✂️Intentional Selection – A Celebration of Collage - Moving Collage Screening: Saturday 27th July 2024, Showing at: 2pm & 3pm- ✂️

⚡️✂️Intentional Selection – A Celebration of Collage✂️⚡️
Moving Collage Screening: Saturday 27th July 2024 at 2pm & 3pm
The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Ireland, F23 AN24
ADMISSION: FREE
Roll Up! Roll Up! As part of the Intentional Selection Fesival Programme we welcome you to experience these wonders of Moving Collage during two special screenings this Saturday the 27th of July at The Linenhall Arts Centre at 2pm & 3pm.

For your visual delectation we are delighted to present an intentionally selected and carefully curated programme of international collage animation for your enjoyment:

Programme of works:

‘Black Coffee’ – Music Video - Marta Janik (POLAND) - Run Time: 2m 58s
‘Catching the Fish’ – Working Method - Schrieck (FRANCE)– Run Time: 2m 14s
“The Last Performance’ – Carlos David – Run Time: 1m 03s
‘Finn’ – Music Video for ‘The Nualas’ - Una Gildea (IRELAND) – Run Time: 3m 43s
‘Three Kings’ – Martina aka Kosmo Nauty (POLAND) – Run Time: 0m 44s
‘Work in Progress’-  David Crunelle (BELGIUM) - Run Time:  3m 39s
‘Pothole in the Sky’ – Music Video – Jason Kearney (IRELAND) – Run Time:  3m 56s
‘Working Method’ - Ria Bauwens (BELGIUM) – Run Time:  0m 53s
‘International Loop Conspiracy’ – Animated Collage - Silvio Severino (IRELAND) – Run Time: 5m 15s
“SPARKS” – Una Gildea (IRELAND) – Run Time: 3m 20s
‘Fetes’ – Seasonal – Stephen Tierney (AUSTRALIA & MEXICO) – Run Time: 3m 23s
‘Transit’ – Music Video - Aline Helmcke (GERMANY) – Run Time: 4m 26s
‘Bordo: Zvezde v Mlaju’ - Music Video - Maruša Štibelj (SLOVENIA) – Run Time: 4m 00s
‘April’s Dancing’ – Moving Collage - Una Gildea (IRELAND) – Run Time:  3m 07s
‘Bordo: Lai Lai svet’ - Music Video - Maruša Štibelj (SLOVENIA) - Run Time:  3m 56s
‘Calibro 35’ – Music Video - Aline Helmcke (GERMANY) – Run Time: 3m 05s
‘Untitled’ - Music Video – Kirill Abdrakhmanov (GERMANY) – Run Time: 3m 39s
‘Majewska Koneserzy Kolejnego’ – Music Video - Marta Janik (POLAND) – Run Time:  3m 55s
‘Once There Was a Girl’ - Moving Collage - Una Gildea (IRELAND) – Run Time:  3m 05s

Dont miss out on this amazing event.
Admission is free.

Booking is advised through here.

#IntentionalSelection24

💥✂️UPCOMING COLLAGE FESTIVAL: Intentional Selection at The Linenhall Arts Centre- Running from Saturday June 8th – September 6th 2024 ✂️💥

Opening Reception: Saturday 8th June at 5pm.

Runs: June 8th – September 6th 2024

The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Ireland, F23 AN24

I am absolutely thrilled to announce the upcoming “Intentional Selection” Collage festival launching at the Linenhall Arts Centre next Saturday the 8th of June and running right until the end of Summer.

This festival will feature an exhibition of over 30 of the best collage artists practicing in Ireland today. A series of workshops catering to a wide variety of audiences, a screening of collage animation, a panel discussion and regular monthly meetings of the Connacht Collage Collective hosted at the Linenhall.

We invite you throughout this Summer to engage with the medium of collage and to join us as a welcome participant in all that this vibrant and exciting medium has to offer.
Full Programme Coming Soon.

From Anthony D Kelly:
“Collage has a rich history spanning from the advent of paper making in China in approximately 100AD; through being considered as a form relief sculpture during the renaissance period due to its layering and depth; being utilized as a foundational Cubist, Surrealist and Dadaist technique during the early twentieth century, featuring in the later Pop Art and Fluxus movements; to becoming the vibrant, versatile and engaging contemporary art practice that it is today.

