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On this Christmas Special episode, Caren Sullivan talks to super talented musician Paddy Casey in 2020.
Paddy Casey received his first guitar when he was 12 and left home soon after and began busking and gigging for about 12 years. At about the age of 24 he was approached by Sony A&R Scout Hugh Murray at the International Bar in Dublin, while performing at the singer/songwriter night hosted by Dave Murphy. Sony gave Casey some studio time in Sun Studios Dublin where he recorded 9 tracks in 2 days. Sony decided that they liked the tracks so much that they wanted to release them as they were. They offered Paddy a recording contract. He was signed by Sony, and was eventually taken in by U2's management company, Principle Management.
Casey released his first album Amen (So Be It) in 1999. This album was produced by Pat Donne and was certified triple platinum in Ireland and did fairly well worldwide. "Sweet Suburban Sky" surfaced the following year on the soundtrack to the award-winning US TV teen drama Dawson’s Creek. Casey received nominations for Best Irish Songwriter and Best Male Singer at the Hot Press Awards. Touring saw Casey providing support to artists such as R.E.M, Ian Brown, Ani DiFranco and The Pretenders.
Casey returned in 2003 with the multi-platinum album, Living. It was produced by Fred De Faye, Paddy Casey and Pat Donne. It spawned the Irish Singles Chart hits "Saints and Sinners", "The Lucky One" (in 2003), plus "Bend Down Low" and "Want It Can't Have It" (in 2004). Living spent the majority of the year in the top ten, climbing to the top of the Irish Albums Chart 21 weeks after its initial release.
In 2005, Casey toured extensively in Ireland and abroad; highlights including a headline concert at the Heineken Green Energy Festival and also supported U2 on their Vertigo tour, performing in Ireland, Scotland and Norway.
In 2006, Casey went to Los Angeles, California, United States, to record with George Drakoulias, who had worked at the Def Jamlabel with Rick Rubin. He toured the album extensively and also toured with KT Tunstall and Augustana amongst others.
On 3 April 2008, Casey performed on the Late Show with David Letterman.
After returning from the US, Casey chose to part ways with Sony and Paul McGuinness, and for the next few years he began writing and recording at home. In November 2012, he released his first independent album The Secret Life Of. The first single, "Wait", featuring the Shannon Gospel Choir, was released in May 2012. Casey toured in Ireland and abroad for the last few years with frequent visits to Australia, Europe and the Middle East.
In November 2016, Casey released the single "Everything Must Change". This was the first taster taken from Casey's then forthcoming sixth album. In July 2017, Casey released "Turn This Ship Around", the second single from this forthcoming album.
Paddy Casey's double album Turn This Ship Around was released on August 6, 2021. Turn This Ship Around has one side focusing on an array of acoustic songs decorated with strings and piano, and the other side featuring an array of full band tracks that span multiple genres.
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Jaki Irvine in 2020. It was a very unique episode where the artist decided to appear in the interview as a digital foam entity, a delight!
Using video installation, photography, music composition and writing, Jaki Irvine explores the complex ways we imagine ourselves and the world around us, a process which, for Irvine, has both philosophical and political implications.
Jaki Irvine has written many critical texts and short writings on other artists work in the past, including Extinction Beckons, for Mike Nelson, a book commissioned by Matts Gallery. In 2013 she wrote Days of Surrender, her first novel, published by Copy Press, UK.
Irvine is represented in the collections of IMMA, the Irish Arts Council, Tate Modern, FRAC and in numerous other collections, both public and private. In 2014 her permanent photographic commission, Shot in Mexico, was installed in the Deutsche Bank in Dublin.
In September, 2016, she presented If the Ground Should Open, a major new commission for the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. This was then shown at Frith Street Gallery, London, in 2017.
She is a member of Aosdana and an artist advisor at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam.
She is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Colin Martin in 2020.
Colin Martin was born in Dublin in 1973.
He graduated from DIT in Fine Art- Painting in 1994 and completed a post-graduate year in printmaking in 2005. He completed an MFA at the National College of Art and Design in 2010. He lives and works in Dublin. In 2008 he was elected an associate member of the RHA.
