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An Artistic Eye

How do you become and artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do you all day?

In this series of videos these questions and more are asked of artists including Dorothy Cross, Atsushi Kaga, Sam Keogh and Alice Rekab.Working across drawing, sculpture, painting, photography, film, and, installation, each of the artists will share their unique take on how, and when, they decided to become an artist, how their work is developed, what being an artist means to them, and things that they are excited about.

A photograph of an artist studio with a man sitting in the corner. There are materials on the floor and a tapestry being made; it is leaning on the left wall.
Bassam Al-Sabah
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Bassam Al Sabah: how do they become and artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they all day?  

A photograph of a white woman with brown hair wearing a grey top and white trousers lying on the floor beside the skull of a dolphin on the left and the bones of a spinal cord on the right.
Dorothy Cross
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Dorothy Cross: how do they become and artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they all day?

Jesse Jones
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Jesse Jones: how did she become an artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they do all day?

A photograph of a Japanese man wearing a straw hat leaning over a table painting. He is in an artist's studio and there is a number of paintings on the left, placed on a shelf and on the ground, there is a wooden easel in front of them. On the right is a larger painting of a white rabbit sitting at a table with an assortment of vegetables on it.
Atsushi Kaga
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Atsushi Kaga: how do they become and artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they all day?

A photograph of an artist's studio. There is a red hanging on the wall stuck on with blue tape. On the red hanging is a number of colourful cut out drawings of plants, figures and a clock face. There is a table on the left with a laptop and an assortment of materials and supplies on it.
Sam Keogh
An Artistic Eye

How do you become an artist? What’s the best thing about being an artist? What do you do all day? ‘An Artistic Eye’ is a series of videos in which these questions and more are asked of visual artists. Each of the artists shared their unique take on how, and when, they decided to become […]

Áine McBride
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Áine McBride: how do they become and artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they all day?

A photograph of a white woman with blonde and brown hair wearing a yellow jumper. She is sitting down beside a desk on the left, there are papers stuck on the wall behind and sculptural objects in the background.
Sibyl Montague
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Sibyl Montague: how do they become and artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they all day?

Isabel Nolan
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Isabel Nolan: how do they become and artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they all day?

Niamh O'Malley
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Niamh O’Malley: how did they become an artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they all day?

Three posters in red frames on a blue background on a street. The centre poster says 'FREE THOUGHT KNOWS NO CLASS' in purple writing on a white background. There is a white man in a black jacket walking from the right, in front of him is a white woman in a beige coat walking a small black and brown dog.
Garrett Phelan
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Garrett Phelan: how do they become and artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they all day?

A digital collage of a clay piece on the left and a photograph of a black woman on the right sitting down wearing a striped top and purple pants, there are three ginger cats at her feet. There are squiggly red marks around the clay piece and drawn red lines coming from the woman.
Alice Rekab
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Alice Rekab: how do they become and artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they all day?

Eva Rothschild
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Through her diverse use of materials and sculptural formats, Eva Rothschild constructs a sculptural and immersive environment that allows the public to be both viewer and participant. One of the leading sculptors of her generation, her work demonstrates a great awareness of the modernist tradition while maintaining its own distinctive sculptural language. Her works also […]

A white man with a shaven head is wearing a grey T-Shirt. He is in an artist studio and standing in front of three A4 sized pink paintings of flowers and a table of paints laid out on the left.
Marcel Vidal
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Marcel Vidal: how do they become and artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they all day?

Eimear Walshe
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As part of our An Artistic Eye Series we asked Eimear Walshe: how did they become an artist? What is the best thing about being an artist? What do they all day?