Buoy Park Art

About Buoy Park Art

Welcome to the Buoy Park Art podcast with Oonagh McAteer and Zara Lyness. Buoy Park Art is our virtual place, named after the vanished public art sculpture park situated beside the Belfast School of Art where we used to meet and chat. We invite you to our new park to share in conversations about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Publisher

Oonagh McAteer

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Aug 2020

Latest episode

10 Feb 2021

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Feb 2021

   Resting; another thing to do! Ep.26

   This week its just a quick chat from me - Oonagh McAteer about a new thing on my to do list - resting! If you have any comments or suggestions or would lie to take part or do a podcast takeover please get in touch with me either by messaging via instagram @oonaghmcateer or @buoyparkart

2. 

   2 Feb 2021

   Skate boarding as an Art Practice (Ep. No25)

   Drydan Wilson returned to Belfast School of Art to Study his for his master’s degree after graduating in 2016 from BA Fine Art. In 2017 he was the returning artist in residence. Drydan has taken part in several residencies, both virtually and physically, including one on the Copeland Bird Observatory and is a member of the Copeland Arts Collective. From 2014 to 2015 Drydan worked, studied and lived in Finland, developing his practice and exhibiting his work. Drydan has created several commissioned public artworks, some located in Cork, Dublin and Rostrevor to name a few. He has also shown work in numerous group and solo exhibitions both locally and internationally. My practice examines how we negotiate space, exploring the politics of space through questions raised by skateboarding and similar subcultural practices. I am interested in the social distortion created through the re-appropriation of landscape and its architecture and how the positioning or use of the body in space can be used to critique social, capitalist and regulatory structures. Combining my artistic and skateboarding practices I am interested in questioning and challenging the boundaries of what a contemporary art practice can be. I take a multi-disciplinary approach, employing sculpture, text, sound, drawing and video as ways of developing work. Skateboarding from a young age, I naturally use the medium to explore, interact, and think about the world, therefore skateboarding has become the starting point, methodology, and/or subject for much of my work. Whether, using materials and forms that reflect skateboarding terrain, replicating camera angles from skate videos, or incorporating skate terminology as text within the work, I aim to make work through isolating and combining various fragments of the subculture to highlight the creative potential, artistic formalities, and affordances of the material to create artworks that evoke a new way of looking and thinking about space and its potential. For Drydan's latest exhibition visit https://catalystarts0.wixsite.com/e-quadrantmfa2021/e-quadrant-1

3. 

   26 Jan 2021

   Highlights and challenges of showing art virtually with Lauren Ciara McCullough (Ep.24)

   This week Oonagh speaks with Lauren Ciara McCullough about some of the highlights and challenges of having a virtual art show having recently taken part in the second part of the E-Quadrant show. We also get to hear about how lockdown has affected Lauren’s work and process as a painter as she settles into her new home. Lauren Ciara McCullough is recent graduate of the BA Course in Fine art at Ulster University, attaining a First-Class Honours. Her practice focuses centrally on painting; however, it stems into areas such as drawing, poetry, collage, photography and most recently walking. The sublime is the central motif of McCullough’s practice. A practice of questioning whether it is possible to convey something beyond self and the earthly reality, through image and paint? As an emerging artist McCullough has shown in multiple group exhibitions since her graduation in 2019 and has gone on to pursue an associate fellowship in Higher Education alongside her Masters. McAteer and Zara Lyness, Buoy Park Art is a podcast full of chat about art and artists in Northern Ireland and beyond. Meeting on the Fine Art Master’s Course in Ulster University, Oonagh (BA Photography) and Zara (BA Fine Art) started the podcast as a relaxed platform to encourage inclusive discussions about art and artists and to extend a support network to independent and rural artists at all career stages. The podcasts include invited guests talking about their work and interests and introducing different topics each week, along with the ups and downs of the life or an emerging artist. Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’ The podcast available on Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Radiopublic and Breaker. You can contact the artists directly on Instagram @buoyparkart, @oonaghmcateer and @z.lyness or email buoyparkart@gmail.com #BPA #Boyparkartpodcast Sponsorships: off for this episode

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