The Warrior Artist Eadaoin Glynn

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

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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



Read the full blog post.

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

Vanity galleries are parasites who feed on emerging artists' aspirations to show their work.  They make their money from artists' hopes and dreams.

The origin of the name comes from vanity publishing.  They were a last resort for authors whose books were not deemed commercially viable by traditional publishers. They would publish any work at the right price. Authors could claim to have work published, but they had paid for it.

With vanity galleries, it's a little bit different because the artist is duped. The artist thinks it's genuine and an an investment worth risking.

A vanity gallery charges the artist fees to exhibit the work and they make their money from the artist rather than from sales to the public.

Vanity galleries are not curated and they will exhibit anyone who pays. They may charge a fee to join them, charge the artist to send their work, to exhibit etc. It's all about money. It's pure commercial operation.

Commercial art galleries get their profit from sales of artwork and spend years following artists before inviting them to join them.   If the artwork sells, the gallery makes a profit, and the artist is then paid.

Vanity galleries have no incentive to sell art, as they have already been paid by the artist. Vanity galleries are not selective because they do not have to be.

They are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their approach. If you're wondering if an approach is genuine, google ' is x a vanity gallery?' There are websites that show lists of vanity galleries and the many different names they use.

Resource: Howsmydealing

Have you any vanity gallery experiences?

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Annie Hogg is a visual artist based in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. After graduating with a Diploma in Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork in 2001 and a BA in sculpture from Aki College of Art in The Netherlands in 2002, Annie worked and lived in environmental protest camps and learned organic horticulture. 

When Annie Hogg was in art college, her interest in the environment was dismissed as not being 'real art', causing her to abandon her art practice.  Twenty years later, her work gravitates around the themes of solastalgia, ecopsychology and transformation. She uses plants, soils, stones, shells and found bones in her art practice, creating pigments and charring foraged objects from the landscape as a votive action to create paint and sculpture. She has won several awards, residencies and art grants, most recently was the winner of the K-Fest Arts Festival in Killorglin Co. Kerry.   

Annie talks about:


Her early concern for the environment
Her work being dismissed as not being a worthy theme for art during art college
Leaving her art practice for twenty years
The importance of drawing and mark making
Deciding to become a full-time artist
Book illustration
Return to fine art and sculpture
Learning to extract pigment from the landscape
Charring
Family connection
Foraging
The impact of industrial farming
Smell
Sculptural work
Collaboration for her installations
Inspiration behind Lost - what happens in a landscape after the land has gone through conversion to an industrial scale farming model. Specifically a system of long established native hedgerows.
Solastalgia - the emotional or existential distress caused by environmental changes
Her deep sorrow over the loss of the local hedgerows and her guilt about not trying to stop it.
Her studio
Research
Her next project inspired by soil will incorporate sound
Grant Applications
Rejection
Advice
Creating titles for her solo exhibition, Blood, Bone, Rust and Stone, using her father's Technical Graphics Textbook

Annie also teaches workshops both online and in-person. Contact Annie or see her work on:

www.instagram.com/anniehogg_thewidhedgeinkco

www.anniehoggstudio.com

Full show notes and images available.

Contact Éadaoin on instagram.com/eadaoin_glynn and www.eadaoinglynn.com/podcast

Artists who inspire Annie include:

Pierre Soulages

https://www.pierre-soulages.com/

Jesse Jones

https://www.jessejonesartist.com/

Aideen Barry

https://www.aideenbarry.com/

Books:Caroline Ross - Found and Ground A practical guide to making your own foraged paints

https://www.instagram.com/foundandground/

Heidi Gustafson - Book of Earth A guide to Ochre pigment and raw colour https://www.instagram.com/heidilynnheidilynn/

'Dreamtime' by John Moriarty

https://www.lilliputpress.ie/author_post/john-moriarty

Contributors to LOST:

Natalia Beylis sound artis

thttps://www.nataliabeylis.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nataliabeylis/

Adrienne Diamond glass blower

https://www.glasssocietyofireland.ie/user/adiamond/

Sinead Brennan of Glint Glass Studio

https://www.instagram.com/sineadbrennanglass/https://www.instagram.com/glintglassstudio/

Mick Wilkins on bronze

http://wilkinsart.ie/

https://www.instagram.com/mick_wilkins/

Other mentions:

Flora Arbuthnott of Plants & Colour

https://plantsandcolour.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/plants_and_colour/ 

James Horan was the friend to whom our lecturer told“You have to put in the work to make the work”

https://www.jameshoransculpture.com/

https://www.instagram.com/jameshoransculpture/

LOST exhibited atSouth Tipp Arts Centre (as a result of Residency Award ‘22/’23)

https://www.southtippartscentre.ie/K-Fest

https://www.kfest.ie/

blood bone rust & stone exhibited atLily Gallery Beara

https://www.instagram.com/liligallerybeara/

And Cahir Arts

https://cahirarts.com/

Annie attended a three-week soil research residency in 2023 with 

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