To honour the versatility of this medium the Intentional Selection Festival has no unifying theme, but instead offers the audience an introduction to the range and possibility of collage as it is being practiced in Ireland today.“

Featured Artists:
Adrian & Shane, Adrienne Geoghegan, Alan Murphy, Aleksandra Schulte, Anthony D Kelly,
Aoife Carroll, Betty Gannon, Carol White, Cas Mc Carthy, Celina Buckley
Cheryl Murphy Kelly, Clare Walsh, Ciara O Connor, Colin Eaton, David Ryan, Derval Dunford
Eleanor Jones, Eve Kimmerling, Frantic Sally, Gavin Mc Crea, GUBU Man
Izabela Szczutkowska, Kate Hodmon, Mags Duffy, Micheal Mc Laughlin, Michelle Granville, Padraig Spillane, Paul Mac Cormaic, Red Fox Press, Ruby Staunton, Sarah Deane, Silvio Severino,
Sorcha Mc Namara, Tatyana Feeney, Tom Doig, Una Gildea, Valerie Asiimwe Amani.

Working hard behind the scenes have been the curatorial panel of:
Anthony D Kelly, Silvio Severino, Una Gildea.
Special thanks to the Linenhall Art Centre, Deirdre Melvin & Mayo Arts Office.

For more from the Linenhall Arts Centre Click Here.

🔸🔹🔸Award Received: The Mayo Artists Bursary 2024 - From The Mayo Arts Service🔸🔹🔸

I am absolutely thrilled to be awarded a Mayo Artists Bursary for 2024. This award is dispensed by the Mayo Arts Service and aims to support individual Artists working in the county throughout all stages in their career.

I am truly proud to have my art practice recognised by the Mayo Arts Service and I am very grateful for the support of this wonderful organisation over the last nember of years through various awards and their purchase of some of my work which now reside in the Mayo County Council Permanent Collection.

To learn more about the services, events and supports provided by the Mayo Arts Service click here.

Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat Mayo Arts Service!!!

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: "MAYO ARTISTS SHOW 2023" -THE LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE, CASTLEBAR, CO.MAYO, IRELAND- Friday the 17th of November at 6pm 🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: MAYO ARTISTS SHOW 2023🔸🔹🔸

Opening Reception: TONIGHT : Friday the 17th of November at 6pm

Exhibition Running from: Friday the 17th of November – Saturday the 6th of January 2023

Venue:
THE LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE
Linenhall Street,
Castlebar,
Co Mayo,
F23 AN24
www.thelinenhall.com

I am always delighted to have my work selected for exhibition at The Linenhall Arts Centre. Their upcoming “MAYO ARTISTS SHOW 2023” exhibition opens tonight Friday the 17th of November at 6pm, and promises to be a visual treat showcasing work from artists based throughout the County. This years exhibition was curated by none other than the great Ian Wieczorek. I am really looking forward to seeing this show!

About the gallery:
”Arts for All at the Linenhall - we believe that everyone in the community should have the opportunity to access excellent arts experiences.Located in the heart of Castlebar, Mayo’s county town, the Linenhall Arts Centre presents a series of live events and arts experiences throughout the year for audiences of all ages. On a most basic level we believe that art has the potential to improve the lives of those who engage with it. Our eclectic and high-quality programme includes music, theatre, visual arts, literature, cultural cinema, creative learning and RoolaBoola, one of the leading children’s arts festivals in Ireland. ”

For more from the fantastic team at The Linenhall Arts Centre and the Mayo Artists Show 2023 click HERE.

🔸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/

🔸🔹🔸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.

Award Received: The Mayo Artists Bursary 2022 - The Mayo Arts Service

I am absolutely thrilled with the news that I have received a Mayo Artists Bursary Award 2022. This award is dispensed by the Mayo Arts Service and aims to support individual Artists working in the county throughout all stages in their career.

I am truly proud to have my art practice recognised by the Mayo Arts Service and I am very grateful for the support of this wonderful organisation.

To learn more about the services, events and supports provided by the Mayo Arts Service click here.