He has been the recipient of numerous Awards including, in 2008 Thomas Dammann Travel Award; 2005 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, 2005 RHA Hennessy Craig Scholarship, 2004 Golden Flee ce Merit Award, 2004 Travel Bursary Arts Council of Ireland, 2000 Tony O’ Malley Travel Award.
Colin Martin’s work is included in several important public and corporate collections including the OPW, AIB, Kelly's Hotel Rosslare, Boyle civic collection, Chester Beatty Library and ESB.
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Colin is currently curating RDS Visual Arts Awards show, opens on 22nd November 2024. For more information, follow Colin Martin on Instagram @colinmartin81
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to artist Lee Welch in 2020.
Lee Welch was born in Louisville, Kentucky and currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.
Welch creates gestural, atmospheric paintings that attest to the psychical and emotional depths of his chosen subjects and map out delicate negotiations between beauty, desire, and the painted image. Depicting figures from his own milieu, as well as from history, literature, music, and tennis,
Welch finds feeling in that which he depicts, always rendered with the intensity of his particular humanism; a close looking akin to love. In each subject’s specificity, the artist reveals the universal feelings that connect us to each other, and that stretch from our present moment back through time.
Welch received his BFA from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in 2009 and his MFA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2011.
He has since been widely exhibited internationally and received numerous awards. Recent exhibitions have taken place at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain; Glucksman Gallery, Cork; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
His paintings are in private and public collections such as the Arts Council, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane and the OPW - State Art Collection.
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Lar O'Toole in 2020.
Lar O’Toole is interested in an art/science interface and the cultural and psychological effects of expanded seeing; the insights into inner and outer space afforded to science by the application of lenses since the late 16th century.
The shift away from a heliocentric cosmology at this time spurred scientific inquiry and decentred mankind within the universe. Lar is drawn to the dilemmas that arise when considering our cosmic significance or insignificance.
His recent work and research explores the compression of astronomical distances and timescales relative to the human experience.
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Liz Nielsen in 2020.
Liz Nielsen lives and works in Brooklyn and Newburgh, NY.
Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004, her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, and her BA in Philosophy and Spanish from Seattle University in 1997.
Nielsen's works have been reviewed in Artforum, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Financial Times, The British Journal of Photography, The New York Times, LensCulture, FOAM Magazine, and ArtSlant among others.
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On this Halloween Special episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to super talented singer, musician and actress, Camille O'Sullivan in 2020.
Camille O'Sullivan is an Irish singer, musician, and actress.
Born in London to a French mother and Irish father, she grew up in Cork, Ireland. O'Sullivan is known for her unique, dramatic musical style and covers of artists such as Radiohead, Tom Waits and David Bowie. As an actress, O'Sullivan has appeared in Mrs. Henderson Presents, Rebellion and Pick Ups.
The award-winning singer - one of the original cast members of the Olivier Award-winning La Soiree- has stunned audiences around the world with her sell-out performances including Sydney Opera House, London’s Royal Festival Hall,The Roundhouse and a show-stealing appearance on Later with Jools Holland BBC. Recently she sold out her 10 night run at Sydney Festival where she won a prestigious Australian Helpmann Award ‘Best Performance’.
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Gabhann Dunne in 2020.
Gabhann Dunne is an Irish artist working with all kinds of subjects, from Landscape Paintings to Portraits. Using soft colour palettes and thick brushstrokes, Gabhann creates Oil Paintings with a romantic and poetic quality. Rich in colour and texture, his art is an examination of various different themes, ranging from power structures to the marginalisation of animals and their spaces. This Animal Art is a celebration of our natural environment and ultimately a defence of them that urges us to reconsider our relationship with nature.
Gabhann was born into an artistic environment. His mother was a Watercolour Painter, which encouraged him to explore his creative side from a young age. He went on to study a BA in Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology in 1997, and returned to his studies 13 years later to complete a MA in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. His work incorporates elements of the Abstract and the Figurative, and has been featured in solo and group shows across Ireland.
You'll find Gabhann's Paintings in numerous notable collections, such as Facebook, Deloitte and the Law Society of Ireland.
