Dublin, Ireland 2022          Private Collections 2018          Ballyfermot College of Further Education Art Collection, Dublin, Ireland Enjoyed this episode? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ For more information, follow Mia Shattock on Instagram @miashattockartist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    8 min
  2. Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP08 Maeve Brennan

    25 FEB

    Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP08 Maeve Brennan

    Closing Season 16, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Maeve Brennan in 2023. Maeve Brennan is a painter working in oils. Her work is detail oriented, precise and time consuming. It is realist and utilises photography as source material. It moves between the current and the past making connections between both, often merging these via multiple images of the same object or place. She is interested in the symbolism of the seemingly mundane-the everyday in objects and spaces, and the emotions they provoke. Light plays an integral role, particularly in my interior paintings. Feelings of vulnerability, fragility and sentimentality are her typical starting points which can provoke a sense of painful nostalgia. The resulting work strives to draw attention to the details of the human condition, and to catalogue a sense of her own place in the world. Enjoyed this episode? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ For more information, follow Maeve Brennan on Instagram @maevebrennanartist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    14 min
  3. Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP07 Alexa Müen

    18 FEB

    Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP07 Alexa Müen

    On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Alexa Müen in 2023. Alexa Müen is a synesthetic European conceptual artist and curator, She is based between Spain and the UK. Her art is a junction of interconnecting layers of emotion, spirituality, materiality, technology and traditional craft. Traditionally trained in Andalucía and Florence, Alexa was called to the materiality oil painting. "I loved how oil paint could be applied in transparent or opaque layers, in particular how glazing and colour interacted with light, how a poppy oil glaze could reflect light so strongly you couldn't see the colour it was glazing, hiding the truth under a veil of reflected light”. Moving from oil painting to light based work in 2017/18 was a natural progression, mixing both the craft of oil painting with programable LED lights and projection . The choice of materials add conceptual layers to the pieces, conveying a tension implicit in the interconnection of technology and nature, which is key in modern life. Her multimedia techniques and materials, range from painting in inks, encaustic wax, oil or acrylic paint,. Tapestry using organic hand woven wool yarn from a Welsh women's cooperative, referencing the historical hidden female artist who worked in embroidery on jute sacking cloth or linen canvas..  In contrast she also uses contemporary technological and industrial materials such as, acrylic panels, clear vinyl, aluminium, copper, insulation materials, motors, bike batteries, projectors, and the key material, the programmable colour changeable LED lights, which also have variable intensity of emission. Her installations are based around anthropological questions, delving into the psychology of personal relations versus society, what was valued, when and how, what is reviled or worshipped, what is hidden or revealed, rather then exploration of a particular medium. Enjoying the series? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ For more information, follow Alexa Müen on Instagram @elegantpunk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    11 min
  4. Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP06 Felipe Ikehara

    11 FEB

    Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP06 Felipe Ikehara

    On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Visual Artist Felipe Ikehara in 2023. **Please note this episode is entirely in Portuguese (Brazil) language. Watch the full episode with English Subtitles on Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram** on this link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtG_bRIMkQK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Born in 1987 in São Paulo, Felipe Ikehara is a visual artist who develops paintings on canvas, murals, and drawings, these being the processes manifested as his main artistic vehicles. The technical development of drawing and painting is combined with research into visual references from the nature of the world and the human being. Within a decidedly figurative work, particular and universal symbolisms structure the thematic pillars of the works. Simultaneously, rigidity and organicity are exalted through pastel tones to compose images that translate the sensation that emerges from a lapse in daily life and results in a moment of introspection. Selected recent works and shows include; commission work for @meta São Paulo @hon_magurobr show @diasporagalleria projects with @muraissp Artist Statement; “The choice of palette manifests itself in pastel tones and more muted colors as a counterpoint to the exacerbated saturation of daily life. In urban life, we become accustomed to surviving surrounded by glaring information in every synesthetic sense of the word. Sounds and noises exceed humanly acceptable decibel levels, people express themselves in an imposing and aggressive manner to be noticed, colors and movements explode in all the amplitude that the eye can reach. The saturation of everything around us is an indication of the anesthesia of the reception of being in addition to the uncontrolled need for recognition and manifestation. The way I present the colors and themes of my work is a desaturated manifesto, because I believe that, starting from the most static state, the smallest movements are highlighted. In a daily life where saturation prevails, I seek to illustrate a place of refuge where subtleties have value and strength. I present my work, for myself and whoever may receive it, as a reminder that there is a place where energy is not spent unnecessarily and its smallest manifestation can be recognized and contemplated. In our daily lives we do not lack colors, we lack perceiving the subtleties that exist between them.” Enjoyed this episode? Follow Ultraviolet Art talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ For more information, follow Felipe Ikehara on Instagram @fe.ikehara also @casa.meio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    10 min
  5. Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP05 Kat Lalor

