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Buoy Park Art

By Oonagh McAteer

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.
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Resting; another thing to do! Ep.26

Buoy Park ArtFeb 10, 2021

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Resting; another thing to do! Ep.26

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 



Feb 10, 202111:54
Skate boarding as an Art Practice (Ep. No25)

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




Feb 02, 202128:58
Highlights and challenges of showing art virtually with Lauren Ciara McCullough (Ep.24)

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

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Sponsorships: off for this episode

Jan 26, 202146:54
E-Quadrant Virtual Show Part 1 (Ep.23)

E-Quadrant Virtual Show Part 1 (Ep.23)

The virtual show mentioned is and link below has images and further artist information. 

E-Quadrant 1 Tours - 14th-15th Jan

1. Drydan Wilson

2. Emily Esdale

3 NokuLunga Mazibuko

4. Oonagh McAteer

5. Susan Hughes

https://catalystarts0.wixsite.com/e-quadrantmfa2021/exhibition



more information on the RIGHT TO CREATE project mentioned:

https://pssquared.org/projects/right-to-create





 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

Jan 19, 202133:47
Featuring Anna Donovan (Ep. No.22)

Featuring Anna Donovan (Ep. No.22)

Oonagh 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

Jan 12, 202141:24
Featuring Alison Lowry (Ep No.21)

Featuring Alison Lowry (Ep No.21)

Alison Lowry 

Alison Lowry is a glass artist living and working from her studio, ‘Schoolhouse Glass’ in Saintfield, Co. Down. In 2009 she graduated from Ulster University with an Honours degree in Art and Design. Since then she has won numerous awards including first place in the category, ‘Glass Art’ at the Royal Dublin Society in 2015 and 2009, the Silver Medal at the Royal Ulster Arts Club’s Annual Exhibition in 2010, the Warm Glass Prize in 2010 and 2011 and more recently the Bronze Award at Bullseye Glass’ exhibition for emerging artists, ‘Emerge’. Alison exhibits nationally and internationally, and her work is held in several public and private collections.

In 2016 the National Museum of Ireland acquired a large pâte de verre vessel for their ‘Contemporary Collection of Design & Craft’ and have recently also purchased the sculpture, ‘A New Skin’ for the collection. Alison Lowry is currently the only Irish artist to have been awarded a month long residency (April 2014) at the Studio of the world-renowned Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York.

Her current solo exhibition, ‘(A)Dressing Our Hidden Truths’, is inspired by such traumatic histories as the Tuam Mother & Baby Home, domestic violence and Ireland’s Magdalene Laundry system. It runs at the National Museum of Ireland- Decorative Arts and History Division, at Collins Barracks in Dublin until the end of 2020.

Oonagh 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

Jan 05, 202139:28
Featuring Allison aka VirtuAli (Episode No.20)

Featuring Allison aka VirtuAli (Episode No.20)

Skills backed by years of experience

Alison Matthews or Ali for short is a Virtual Assistant (hence the business name VirtuAli).  Started VirtuAli Administrative Solutions in 2015 to help busy business owners be less busy and concentrate on the ‘ing’ in their business teaching, coaching, painting, training!

As a business owner she understands the complexities of running a business, of juggling all the hats and getting swamped in the business rather than having time to work ON it and the thing you love.

With 20 years+ experience in a host of administrative roles worldwide, Alison have always been highly organised and loves now helping business owners streamline their administrative processes so they are more productive, waste less time on nitty gritty admin and have a better work life/balance and time to breathe!

Specialising in helping entrepreneurs automate processes around running courses/events (online and face to face) to be a virtual set of hands, eyes and ears!

Alison's passions are wild swimming, community projects and connecting people



The services she offers include organisational hours, accountability buddy and online courses guiding business owners how to work more efficiently in their business and to feel more in control. The list of her services is available at  https://virtuali.uk/getting-organised-with-ali/

And her latest course Jumpstart Your Efficiency starts on 5th Jan -link here

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/manage/events/130733885571/tickets





Oonagh 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

Dec 29, 202041:32
Featuring Haley Morris-Cafiero (Episode. 19)

Featuring Haley Morris-Cafiero (Episode. 19)

Featuring Haley Morris-Cafiero

Part performer, part artist, part provocateur, part spectator, Haley Morris-Cafiero explores the act of reflection in her photography. Morris-Cafiero’s photographs have been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, and have been featured in numerous newspapers, magazines and online including Le Monde, New York Times and Salon. Born in Atlanta, she is a graduate of the University of North Florida, where she earned a BA in Photography and a BFA in Ceramics in 1999. Nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2014 and a 2016 Fulbright finalist, Morris-Cafiero holds a MFA from the University of Arizona in Art. The Magenta Foundation published her monograph, The Watchers, in 2015 and Fall Line Press published her second monograph, The Bully Pulpit, in 2019. Morris-Cafiero is a Lecturer in photography at the Belfast School of Art at Ulster University.


