The VAN Podcast is a podcast series from Visual Artists Ireland.
Published every two months, The VAN Podcast features online conversations, recorded remotely, with various contributors to each issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet. This gives opportunities to discuss some of the ideas arising from published texts, while also offering insights into wider practice.
Episode 6 features an interview with Aideen Barry, focusing on her current large-scale commission for Kaunas 2022, European Capital of Culture, and her forthcoming solo exhibition at Limerick City Gallery of Art.
Aideen Barry is an Irish visual artist who has worked and exhibited extensively across Ireland and internationally. She was elected as a member of Aosdána in 2019, and the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2020. Aideen is represented by Galeria Isabel Hurley in Spain, and is affiliated with the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, and mother's tankstation in Ireland.
An edited version of this interview will be published in the November/December 2021 issue of VAN.
[Featured Image: Aideen Barry, Klostės, production still; image courtesy the artist and Kaunas 2022, European Capital of Culture]
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The VAN Podcast is a podcast series from Visual Artists Ireland.
Published every two months, The VAN Podcast features online conversations, recorded remotely, with various contributors to each issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet. This gives opportunities to discuss some of the ideas arising from published texts, while also offering insights into wider practice.
Episode 6 features an interview with Aideen Barry, focusing on her current large-scale commission for Kaunas 2022, European Capital of Culture, and her forthcoming solo exhibition at Limerick City Gallery of Art.
Aideen Barry is an Irish visual artist who has worked and exhibited extensively across Ireland and internationally. She was elected as a member of Aosdána in 2019, and the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2020. Aideen is represented by Galeria Isabel Hurley in Spain, and is affiliated with the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, and mother's tankstation in Ireland.
An edited version of this interview will be published in the November/December 2021 issue of VAN.
[Featured Image: Aideen Barry, Klostės, production still; image courtesy the artist and Kaunas 2022, European Capital of Culture]
Marie Korpe and Ole Reitov are the co-founders of Freemuse, the world’s leading organisation defending artistic freedom.
For Get Together 2017 (Friday 15 September), they presented a keynote talk discussing how personal, political, religious and social attitudes impact on ideas; test the limitations of freedom of artistic expression, and address how violations can be monitored.
Photograph: Ole Reitov during the Freemuse's Keynote Address on Artistic Freedom; Get Together 2017, Friday 15 September; photograph by Louis Haugh.
Visual Artists Ireland: Arts News & Views
The VAN Podcast is a podcast series from Visual Artists Ireland.
Published every two months, The VAN Podcast features online conversations, recorded remotely, with various contributors to each issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet. This gives opportunities to discuss some of the ideas arising from published texts, while also offering insights into wider practice.
Episode 6 features an interview with Aideen Barry, focusing on her current large-scale commission for Kaunas 2022, European Capital of Culture, and her forthcoming solo exhibition at Limerick City Gallery of Art.
Aideen Barry is an Irish visual artist who has worked and exhibited extensively across Ireland and internationally. She was elected as a member of Aosdána in 2019, and the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2020. Aideen is represented by Galeria Isabel Hurley in Spain, and is affiliated with the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, and mother's tankstation in Ireland.
An edited version of this interview will be published in the November/December 2021 issue of VAN.
[Featured Image: Aideen Barry, Klostės, production still; image courtesy the artist and Kaunas 2022, European Capital of Culture]
