Ultraviolet Art Talks

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.

Opening Season 16, a super special chat with CEO, Founder and Creative Director of Odyssey Studios Mark Maher in 2023.Mark Maher is CEO, Founder and Creative Director at Odyssey Studios, a State of the Art model making studio based in Limerick, Ireland and one of the largest permanent model making studios in Europe.The studio supplies blockbuster film and TV productions with miniature models, weapons, armour, props and prosthetic makeup.He has brought 17 years of international experience in the industry as a Concept, Lead or Head Model Maker to Odyssey Studios which he started to bring world class model making to the world.His credits include The Hobbit (The Battle of the Five Armies, The Desolation of Smaug and An Unexpected Journey), Alice Through the Looking Glass, Penny Dreadful, Into the Badlands, Wednesday series on Netflix to name a few.He can be seen building miniature cities, spaceships, Apes, Aliens, Zombies, Dinosaurs and more.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, Follow Mark Maher on Instagram @markmahersculptor @odysseystudios.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Closing Season 15, a super high energy chat with Director, Programming and Educator at Irish Arts Center, Rachael Gilkey in 2023.Rachael Gilkey is a Director, Programming & Education at Irish Arts Center based in New York City, New York.Previously, Rachael was a Director, Communication, Education & Outreach at Irish Arts Center and also held positions at The Battery.Rachael received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College and a Master from University of Galway. She is also Committee Member at Bronx Book Festival. Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more Information, Follow Rachael Gilkey and Irish Arts Center on Instagram @rachaelusgilkinius @irishartscenter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Gary Farrelly from the super duo Office For Joint Administrative Intelligence in 2023.Office For Joint Administrative Intelligence O.J.A.I. is the co-authored practice of artists Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly. It functions since 2015 as a hyperbolic bureaucratic para-intelligence agency operating between Brussels and Berlin. Drawing on obsessive research in the fields of corporate architecture, urban peripheries, tunnels, institutional power, and magic. Public manifestations of O.J.A.I. are performances, installations, publications, artefacts, and a radio show. Work by O.J.A.I. has been presented at Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht), Damien and the Love Guru (Brussels), Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin), Contemporary Art Centre (Cincinnati), Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris), De Garage (Mechelen), Complex Arts Centre (Dublin), among many others.Recent projects;Administrative Embrace, an one-hour audio work commissioned by @radiophreniaglasgow. The transmission moves through tunnels, flyovers, debris fields, and rustbelt landscapes -encountering states of decline, delirium, and heroic obedience through modular sound, spoken word, sonic residue, and bureaucratic fiction (April 2025). Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow O.J.A.I. on Instagram @jointintelligence @garry__farrelly @thegreencorridor.brussels Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to multidisciplinary artist Maurice Leoni-Osion in 2023.Maurice Leoni-Osion is a Multidisciplinary Artist and Program Director based in Berlin, DE, and Richmond, VA in US. His multicultural approach to Hip-Hop, combined with a deep love for Sci-Fi Thrillers, Afrofuturism, and Record-Artchiving, informs his artistic practice that spans across various mediums: poetry, literature, sound art, music production, film, art programs, exhibitions, and immersive performances—driven by a desire to celebrate and preserve the powerful, untold stories that lie at the intersection of the eyemaginariums of his youth and ancient “tecknowledgey” of his ancestors.Within the layered entendre of his music youniverse, Maurice sees Hip-Hop as a constant companion and presence likened to a kindred, extended family member, deeply intertwined with a sense of collective memory. His work is often rooted in research from an underground artchivediscovered at a young age, stemming from his grandmother’s beloved record collection, which inspired a love for visual storytelling and ancestral lineage celebrated in album art and liner notes.These formative experiences would cultivate an environment that fueled Maurice’s unconventional practice as an artist, performer, and director, empowering him to REvolve living narratives that connect the accounts of our experience to the past, present, and future.