Oonagh 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

Dec 22, 202049:54
Featuring Duncan (Episode No.18)

Featuring Duncan (Episode No.18)

Duncan Ross is a visual artist, illustrator and arts educator. He studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee graduating with a BA in Fine Art in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 was a co-director of Cinilingus, a new media organisation specialising in screening documentary film in unusual spaces. Between 2003 and 2014 he illustrated for the publishing company Factotum and their newspaper, The Vacuum. In 2009 he completed an MFA at Ulster University and from 2009 to 2011 was creative technician at the Digital Arts Studios. He has worked on participatory and public art programmes with, amongst other organisations: PS2, The Golden Thread Gallery and Young at Art; and completed several Re-imaging Communities public art commissions. He has exhibited in the UK, Ireland, Portugal, Germany and China and has undertaken artistic residencies in New York, Kathmandu and Cushendall.

Oonagh 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

Dec 15, 202040:10
Featuring Bronagh Lawson (Ep. No.17)

Featuring Bronagh Lawson (Ep. No.17)

Bronagh Lawson is an artist living in Belfast but originally from Strangford and Portaferry ,co founder of the Hydrangea project a Belfast Chicago collaboration with Adjunct Professor Suellen Semekoiski of School of art institute Chicago. She completed her Diploma in foundation art in Bristol Polytechnic now West of England University and graduated from Winchester School of art with a first class degree in Textiles and fashion, specializing in knitwear. During her time as a Fulbright scholar she attended Parson school of Design in New York (now the New school). Returning to Northern Ireland pre ceasefire she started as a participant on some cross community development programme’s then spent 13 years setting up and running, cross border, cross community development programme’s in interface areas of Belfast and was chair of the Women’s Tec and an equality specialist and member of the Women’s Co alition. Returning to artistic practice via the Belfast print workshop where she started with a night class on etching then became chair. Making a series of Prints called the ebb and flow of East Belfast , shown in Dublin as part of the Easter Rising centenary supported by the British Council .She set up and ran a community ning website voluntarily for the artists community    called creativechangeni for 3 + years for which she won a NI Regional digital heroes award from Talk Talk. Other prizes include one from the Alzheimer’s society for the dementia and art project she helped develop with the live and learn team. In 2019 she published her first book called Belfast : City of light, looking and listening to Belfast, come with me based on her experience as a non church attendee of visiting every church in Belfast for a service over a 10 year period. She writes a weekly art round up for the Belfast media group , published online and in the Andersonstown news.

City of light available to purchase on the link below:10% off with FESTIVE10 code

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bronagh-lawson/belfast-city-of-light/paperback/product-1z7ympqj.html?fbclid=IwAR1O9eWRcse4bYLphjLCzNjaSEc0gcBtvxWSKZIU6qFpVv0wjw1L7ldfcAA&page=1&pageSize=4


Oonagh 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

Dec 08, 202044:21
Featuring Sharon Adams (Episode No.16)

Featuring Sharon Adams (Episode No.16)

Sharon Adams Biog 2020

Sharon Adams is an applied artist based in rural Northern Ireland. Working with themes such as place, memory and connection to the land, her practice is personal, and deeply rooted in the landscape of her farming childhood. She works mostly in wood, metal and textiles, creating drawings and sculptural works which respond to the landscape surrounding her home/studio at Frocess Yard.

Adams completed a BA (Materials Practice) at the University of Brighton in 2011 and has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions in the UK and Ireland. Her solo shows Intersection (2018) and Horizon (2020) presented larger scale works. She has been supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Design and Crafts Council of Ireland and with a Jerwood Bursary, and works are held in both public and private collections.



Oonagh 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

Dec 01, 202036:36
Featuring Susan Hughes and Charys Wilson (Episode No.14)

Featuring Susan Hughes and Charys Wilson (Episode No.14)

Charys Wilson

"I have always had a fascination with the overlooked, underappreciated, seemingly banal aspects of nature. Fleeting moments that are often missed, namely those which involve sunlight. I have been intrigued with making works based on the phenomenon of perception, how people perceive their surroundings, what they consider to be worthy or not worthy of their time/appreciation. We all see the same things, but our associations and outlook affect how we perceive them, I want to share my own personal perception. I work mainly in drawing, but also create 3D natural light boxes. I am becoming more interested in installation, aiming to create an for the viewer experience."

