🔸🔹🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: Selected as World Collage Day Artist 2023 🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸ANNOUNCMENT: Selected as World Collage Day Artist 2023 🔸🔹🔸

WORLD COLLAGE DAY 2023: Saturday May 13th 2023

I am truely thrilled and honoured to have been selected by the Kolaj Institute as the World Collage Day Artist 2023. The Kolaj Institute alongside Kolaj Magazine do massive work in the exploration and expansion of the potential of collage, in promoting of collage as a medium on the international stage, as well as the training of collage artists through residencies and workshops. It was my honour this year to create the World Collage Day Poster (Seen above), Special Edition Magazine Cover and 8 Postcards to celebrate the day.

I will also be talking part in a Kolaj Live Online talk, this Sunday 26th of February AT 7PM-8PM GMT. I will be discussing the work which I created for for World Collage Day 2023 with Ric Kasini Kadour, and we will be hearing from others about the special events they have planned for the day.

Read more from the organisers below:

“World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. World Collage Day is about artists connecting across borders against a global context of entrenchment and separation. And the day is about an art medium that excels at bringing different things together to create new forms and new ways of thinking. Ric Kasini Kadour, the editor of Kolaj Magazine, writes, “We created World Collage Day because we wanted to honour this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like.”

To download a high-resolution PDF of the poster, find out more about World Collage Day 2023, or to register your event visit: https://kolajinstitute.org/worldcollageday/

Register for the upcoming Kolaj Live Online talk on Sunday 26th of February AT 7PM-8PM GMT by clicking here.

🔸🔹🔸WORK PURCHASED FOR COLLECTION: "The Mayo County Council Permanent Collection"🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸PURCHASED FOR COLLECTION: "The Mayo County Council Permanent Collection"🔸🔹🔸

I am thrilled with the news that my piece “A Floating World” (2022) has been purchased by the Mayo County Council for their permanent collection. This digital collage features both contemporary and archival materials and was originally a response to the Edinburgh Collage Collective’s 2022 Februllage Challenge.

Nice choice, it's one of my favourites!

“A Floating World” has been on display recently at the “Equilibrium” Exhibition which took place in the wonderful Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co.Mayo.

I would like to thank the team at the Linenhall Arts Centre for the opportunity to exhibit, for handling the sale and for all of the wonderful work that you do in the local community.

Thank you also to the Mayo County Council for paying me the fine compliment of aquiring my work, and for supporting my artistic practice through this sale and through the Mayo Arts Service.

This piece has been printed on the finest museum grade archival paper by the incredible fine art printers at Pigment who are based locally on Thomas Street, Castlebar.

For more from the Linenhall click here.

For more about the fine art printing services provied at Pigment click here.

For more from the amazing Mayo Arts Service click here.

Upcoming Exhibition: "NEW REALITY: Contemporary Collage in Ireland"- Thursday the 13th – 24th of October 2022 -at St.Peters Centre, North Main Street, Cork, Ireland.

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: NEW REALITY: CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE IN IRELAND”🔸🔹🔸

Opening Reception: Thursday the 13th of October 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition Running from: Thursday the 13th – Monday 24th of October 2022

Venue: St.Peters Centre, North Main Street, Cork, Ireland. T12 RF8D

I am absolutely thrilled to see the 'New Reality’ Contemporary Collage in Ireland exhibition make its way to my old home of Cork City. It is always a pleasure to show work here.

Organised by the wonderful Silvio Serverino, at the amazing venue of St.Peters, North Main Street, Cork, Ireland. This cultural centre is on the grounds of a deconsecrated church located on North Main Street in the heart of Cork City.

From the organisers:
“Art Exhibition opening on Thursday 13th October 6pm - 8pm After a successful run in Market House Craftworks, Cappoquin. New Reality Contemporary Collage in Ireland comes to Cork. This exhibition showcases collage artworks by 20+ leading collage artists living and working in Ireland today. The exhibition features analogue, digital and mixed media pieces, reflecting the varied approaches to collage as an art medium.”

Curated by Cork based artist Silvio Severino.

For more on this amazing event visit New Reality Festival.

"Empty Nests" (2022) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly From the Amazing Migracje/Migration Project.

"Empty Nests" (2022) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly

"Travel to the island of Achill which hangs in the dark waters of the Atlantic, off the stark and wind beaten coasts of northwest Mayo. Bring yourself along to the foot of Slievemore mountain, you will find a deserted village there.

This abandoned settlement stands as a remnant, a scar, and a memorial site; one of many strewn across this county and country. Each site is a stark reminder of times in Ireland, that due to famine, as well as social and political pressures, survival was intensely difficult for most and truly impossible for some.

Elsewhere in Mayo, evidence of potato ridges rise high up on hillsides in areas which are now devoid of settlement. These areas were once so populous, that settlers resorted to cultivating their crops at awkward altitudes for lack of space.

