📢✒️Publication Announcement: Interview and Recent Work Featured in Sfumato Magazine #3✒️📢

📢✒️Publication Announcement: Interview and Recent Work Featured in Sfumato Magazine #3✒️📢

I am delighted to have an interview and some of my recent work featured in the new issue of Sfumato Magazine. The current issue brings together an impressive collection of contemporary artists from around the world, featuring diverse perspectives across Figurative Practices, Abstract & Non-Representational Practices, Photography, Installation, Drawing, Mixed Media, Digital Art, and Contemporary Interdisciplinary Practices. A massive thank you to the guest curators Carla E. Reyes and Marie-José Robinson Kafri for including my work.

More from the publishers below:
”Sfumato Art Magazine returns with its third edition, bringing together an international selection of contemporary artists working across diverse practices, perspectives, and visual languages. Building upon the foundations established by our previous publications, Issue 03 marks an important evolution in the magazine's journey. For the first time, the issue introduces dedicated guest-curated sections led by Carla E. Reyes and Marie-José Robinson Kafri, whose unique curatorial perspectives contribute to a richer and more dynamic editorial dialogue. Issue 03 embraces a non-thematic approach, allowing each work to be considered on its own terms while encouraging unexpected conversations between artists, disciplines, and ideas.

The publication features artists working across Figurative Practices, Abstract & Non-Representational Practices, Photography, Installation, Drawing, Mixed Media, Digital Art, and Contemporary Interdisciplinary Practices.​ Issue 03 also continues Sfumato's editorial commitment through artist interviews, curatorial essays, and featured texts that offer deeper insight into the creative processes, experiences, and ideas shaping today's artistic landscape. More than a publication, Sfumato Art Magazine serves as a platform for international artistic exchange, celebrating both emerging and established artists while fostering meaningful connections between creators, curators, and audiences. Published by Sfumato Art Creatives, Issue 03 is available in both print and digital formats and represents the latest chapter in our ongoing mission to support and promote contemporary art on a global scale.”

For more from Sfumato Magazine CLICK HERE.
To avail of a free digital copy of the current issue CLICK HERE

Cover artwork: Darlene Aschbacher

✂️Upcoming Symposium - Words as Pictures, Collage as Text at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2026✂️

⚡️Upcoming Symposium - Words as Pictures, Collage as Text at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2026⚡️
Friday, 2-3pm (CDT), June 12th, 2026,
At: Cafe Istanbul, 2372 St Claude Ave,
Room 252, New Orleans, LA 70117,
United States.

This year I am really honored to be presenting at Kolaj Fest 2026 on the rich interplay of literary and collage techniques within my creative practice. I will speaking of how together they inform core elements of several major projects and how we can “change creative channels” to come unstuck; driving new inspiration and discover unexpected paths of exploration. This will be my part of a symposium on “Words as Pictures, Collage as Text” alongside other amazing writers and collage artists, Kirk Read, Christine Karapetian, Astrid Bant and Trish Crapo.

Check out a note below from the organizers about the Symposium and my part in it:

”For COLLAGE::BOOKS which took place in October 2025 in Montreal, Brooklyn, New York collage artist Jennella Young wrote, “Publishing is more than documentation. It is itself a creative act that shapes how ideas are assembled and carried. It’s almost its own form of collage. Artist books and zines are not secondary to exhibitions for my art work—they are exhibitions in their own right—the kind you can carry and share and hopefully treasure.” Not simply illustration, when artists pair writing and artwork, an alchemy occurs where the words can become pictures and the collage can become text. Visual literacy and textural literacy mingle and build a new world for viewers and readers in the cosmology of the contemporary art project. During this panel, we will hear from collage artists and writers with overlapping, integrated practices.” 

Writing and publishing has consistently flowed through Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland artist, writer, and integrative psychotherapist Anthony D Kelly‘s practice. At Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025, he presented the project, “Lexicon of Wonder” which will soon be published as a book. For each of the collages in his “Rare Monster Sighting Archives,” Kelly writes a fictional “Recorded Sighting” report. He collaborated on the children’s book, Fleadom Flea Circus, with Marta Janik. He has also been an active contributor to Kolaj Magazine and Kolaj Institute’s Collage Illustration and PoetryxCollage projects. Kelly will speak about the role writing plays in his collage practice. 

For more about the Symposium itself CLICK HERE.

To learn more about about the wondrous Kolaj Fest and to download the festival events program
CLICK HERE.