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/charyscw/  ( CharysCW-Art )

website - https://charyscw.wixsite.com/charyswilson

Mystery tour link - https://susanhughesartist.wordpress.com/2020/11/22/mystery-tours/


As the daughter of an ardent birdwatcher, I have gravitated to coastal regions, islands and bird sanctuaries. My attraction to the cultural heritage of coastal areas – which includes an interest in regional folklore and traditions, particularly fiddle music which I use as a tool to access and build relationships– is entwined with my desire to be confronted by the sea. Experiencing direct immersion through swimming pushes me to engage with the sea as a living, breathing space. By stepping off the land and into this other world, I have freedom to mourn and keen, or let my heart race with joy. This is what I take back to my studio.



Oonagh 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

Nov 24, 202045:57
Featuring Jayne Cherry (Episode No.14)

Featuring Jayne Cherry (Episode No.14)

Jayne Cherry

Performance, drawing, sculpture, textiles and curation are the result of Cherry examining and deconstructing her past experiences. Responding to where she has found herself to be from birth, comfort and reassurance replaced with paralysing distress and bewilderment has provided oceans of memory to be navigated through. Had the choice been hers, she would have remained longer in some places and never visited others. Subjects such as fear, abuse and loneliness are what she now has given herself permission to represent in her work in the hope that this will leave clues for the viewer.

https://jaynecherry.co.uk/

Oonagh 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

Nov 17, 202045:23
Our Studios (Episode No.13)

Our Studios (Episode No.13)

This week in the podcast that almost wasn't, Zara and Oonagh each talk about where they make their work. 

Oonagh 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

Nov 10, 202034:35
Featuring Robert Martin (Episode No.12)

Featuring Robert Martin (Episode No.12)

Director Robert Martin is an extremely experienced arts professional, having worked nationally and internationally offering creative solutions for a wide range of partnerships. Robert is a strategic thinker working across the public sector and creative industries with communication and networking skills with forethought, constructive action, attention to detail and perceptive creative delivery. Since moving to Northern Ireland to work with his co-director Anthea McWilliams , they established R-Space  Gallery in 2011 as a community interest company  presenting an exhibition programme of work by international, national and local artists.

https://www.rspacelisburn.com

Oonagh 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

Nov 03, 202052:45
Featuring Sue Cathcart (Episode No.11)

Featuring Sue Cathcart (Episode No.11)

Sue has been working in mixed media for 30 years; she works primarily with paper, particularly papier mache and makes collages and 3D pieces. Sue is a self taught practitioner, and would call herself a Folk or Outsider Artist.  Her work is very colourful and ebullient with diverse and found materials combining with the written word to create pieces that tell or are the story. She completed an English Degree in 1986 from Lancaster University and has taught creative studies for many years before training as a literacy teacher and working as a community tutor. Sue has worked for National Museums Northern Ireland for the past 10 years and now works part time as an Education Assistant.at the Ulster Folk Museum and combines this with her own creative practice.

The Mr Paper’s Corporation

Mr Papers is a satirical rabbit made from discarded materials who comments on society and highlights its decline.  Mr Papers has now moved on to creating installations and dioramas of different papier mache characters dealing with unusual scenarios.

http://www.twitter.com/PforPapers

http://www.facebook.com/mrpapers

http://www.mr-papers.com>


Oonagh 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

Oct 27, 202054:08
Featuring Anna Nangle Pt2 (Episode.10)

Featuring Anna Nangle Pt2 (Episode.10)

Part two  with Australian Artist Anna Nangle

Oonagh 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

Oct 20, 202042:33
Featuring Anna Nangle (Episode No.9)

Featuring Anna Nangle (Episode No.9)

This week Zara and Oonagh talk with Australian Artist Anna Nangle

Oonagh 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

Oct 12, 202029:26
Thoughts on Imposter syndrome (Episode No.8)

Thoughts on Imposter syndrome (Episode No.8)

This week Zara and Oonagh discuss imposter syndrome as artists and the different ways we can deal with it.

Oonagh 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.