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Mark Joyce in 2020.
Mark Joyce is an artist based in Dublin.
He studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London. He has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK and the USA, received awards from The British Council, Thomas Damman Trust and the Georgette Chen fellowship in 2016.
His work is in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Arts Council collections.
In his painting, public commissions and teaching, he explores some of the anomalies and phenomenological strangeness of our human visual experience, inspired by ideas drawn from science and philosophy.
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On this episode, closing Season 4, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Liliane Tomasko in 2020.
Born in Zurich, Switzerland. Lives and works in London.
Liliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour. The artist begins her investigation of the human psyche in the domestic sphere, offering attentive studies of bedding and clothing, the intimate textures of our lives.
Through the artist’s reflections, these prosaic materials open a gateway into the nocturnal realm of sleep and dreaming, articulating the creatively fertile space between ‘conscious’ and ‘unconscious’. Tomasko’s approach to abstraction is rooted, therefore, in the physical realm but ultimately transcends beyond it. Fusing material observation with intuition and association, the artist produces vigorous, imaginative expressions of familiar environments and psychological states. Intense colour, subtle tone, shadow, and painterly gesture allow space to come in and out of focus, oscillating between clarity and obscurity and emulating the atmospheric power of dreams and memories.
For more information, follow Liliane Tomasko and Kerlin Gallery on Instagram @lilianetomasko @kerlingallery
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist and Director of the Golden Tread Gallery, Peter Richards in 2020.
Peter Richards is an artist based in Belfast, in the North of Ireland. He works in a range of media including forms of photography, installation and performance. His works can be seen as artistic enquiries into subjects, such as: how understanding is formed and truth is subscribed to; how we have the capacity to suspend disbelief in order to continue believing in chosen truths.
Richards often engages with interactions between re-presentation, time and referencing. He exhibits internationally and, in 2005, participated in Northern Ireland’s inaugural presentation at the Venice Biennale, ‘The Nature of Things – A Long Weekend’.
Having grappled with comprehending how understanding is formed and truth is subscribed to, Richards has, throughout his practice, questioned: how he chooses what he believes?; how this is informed?; and how he can suspend disbelief in order to continue to believe in seemingly temporary constructs of a truth?
Often early works took as their starting point an engagement with forms of mediated experience, such as: how he could defer questioning the edits in movies in order to enjoy and believe in a filmic reality?; or how a combination of text and/or image influenced his thinking.
He has been director of the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast since 2001.
Richards has had solo exhibitions at venues including: Millennium Court Art Centre, Portadown; ZDSLU gallery, Ljubljana; The Naughton Gallery, Belfast; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Studio Lipoli & Lopez, Rome; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo;
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Alex Hudson in 2020.
Born 1976, London, UK MA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK. Lives and Works in Malmö, Sweden, Alex Hudson is a contemporary artist whose body of work is deeply rooted in the history of painting.
More specifically, Hudson creates mesmerising images that very often draw from the work of the old masters up until early forms of Modernism. He does so in a way that when looking at his work there is a simultaneous sense of strangeness as well as familiarity —his imagery is purposely ambiguous which allows the artist to flirt with notions of belonging and displacement. Alex Hudson’s work is somehow a conceptual inquiry on painting itself, an entanglement of approaches and veiled references that crystallises in scenes, portraits or landscapes where allegories and refined philosophical ideas coexist with humorous, explicit or vulgar images.
Even the most anecdotal motifs find themselves a suitable place in Hudson’s compositions —it is indeed his technical dexterity that makes each and every one of his paintings a truly enjoyable experience Hudson imbues his oeuvre with a strong psychological charge that is intensified by the characters and the scenes he chooses to depict which tend to be outcasts, acrobats or nomads usually performing intimate or domestic activities.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 - Guru, Galleri Fredland, Arild, SE
2021 - Anytime Now, New Art Projects, London, UK
2018 - Mute Monolith Reflector, Apartment Projects, Zermatt, CH
2015 - The Promise, Kremanskis, Berlin, DE
2010 - Golden Mean, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
Awards
2009 - Whitechapel Gallery, Studio Bursary
2008 - Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Collections
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, USA
Hugo and Carla Brown Collection, NL
Private Collections
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Elaine Hoey in 2020.
