Ultraviolet Art Talks

Resuming Season 16, on this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Nuala O'Donovan in 2023 about her practice and her exquisite otherworldly sculptures.

Nuala O'Donovan is an Irish Artist, living and working in Cork City on the south coast. She is a graduate of Middlesex University, U.K. and MTU, (Crawford College of Art and Design), Cork, Ireland.

O'Donovan worked in design in the U.K., U.S.A. and Australia. She returned to Ireland where she taught design at MTU before returning to education to undertake an MA by research in the Ceramics Department at the Crawford college of Art and Design in Cork, completed in 2008.

Her research area: Irregularities in Patterns in Nature & The Geometry of Natural Forms. Her artwork has been exhibited and published internationally, and she has been an invited speaker and teacher at workshops and International Conferences in Museums, Galleries and Universities.

“My starting points are detailed drawings of plants, shells and seeds. In order that the form of the finished work is consistent with the qualities of the source material, I use a set of constraints based on a combination of regular and irregular geometric principles which are found in nature. I am interested in the history of the use of the geometry of natural forms in European art – in particular classical Greek art and architecture. I use these principles of Classical geometry when making decisions about the proportions of my work, and combine them with fractal or irregular geometry by using the principles of fractal geometry in the creation of the pattern. The form of the individual pattern is repeated in the outcome of the overall work – the “inherent design carried within itself”, so that each outcome is unique even if the starting point is similar. Each sculptural piece carries, within itself, its own narrative from the time during which it was made". __Nuala O'Donovan

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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