The Warrior Artist Eadaoin Glynn

In this episode of the Warrior Artist Podcast, host Éadaoin Glynn interviews Irish visual artist Aideen Barry, who shares insights into her expansive practice that includes performance, sculpture, film, text, and experimental lens-based media.

Barry discusses her personal journey to becoming an artist, the themes in her work such as domestic labor, environmental changes, and human vulnerability, and her unique approach to engaging with varied mediums. She reflects on the significance of international collaboration and how her work resonates on a global scale, touching on social and political issues.

Highlights include discussions on her projects, 'Oblivion' and 'The Song of the Bleeding Tree,' as well as her approaches to art as a form of protest and responsibility. Barry also discusses upcoming projects, her thoughts on art's role in society, and her efforts to support emerging artists and diversify representation in the art world.

00:00 Welcome to the Warrior Artist Podcast

00:12 Introducing Aideen Barry: A Visual Artist's Journey

00:48 The Early Desire to Create: Aideen's Path to Art

01:55 Exploring Artistic Mediums: A Journey Through College and Beyond

03:17 Building an International Profile: The Importance of Global Connection

06:10 Folklore and Identity: Diving into the Archives

10:26 The Bleeding Tree: A Metaphor for Environmental Awareness

13:37 Oblivion: Music as a Medium for Message

14:11 The Role of Artists in Today's World

19:26 Collaborating with Peter Gabriel: Art in Popular Culture

20:43 Klostes: A Feature Film Collaboration

27:06 The Power of Non-Verbal Communication in Art

29:31 Exposing Injustice Through Art: The National Gallery Controversy

30:22 Championing Women's Representation in Art Institutions

34:29 The Power of Artistic Protest and Representation

36:11 Advocating for Equality and Diversity in the Art World

41:08 The Artist's Life: Balancing Creativity, Family, and Activism

48:34 Future Projects and Collaborations: Expanding Horizons

53:28 Final Thoughts and Advice for Emerging Artists

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In this episode of the Warrior Artist Podcast, host Éadaoin Glynn shares her recent experiences and lessons learned from preparing for two solo exhibitions. Éadaoin discusses the process of creating a new body of work, from initial opportunity to final execution, highlighting challenges such as finding inspiration, embracing experimentation, and the importance of documentation and promotion. She offers advice on trusting the creative process, seeking feedback, and lessons learnt on documenting and curating exhibitions. Éadaoin also shares tips for artists on how to maximise opportunities.

Follow Éadaoin on Instagram @eadaoin_glynn and on her website www.eadaoinglynn.com

References / Names mentioned:

Maurice Quillinan

Limerick Museum

Art NetDlr

Walter's, Dun Laoghaire

Pauline B Flynn

Diane Magee

Nuala Clarke

Lizzie Kinsella

Artform

Salvatore of Lucan

Zsolt Basti

In this episode I share what I've learnt about artist websites. I've just finished my third website iteration. Each time it's been PAINFUL!

I procrastinate about it but like everything I learn by doing. We'd all prefer to be in the studio creating, but having a website is essential. I hope this helps motivate you because if you wait for the perfect website, you've waited too long. Put something up and then edit! Good enough is good enough!

Links:

For those in Ireland, you can avail of a business grant of up to €2,500 to pay a web designer help you build an e-commerce website. Click here for details

I use Artwork Archive to manage my inventory and to send curated rooms to curators, collectors, especially useufl when I was updating my website. Click here for 20% discount

Connect with me on Instagram

Nuala O'Donovan builds sculptural forms in porcelain clay based on the patterns and geometry of living organisms.  She has won many awards including the Golden Fleece award and her work is in many important public collections including the Irish National Art collection.

Nuala chats to Éadaoin Glynn about her early career in architectural design as a facilitator of travel, returning to Cork and doing a self-directed MFA, how the regular irregularity of the geometry of nature inspires her and her deep love of pattern. 

Nuala expresses her ideas by creating sculptural structures in porcelain clay.  She loves the plasticity, affordability and transformative quality of clay.  Her work explores pattern and form, taking patterns from nature as her source material and working within rules and constraints of classical geometry to build it.

Nuala describes her studio and how she plans to work there by creating a dialogue between pieces. She talks about the challenges of funding, writing about art, rejection and her advice for emerging artists.

Episode web page

www.nualaodonovanartist.com

instagram: @nualaodonovan

www.eadaoinglynn.com

Instagram @eadaoin_glynn

Self-taught painter and ceramicist Bernadette Doolan chats to host Éadaoin Glynn about imposter syndrome, falling into art, her intuitive approach to painting and being inspired by the resilience of children.

Show notes web page

www.bernadettedoolan.com

@bernadettedoolanartist

@eadaoin_glynn

Irish visual artist Rachel Doolin chats to Éadaoin Glynn about the challenge of taking the leap to become a professional artist, how materials inspire her, her slow research-based, collaborative approach and why she likes writing grant applications.

Rachel graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art & Design and has received many awards, grants and residencies. Rachel's multidisciplinary approach merges art, experimentation, and ecology.  She collaborates with artists, NGOs,  community and professional organisations to create meaningful artworks in response to social and environmental issues. 

In this episode Rachel talks about:


Going to art college as a new mother
Research in the artic
Svalbard Seed Bank, the back-up for the world's seeds.  
The sound of the glacier
Seed research and working with Irish Seedsavers
Inspiration for Heirloom
Being overwhelmed with information
The stories within seeds
Seed Cloud recordings
Seedarium, a wooden sculptural installation with a collection of donated seeds displayed encased in resin.
How she preserved seeds in bioresin.
Oscillithic, a collaboration with sound artist Anne Marie Deacy, based on research with Solstice Arts Centre and Dowth lands, Co. Meath.
Dowth Hall megalithic passage tomb, said to be the most important megalithic find in Ireland in fifty years by archaeologist, Clíodhna Ní Lionáin
Quartz was found in the tomb, which was not local to the area. Why was it there and what did it mean?
Triboluminescence - quartz creates an orange glow when rubbed together.
Sí in modern Irish language refers to both the megalithic mounds and the spirits believed to be connected to ancient burial sites. White quartz stones, known as 'Clocha Geala' or ‘Shining Stones’ have featured prominently at many of these ancient sites.  The theory is that quartz was used  in religious ceremonies and astronomical observations. 
Quartz is an oscillator of sound and is used in our current material culture in our phones, solar panels, fibre optics.
Creating a sound sculpture
Studio practice - a slow considered process with the journey more important than the final product
A disciplined approach to work
Collaboration and research
Time management, application writing and administration - " 70% of my time as an artist is spent on a computer because that's what I have to do."


The benefits of grant application writing as a way of organising her thinking and planning around a project
On rejection and asking for feedback
Applying for multiple grants at the same time.
The challenge of being a professional artist and how winning awards helped her confidence in taking this leap.
Working in early years arts education
The best advice she received



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Resources and links:

Archaeologist Clíodhna Ní Lionáin explains why Dowth is the most important megalithic find in Ireland in the past 50 years on YouTube.

Eco-Poxy resin

Woodskin

Irish Seed Savers 

Madeleine McKeever

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Will Bonsall 

SeedCLOUD 

Anne Marie Deacy 

James.L.Hayes 

Beili Liu 

Katie Paterson

Cal Flynn - Islands of Abandonment 

Solstice Arts Centre

Rachel Doolin on Instagram 

Rachel Doolin website

National Sculpture Factory

Éadaoin Glynn on Instagram