Elaine Hoey works mainly creating interactive based installations, appropriating contemporary digital art practices and aesthetics to explore the politics of digital humanity and our evolving relationship with the screen.
She describes her process as ‘experimental’ and is interested in exploring digitally native and new forms of art. Her work often addresses and critiques themes arising from identity, place and the biopolitical body.
She works through a wide variety of mediums such as, virtual reality, artificial intelligent systems, programming, video, installation and live remote cyber performance.
Selected exhibitions include; Bone Of What Absent Thing, Living Canvas, Wilton Park (2022-2023); Prosthetic Knowledge, The Glucksman (2022); Screentime, SilentGreen, Berlin (2022); Mimesis, at Solstice Art Center Navan (2021); Desire; A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age at the Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin (2019-2020); Unflattering at The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (2020) and Citizen Nowhere Citizen Somewhere at The Crawford Gallery, Cork (2020); The Dictionary of Evil, Gangwon International Biennale, South Korea (2018); Design and Violence MOMA and Science Gallery (2016-17); Dublin Futures, The RHA, Dublin; Turbulence, The Model Sligo; Oracle at Scena9. Bucharest (2018); Open Codes, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany; Surface Tension, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2018); FILE SP Fiesp Cultural Centre, São Paulo, Brazil (2019); This is not Architecture (2017) at Highlanes, Drogheda; The Ground Opened Up, The National Sculpture Factory, Cork (2017);
Elaine is a recipient of the Taylor Art Award and the R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award and the CCI Residency Award from the RDS Visual Arts Awards. She is a part time lecturer in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Kurb Junki (Niall Cullen) in 2020.
Contemporary visual artist Niall Cullen, formerly know as Kurb Junki, holds a first class honours degree in sculpture from the NCAD, Dublin.
In his early days as a street artist and filmmaker, Kurb Junki spent years spreading his signature hand-drawn hamburger motifs which populate the various surfaces of Dublin's inner city.
His work investigates themes around identity, public space, mark making, re-appropriation of data and imagery while he also explores a collaborative practice with other artists, relevant acquaintances, familiars and the public.
In recent years artist Niall Cullen’s journey has led him towards the exploration of spiritual growth completely disassociated from any form of organised religion.
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to members of the art collective Child Naming Ceremony in 2020.
Child naming Ceremony was s a collective formed by visual artists 2021: Michelle Hall, Austin Hearne, Celina Muldoon, Frances O'Dwyer 2017-2020: Ella Bertilsson, Ulla Juske.
Their live performances were very dynamic and full of intriguing meanings. The artists are currently in solo projects, for more information, follow them on Instagram.
@austinhearne @michelles_hall @celina_muldoon @ella_bertilsson @ullajuske
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan Talks to Designer, DJ and artist Margaret O'Connor in 2020.
Margaret O’Connor is an Irish-based Independent Accessories Designer, DJ, and Conceptual Artist. She is best known for her work as an accessory designer, launching her accessory range in the HUGH lane Gallery 2023, The National Gallery of Ireland in 2022.
Margaret was trained by some of the ‘leading lights of the Millinery industry’ such as; Philip Treacy, Noel Stewart, Kristin Scott, Sarah Cant, and Yvette Jelfs. While surrounded by the landscape of her hometown in the Burren, Boston, Tubber in County Clare, O’Connor interprets
Irish tradition and historicism through her own personal awakening.
Her creations have attracted the attention and been worn by a broad range of celebrities, ranging from Teddy Swims, Supermodel Kate Moss, Debbie Harry, Lady Gaga, Years and Years, Pink Floyd, Finbar Furey, The Pillow Queens, Victoria Mary Clarke, and many more.
Margaret worked with one of Irelands finest visual artists Aideen Barry for Aideen's artwork Oblivion. Margaret has a passion for art, music, and fashion. A sense of drama pervades Margaret O’Connor’s work. She produces hand-made eclectic couture designs and commercial millinery collections from her studio in Co.Clare Ireland.
