About

Anthony D Kelly is a Visual Artist, Writer, 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 currently based in Castlebar, County Mayo located on Irelands West Coast. He has extensive experience as a Gallery Administrator, Curator and Project Facilitator from his time at Basement Project Space an artist led initiative which was part of the cultural fabric of Cork City, Ireland (2010 -2012).

He is a proactive and experienced member of the Irish Collage Community and founded the Connacht Collage Collective in 2024, the first collective of its kind in Ireland. He was chosen as the Kolaj Institute’s World Collage Day 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 Kolaj Magazine, Art Reveal, Creativ Paper, Murze Magazine, and the recently released ‘Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus' Kolaj Edition from the Kolaj Institute and Kasini House.

He has studied Arts Administration, Arts Participation and Global Development and Humanistic Psychotherapy. Anthony places the emotions of wonder and awe at the heart of his practice and is greatly interested in the Arts as an effective method for engagement with Social, Political and Global Development issues; and for seeking beyond the known to formulate the new. 

He is also deeply interested in the creative interplay between literature and visual art, and their roles as meaning making processes and in promoting positive mental health.

He can be contacted at:

anthonydkellyartist@gmail.com