NCAD’s Lecturer and Head of Sculpture and Expanded Practice Department Brain Hand talks Zoe Comyns about Cady Noland’s work.

But in keeping with tonight’s theme, Noland rejected the commercialisation and publicity that came with this success. Now in her sixties, Noland came through with a series of artists in the mid to late 80s employing mixed media installation art and attained a high level of critical success. We also explore the work of US based artist Cady Noland. Head of Collections from The Hugh Lane Gallery, Margarita Cappock tells us about the Agnes Martin painting they hold and her choice to remove herself from all distractions and modern comforts to focus on her work. But by 1967 Martin abruptly gave up painting and moved to the desert in New Mexico. We look at abstract expressionist artist Agnes Martin (born 1912), whose geometric abstract paintings in the 1950s and early 60s gained her much notoriety as she worked in New York’s Coenties Slip. We look at the role of the artist in terms of how they fit into the mechanism of today’s art system - how present do they need to be can they turn their back on the art world and still make successful and meaningful work? This week on Inside Culture we look at the role of the artist the mechanism of today’s art system and ask whether an artist can be successful and still make meaningful work after their turn their back on the art world? We’ll also be finding out about 100 Years of Anime, and we’ll speak to Howard Cunnell about his book Fathers & Sons.

Fathers and Sons by Howard Cunnell