The Warrior Artist

Jo Melvin is a professor in fine arts and feminisms at Chelsea College of Art in London, director and curator of the Barry Flanagan estate. Jo is also an art historian, a writer, a lecturer, a filmmaker, a curator and an exhibition maker.
"I speak as a woman who wears many hats, academic, scholar, teacher, mother, alongside the simultaneous development of my artistic, curatorial and exhibition making practices."
In this episode of The Warrior Artist, Jo Melvin chats to Éadaoin Glynn about:
Ending up in art school 'by default'
Steering her own path in art school
How she approached and met artists who inspired her
Her approach to curating and exhibition making
Teaching
Meeting Barry Flanagan and curating his work
Meeting Marion Milner, Francis Bacon and Lucy Lippard
Her advice to artists
Her love of film and her own creative practice

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Podcast edited by Bren Russell of Podland.

Leah Hewson is an abstract artist who works in layers of complex patterns, in vibrant neon colours. She studied in Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design. She has exhibited extensively, including solo exhibitions in the RHA and Hillsboro. Fine Art. She has had residencies in New York, LA Berlin and Dublin. She has won several awards, including the whites award for painting in the RHA. Her work is in many public collection and has also been auctioned at Sotheby's
In this episode of The Warrior Artist Podcast, Leah chats to host Éadaoin Glynn about :
Interning with Sean Scully in New York moved her directly into abstraction
Collaborations enable to give up control and access creativity
Why she enjoys working in a variety of mediums
Her intuitive painting process and painting in the 'flow state'
Avoiding the comfort zone and challenging herself
Her advice for artists
Commercial commissions and being outside the gallery system
Having a painting auctioned at Sothebys London
Mural painting
Having an authentic voice and the importance of discipline.
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Podcast Edited by Bren Russell of Podland

In this episode of the Warrior Artist Podcast, host Éadaoin Glynn interviews Ciara Rodgers, a visual artist based in Cork City who works from her studio at Backwater Artists Group. She has a BA and MA from Crawford College of Art and Design and works in an expanded drawing practice which includes polaroid photography, installation and performance.  Her work is often site specific, with the defunct and disappearing architecture of the urban landscape as her starting point.
Ciara discusses:
How the frustration of COVID lockdown forced her to explore new areas in her practice
Her love of the unpredictability of Polaroid photography
Her public practice vs her private practice
Performance drawing
How the urban environment inspires herHer colour palette inspired by her 1980s childhood
How she nurtures her practice and balances all her different mediums
Balancing two teaching jobs with her studio practice
Taking holidays from social media
How she handles rejection
The best advice she received as an art student
Her advice for emerging artists

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See Éadaoin's work on her website and Instagram.
See Ciara's work on her website and Instagram.
This episode was edited by Podland

In this episode of the Warrior Artist Podcast, host Éadaoin Glynn interviews Leah Beggs, a visual artist based in Galway.

Her work is semi-abstract landscapes and she is represented by the Solomon Gallery in Dublin and the Kenny Bookshop and Art Gallery in Galway.

A graduate of Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design, her work is in public collections including the Department of an Taoiseach, Trinity College Dublin and the National Concert Hall.

Leah discusses:

Her intuitive painting process and 'the crap pile'

How moving to Connemara impacted her work

How interior design and visual art are mutually beneficial industries

The importance of having a studio

Working with galleries

The importance of being professional

the challenges of balancing family time, administration and her painting practice

Rejection

Wandhanger hanging system

Read the Blog post on my website.

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In this episode of the Warrior Artist Podcast, host Éadaoin Glynn interviews Debbie Godsell, a visual artist and art educator based in Cork. Her work is primarily lens based, but has evolved to include sculptural forms and video.

A graduate of Crawford College of Art and Design and Limerick School of Art and Design, she is a member of Cork Printmakers. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Prize. She has won many awards and her work is in public collections, including the National Gallery of Ireland, the OPW, and the Crawford Art Gallery.

Debbie discusses:

her artistic evolution from lens-based work to printmaking the influence of her rural surroundings on her art.

her love of the unpredictability and possibilities within printmaking

the impact of her family history and environment on her work

Her interest in folklore, identity, and the colonial history of Ireland

The creative processthe challenges of balancing teaching and her art practice

Rejection

Advice and the importance of community

The importance of perseverance

See Debbie's work in her upcoming solo exhibition 'Flail' in Source Arts Centre, Tipperary, 14th September – 19th October 2024

Full show notes available here

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