When you stand in these once lively landscapes now, they feel haunted somehow. Indeed, our ancestors often held “Living Wakes” with their loved ones, before going to the docks; as they knew that they would never return.

In mid-June of this year the central statistics office announced that there are now five million people living in the Republic of Ireland. Yet records show that since the 18th century between nine and ten million people born in Ireland have emigrated away. Many of my own generation chose to move abroad as the impacts of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 sent shockwaves throughout Irish society.

We are a nation of emigrants, and we have left in many waves.

In the contemporary discourse on migration, immigration and displacement there tends to be a heavy focus on countries of arrival. This shifts our perspectives away from the realities of what might be left behind. Yes, those who arrive in a new country are often taking flight from dire situations such as war, famine and oppression. Yet, just like our ancestors who fled, they are also leaving behind loved ones, family, friends, communities, favourite meals, old stories, familiar words, much loved songs, childhood bedrooms, streets, homes, and empty nests."

For more of Marta Janik's amazing work blast off to: www.planetmarta.com

For more about the Birr Vintage and Arts Festival visit: https://www.birrvintageweek.com

For more from the amazing venue in Warsaw check out: Pałacyk Konopackiego

New Work - "A Monument To Dreaming Together" for Empty Columns are a Place to Dream @ The 53rd Annual Birr Vintage Arts Week, from the 14th-20th of August 2021

"A Monument to Dreaming Together" (2021) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly

My piece in response to the “Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream" project in Birr, Co. Offaly, Ireland, as part of the Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival.

See my statement below:

“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.” - James Baldwin

To dream is to embark on a ubiquitous and mystical human experience. We each engage in nightly expeditions into the vast wildness of our own inner expanse, embarking on nocturnal journeys through the uncharted hinterlands of the self. Contact with this emergent space often churns forth inspirational ideas, creative insights and integrative experiences, possessed of a form of deep intelligence that is unfamiliar in our waking lives. Recent sleep research has even implicated dreaming as an integral element in the mind’s inherent capacity to process and heal from traumatic events.

Dreaming is also synonymous with the ability to look beyond, and to envision new and better futures, both personal and collective. Indeed the simple statement of “I have a dream…” evokes the powerful words of Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, his speech itself an act of collective dreaming that opened new pathways for discourse and lived possibilities. Also in listening to the history of Birr, there is much evidence of the town as a powerful site for collective dreaming. For example, the famous Leviathan of Parsonstown; a literal device constructed for the purpose of seeing far beyond our own world, and peering into the unknown heavens. And the Cáin Adomnáin or Law of The Innocents that came about as a result of the Synod of Birr in 697AD. This agreement was a prototype for the Geneva Convention and the first such accord to protect innocents during wartime, envisioning and enacting a better future.

Our world today is one of many crises. Humanity is struggling, as a people we are deeply troubled, fractured, isolated, grief stricken and traumatised. This is why now, possibly more than ever, we need new sites and spaces to gather, heal and relearn the ancient art of dreaming together.

All works from this outstanding project will be published in a book from Kolaj Magazine to mark the exhibition this can be preordered here.

Magazine Feature - KOLAJ #32 - As part of Rod T. Boyer's excellent article 'Mind The Gap - Collision and Context in Haiku and Collage'

Magazine Feature - I am delighted that my piece 'A Dream for Transformation and New Growth' has been printed in this season's Issue 32 of Kolaj Magazine. This work was included as part of Rod T. Boyer's excellent article 'Mind The Gap - Collision and Context in Haiku and Collage' pg. 14 -19.

I really enjoyed reading about his proposition that disjunction as opposed to juxtaposition is the real driving force for making meaning throughout both the mediums of haiku and collage.

He eloquently posits that by leaving a disjunctive gap for our readers/viewers to intuit their own connections between elements of a composition, we allow them a fruitful space in which they become active members in creating new meaning from our work.

Intriguing stuff indeed, I certainly ended up saying "Hmmmmmmmmmm . . . Very interesting! " out loud to myself a number of times while reading this article.

To check out Rod T.Boyer's haiku & visual art visit: www.ourthomasart.com

To visit the illustrious Kolaj magazine go to: http://kolajmagazine.com/content/

Februllage 2021 - Gallery Now Open

Februllage is a yearly incitement to creativity and playfulness, hosted by the Edinburgh Collage Collective and the Scandanavian Collage Museum during the month of February. The organisers provide a daily prompt word and artists from all over the globe devise their response. This sets the stage for an annual spree of incredible collage work.

I had wonderful fun this year and really pushed my practice, becoming more confident in my skills and in my use of colour. To check out this years gallery of my Februllage work click right here.

You can also visit the amazing main Februllage Instagram Page Here.