For more from the Kolaj Institute and Magazine CLICK HERE.

✂️CURRENT EXHIBITION: CONFRONTAGE AT COLLAGE-O-RAMA - Slip Gallery, Belltown Art Walk, 2301 1st Ave, Seattle, USA - Running: May 8th - June 6th 2026. ✂️

✂️CURRENT EXHIBITION: CONFRONTAGE AT COLLAGE-O-RAMA ✂️

⏰Opening Reception:
Friday the 8th of May at 6-9pm (PDT).
Running: May 8th - June 6th 2026.

🧭Venue:
Slip Gallery,
Belltown Art Walk,
2301 1st Ave,
Seattle,
WA 98121,
United States.

The Confrontage exhibition is the result of a recent mission posed by the Special Agent Collage Collective, of which I am a proud card carrying member. Here is a little flavour of the brief below:

"To confront is to face, and that is what you are doing with this mission. It may be connecting a line between two completely different source images. It may be a deliberate contrast between light and dark, busy and quiet. It may be capturing the energy of complementary colors—bluest blue sitting with the most orange of oranges, a verdant green alongside velvety red—or the abruptness of two images so dissimilar, so dissonant, that this is the only way they coexist. Whether a 2-element splice collage or a work of maximalism, you are encouraged to consider how every piece contributes to the confrontage at play."

The piece itself is entitled "The Hollow Man" and it is a part of my Inner Space Series . This collage speaks to the experience of Anhedonia, or absence of pleasure, or a feeling of being lost or listless while in the teeth of profound depression.

Collage-O-Rama is the brain child of the amazing Andrea Lewicki . Its become a real fixture on the international collage calendar, featuring a month long celebration of collage as a medium, through exhibitions, workshops and informal collage gatherings.

A massive thanks to Andrea for all your hard work pulling this together and other members of the crack collage team who helped out.

For information on joining the Special Agent Collage Collective and to view open missions CLICK HERE.
For more from the Inner Space series CLICK HERE.

🔸🔹🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: Pollinator International Mentorship Programme Participant 2026 🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸 Pollinator International Mentorship Programme Participant 2026 🔸🔹🔸

I am really excited to have been accepted onto the upcoming cohort of the Pollinator International Membership programme. Big thanks to the artist Fionnuala Quinn for thinking of me and putting this opportunity on my radar.
The upcoming cohorts for this programme will be meeting each Friday for the month of May and I am excited to see how this all unfolds. See what the organizers have to say about the programme below.

”Pollinator's program is like a virtual residency of mutual support. Once enrolled, they match you with a cohort of aligned peers who we'll meet with weekly. They handle all the logistics, their artist-designed platform and conversation prompts will help us build trust, real relationships, and a deeper network of mutual support.

Participants are alumni, cultural workers, or leaders of organizations in our vetted network.
Each participant is placed in a curated group with up to seven other participants. Cohorts are determined by career stage, identity-based affinities, location, alumni status, and more.

Once a week, participants will join other members of their cohort via secure video calls on Pollinator's artist-designed platform. Roundtable-style conversations are guided by prompts that aim to build group trust, collaborative relationships, and creative momentum.

After their 2025 pilot, nine out of ten participants said their program helped expand and deepen their network. Many shared other ways the experience benefited them—including creative breakthroughs, new collaborative projects, invitations to solo exhibitions, and more.”

If you are interested in joining a future iteration or want to learn more about Pollinator CLICK HERE.

✂️BIG PAPER PASTE PARTY!! At The Linenhall, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland. Saturday, May 9th, 2026, 6pm -8pm.✂️

✂️WORLD COLLAGE DAY - BIG PAPER PASTE PARTY✂️

At: The Linenhall,
Linenhall Street,
Castlebar,
Co.Mayo
Ireland,
F23 AN24

On: Saturday May 9th 2026,
6pm - 8pm.

The Connacht Collage Collective is turning two! We’re marking the occasion with a Big Paper Paste Party in honour of World Collage Day. This extra special session is open to everyone — no matter your experience or skill level. Whether you’re a total beginner or a seasoned pro, come along and enjoy the simple pleasure of making.

For this birthday edition, DJ SIM Card will share some mood music while we create together. Her is a little more from me about the event:

“It's really a wonderful thing to be here getting ready to celebrate the Connacht Collage Collective's second birthday and on World Collage Day 2026 no less.

