🔸🔹🔶 UPCOMING SHOW 🔶🔹🔸
"BOUNDLESS STATES"
Custom House Gallery,
The Quay,
Westport,
Co.Mayo
Featuring Artists: Anthony D Kelly, Hina Khan & Olga Guse
Opening Reception: Thursday 17th of February 2022 6-8pm
Guest Speaker: Orlagh Heverin, Assistant Arts Officer, Mayo County Council
Running every day until Sunday 13th of March 2022
For more on the show from Visual Artists Ireland visit:
To know more about the Custom House Gallery and Studios visit: www.customhousestudios.ie
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
Announcement - Elements of the Inner Space series featuring in Gestalten Publishers Creative Pool
A great big thanks to Gestalten Publishers for featuring some work from my Inner Space series as part of their Creative Pool. Gestalten have produced some of my favourite books on Illustration and Collage so its an honour.
A little more about the publishers: The Gestalten narrative exists beyond the textual realm; regardless of the medium at hand, Gestalten wishes to inform and inspire our community. We welcome you to enter Gestalten's world of creative culture whether between our pages, indulging in images and films online, or at one of our international events. We look forward to the result: mutual inspiration.
Now thats certainly a mission statement that I can get behind!
Check out the creative pool feature here:
https://news.gestalten.com/community/blackboard/inner-space
Gestalten Home: https://gestalten.com/
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.