News - Now Featuring in Kolaj Magazine's Artist Directory

I am thrilled to have my work recently added to Kolaj Magazine’s Artist Directory. It is a great privilege to be added to this directory alongside so many other fantastic collage artists. Kolaj Magazine does much fine work towards the progression and furtherance of the Collage as a vital, involving and highly relevent movement in contemporary art. This is acheived both by the immense quality of the publication itself, as well as through their exciting initiatives such as Kolaj Fest and The Kolaj Institute.

A Statement About My Work:

Over the last number of years my work has spoken on a vast array of different topics, all of which have been drawn together by my own meandering passions and ideas; and somehow centrally bound by a deep interest in fostering human growth. I believe the arts have an essential role in the maturation and the restorative humanization of our society; by providing us with a means to share lived experiences, reflect on the harsh realities of today, and to imagine infinite possible futures through the vehicle of creativity.

Collage has always felt like the most apt means for reflecting on our fractured society. By providing an opportunity to hijack the narratives and imagery of advertising, newspapers and other sources of mass printed and digital media, collage delivers to us a possibility. The possibility to repurpose and restructure mass media messaging; creating unified reflections that emerge from our own experiences, unconscious processes, hopes, struggles and dreams.

Whether I am working with digital or analog collage, or whether the topic at hand is political, personal, comical or purely experimental; I am following a deep intuitive response to my own processes of selection, placement and commitment to a final composition. I believe that any time one of us engages in this kind of process the result is a unique piece of work, drawn from our creative alchemical selves and delivered through the medium of collage.

Check out my featured listing by clicking here

More About the Artist Directory

Kolaj Magazine‘s Artist Directory is a tool for organizing and cataloguing artists who work in the medium of collage. Its audience includes the general public as well as independent curators, art venues, and writers.

The editorial staff of Kolaj Magazine uses the Artist Directory to select artists to feature in the publication and to select artists for various curatorial projects.

The Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection uses the Artist Directory to learn about artists for their collection. Members of the Artist Directory are permitted and encouraged to refer to their Listing when responding to Calls to Artists as a way of facilitating their response.

The Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory is the primary online gateway of the Kolaj Institute Artist Archive and is used to organize online information about artist members.

The Artist Directory exists as a public resource for those interested in collage as a medium and is designed to put interested parties in direct contact with artists.

Magazine Feature - Murze Magazine Issue Eleven - 'Consciousness, Mindfulness and Clarity'

I am thrilled to once again have work featured in the amazing Murze Magazine. This time work from my ‘Inner Space’ series will feature in Issue Eleven of Murze. I have to say I am loving the illustrations by the cover artist Erin Cutler.

Murze Magazine Issue 11 - 'Consciousness, Mindfulness and Clarity'

An exploration into our understanding and perception of our minds, and mental health. We look at the dark, the light and the journey artists have gone through in exploring our minds and the emotions that consume us.

A little bit about the magazine:
Murze magazine holds regular artist calls providing opportunities for both current and emerging artists to share their work through our platform. We feature artwork from artists of all demographics and nationalities, our calls are international and inclusive.
We hold a variety of open calls for photography and artists such as Political Art, Fluke and Minimalist. As well as projects and digital residencies to get more immersed in such as our Art for Advent project, Word and Ten days of Art.

5% of the sale goes towards Arts And Minds, a charity using the arts to help those with mental health issues.

Each sale of Issue Eleven will also pay for the planting of one Tree 🌳

For more about Murze Magazine visit: www.murze.org

Upcoming Lecture: A Collage Of Consciousness as part of Collagistas #6 @ Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles, Parvis Saint Gilles 39, 1060 Saint-Gilles, Brussels, Belgium

Every moment of our life, our senses drink in fresh experiences, ideas, perspectives and information about the world around us. Fragments of imagery, sound, taste and feeling are constantly woven together to form the rich fabric of our conscious experience. Each of us is infomed by our culture, our education, our peers, our memories and our own unique creative intelligences in the way we select and sort through information from the wider world.

As we reflect on our lives, we can make sense of what has happened to us, what has gone before and what may happen in future. We look to the vast mllieu of our past experience to provide us with a map of the world and how to operate in it. But we also do something else. . .

In our dreams, our daydreams and through intentional creative practices, our minds bend, collide, break, smash, blend, meld, forge and integrate together previously unrelated elements of thought, sound, memory, sight, concepts etc. Into new, unique and fantastic forms. We are never satisfied our old map, continously adding new and colourful territories. A synthesis of old forms into new, an innate creative drive which is elegently reflected in the process of Collage.

The skilled collage artist follows his/her own intuitive and aesthetic sense, selecting imagery, cutting, tearing, placing, playing, dicing, splicing and bracing. Filtering the infinite possible array of visual and textual source material through their own unique experiences of living in this world, with its triumphs and trials; andproducing in the end something new, a singular reflection on the times in which we live.

Join artist Anthony D Kelly for a lecture exploring The Collage of Consciousness:

Sunday 8th September 2019

11.00-11.30

Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles, Parvis Saint Gilles 39, 1060 Saint-Gillis, Brussels, Belgium

As part of Collagistas #6