Episode 187 Painter Erin Lawlor chats with Fender Jackson in Galway on Monday 4th August when her exhibition divining was presented at the Printworks Gallery in Galway as part of the Galway International Arts Festival, running from July 14 to 27, 2025. This was a Highlanes Gallery National Tour curated by Aoife Ruane.

Conversation includes: introductions; painter vs. artist; divining; Aoife Ruane; Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda; Source Arts Centre, Tipperary; curating the Drogheda municipal collection; Eddie Lawlor and Tullow, County Carlow; the complications of being brought up Anglo-Irish; moving to France; her father’s work with Co-operation North and John Hume; Peter Lawlor and The Lawlor Foundation; Irish Youth Foundation; Irish artistic identity; Roderic O’Conor; Jon Benington; Mary and Alan Hobart; Mainie Jellett; Evie Hone; Micheal Farrell; Isaac Newton; Sheela na gig; a deep dive into Erin’s techniques; David Bowie; portraits vs. landscapes; Philip Guston; Frank Auerbach; metapainting; German radical painting; Dr. Seuss vs. Caravaggio; background music; Beckett; Joyce; ‘Guernica’ by Picasso; Seamus Heaney; Kate Bush; writing; plans for the future; Irish With Mollie as well as other topics.

Links

Erin Lawlor website

https://www.erinlawlor.com

Highlanes Gallery

https://highlanes.ie/exhibition/divining-erin-lawlor/

https://highlanes.ie/exhibition/a-sense-of-place-erin-lawlor-selects-drogheda-municipal-collection/

GIAF 

https://www.giaf.ie/festival/event/erin-lawlor

The Source, Thurles 

https://www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/visual-arts/erin-lawlor-divining

 Irish Youth Foundation https://www.iyf.org.uk

Cooperation Ireland https://cooperationireland.org

Ep. 187 Spotify Playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6olI2b5OcSjeO5MXabvkO1?si=37b1eb6114f34006

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