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Maurice Leoni-Osion on Instagram @mauriceleoniosion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to multimedia artist and popstar Roibí O'Rua in 2023.Roibí is a multimedia artist utilising music, video, animation, and digital media to explore ideas of queerness as it exists within Generation Z.Roibí occupies the space between popstar and fine artist, while referring to their own experiences as a 'Transfemme'.The work explores ideas of identity through the idea of the self as a digital persona.Roibi considers digital space as a means of socialisation and the development and expansion of subcultures.Her latest body of work;'DIGITRYN: REVo/eLu/aTION' was completed as part or'Full Stack Feminism inDigital Humanities' Artist Residency (Jan 23-Jep 23).'DIGLTR4N: REVo/eLu/aTION'is a continuation of the Geeter dody hi work• whicnexplorestransness as it exists in cyberspace. This latest of work refers tobiblical armageddon, acting as a response to 'The Transgender Debate',Roibí claims the apocalyptic, abominable power that is projected onto the Trans Community by their opposition and used it to imagine a Transgender Supremacist, Post-Apocalyptic , High-Kitsch chaos; a world where trans people have the power to reshape the paradigms of society, force feminisation, hyper sexualisation, bimbofied, Yassified and queer.Most recent work;XR Lab: MXNIFESTO Workshop April 2025 Digital Arts Studios1 Exchange PlaceBelfast, Northern IrelandFollow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_Follow Roibí O'Rua on Instagram @roibiorua Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Kate Fahey in 2023.Kate Fahey is an artist and researcher working with print, sculpture, moving image, sound and installation. She received an MA in Fine Art Print at the Royal College of Art in 2015 and in 2020 she completed a practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London, supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council TECHNE Studentship.She has exhibited her work widely at galleries and project spaces including Arti et Amiticiae, Amsterdam; Visual, Carlow; Commonage London; Gossamer Fog, London; The Bluecoat, Liverpool and the ICA, London. She has completed numerous residencies including ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin; Leitrim Sculpture Centre; The British School at Rome; Guest Projects, London; Callan Workhouse Union, Kilkenny and the Royal Scottish Academy.Previously, she has taught and guest lectured at Arts University Bournemouth, London College of Communication, Manchester School of Art, Winchester School of Art and Kingston School of Art. Alongside her role at Falmouth University, she is a lecturer and module leader in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Kate Fahey on Instagram @kate_fahey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Sadhbh Mowlds in 2023.Sadhbh Mowlds is visual artist who was born and raised in Dublin. After receiving her bachelor in Craft Design (Hons) from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland (2014), she relocated to Germany. There, she worked as a freelance glass blower and instructor out of Berlin Glassworks. In 2019 she moved to the U.S, where she received her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2022). Mowlds works in a variety of materials to create jarring, bodily sculptures that initiate critical dialogue about the destructive effects of living within pre-determined, often patriarchal, constructs.Captivated by the susceptibility of consciousness, Sadhbh responds to the absurdity of human beliefs, perceptions and behaviours by questioning what it truly means to be self-aware in an abrasive, modern society.Recent residencies include the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, STARworks (NC, USA) and WheatonArts (NJ, USA). Mowlds has participated in numerous international exhibitions, regularly showing throughout Europe and the USA. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Kunstsammlungen der Coburg, Germany and the Museum of American Glass, NJ, USA.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Sadhbh Mowlds on Instagram @sadhbh.mowlds Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to interdisciplinary artist Aaron Smyth in 2023.Aaron Alexander Smyth, is an Irish interdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates identity and its formation. His work explores how our experience is visually coded within systems of power and how these codings, in turn, shape us, reflecting on the contradictions and truths cradled between our realities and fictions.His work draws from art historical, cinematic, and archival imagery, weaving these elements together and contrasting them with a dynamic range of materials.This fusion constructs a world suspended between the real and the subconscious, a reflection on our contradictions and truths, a silhouette of the present and mutual truth that is timeless.Smyth holds a BA (Hons) with distinction in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design (Ireland) and has recently been awarded an MFA with distinction from the Glasgow School of Art (United Kingdom).Exhibited extensively nationally and internationally with works held in public and private collections, he has been awarded Artist-in-Residence positions alongside GUM Collective in The National Gallery of Ireland, The Royal Hibernian Academy and Black Church Printmakers. Recent awards include the Leverhulme Master of Fine Art Bursary for academic excellence and the RSA John Kinross Scholarship for extended research.