Our rich community of artists has gone from strength to strength, with members traveling from all corners of Mayo and beyond to attend each month and a growing list of over ninety members. These last two years it has been really lovely meeting every month with both regulars and newcomers and to have the privilege of watching everyone's practices, experiments and relationships flourish. I believe as creatives and as human beings we are each made stronger, deeper and wiser by sharing in genuine community.

Our regular Connacht Collage Collective meetings have certainly been a font of inspiration and support for my own creative practice. So whether you are artistically established or creatively curious, please feel welcome to join us for our big celebration at the Linenhall Arts Centre. Here is to our future projects and meetings together!".

World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration held on the second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine , the day is a call for artists and venues around the world to celebrate collage.

As Kolaj editor Ric Kasini Kadour says, “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.”

This is an adult workshop (18+), and everyone is welcome.
Help us celebrate the joy of collage and community. Let’s make together!
Advance booking advised - CLICK HERE.

Form more about World Collage Day from the Kolaj Institute CLICK HERE.

To follow along with Connacht Collage Collective CLICK HERE.

Image: "Music: The Universal Language" (2019) - Anthony D Kelly.

📢✒️"Stability, Foundations & Flourishing: The Basic Income for Artists in Ireland" Article Published in Kolaj Magazine #43✒️📢

📢✒️"Stability, Foundations & Flourishing: The Basic Income for Artists in Ireland"✒️📢
Article Published in Kolaj Magazine #43.

I am proud to announce that my article entitled “Stability, Foundations & Flourishing: The Basic Income for Artists in Ireland” will feature in the upcoming issue of Kolaj Magazine #43. In this article I reflect on my personal experiences and the results of the incredible pilot program and the triumphal work carried out by the National Campaign for the Arts in Ireland to get this program onto a permanent footing. I also reflect on the harrowing and critical research supplied by the our colleagues and friends who took part in the pilot program control group, and who’s sacrifices have provided us with an accurate and lamentable portrait of the precarity faced by creatives without a program like this.

Kolaj Magazine exists to report on the International Collage Community and how collage is making its way into the world. 

Kolaj Magazine Issue #43 also features:
✂️Clive Knights is on the cover of Kolaj 43. His essay, “The Fluctuation of Likeness” speaks to the Necessity of Misrecognition. He writes, “Art reveals a part of something that perpetually extends beyond the edges of our reach, where nevertheless, the very act of reaching imparts an unsubstitutable, somewhat melancholic joy (though oddly reassuring) in the impossibility of the puzzle ever being completed.”
✂️In “Everything a Little Richer”, Michael Joshua Rowin interviews photomontagist Mark Rappaport about the way he thinks about images, art, and cinema.
✂️Anthony Michael Ryder considers the relationship of collage and trauma in “A Communion of Pain”.
✂️Emily Denlinger writes about taking her “Gain of Function” project to Carnival in New Orleans. “Most of my personal experience with collective effervescence has happened during political rallies. Being on site during Carnival allowed me to broaden my experience with collective effervescence and participate in the folklore, customs and rituals surrounding these events.”

✂️A whole host of other writings and images from international collage artists doing incredible things.

For more from Kolaj Magazine #43 and the work of the Kolaj Institute CLICK HERE.

For more from cover artist Clive Knights CLICK HERE.

Cover Image: “Overlooked ” (2024) Analogue Collage by Clive Knights.

⚡️✂️Award Received: Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary Award- From The Mayo Arts Service✂️⚡️

⚡️✂️Award Received: Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary Award✂️⚡️
From the Mayo Arts Service.
September 14th - 21st 2026
Tyrone Guthrie Centre,
Annaghmakerrig House,
Mullaghmore,
Newbliss,
Co. Monaghan,
Ireland,
H18 PP70

I am really delighted to discover that I have been awarded this years Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary Award by The Mayo Arts Service.

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre is such a prestigious institution within the Irish cultural landscape and I am very honoured to have been awarded time and space there to begin an entirely new body of work and to meet other artists, writers and cultural practitioners. I am scheduled in to begin this residency during mid September where I will transition my practice from the psychology of wonder towards an exploration of dreams as a space of spontaneous creative emergence.

The Mayo Arts Service offers a special bursary annually to artists living and working in Mayo to spend one week at Tyrone Guthrie centre at Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan. Workspace, board and lodging expenses will be provided for in the award. 