She has won several awards including the National Enterprise Awards nominated and supported by Clare Local Development Company (2019), The Global Original Fashion Design Award at Guangzhou China International Fashion Week (2017), and Milliner of the Year at the Irish Fashion Innovation Awards (2014).
One of Margaret’s hats has also been selected to be in the national gallery of Ireland (2018). Margaret’s first film The Holy Ghost in collaboration with Taine King was shortlisted for an Emerging Talent award at Berlin Commercial (2019).
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Brian Fay in 2020.
Brian Fay is an Irish artist living in Dublin, his practice is rooted in drawing and he uses the materiality of pre-existing artworks and objects to examine our complex relationship to time.
In 2021 he was awarded a 3 year studio membership with Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin. He undertook an artist residency at the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation, Connecticut, USA in 2022. He recently completed a national touring survey show which will opened in the Highlanes Gallery Drogheda then to Limerick City Gallery of Art and Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland.
He is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Technological University Dublin andholds a practice led PhD from Northumbria University, England.
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Wendy Judge in 2020.
Wendy Judge graduated at Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design.
AWARDS: 2022 Arts Council Project Award (strand 1 ) 2020 Arts Council Bursary, 2019 Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award, 2016 Arts Council of Ireland Bursary, 2016 Arts Council Travel and Training Award, 2013 DLR COCO Bursary, 2011 Arts Council Bursary, 2010 Arts Council Bursary, 2004 Arts Council Bursary,
RESIDENCIES: selected, 2020 The Darkroom.ie Artist in Residency (travel) 2018Resort, Fingal Co Co, 2016 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh ,
2016 Heinrich Böll Cottage, Achill Island , 2013 Cill Rialaig, Co Kerry
COLLECTIONS: Prints and Drawings collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, Office of Public Works State Collection, AXA Insurance, Private Collections
Upcoming shows
2025 Centre Culturel Irlandais , Artist Residency, Paris (in association with Visual Artists Ireland )
Selected exhibitions
2024 Movers and Shakers, summer program , curator Cora Cummins, The Lawn Mór Projects, Dalkey
2023 House Of Disguise an UN Group Exhibition , curator Antonio Beecroft, Keystone Art Space, LA, USA
2021 Scaling the Untold:, An Expedition Of A Making, 2020 Darkroom Travel residency Exhibition, thedarkroom.ie
2020 Airmail, Curated by Richard Gorman, Assab One, Milan
2019 The Lost Library , curator Cora Cummins, The Lawn Mór Projects, Dalkey
2019 Airmail, Curated by Richard Gorman, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2019 THE LUMP SHOW: An Exhibition of the Un-Noun, Including an Introduction to Un-Realism & Revised, Amplified VOM, curator Antonio Beecroft, Cornelius Projects, Los Angeles, supported by Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award
2019 Airmail, Curated by Richard Gorman , Yanagisawa Gallery, Japan
2019 Book Marks, curator Cora Cummins, Group Exhibition, Lawn Mór Projects, Dalkey
2019 189th RHA Annual Exhibition (selected drawing) , Royal Hibernian Academy , Dublin
2018 Resort Revelations, Group Exhibition as Difference Engine curated by Caroline Cowley Fingal Public Art at Lynders Mobile Home Park, Dublin
2018 The Flip Side, 3 person show, The Dark Room, Dublin
2018 Altern_ator XI Difference Engine, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia, supported by Culture Ireland (Mark Cullen, Jessica Foley, Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawler)
2017 Travelator, Difference Engine, ONONO Gallery Rotterdam, Netherlands, supported by Culture Ireland
2016 A Conversation on Drawing , curated by Mary Ruth Walsh, RHA Studios, Dublin
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Atsushi Kaga in 2020.