    4 FEB

    Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP05 Kat Lalor

    On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Kat Lalor in 2023. Kat Lalor is a Queer Visual Artist, generating performative lens-based work concerned with the multi-facets of Queer intelligibility. Through drag, fiction, and language, they explore a navigation of the world as other. Drawing from subjective experience laced with threads of Queer theory and fiction, Lalor’s work is interested in moments of tension, choice and slippage. SHOWS 2024 WAYSTATION, The Complex Gallery 2023 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery 2023 Gaffer-Tape, Phizzfest, Phibsboro Tower 2022 RDS Visual Arts Award Exhibition, RDS 2022 Graduate Exhibition, Technological University Dublin 2021 Éalú, Virtual Exhibition and Printed Publication 2020 (C)overt, Virtual Exhibition 2020 Metamorphosis, Virtual Exhibition 2019 Evocation of Entities, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios AWARDS 2025 WOWTE Residency Award, A4 Sounds 2022 Fire Station Artist Studio’s Graduate Award 2022 RDS Visual Art Award 2022 Arts Council Agility Award Enjoying the podcast? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ For more information, follow Kat Lalor on Instagram @katlalor.va Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    12 min
  6. Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP04 Logan Sisley

    28 JAN

    Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP04 Logan Sisley

    On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Head Of Collections at Hugh Lane Gallery, Logan Sisley in 2023. Logan Sisley is currently Head of Collections at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, which includes a fine collection of British art, particularly from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is from Aotearoa, New Zealand, where he studied art history at the universities of Otago and Auckland. He previously worked at the National Library of Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and Edinburgh College of Art. He has published widely on modern and contemporary art and architecture, including on Francis Bacon and John Lavery, and has a particular interest in artistic relations between Britain and Ireland. Enjoying the podcast? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ For more information, follow Logan Sisley on Instagram @logansisley Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    14 min
  7. Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP03 Nuala O'Donovan

    21 JAN

    Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP03 Nuala O'Donovan

    Resuming Season 16, on this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Nuala O'Donovan in 2023 about her practice and her exquisite otherworldly sculptures. Nuala O'Donovan is an Irish Artist, living and working in Cork City on the south coast. She is a graduate of Middlesex University, U.K. and MTU, (Crawford College of Art and Design), Cork, Ireland. O'Donovan worked in design in the U.K., U.S.A. and Australia. She returned to Ireland where she taught design at MTU before returning to education to undertake an MA by research in the Ceramics Department at the Crawford college of Art and Design in Cork, completed in 2008. Her research area: Irregularities in Patterns in Nature & The Geometry of Natural Forms. Her artwork has been exhibited and published internationally, and she has been an invited speaker and teacher at workshops and International Conferences in Museums, Galleries and Universities. “My starting points are detailed drawings of plants, shells and seeds. In order that the form of the finished work is consistent with the qualities of the source material, I use a set of constraints based on a combination of regular and irregular geometric principles which are found in nature. I am interested in the history of the use of the geometry of natural forms in European art – in particular classical Greek art and architecture. I use these principles of Classical geometry when making decisions about the proportions of my work, and combine them with fractal or irregular geometry by using the principles of fractal geometry in the creation of the pattern. The form of the individual pattern is repeated in the outcome of the overall work – the “inherent design carried within itself”, so that each outcome is unique even if the starting point is similar. Each sculptural piece carries, within itself, its own narrative from the time during which it was made". __Nuala O'Donovan Enjoyed this episode? Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ Follow, rate and comment! For more information, follow Nuala O'Donovan on Instagram @nualaodonovan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    15 min
  8. Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP02 Carl Hickey

    26/11/2025

    Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 16 EP02 Carl Hickey

    On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Carl Hickey in 2023. Carl Hickey graduated with a BA in Fine Art specialising in Painting from NCAD in 2022, where he received The Dean Residency Award for his graduate show. Since graduating he has gone on to have two solo shows “In-Between Stops” in Liberty Ink (2022) and “Everything and Nothing” with gallery, Atelier Now (2023). He has published a book From the Top Deck of the Bus with Driftwood Editions (2023) and has featured in multiple group shows including “In the Press” with Hypha Studios in London (2025). He completed a residency with Cill Rialaig Arts in Co. Kerry, Ireland in 2025 and had his third show in The Horse Gallery in October 2025. Hickey’s work is almost a compilation of everyday situations and events – the chaotic and the organised. His work is an ode to the on-going rambles of life and he uses oil paint as his main tool to portray the city and suburbs and to convey his subjects – Dublin’s civilians and spaces – in a different context. Hickey also uses video and written work juxtaposed. Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ For more information, follow Carl Hickey on Instagram @carl.hickey_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    15 min
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Created and hosted by Caren Sullivan, Ultraviolet Art Talks is a podcast/videocast series of fascinating interviews exploring the human side of artists, curators, musicians and people involved in the art scene, going strong over 4 years in its18th Season on Instagram and Facebook. More recently in Seasons 17 and 18, face to face interviews in the artists studios. You will be stepping into the fascinating inner world of creative minds, if you're passionate about the Arts, this is the place! Follow the official Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ to watch Seasons 17-18 episodes in the intimate space of artists studios. Motion graphics, visuals and logo created by Caren Sullivan, and executing, editing and filming by conceptual artist Jonathan Mayhew @jonathanmayhewart Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Caren Sullivan
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    150
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Caren O'Sullivan
  • Show Website
    Ultraviolet Art Talks