The Warrior Artist – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode of the Warrior Artist Podcast, host Éadaoin Glynn interviews Debbie Godsell, a visual artist and art educator based in Cork. Her work is primarily lens based, but has evolved to include sculptural forms and video.

A graduate of Crawford College of Art and Design and Limerick School of Art and Design, she is a member of Cork Printmakers. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Prize. She has won many awards and her work is in public collections, including the National Gallery of Ireland, the OPW, and the Crawford Art Gallery.

Debbie discusses:

• her artistic evolution from lens-based work to printmaking the influence of her rural surroundings on her art.
• her love of the unpredictability and possibilities within printmaking
• the impact of her family history and environment on her work
• Her interest in folklore, identity, and the colonial history of Ireland
• The creative processthe challenges of balancing teaching and her art practice
• Rejection
• Advice and the importance of community
• The importance of perseverance

See Debbie's work in her upcoming solo exhibition 'Flail' in Source Arts Centre, Tipperary, 14th September – 19th October 2024

Full show notes available here

Follow Debbie on Instagram and her website

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In this episode of the Warrior Artist Podcast, host Éadaoin Glynn interviews Irish visual artist Aideen Barry, who shares insights into her expansive practice that includes performance, sculpture, film, text, and experimental lens-based media.

Barry discusses her personal journey to becoming an artist, the themes in her work such as domestic labor, environmental changes, and human vulnerability, and her unique approach to engaging with varied mediums. She reflects on the significance of international collaboration and how her work resonates on a global scale, touching on social and political issues.

Highlights include discussions on her projects, 'Oblivion' and 'The Song of the Bleeding Tree,' as well as her approaches to art as a form of protest and responsibility. Barry also discusses upcoming projects, her thoughts on art's role in society, and her efforts to support emerging artists and diversify representation in the art world.

00:00 Welcome to the Warrior Artist Podcast

00:12 Introducing Aideen Barry: A Visual Artist's Journey

00:48 The Early Desire to Create: Aideen's Path to Art

01:55 Exploring Artistic Mediums: A Journey Through College and Beyond

03:17 Building an International Profile: The Importance of Global Connection

06:10 Folklore and Identity: Diving into the Archives

10:26 The Bleeding Tree: A Metaphor for Environmental Awareness

13:37 Oblivion: Music as a Medium for Message

14:11 The Role of Artists in Today's World

19:26 Collaborating with Peter Gabriel: Art in Popular Culture

20:43 Klostes: A Feature Film Collaboration

27:06 The Power of Non-Verbal Communication in Art

29:31 Exposing Injustice Through Art: The National Gallery Controversy

30:22 Championing Women's Representation in Art Institutions

34:29 The Power of Artistic Protest and Representation

36:11 Advocating for Equality and Diversity in the Art World

41:08 The Artist's Life: Balancing Creativity, Family, and Activism

48:34 Future Projects and Collaborations: Expanding Horizons

53:28 Final Thoughts and Advice for Emerging Artists

Read the blog post here

See more details on Aideen Barry on Instagram and her Website.

Follow Éadaoin Glynn on Instagram @eadaoin_glynn and her website.

"The art world is slow. It is not fast. There's no ten steps to make it in the art world...Some people have two steps, some have 400 steps, some have 20 steps, some have 30 steps. The art world moves at its own pace. And at the end of the day, it's all about the work"

Ty Clark is a visual artist, film maker, sculptor and writer based in Waco, Texas.  He produced an award winning film, Jump Shoot and is currently working on a documentary series.  He began a Mentorship Programme in 2021, through which he has mentored 49 artists from 17 countries. He recently wrote his first novel. He has exhibited extensively and is represented in many major US cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.

US artist Ty Clark chats to Éadaoin Glynn about:

• The value placed on art in his family
• Falling in love with painting
• His studio
• Moving from figurative drawing to abstraction
• His studio practice
• Spending time with his work
• The importance of art learning
• Developing a body of work
• Working towards solo shows
• Having work ready for opportunities
• Being organised and Inventory management
• Working with art dealers and galleries
• How he uses Instagram
• His mentorship programme
• The importance of community for artists
• Experimenting and overcoming fear
• The best advice he received
• His advice for artists
• His approach to rejection
• His documentary film and novel
• His recommended books for artists include How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Show Your Work by Austin Kleon, Art and Fear by Ted Orland and David Bayless and Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel

Ty's two person exhibition, 'Of Warm Impermanence' with Vy Ngo, runs until 22 July 2023 in Arts Center Waco, Texas.

