Ultraviolet Art Talks is a podcast/videocast series exploring the human side of artists, curators, musicians and people involved in the art world.
Listen to the latest episode, featuring artist Nuala O'Donovan below:
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Nuala O'Donovan is an Irish artist, living and working in Cork City on the south coast. She is a graduate of Middlesex University, U.K. and MTU (Crawford College of Art and Design), Cork.
O'Donovan worked in design in the UK, US and Australia. She returned to Ireland where she taught design at MTU before returning to education to undertake an MA by research in the Ceramics Department at the Crawford college of Art and Design in Cork, completed in 2008.
Her research area: Irregularities in Patterns in Nature & The Geometry of Natural Forms.
"My starting points are detailed drawings of plants, shells and seeds," says Nuala. "In order that the form of the finished work is consistent with the qualities of the source material, I use a set of constraints based on a combination of regular and irregular geometric principles which are found in nature.
"I am interested in the history of the use of the geometry of natural forms in European art – in particular classical Greek art and architecture. I use these principles of classical geometry when making decisions about the proportions of my work, and combine them with fractal or irregular geometry by using the principles of fractal geometry in the creation of the pattern. The form of the individual pattern is repeated in the outcome of the overall work – the "inherent design carried within itself", so that each outcome is unique even if the starting point is similar. Each sculptural piece carries, within itself, its own narrative from the time during which it was made"
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