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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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 in

Digital Humanities' Artist Residency (Jan 23-Jep 23).

'DIGLTR4N: REVo/eLu/aTION'

is a continuation of the Geeter dody hi work

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transness as it exists in cyberspace. This latest of work refers to

biblical 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 Studios

1 Exchange PlaceBelfast, Northern Ireland

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