The children’s Book mentioned is How to spot an artist is by Danielle Krysa

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

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Oct 06, 202042:35
Featuring David Copeland (Episode No.7)

Featuring David Copeland (Episode No.7)

This week Zara and Oonagh talk to David Copeland .. Based in Northern Ireland, David has just completed an MFA in Photography at Ulster University, after having achieved a first-class hons degree in Photography in 2017. David divides his time between commissioned and personal projects.

Utilizing conceptual and documentary approaches David explores the boundaries physical, circumstantial, and psychological that hold humanity in-between. David’s most recent work, ‘a place to sleep,’ examines his position within the boundaries of the provincial town he calls home.

His work has been widely exhibited in the UK and is held in private and public collections. Most recently, David was the youngest photographer to participate in the Sixteen Touring Project, a collaborative visual series that paired UK based practitioners with teenage youths. David was published for his portrait of Patrick Adams, on the cover of the Guardian weekend magazine. His current body of work, ‘a place to sleep’, is featured at the anthropology exhibition at Belfast Exposed in 2020.


David can be found on instagram @photocopeland and the new social enterprise he mentions in the podcast in @reframewerks


 Oonagh 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.

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Sep 29, 202046:28
Featuring Robert Peters (Episode No.6)

Featuring Robert Peters (Episode No.6)

On this weeks podcast Zara goes on location the the R-Space gallery to talk with Robert Peters and Anthea about the Wallace Residency. 

More information on Peter can be found on www.artscreative.me and you can find him on instagram on @robertpetersartcreative


 by Oonagh 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 

Sep 22, 202052:54
Featuring Nollaig Molloy and Sinéad O'Neill-Nicholl (Episode No.5)

Featuring Nollaig Molloy and Sinéad O'Neill-Nicholl (Episode No.5)

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.

On this weeks podcast Zara and Oonagh talk to Nollaig Molloy and Sinéad O'Neill-Nicholl about their work and exhibition at The MAC Belfast.

Nollaig Molloy's work explores materials from specific sites and their relevance in historical, social and industrial situations. She works collaboratively using video, animation, sculptural installation and event based outcomes. Using traditional and craft based techniques, she engages with 'materials-to-hand' placing them within contemporary contexts. Through modes of in-depth research she works with formal and informal archives, environments and communities-of-interest. In 2020 she was awarded the Individual Artist Bursary from Roscommon County Council and in 2018 she received an Emerging Artist Award from Fingal County Council’s public art project ‘Infrastructure’, yet to be realized.

www.nollaigmolloy.comMusic to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’

"Sinéad O'Neill-Nicholl is a multi-disciplinary artist using a range of new media to create audio installations and who engages in live art performance to explore contemporary themes of gender, identity, truth and justice.  Examining the power structures at play within language and the methods used to silence the voice of the 'other', Sinéad's recent practice involves the creation of spatial audio environments using the agency of sound as a method of resistance.

Working at the intersection of contemporary fine art and technology, Sinead is a current member of Vault Artist Studios having received the 2020 University of Atypical Graduate Award and 2019 Arts Council NI SIAP award."

http://www.sineadonart.com

www.vimeo/sineadonart

Insta - @sineadonart


Any comments or suggestions can be emailed to buoyparkart@gmail.com

Instagram @oonaghmcateer @z.lyness @buoyparkart

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Sep 15, 202053:57
Wearing Many Hats (Episode 4)

Wearing Many Hats (Episode 4)

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.


On this weeks podcast Zara and Oonagh discuss the many different roles that come along with being an artist as well as other work they do to support their art practice.  Zara also talks about her experience of volunteering. 


Music to credit ‘Joshua Findon Magee’



Any comments or suggestions can be emailed to buoyparkart@gmail.com

Instagram @oonaghmcateer @z.lyness @buoyparkart 


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Sep 08, 202024:06
What is the point? (Episode No.3)

What is the point? (Episode No.3)

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.


"it's not where you take things from - its where you take them to" Jean-Luc Goddard 


Any comments or suggestions welcome, contact us via email buoyparkart@gmail.com 



Sep 01, 202028:26
Our route to art (Episode 2)

Our route to art (Episode 2)

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.

This week we talk about how we found our way into Art. 


If you have any comments or suggestions for future topics please get in touch - 

buoyparkart@gmail.com

Instagram @z.lyness & @oonaghmcateer



Aug 31, 202027:48
Hello and Welcome to Buoy Park Art Podcast (Episode 1)

Hello and Welcome to Buoy Park Art Podcast (Episode 1)

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.


Email buoyparkart@gmail.com

Instagram @oonaghmcateer or @z.lyness

Aug 31, 202025:12