Collapse The Box: Joe Kenny

Joe Kenny is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter hailing from Co. Armagh in Ireland. A live performer for over 20 years, Joe has played to audiences in venues throughout Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. Joe joins us in the studio to talk about his life and relationship with music.

Collapse the Box: Lise McGreevy

A conversation with Lise McGreevy about her exhibition, feminism and liberation.

Collapse the Box: Paula McFetridge, Part 2

Part 2 of a conversation with Paula McFetridge, Artistic Director of Kabosh Theatre Company. In this programme Paula talks about bringing her work to a global audience, engaging with minority communities, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Kabosh’s work and on the arts sector generally.

Collapse the Box: Paula McFetridge, Part 1

Part 1 of a conversation with Paula McFetridge, Artistic Director of Kabosh Theatre Company. In this programme Paula discusses her introduction to theatre and working with the Lyric Theatre and then Kabosh. She also describes the importance of community engagement and addressing difficult subject matter, and her approach to site-specific and cultural tourism work.

Collapse The Box: Neal Greig

Neal Greig was born in Belfast in 1965. He studied BA Hons in Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art, and in 2018 he was elected to the Royal Ulster Academy. Neal often enjoys to paint outdoors, especially on the west coast of Ireland.

Collapse The Box: Robert McClay

Painter Robert McClay talks about his determination to overcome the effects of a brain tumor and pursue his passion for painting resulting in his first one man exhibition.

Collapse The Box: Karen Daye-Hutchinson

Karen Daye-Hutchinson studied Fine Art at both Belfast and Manchester. Specialising in hybrid printmaking, book art and sculpture; her work reflects an interest in habitat, architecture and literature. Using line and colour as a language to explore the parameters of printmaking, with symbolism as an allegory; deconstructing situations, fairy tales, nursery rhymes or poetry that […]

Collapse The Box: Colin Watson

Connor McKernan talks to painter Colin Watson about his life and career. Colin Watson lives and works in Belfast. He has held seven solo exhibitions in London, at John Martin Gallery, the Pym’s Gallery and at Simon Dickinson Fine Art, as well as in Dublin, Northern Ireland and Morocco. In October 2008, Colin was invited […]

Collapse The Box: Cara Murphy

Cara Murphy is an acclaimed contemporary silversmith, based in Northern Ireland. Cara Murphy trained as a silversmith at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. Since the early 1990’s Cara has run her own silversmithing practice in Northern Ireland creating silverware for both private and public commission. caramurphy.com

John Brian Vallely at 80 – Collapse the Box

At the retrospective exhibition ‘Vallely @ 80’ in the Market Place Theatre, Armagh, renowned artist John B Vallely discusses his six decades of work.