Ultraviolet Art Talks

Closing Season 16, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Maeve Brennan in 2023.

Maeve Brennan is a painter working in oils. Her work is detail oriented, precise and time consuming.

It is realist and utilises photography as source material. It moves between the current and the past making connections between both, often merging these via multiple images of the same object or place.

She is interested in the symbolism of the seemingly mundane-the everyday in objects and spaces, and the emotions they provoke. Light plays an integral role, particularly in my interior paintings. Feelings of vulnerability, fragility and sentimentality are her typical starting points which can provoke a sense of painful nostalgia.

The resulting work strives to draw attention to the details of the human condition, and to catalogue a sense of her own place in the world.

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Alexa Müen in 2023.

Alexa Müen is a synesthetic European conceptual artist and curator, She is based between Spain and the UK. Her art is a junction of interconnecting layers of emotion, spirituality, materiality, technology and traditional craft.

Traditionally trained in Andalucía and Florence, Alexa was called to the materiality oil painting. "I loved how oil paint could be applied in transparent or opaque layers, in particular how glazing and colour interacted with light, how a poppy oil glaze could reflect light so strongly you couldn't see the colour it was glazing, hiding the truth under a veil of reflected light”.

Moving from oil painting to light based work in 2017/18 was a natural progression, mixing both the craft of oil painting with programable LED lights and projection .

The choice of materials add conceptual layers to the pieces, conveying a tension implicit in the interconnection of technology and nature, which is key in modern life.
Her multimedia techniques and materials, range from painting in inks, encaustic wax, oil or acrylic paint,. Tapestry using organic hand woven wool yarn from a Welsh women's cooperative, referencing the historical hidden female artist who worked in embroidery on jute sacking cloth or linen canvas..
In contrast she also uses contemporary technological and industrial materials such as, acrylic panels, clear vinyl, aluminium, copper, insulation materials, motors, bike batteries, projectors, and the key material, the programmable colour changeable LED lights, which also have variable intensity of emission.

Her installations are based around anthropological questions, delving into the psychology of personal relations versus society, what was valued, when and how, what is reviled or worshipped, what is hidden or revealed, rather then exploration of a particular medium.

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For more information, follow Alexa Müen on Instagram @elegantpunk
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Visual Artist Felipe Ikehara in 2023.
**Please note this episode is entirely in Portuguese (Brazil) language. Watch the full episode with English Subtitles on Ultraviolet Art Talks Instagram** on this link:
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Born in 1987 in São Paulo, Felipe Ikehara is a visual artist who develops paintings on canvas, murals, and drawings, these being the processes manifested as his main artistic vehicles.

The technical development of drawing and painting is combined with research into visual references from the nature of the world and the human being. Within a decidedly figurative work, particular and universal symbolisms structure the thematic pillars of the works. Simultaneously, rigidity and organicity are exalted through pastel tones to compose images that translate the sensation that emerges from a lapse in daily life and results in a moment of introspection.

Selected recent works and shows include; commission work for @meta São Paulo @hon_magurobr show @diasporagalleria projects with @muraissp

Artist Statement;

“The choice of palette manifests itself in pastel tones and more muted colors as a counterpoint to the exacerbated saturation of daily life.

In urban life, we become accustomed to surviving surrounded by glaring information in every synesthetic sense of the word. Sounds and noises exceed humanly acceptable decibel levels, people express themselves in an imposing and aggressive manner to be noticed, colors and movements explode in all the amplitude that the eye can reach.
The saturation of everything around us is an indication of the anesthesia of the reception of being in addition to the uncontrolled need for recognition and manifestation.
The way I present the colors and themes of my work is a desaturated manifesto, because I believe that, starting from the most static state, the smallest movements are highlighted.

In a daily life where saturation prevails, I seek to illustrate a place of refuge where subtleties have value and strength. I present my work, for myself and whoever may receive it, as a reminder that there is a place where energy is not spent unnecessarily and its smallest manifestation can be recognized and contemplated.
In our daily lives we do not lack colors, we lack perceiving the subtleties that exist between them.”

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For more information, follow Felipe Ikehara on Instagram @fe.ikehara also @casa.meio
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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Kat Lalor in 2023.

Kat Lalor is a Queer Visual Artist, generating performative lens-based work concerned with the multi-facets of Queer intelligibility. Through drag, fiction, and language, they explore a navigation of the world as other. Drawing from subjective experience laced with threads of Queer theory and fiction, Lalor’s work is interested in moments of tension, choice and slippage.

SHOWS

2024 WAYSTATION, The Complex Gallery
2023 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery
2023 Gaffer-Tape, Phizzfest, Phibsboro Tower
2022 RDS Visual Arts Award Exhibition, RDS
2022 Graduate Exhibition, Technological University Dublin
2021 Éalú, Virtual Exhibition and Printed Publication
2020 (C)overt, Virtual Exhibition
2020 Metamorphosis, Virtual Exhibition
2019 Evocation of Entities, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

AWARDS

2025 WOWTE Residency Award, A4 Sounds
2022 Fire Station Artist Studio’s Graduate Award
2022 RDS Visual Art Award
2022 Arts Council Agility Award

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On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to Head Of Collections at Hugh Lane Gallery, Logan Sisley in 2023.

Logan Sisley is currently Head of Collections at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, which includes a fine collection of British
art, particularly from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is from Aotearoa, New Zealand, where he studied art history at the universities of Otago and Auckland.

He previously worked at the National Library of Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and Edinburgh College of Art. He has published widely on modern and contemporary art and architecture, including on Francis Bacon and John Lavery, and has a particular interest in artistic relations between Britain and Ireland.

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