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_

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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