Show notes available in the blog. See more of Ty's work on Instagram: @tynathanclark and his website: www.tynathanclark.com.

Contact Éadaoin on Instagram: @eadaoin_glynn and her website: www.eadaoinglynn.com

Cork based Orla O’Byrne explores overlooked histories of sites and artefacts.  She works across a variety of media and techniques such as drawing, photography and sculpture. Orla rebelled against going to art college after school, travelled and lived abroad, before having children, setting up a bakery business and eventually went to art college aged 35.  She has an MA in Art & Process and a BA in Fine Art from The Crawford College of Art and Design.  She is a member of the board of directors of the Backwater Artists where her studio is based.  Some of her awards include The Lavit Gallery Student of the Year and the CIT Registrar’s Prize.   Orla talks to Éadaoin Glynn about:

• Rebelling against going to art college until she was 35
• Her love of drawing
• Her deep affinity with her materials
• Coade stone
• Maverick casting
• Casting from a cast
• Writing about art
• Recording the Crawford Art Gallery on the cusp of change
• Physical material signs of the stories contained within a building
• Looking Up
• Examining old glass slides used for teaching
• Overwhelm
• Analog processes
• Her studio: time management, organisation and storage
• Peeling the skin off stone
• Her relationship with colour
• About rejection
• Advice
• Upcoming exhibition with the F Project group, in Chapel Hill School of Art, Macroom about how we perceive light.

Full shows and images available in the blog.

www.orlaobyrne.com

Instagram: @orla_o_byrne

Contact Eadaoin

www.eadaoinglynn.com

Instagram: @eadaoin_glynn

I've talked about entering open calls and managing rejection in episode 6.  In this episode, I talk about going to exhibition openings. 

When you get a yes, when your artwork, painting or sculpture is accepted, you have to celebrate because they're so rare, those yeses...If at all possible, you have to try and go to that opening night.

Opening nights are a way of meeting other artists. I believe you have to get outside of your studio and try and connect with the art world in some way, no matter how scary it is. I'm an introvert and shy but I'm motivated to meet other artists.

In this episode, I share:

• Going to my first opening night when I knew no one. 
• Time and days challenging for parents
• Why it's worth it
• Opening nights are an opportunity
• My strategies for opening nights as an introvert
• Why I go early
• The advantages and disadvantages of going solo or with someone. 
• How I approach total strangers
• Using the opportunity to document
• Seeing your work hung with others
• Be generous and share other artists on Instagram
• Talking to the curator
• Making connections with other artists
• Making connections leads to other opportunities
• Document your work in exhibition setting, at the opening and at a later date when it's quiet. 

Full show notes available

Contact Éadaoin on Instagram @eadaoin_glynn and www.eadaoinglynn.com

Galway photographer Enda Burke gave a TED Talk on creativity and has been featured in The Guardian, Rolling Stone Magazine, Forbes Magazine and The Observer. He has been shortlisted for the Sony World Photo awards , The Zurich Portrait award and Saatchi Art Visions of the Future. Recent Awards include the international Bartur Photo Prize, Profifoto “best of new Talent award” 2022 and Lens Culture Home 21’.

Enda's practice entails building elaborate sets filled with  props from everyday life and with narratives played out by his family and friends . His work is saturated with vivid neon colours and it is nostalgic, kitch and humorous.   

He chats to Éadaoin about:

• why he loves photography
• How limitations made him creative
• How COVID led him to change direction
• The importance of his sketchbook
• His inspiration and love of colour
• His favourite cameras [Fujifilm CFX50R Digital and Hasselblad 501cm medium format film]
• The advantages of film and digital
• His advice and tips
• The importance of perseverance and self-belief
• Entering submissions
• Set building, planning and 'happy accidents'
• Photographing family, friends and his dog
• Time management
• Instagram and hashtags
• Upcoming exhibitions and teaching

Full show notes available.

Follow Enda on Instagram @enda35mm and www.endaburke.com

Follow Éadaoin on Instagram @eadaoin_glynn and www.eadaoinglynn.com

Aoife Nolan's successfully operated her own fashion business for over a decade before going to art college. Aoife describes this change like a switch, like shutting one door and opening another. In the Crawford College of Art and Design, she was awarded the RHA student access programme and her graduate show received several awards.  She has exhibited in Ireland and in the Endicott College, Massachusetts in the US. 