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Aaron Smyth on Instagram @plasticyouth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Resuming Season 15, Caren Sullivan talks to photographer and film-maker Jenny Keogh in 2023.Jenny Keogh is a trained photographer with a (BA HONS 1999) degree and is qualified as a non-fiction filmmaker since 2010. Following the International success of her award-winning short film ‘Story Bud?’ she went on to make a mini-series of short films celebrating and preserving Irish slang (aka the Hiberno-English language). She set up her own video production company, Stand Out Films, in 2016 and over the years has become the go-to person for Artists, Crafters, Creative Businesses and Educators to work with, to produce profile-films and video content for their websites and social media platforms.She is also the founder, programmer and host of The Documentary Room – a cinema night in Dublin 8 dedicated to screening documentary films on Art, Music and Culture.Jenny is also the Member Liaison and Events Manager at FLUX.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Jenny Keogh on instagram @jennykeogh Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opening Season 15, Caren Sullivan talks to Art Historian and Curator Dr. Margarita Cappock in 2023.Dr. Margarita Cappock is a Curator and Art Historian. She joined Dublin City Council in 1999 as Project Manager of the Francis Bacon Studio Project at the Hugh Lane Gallery, where she was subsequently Head of Collections and Deputy Director until 2018 when she transferred to Dublin City Arts Office. She has written extensively and curated several exhibitions on Irish Art. She has overseen major exhibition collaborations with international museums (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; BOZAR, Brussels). She is the lead on a major project to digitally document the Public Art Collection of Dublin City Council and coordinates the Dublin City Arts Office Residency Programme. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in History of Art and French, an MA in Irish Art and Architecture from University College Dublin and a Ph.D. in History of Art (NUI). Dr. Margarita Cappock is currently the curator of LAB Gallery.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Dr.Margarita Cappock on Instagram @margaritacappock Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Closing Season 14, Caren Sullivan have a great chat with Prof. Kevin Rafter in 2022.Kevin Rafter is Full Professor of Political Communication at Dublin City University and a specialist in the politics and media of contemporary Ireland. His books include Taoisigh and the Arts (2022) and Resilient Reporting: Media & Elections in Ireland since 1969 (2019). He is an experienced non-executive director and Board Chair with significant involvement in regulation in the legal, financial and broadcast sectors. He has chaired the two national bodies responsible for the arts in Ireland, the Arts Council and Culture Ireland, and has served as a board member of several commercial and non-for-profits organisations.Kevin has a book recently published 'Dillon Rediscovered', a Biography of EJ Dillon, a foreign correspondent at the Daily Telegraph.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information about publications and updates, follow Prof.Kevin Rafter on Instagram @rafter_kevin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Ruby Wallis in 2022.Ruby Wallis often works with gendered experiences through photography, installation and moving image. She engages in a haptic way, using the close-up to simulate touch and direct experience through the lens. Her work focuses on the immediacy of an embodied approach. She twists and turns, working with fragmentation, shadows, and materiality. Her practice is becoming increasingly collaborative, operating through conversations, sound, images, and texts. She is interested in an investigation of intersectional viewpoints to disrupt a singular dominant voice and gaze.She builds on the tension between the wild and the domestic, disorder and order, human and non-human. These ideas manifest through experimentation with