UPCOMING EXHIBITION: CHG&S SUMMER OPEN EXHIBITION 2024 - 2nd of July - 9th of August 2024 at The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Parliment Street, Ennistymon, Co.Clare, Ireland, V95 D79⚡️

⚡️UPCOMING EXHIBITION: CHG&S SUMMER OPEN EXHIBITION 2024⚡️
Opening Reception: Sunday the 30th of June at 7pm
Exhibition Runs: 2nd of July - 9th of August 2024

Location: The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Parliment Street, Ennistymon, Co.Clare, Ireland,
V95 D79

I am delighted to take part in the The Courthouse Gallery and Studios Summer Exhibition 2024 which opens tonight at 7pm. It was a pleasure to visit this wonderful space during the week when I dropped off my work. The show looks like its going to great, so if you are in the area do drop in!

From the organisers:
”This year's Summer Open Submission Exhibition celebrates the incredible talents of artists from Co. Clare and all over Ireland. The exhibition promises a diverse and vibrant display of visual arts, showcasing the unique styles and visions of artists at all levels and stages of their careers.

The preview night is a fantastic opportunity to immerse yourself in the creative atmosphere, meet the artists, and enjoy an evening filled with inspiring art and engaging conversations. We look forward to welcoming you and celebrating the creativity and diversity of our vibrant arts community. Don’t miss this chance to be part of this fantastic event in our gallery's annual programming.”

For more from The Courthouse Gallery & Studios visit:
www.thecourthousegallery.com

⚡️UPCOMING EXHIBITION: TEXTURES AT MART - June 26th - July 13th 2024 at MART Gallery, The Old Fire Station, 190A Rathmines Road Lwr, Dublin, Irleand, D06 R9F9⚡️

⚡️UPCOMING EXHIBITION: TEXTURES AT MART⚡️
Opening Reception: Saturday 22nd of June at 1pm
Exhibition Runs: 26th of June - 13th of July 2024

Location: MART Gallery, The Old Fire Station, 190A Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6, Ireland, D06 R9F9

I am thrilled to take part in the upcoming 'Textures' exhibition with a limited edition of art cards at MART Gallery and Studios alongside their other incredible studio members.

Textures opens this Saturday the 22nd of June at 1pm. If you are in the Dublin area check it out.

MART have been a great support to my practice since I joined their membership programme last year. Check out their membership programme and other activities here.

🔸🔹🔸CURRENT EXHIBITION: DRAW THOUGHT - March 1st - 25th 2024 - The University of Galway Art Gallery, The Quadrangle, University Road, Galway, Ireland 🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸CURRENT EXHIBITION: SCIENTIFIC ARTS🔸🔹🔸

Runs: April 12th - 21st 2024
Closing Event: Sunday 21st of April 2024 at 1pm
At: The University of Galway Art Gallery, The Quadrangle, University Road, Galway, Ireland

I am delighted to take part in the Scientific Arts Exhibition at the University of Galway Art Gallery. which opened last Friday the 12th of April. There is really fantastic work on display which combines psychological research, scientific exploration and artistic insight. The result is a show which contains works that are both intellectually engaging and deeply personal; and which are conveyed through a varied mix of traditional artistic and contemporary technological means.

It runs for the rest of the week.
So if you are in Galway City, then catch it if you can
Take note there will be a closing event at the gallery on Sunday the 21st of April at 1pm.

A huge thanks to Kate Hodmon & Cheryl Kelly-Murphy for all your curation and installation skills.

For more from the Univeristy of Galway's Scientific Arts Lab visit:
https://www.instagram.com/scientificartslab/

🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: TALKING COLLAGE ONLINE TALK & WORKSHOP - Kindly hosted by The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland.🔸

🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: TALKING COLLAGE ONLINE TALK & WORKSHOP🔸

Join us for an engaging, online discussion on all things collage. We will hear from Artists Valerie Asiimwe Amani and Anthony D. Kelly on what attracts them to the medium. The artists also invite you to have collage materials to hand if you would like to create something small during the event. This promises to be a playful and enriching experience in the presence of two incredibly talented artists! 

Date: Wednesday 17/05/2023
Time: 19.00GMT
Venue: (ONLINE EVENT) Kindly hosted by The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland, F23 AN24.
Adm: €3
For booking click here or call: (+353) 094 9023733

More on the Artists:
”Valerie Asiimwe Amani is a Tanzanian interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her practice interrogates the ways in which body erotics, language, place and perceived reality are used to situate (or isolate) the self within community. She has exhibited internationally including group shows in Lagos, Paris, Cape Town and Leipzig with recent shows being a solo performance at South London Gallery in collaboration with the Roberts Institute of Art as well as a solo exhibition at Alliance Française, Dar es Salaam. Amani holds a MFA from The Ruskin School of Art and is the recipient of the 2021 Ashmolean Museum Vivien Leigh Prize for a work on paper. She is a winner for the 2022 Ingram Art Prize and received commendation for the 2022 Dentons Award. She was The Linenhall Arts Centre International Artist-in-Residence 2022. She has been featured in Art Monthly, Hyperallergic and BBC amongst others. Amani has given various talks on Art and Activism including SOAS, University of London with The Royal African society. She is also an art writer focusing on emerging African artists, on Emergent Art Space.”

