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Hina Khan, In Conversation with Helen Carey & Dr Eve Olney

Hina Khan, In Conversation with Helen Carey & Dr Eve Olney

September 29 - September 29, 2025
5-6pm
Triskel Arts Centre

This event is FREE to attend but booking is required due to limited spaces – email development@sample-studios.com to book.

The Art of Diversity: Embracing Cultures to Push Creative Boundaries

As artists, it is essential to envision and engage in dialogue at the intersection of art and cultural diversity. The way we navigate and integrate different traditions into our work profoundly reshapes how art is conceived, created, and appreciated.

This panel will explore how cultural exchange opens new creative avenues, challenges artists to evolve, and fosters deeper social understanding. Art becomes more than expression—it transforms into a medium for addressing migration, identity, human rights, and inequality. Through such work, artists spark empathy and help communities understand one another on a deeper level.

Storytelling emerges as a powerful bridge, connecting people across geographies and histories. Artists, therefore, contribute not only to their local cultures but also to a global conversation. By drawing from diverse influences, they create art that shapes how cultures perceive one another and inspire greater international collaboration.

 

About the Speakers

Hina Khan is a Pakistani-Irish visual artist based in Kinsale. She completed her MFA with majors in Miniature Painting from FJWU-Pakistan. Her works confronts socio-political issues such as migration, identity, borders, and humanitarian crises like prostitution, gender discrimination, and trauma. Hina is a member of Sample-Studios and participant in Studios of Sanctuary funded by Rethink Ireland Resilient Cork Fund and Community Foundation Ireland.

Helen Carey is Director of National Sculpture Factory in Cork City. Having worked in Ireland, France and the United Kingdom, previous positions she has held include inaugural Director of the flagship Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, Director/Curator of Limerick City Gallery of Art, Director, Galway Arts Centre and Public Art Project Manager, At Bristol Regeneration Project. She is currently a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of Culture Ireland. With an MA in International Relations (UCD) and an MA in Visual Arts Practices (IADT), Helen’s research interests include contemporary culture and national identity and cultural influences on counter terrorism approaches.

Dr Eve Olney is an Independent Academic, Practice Researcher, and Trainer in Sustainable Activism and Collaborative Work. She holds a PhD from the Centre for Transcultural Studies and Media Practice in Dublin Institute of Technology and is Cofounder of Radical Institute and LIVING COMMONS. Radical Institute is a Cork-based, transnational initiative that explores how the arts and cultural practice can promote and sustain radical social and ecological change to transform our social/political movements and create new worlds. LIVING COMMONS is a not-for-profit socially engaged arts organisation that was established in order to found and maintain co-operative, humane, democratic living, working and learning schemes for persons in precarious living situations through creative practices and community building.

 

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This event is FREE to attend but booking is required due to limited spaces – email development@sample-studios.com to book.

The Art of Diversity: Embracing Cultures to Push Creative Boundaries

As artists, it is essential to envision and engage in dialogue at the intersection of art and cultural diversity. The way we navigate and integrate different traditions into our work profoundly reshapes how art is conceived, created, and appreciated.

This panel will explore how cultural exchange opens new creative avenues, challenges artists to evolve, and fosters deeper social understanding. Art becomes more than expression—it transforms into a medium for addressing migration, identity, human rights, and inequality. Through such work, artists spark empathy and help communities understand one another on a deeper level.

Storytelling emerges as a powerful bridge, connecting people across geographies and histories. Artists, therefore, contribute not only to their local cultures but also to a global conversation. By drawing from diverse influences, they create art that shapes how cultures perceive one another and inspire greater international collaboration.

 

About the Speakers

Hina Khan is a Pakistani-Irish visual artist based in Kinsale. She completed her MFA with majors in Miniature Painting from FJWU-Pakistan. Her works confronts socio-political issues such as migration, identity, borders, and humanitarian crises like prostitution, gender discrimination, and trauma. Hina is a member of Sample-Studios and participant in Studios of Sanctuary funded by Rethink Ireland Resilient Cork Fund and Community Foundation Ireland.

Helen Carey is Director of National Sculpture Factory in Cork City. Having worked in Ireland, France and the United Kingdom, previous positions she has held include inaugural Director of the flagship Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, Director/Curator of Limerick City Gallery of Art, Director, Galway Arts Centre and Public Art Project Manager, At Bristol Regeneration Project. She is currently a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of Culture Ireland. With an MA in International Relations (UCD) and an MA in Visual Arts Practices (IADT), Helen’s research interests include contemporary culture and national identity and cultural influences on counter terrorism approaches.

Dr Eve Olney is an Independent Academic, Practice Researcher, and Trainer in Sustainable Activism and Collaborative Work. She holds a PhD from the Centre for Transcultural Studies and Media Practice in Dublin Institute of Technology and is Cofounder of Radical Institute and LIVING COMMONS. Radical Institute is a Cork-based, transnational initiative that explores how the arts and cultural practice can promote and sustain radical social and ecological change to transform our social/political movements and create new worlds. LIVING COMMONS is a not-for-profit socially engaged arts organisation that was established in order to found and maintain co-operative, humane, democratic living, working and learning schemes for persons in precarious living situations through creative practices and community building.

 

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