psychogeography, reclaiming perilous spaces as a nocturn.In order to disrupt the smooth surface of the photograph, she experiments with early photographic processes using exposure to sunlight, analog, layering and cutting, to create slippages between conscious and unconscious modes of perception and knowing.Ruby Wallis holds a 2015 PhD Fine Art Media – The National College of Art and Design, Dublin.Selected shows2025 Fantasy Island, book of contemporary Irish Photography to be published by Rotten Magazine, BelfastBetween Dog and Wolf (working title), Lismore Castle Arts, A Space for Lismore (Upcoming August)2024 UnReal Ireland, University Gallery, Quadrangle, University Galway Dlúthpháirtíocht, P21 Gallery, London(Invited but cancelled my participation to support StrikeGermany) Changing States, Photomuseum Ireland, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin DLR Lexicon Library Intervention - A Woman Walks Alone at Night with a Camera, curated by Moran Been NoonWhistling Through Nighttown (walk/event) Brigit Dublin A Whistling Space, Installation O' Connell Street, Brigit Dublin FestivalFollow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Ruby Wallis on Instagram @rubywallis_com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Mia Shattock in 2022.Mia Shattock is a painter from Dublin, Ireland with a MFA in Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland (2023).She is 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.Selected shows;2024 Artworks 2024: Behind the Curtain, group show, VISUAL Carlow, Old Dublin Road, Carlow.2024  NCAD MFA Graduate Showcase, NCAD, Thomas Street, Dublin, Ireland2024  Cracks in the mirror, workshop and display, Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin, IrelandFollow 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.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to multidisciplinary artist Michelle Malone in 2022.Michelle Malone’s multidisciplinary practice presents an autobiographical narrative of growing up in a variety of socioeconomically disadvantaged urban areas, mainly Oliver Bond Flats in Dublin’s inner city. Through installations comprised of sculptural objects, image-making, audio and text, she aims to bring forward discussions of class, taste, belonging, identity and community. Using pop culture iconography relating to childhood and adolescent memory, as well as family and peer storytelling, Michelle Malone presents materials that are specific to site/time and that intend to evidence ethnographic, phenomenological and experiential meaning. In addition to her interests in developing installations and a body of work that discusses class concerns she is also developing a practice of creative writing that supports her projects. Although the audio, text and sculpture parts of the installations can be experienced independently they exist to unfold a narrative that displays a material capital that converses both a personal and a collective Irish identity.Michelle Malone graduated from Technological University Dublin with a first class honours BA in Fine Art. She was awarded the RDS Whyte’s Award 2020, Fire Station Artists' Studios Graduate Award 2020, Mont Kavanagh Graduate Award 2020, John Creagh Student of Excellence Award 2020. Michelle Malone self-organised a solo exhibition of her graduate installation titled Summer Project 1997in The Complex, 2020. Selected shows 2024Installation for Frank Sweeney film , A Few Can See, at The Dock Arts, 2024 EVA international Following Threads, Group Exhibition, Curated by Anne Boaedarrt Crawford Art Gallery 2023  Níl Aon Tintean, Curated by Helena Tobin South Tipperary Arts Centre Poor Auld Anna Livia, Studio 1, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Love you my Sweaty, Curated by Sara Muthi, The Library Project  Black Church Emerging Curator exhibition Irelands Eye, Curated by Mark Joyce World Trade Center 2, Jakarta Indonesia Poor Auld Anna Livia, RHA Annual Exhibition Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Michelle Malone on Instagram @michelle_malone_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Szymon Minias in 2022.Szymon Minias graduated in 2022 from SETU Wexford School of Art & Design with a degree in art and specialises in paint and portraiture.Largely an unfolding process of developments, Szymon sees painting as a study of “abstraction of the real”, where every element should have a life of its own when ruthlessly singled out.On a personal level, Szymon said painting serves as an outlet to visualise his emotional reaction to the subject, where style — the appearance and relationship between elements inside the work – becomes the main language.His fixations pay attention to rhythm, various angles of attack the painting can be observed from and the constant re-examination of the work’s presence.Szymon was shortlisted in the RDS Visual Art Awards 2022, exhibiting artists from some of the best BA & MA visual art graduates from all over Ireland.