Behind the playful, surreal façade of Atsushi Kaga’s work lurks significantly darker territory; wherein the artist confronts serious issues of cultural politics, mental health – personal insecurities, paranoia (particularly a fear-of-missing-out), and the complex search for identity and the philosophical crises presented by daily routine. Through the eyes of a self-proclaimed ‘Otaku’, and fascinatingly influenced by a mixture of the Japanese storytelling cultures of Manga, Anime and Irish satirical Irish literature, from Swift to Myles na gCopaleen, Kaga’s razor-sharp wit and extraordinary imagination takes the viewer on a willingly-led journey of exploration through a complex alternate universe, a register of the sadly poetic to hilarious, in the company of a cast of invented, metaphorical characters. While still a student, Atsushi Kaga created the classic trickster, Pooka-like bunny, Usacchi, that has evolved over the years as an intricate, multi-faceted surrogate, an emotional self-portrait of the artist, at work and thought.
Originally from Tokyo, and now living and working between Ireland and Kyoto, Japan, Atsushi Kaga studied Fine Art at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, graduating in 2005, and made a critically acclaimed first solo museum exhibition at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny in 2008. Kaga collaborated with his mother Kazuko Kaga on a process show, Nerd bag, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2010) and reiterated in a solo ‘Positions’ presentation for Art Basel Miami Beach (2011). Kaga’s fourth solo exhibition at mother’s tankstation Dublin; Melancholy with vegetables surrounded by miracles (2020), introduced and developed his recent, highly detailed large-format paintings, influenced by Dutch Vanitas and the 17-18th century Kyoto Rinpa school, fused to his characteristic style and subject matter.
Kaga’s sixth solo exhibition with mother’s tankstation Here I am opened at the Dublin gallery, September 2023 following his first London solo exhibition your memorabilia floats in the air, with mother’s tankstation | London in October 2022. Kaga has also made notable solo exhibitions with Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, Galeria Leme, São Paolo, Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel, and Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, amongst others. He participated in the Location One International Residency Programme, New York (2012); the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York (2011); and has also held residencies in São Paolo, Fountainhead, Miami and the Artists’ Work Programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. In 2019-2021 Kaga was awarded the Tony O’Malley Residency, Callan, Kilkenny, and participated in the Steep Rocks Art Residency, Washington, Connecticut in Autumn 2021.
Kaga presented his first London solo exhibition your memorabilia floats in the air, with mother’s tankstation | London in October 2022. In March 2024 Kaga presented Ukiyo-e, with mother’s tankstation at Art Basel Hong Kong 2024 Encounters sector. Consisting of 5 large format gold leaf panel paintings housed within a freestanding traditional Japanese theatre structureUkiyo-e is Kaga’s largest-scale installation work to date.
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On this Episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Artist Orla Whelan.
Orla Whelan is a visual artist whose practice is rooted in painting. Her approach is to consider the visual language and materials of the medium as tools to reimagine contemporary possibilities for transcendence. She is motivated by an existential anxiety, and a belief that abstraction is a viable means to address metaphysical uncertainties. In addition to oil paint on linen, she uses non-traditional painting materials which refer to the materiality and tropes of painting.
These expanded forms include: wood veneers on panel, painted plywood wedges, modified furniture, colour pencil on paper and site responsive interventions that speak to the history and architecture of particular spaces. Orla frequently explores the role of writing within visual art practice by creating different author identities and experimental texts that challenge ideas of subjectivity, authorship and meaning.
Her current exhibition Coloured into Shapecontinues to12th October 2024 at Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin. Recent solo exhibitions include Coloured by Weather at Custom House Gallery, Westport (2024) Glas, Gorm, Uaine at the Pearse Museum OPW, Dublin (2023), Magnum Chaos at Hillsboro Fine Art (2023), and I Don’t Need Anything From Here (magic-carpet-painting) at the RHA Gallery (2022). In 2021, Orla took part in Dubliners – The 6th Biennial of Painting in Zagreb, Croatia, in association with Pallas Projects.
Her work is held in the collections of The Arts Council of Ireland, The Crawford Art Gallery, The OPW State Art Collection, Trinity College Dublin, The Merrion Hotel, Kelly’s Hotel and private collections worldwide. Orla is founder and director of AtHomeStudios – a collective of visual artists working from studios based in their own homes, and the art publishing project Whale Dust. She lives in and works in Dublin, Ireland.
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