Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Niamh McCann and Tina Byrne

Live public interview with Irish artist Paddy Critchley and curator Sarah Searson. 
Paddy Critchley is a visual artist from Laois, Ireland. He graduated from the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2021 with a BA in Fine Art Painting. He works in Wickham Street Studios, Limerick, where he currently resides.
A painter, with a keen interest in the theatre of the absurd. Also a painter and decorator, he incorporates elements of this trade into his work. Ideas of socialism, working class struggles and livelihood, and the trade of painting and decorating are subjects explored within his work.

Paddy was awarded RHA, De Veres Award  for artwork of significance at the Annual Exhibition. His work is in the collection of Limerick City Gallery of Art and the Hunt Museum’s Permanent collection.

Paddy Critchley Interview

Artists as Cultural Leaders is supported by Culture Ireland and developed by Roscommon Arts Service. In conversation with Sarah Searson, artist Jennie Moran speaks about philosophy, culture, and the infrastructure of hospitality to create opportunities for shared connection. Jennie started a nomadic hospitality project called Luncheonette in 2013 which operated as the canteen in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and was named Irish Café of the year at the 2019 Food and Wine Awards. In 2022 Luncheonette was invited to Artsadmin in London, to take part in a hospitality themed research residency and consultancy project called Say Yes to Who or What Turns Up, using an old café as a site of unconditional welcome. She has completed a Masters in Gastronomy and Food Studies at TUD and is publishing a book entitled How to Soften Corners about the impact of hospitality in institutions. She provides mentorship in holistic hospitality to creative organisations and lectures at NCAD, and occasionally UCD School of Architecture, Cork Centre for Architectural Education (UCC) and TUD. www.jenniemoran.com

knowledge exchange

Jennie Moran

Artists as Cultural Leaders is supported by Culture Ireland and developed by Roscommon Arts Service. Sarah Searson leads artist Dr Cathy Fitzgerald in conversation about her approaches as an ecological artist, creative entrepreneurial educator, and researcher with a long interest in the potential of ecoliterate creative people in catalysing community and conversations for a more equitable, sustainable, and peaceful world. She co-developed Haumea Ecoversity, an independent online platform that has supported upskilling over 300+ mid-career creative and cultural professionals in ecoliteracy and values-based learning. Cathy is centred on the potential of the creative sectors role in promoting a significant cultural shift, to inspire communities to think and act for a better world. She is interested in sustainable livelihoods that align with ecosocial values and shares knowledge with those who learn with her. To explore Cathy's work, visit hollywoodforest.com and HaumeaEcoversity.ie

Knowledge Exchange

Cathy Fitzgerald

126Gallery/ GMIT Interview with Artist Russell Hart, interviewer Sarah Searson. Low Res audio. 

Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Interview with Artist Russell Hart

Tulca 2012 , at GMIT Centre for Creative Arts and Media, A public interview with Chairperson  Meave Mulrennan and Curator Gregory McCartney. 

Centre for Creative Arts and Media, + Tulca 2012, ATU

Visual Artist, Curator and Lecturer Louise Manifold in discussion with curator and arts centre director Sarah Searson.  Louise talks about her exhibition at The Dock  She reflects on her work with singer Elizabeth Hilliard at The Musée d'art et d'histoire de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, which houses The Jaquet-Droz automata, three beautifully handmade mechanical animated dolls. The exhibition includes a short film made there in response to these extraordinary creations.

Sarah Searson interview with Louise Manifold

Air Looms - Interview with artist Louise Manifold

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Sarah Searson

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