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Szymon Minias on Instagram @szymon.minias Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Fiona Gordon in 2022.Fiona Gordon is a visual artist working in video and digital processes. She outlines her own version of female experience to embrace the surreal and bizarre, using her image to challenge perceptions of femininity and capture that all-consuming online and screen-based existence.Fiona graduated from LSAD in 2021 and is currently based between Limerick and Kildare. Since graduating she has exhibited as part of six group shows including the 2021 RDS Visual Art Awards and the 39th EVA International. She is currently undertaking a residency with Digital Arts Studios, Belfast as part of their Future Labs Foundation Programme.Most recently, Fiona has exhibited on Imma Living Canvas with the video VIRTUAL ARMOUR + EXCESSIVELY CHAOTIC UTOPIAN ESCAPE in March 2025.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Fiona Gordon on Instagram @fnioagrdn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to writer, curator and editor Ilaria Sponda in 2022.Ilaria Sponda is a freelance writer, curator and editor at Der Greif. Prior to this, she studied a BA in arts, media and cultural events at IULM University, Milan, and an MA in culture studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Her words have featured in C41 Magazine, Lampoon, Over Journal and Trigger. Her focus of interest lies in photographic art, media ecologies, globalisation and image circulations.Follow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Ilaria Sponda on Instagram @ilariasponda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opening Season 14, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Venus Patel in 2022.Venus Patel is a performance artist, experimental filmmaker based in Dublin, Ireland.Patel’s work concerns her experience as a trans femme of colour, trying to navigate the world. Through the use of costuming and loose gender expression, she encapsulates the campy blend of her queer identity. Venus questions the heteronormative society we live in, why the need to conform is so heavily enforced, and how that affects the perceptions of ourself, others, and the world around us. Although her work deals with serious subject matter, she utilises a unique mix of humour, absurdity, and abjection to create multi-faceted performances and experiences.Education2018-2022 BA Fine Art, First Honours TU Dublin Grants & Awards 2022- Taylor Art Award     RDS Visual Art Awards2022- Image Now Award2022- Judge's Choice Award      Dublin Fringe Festival Exhibitions & Festivals2023- Monsters of the Apocalypse2022-3-Periodical Review 12        Pallas Projects2022- RDS Visual Art AwardsFollow Ultraviolet Art Talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more info, follow Venus Patel on Instagram @msvenuspatel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Closing Season 13 superbly, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist, researcher Ofri Cnaani in 2022.Ofri Cnaani an artist and resarcher who works across perfromance and media. Cnaani makes art and writes about data and coloniality in cultural instituions, somatic knowledge in the age of network spatiality, and performance as a model to create critical technology. She is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Visual Culture, TU Wien, Austria and a research fellow at the internationally Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. Until recently Cnaani was an associate lecturer at the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. Prior to her move to London, Cnaani was based in New York City, where she was a faculty at the School of Visual Arts’s Visual and Critical Studies. At SVA she also ran the 'City as Site: Performance + Social interventions' program. In 2016 she co-founded, with Roxana Fabius, the ‘Unforgettables Reading/Working Group’ at A.I.R Gallery, NYC. Her work has appeared at Tate Britain, UK; Venice Architecture Biennale; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; PS1/MoMA, NYC; Inhotim Institute, Brazil; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Chile; Israel Museum; Tel-Aviv Museum of Art; Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC; The Fisher Museum of Art, L.A.; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Moscow Biennial; The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, among others. Since 2021, Cnaani co-orgenizes Choreographic Devices, a three-days chorographic symposium at ICA, London.Follow Ultraviolet Art talks on Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_For more information, follow Ofri Cnaani on Instagram @ofricnaani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.