Aoife describes her work as the merging of interior and exterior landscape and her work is inspired our need for connection and for connection to the earth.

Aoife's practice includes experimental processes, such as corroding copper, making her own pigments from natural materials and harvesting rainwater. 

Aoife chats to Éadaoin about:

• thinking like an artist
• making the decision to go to art college
• the experience of art college during Covid
• Her experimental processes
• Natural materials
• How she makes copper ink
• Using seaweed as a pigment and for printing
• Her creative process both outside and in the studio
• Her favourite brushes
• Her favourite paper
• Inspiration
• The best advice she received
• Her advice for anyone thinking of going to art college
• Her upcoming exhibition

Full show notes and images are available.

See Aoife's work on Instagram @aoife_nolan_

Contact Éadaoin on Instagram @eadaoin_glynn and www.eadaoinglynn.com

My time in the studio is my most precious resource. When you're an artist, you're self employed. You probably have a day job. Your time in the studio, your creative time is really, really precious.

There's so many things you have to do apart from the creative side. There's so much admin involved in being an artist - managing and tracking applications, submissions, sales, paintings and marketing.

In this podcast, I share my top admin tools. I'm not into perfectionism. I want to do admin as efficiently and quickly as possible. These are the tools I use every day so I can spend less time on my laptop and have more time in the studio. 

• Artwork Archive
• Evernote
• Canva
• Email
• iPhone
• MailChimp
• Excel

Go to  www.artworkarchive.com/warrior for a 20% discount and to try it out for free.

Read the show notes for more detailed tips.

Contact Éadaoin on instagram @eadaoin_glynn and through her website www.eadaoinglynn.com

Eamon Colman grew up in Dublin, Ireland in a family of painters.  He left school and starting painting in a spare room in his parents house, he took art classes by night at National College or Art and Design and studying horticulture by day.  He has had a professional art career since 1979.  Eamon was only 19 when he had his first solo show. Since then he's had over 40 solo shows in Ireland and internationally.  

He was chair of the The Artists' Association of Ireland and president of the the European council of artists. He was elected a member of Aosdana in 2009 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland.  He has won many awards and his work is in many major collections.

Eamon is represented by the Solmon Fine Art Gallery, Dublin, Hambly & Hambly in the UK and the Stern Gallery in Vienna. He lives in rural Kilkenny where he has converted an old barn into a studio. 

Eamon chats to Éadaoin about :

• How he views himself as a worker who happens to be a painter
• The importance of tenacity
• The challenge of making a living as a creative person
• The gallery system
• His studio practice and the importance of privacy in the studio
• Planning, balance and composition
• The rare magic when paintings happen
• Overworking paintings
• Editing his work
• His love for paper
• Storing works in progress
• Writing and painting titles
• Sculpture helps his painting practice
• The importance of colour
• Having an art career
• Upcoming solo exhibition in the Butler Gallery
• How paintings are political and autobiographical
• His love of abstraction
• The importance of his garden
• Concern of climate change and the change he's seen in the environment in Kilkenny
• Beauty in his paintings
• The best advice he received
• His advice for emerging artists
• Mentoring as communication
• Instagram as a community
• His plans for an open call to his followers on Instagram

Full show notes are available

See more of Eamon's work:www.eamoncolman.com

Instagram: @eamon_colman

His galleries:

www.solomonfineart.ie

www.hamblyandhambly.com

www.sternstudio.at 

Teaching:Eamon teaches at www.artform.ie 

Contact Éadaoin on Instagram @eadaoin_glynn and her website www.eadaoinglynn.com

Waterford based visual artist, Sile Walsh, chats to host Éadaoin Glynn about the challenges of painting with raising young children, returning to painting after a hiatus and her experience with Sky Portrait and Landscape Artist of the Year.

Sile also talks about:

• The importance of drawing and life drawing in her practice
• How she draws inspiration from the sea and the sea swimming community
• Why she gets up at 5am to paint
• The evolution of her painting style away from form
• How her self portraits are guiding her
• Her favourite tools and paint
• The best advice she received
• Working on her self-confidence
• Her up-coming exhibitions

Full show notes available.

View Sile's work on Instagram: @silewalshartist and www.silewalshartist.com

Contact Éadaoin on Instagram: @eadaoin_glynn and www.eadaoinglynn.com