Buoy Park Art Oonagh McAteer

This week its just a quick chat from me - Oonagh McAteer about a new thing on my to do list - resting! 



If you have any comments or suggestions or would lie to take part or do a podcast takeover please get in touch with me either by messaging via instagram @oonaghmcateer or @buoyparkart 

Drydan Wilson returned to Belfast School of Art to Study his for his master’s degree after graduating in 2016 from BA Fine Art. In 2017 he was the returning artist in residence. Drydan has taken part in several residencies, both virtually and physically, including one on the Copeland Bird Observatory and is a member of the Copeland Arts Collective. From 2014 to 2015 Drydan worked, studied and lived in Finland, developing his practice and exhibiting his work. Drydan has created several commissioned public artworks, some located in Cork, Dublin and Rostrevor to name a few. He has also shown work in numerous group and solo exhibitions both locally and internationally.





My practice examines how we negotiate space, exploring the politics of space through questions raised by skateboarding and similar subcultural practices. I am interested in the social distortion created through the re-appropriation of landscape and its architecture and how the positioning or use of the body in space can be used to critique social, capitalist and regulatory structures.

Combining my artistic and skateboarding practices I am interested in questioning and challenging the boundaries of what a contemporary art practice can be. I take a multi-disciplinary approach, employing sculpture, text, sound, drawing and video as ways of developing work. Skateboarding from a young age, I naturally use the medium to explore, interact, and think about the world, therefore skateboarding has become the starting point, methodology, and/or subject for much of my work.

Whether, using materials and forms that reflect skateboarding terrain, replicating camera angles from skate videos, or incorporating skate terminology as text within the work, I aim to make work through isolating and combining various fragments of the subculture to highlight the creative potential, artistic formalities, and affordances of the material to create artworks that evoke a new way of looking and thinking about space and its potential.



For Drydan's latest exhibition visit https://catalystarts0.wixsite.com/e-quadrantmfa2021/e-quadrant-1

This week Oonagh speaks with Lauren Ciara McCullough about some of the highlights and challenges of having a virtual art show having recently taken part in the second part of the E-Quadrant show.  We also get to hear about how lockdown has affected Lauren’s work and process as a painter as she settles into her new home.

Lauren Ciara McCullough is recent graduate of the BA Course in Fine art at Ulster University, attaining a First-Class Honours. Her practice focuses centrally on painting; however, it stems into areas such as drawing, poetry, collage, photography and most recently walking. The sublime is the central motif of McCullough’s practice. A practice of questioning whether it is possible to convey something beyond self and the earthly reality, through image and paint? As an emerging artist McCullough has shown in multiple group exhibitions since her graduation in 2019 and has gone on to pursue an associate fellowship in Higher Education alongside her Masters.

McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.

Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’

The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.

You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or

email buoyparkart@gmail.com

#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast

Sponsorships: off for this episode

The virtual show mentioned is and link below has images and further artist information. 

E-Quadrant 1 Tours - 14th-15th Jan

1. Drydan Wilson

2. Emily Esdale

3 NokuLunga Mazibuko

4. Oonagh McAteer

5. Susan Hughes

https://catalystarts0.wixsite.com/e-quadrantmfa2021/exhibition





more information on the RIGHT TO CREATE project mentioned:

https://pssquared.org/projects/right-to-create









 McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.

Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’

The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.

You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or

email buoyparkart@gmail.com

#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast

Sponsorships: off for this episode

Oonagh McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.

Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’

The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.

You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or

email buoyparkart@gmail.com

#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast

Alison Lowry 

Alison Lowry is a glass artist living and working from her studio, ‘Schoolhouse Glass’ in Saintfield, Co. Down. In 2009 she graduated from Ulster University with an Honours degree in Art and Design. Since then she has won numerous awards including first place in the category, ‘Glass Art’ at the Royal Dublin Society in 2015 and 2009, the Silver Medal at the Royal Ulster Arts Club’s Annual Exhibition in 2010, the Warm Glass Prize in 2010 and 2011 and more recently the Bronze Award at Bullseye Glass’ exhibition for emerging artists, ‘Emerge’. Alison exhibits nationally and internationally, and her work is held in several public and private collections.

In 2016 the National Museum of Ireland acquired a large pâte de verre vessel for their ‘Contemporary Collection of Design & Craft’ and have recently also purchased the sculpture, ‘A New Skin’ for the collection. Alison Lowry is currently the only Irish artist to have been awarded a month long residency (April 2014) at the Studio of the world-renowned Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York.

Her current solo exhibition, ‘(A)Dressing Our Hidden Truths’, is inspired by such traumatic histories as the Tuam Mother & Baby Home, domestic violence and Ireland’s Magdalene Laundry system. It runs at the National Museum of Ireland- Decorative Arts and History Division, at Collins Barracks in Dublin until the end of 2020.

Oonagh McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist.

Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’

The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker.

You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or

email buoyparkart@gmail.com

#BPA #Boyparkartpodcast