”Anthony D. Kelly is based in Castlebar, County Mayo. He is an illustrator, writer, visual artist and integrative psychotherapist. He works mainly with Illustration, Collage and Assemblage techniques to create hopeful, humorous, and sometimes unnerving and deeply satirical imagery.

He is an active and experienced member of the Irish Collage Community and was recently nomitated as the World Collage Day poster artist 2023. He has exhibited across Ireland, Europe and in the U.S.A. and has delivered workshops and lectures at Collagistas Festivals 5 & 6 in Dublin and Brussels. His work has featured in many publications including Art Reveal, Creativ Paper, Murze Magazine, Kolaj Magazine and the recently released ‘Empty Columns are a Place to Dream' book from the Kolaj Institute and Kasini House.”

For more of the amazing work of Valerie Asiimwe Amani visit: https://www.valerieamani.com
For more from the Linenhall Art Center simply visit: http://www.thelinenhall.com/

🔸🔹🔸Upcoming Exhibition: "NWFG - Best Of Da Vinci Selection"- Thursday 16th – Sunday 19th of March 2023 -at ON-OFF STUDIO, 11 rue Berzélius, 75017 Paris, France.🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: NWFG - Best of Da Vinci Selection”🔸🔹🔸

Opening Reception: Thursday the 16th of March 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition Running from: Thursday the 16th – Sunday the 19th of March 2023

Venue: ON-OFF STUDIO,
11 rue Berzélius 75017,
Paris,
France,
www.on-off-studio.com

I am delighted to have my work selected to take part in the forthcoming 'NWFG - Da Vinci Selection” exhibition, taking place in the city of light, Paris, France.

Organised by the wonderful Silvio Serverino, and the teams at Art in Places and No Word From Glue.

From the organisers:
“In the Renaissance, transformations were quite evident in culture, society, economy, politics, gastronomy and religion. Our current Renaissance is characterized by the transition to a digital world signifying an evolution in relation to the structures of the contemporary before the influence of the virtual world, the term is more commonly employed to describe its effects in the arts, philosophy and sciences.”

36 Artists in 14 different countries using collage or illustration as a medium have been selected for this exhibition”

For more from No Word From Glue click HERE.
For more from the fantastic team at On-OFF Studio click HERE.

Upcoming Exhibition: "Equilibrium" - Friday the 25th of November – Saturday 21st December 2022 -at The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland, F23 AN24.

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: "Equilibrium"🔸🔹🔸

Opening Reception: Friday the 25th of November 5.30pm

Exhibition Running from: Friday the 25th of November – Saturday 21st of December 2022

Venue: The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland, F23 AN24.

I am always delighted to have my work exhibited in the wonderful Linenhall Arts Centre in my native Castlebar. This upcoming exhibition will feature many artists from across County Mayo.

The quality of the arts in the Connaught area continues to deepen and grow richer, with artists practicing within the region frequently featuring on the national and international stage. As such I am intrigued and excited to see what kind of new work is out there as we move out of the isolation of the pandemic.

More from the organisers:

“Join us in the Linenhall for a celebration of returning to balance with Equilibrium, a group show of Connaught based artists. The Equilibrium Exhibition has been created as a way to celebrate some sense of return to balance after a tumultuous few years. We wanted to create a platform for artists to not only showcase their work but to do so alongside their peers to mark the resilience of the arts.”

For more from The Linenhall Arts Centre Click Here.

Upcoming Exhibition - Brittle/Fragile @ Westival Gallery, Castlebar Street, Westport, Co.Mayo, Ireland

Westival Gallery, Castlebar Street, Westport, Co.Mayo,

Wed Oct 23rd - Mon Oct 28th, 10 am - 6pm daily.

Launch Weds Oct 23rd 7 pm

Free

I am thrilled to announce that this October I will take part in Brittle/Fragile an Exhibition taking place as part of Westports Upcoming Westival.

Here is a statement from the Festival:

Through an open call, artists were invited to submit work on Westival 2019’s theme, ‘Brittle / Fragile’. The result is an exciting and varied group show showcasing selected work from Irish and international artists, featuring sculpture, painting, drawing and photography.

The theme proved a generous, many-headed muse, with artists responding in a huge variety of ways and presenting a multiplicity of creative interpretations – personal fragility, vulnerability as strength, frailty engendering feelings of protectiveness, the brittle geopolitical landscape, the fragility and ever-increasing vulnerability of our planet….

Thought-provoking and impressive in equal measure, this exhibition is a must-see.

For more about Westival and a full program of events visit: www.westival.ie

New Digital Collage - An Emergence To Consciousness

An Emergence To Consciousness is a Digital Collage which manifests into being by synthesizing meaning from our environments and experiences. Our intuition guides our focus, absorbing some information and highlighting some aspects of our experience and editing out other elements based on our immediate situation; but also through the most intimate elements of ourselves, our personal histories, our values, our interests, our agendas, our vices, our pleasures, our hates and our loves. A subtle and powerful process of questioning. What feels pertinent? What feels meaningful? What feels right?

In Gestalt psychology we describe this process as a figure (That is something of meaning, needing our attention) which emerges from the background of our experience, to be engaged with and then when the necessary change comes about the figure of our focus fades into the background again, altering it to in the process. There is a cycle to our experience of the world, awareness, engagement, creative enterprise, integration and finally a return to rest, making space for a new figure to emerge into awareness.