I wanted to say a huge thanks to the Mayo Arts Service for all of their continued support over the years in the development of my practice from funding, to the acquisition of my work for their permanent collection and all the other opportunities, supports and conversations they have provided.
 
I cant wait to share what I dream up!

For more from the Mayo Arts Service CLICK HERE.
To find out more about the Tyrone Guthrie Centre CLICK HERE.

⚡️✂️Upcoming Collage & Wonder Workshop at Interface Inagh, The Hatchery, Cloonnacartan, Recess, Co. Galway, Ireland, H91 VW58 . ✂️⚡️

⚡️✂️Upcoming Collage & Wonder Workshop at Interface Inagh✂️⚡️
⏰When: Saturday April 18, 11am-3pm.
📍Where: INTERFACE,
The Hatchery, Cloonnacartan,
Recess, Co. Galway,
Ireland, H91 VW58 .

Tickets : €65
BOOK HERE

This 3.5-hour workshop at Interface with artist Anthony D Kelly will begin with a short guided meditation or visualization, inviting participants to reconnect with personal memories and experiences of wonder and awe. From this reflective starting point, Anthony will lead a hands-on collage session using carefully selected materials, offering gentle guidance on technique and composition as participants develop their work toward a finished piece.

Participants are welcome to bring an image that evokes a sense of wonder for them, though this is entirely optional — all other materials will be provided.

Participants are advised to dress warmly and bring their own food and drinking water. Tea and Coffee will be provided.

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

An active and experienced member of the Irish collage community, he founded the Connacht Collage Collective in 2024, the first collective of its kind in Ireland. He was selected as the Kolaj Institute World Collage Day Artist for 2023. His work has been exhibited across Ireland, throughout Europe, and in the United States. He has also delivered workshops and lectures at Collagistas Festivals 5 and 6 in Dublin and Brussels, and at Kolaj Fest 2025 in New Orleans.

For more from the fabulous team at Interface Inagh CLICK HERE.

✂️Upcoming Exhibition - COLLAGE WAVE: BARCELONA - Sala D'expoicions, Planta 1a Del Bloc Onze, Carrer Constitució 19, Barcelona, Spain✂️

🔸🔹🔸✂️UPCOMING EXHIBITION: COLLAGE WAVE: BARCELONA✂️🔸🔹🔸

Opening Reception: Friday the 6th of February at 7pm

Venue:
CAN BATLLÓ,
Sala D'expoicions,
Planta 1a Del Bloc Onze,
Carrer Constitució 19,
Barcelona,
Spain
https://canbatllo.org/

I am thrilled to be taking part in the upcoming COLLAGE WAVE: BARCELONA exhibition hosted at Can Batlló. This exhibition promises to be a visual feast of amazing collage works and is curated and organised by none other than Kike Congrains. There is such an incredible line up and I am really looking forward to meeting some old friends and making some new ones.

Check out the exhibiting artists below:
Adam Wynn (UK); Agatta Emma (FR); Alejandro Beltran (VE) ;
Ana Candela (ES); Andrés Gamiochipi (MX); Anthony D Kelly (IE);
Astrotripper (CR); Carli Olivar (CH);
Céline Lurac (MX); Clashing Squirrel (FR); Delphine Médioni (FR);
Ena Borovac  (RS); Florencia Cerdá Kaufmann (AR);
Human Nausea (ES); JFKollage (PT);
Jamie Fulcher  (USA); Juliette Pestel (NL);
Kellette Elliot (USA); Kike Congrains (PE); Lara Bella (ES);
Leticia Zolotta (AR); Lisa Rubin (ES); Madeline Chilici (RO);
Mark Murphy (UK); Memi Pazos (AR);
MItimaq (PE); Miss.printed (NOR);
Nancy Hoogstad (NL);
 Paisaje Errante (IT); Recortes Asociados (ES); Robbie Hall (UK);
Rocio Romero (ES); Svena Steinbrecher (GR); Vespe (ES);
Yaci (AR)

POSTER IMAGE BY: Kike Congrains.
For more from Collage Wave CLICK HERE.

✒️✂️ New Publication- Gain of Function: New Mutations/Old Traditions/Collective Effervescence✂️✒️

✒️✂️ New Publication- Gain of Function: New Mutations/Old Traditions/Collective Effervescence✂️✒️

I was delighted to have the opportunity to engage with this project by Emily Denlinger at Kolaj Fest 2025 back in June. Taking inspiration from the history of piracy on the West Coast of Ireland, I created a character to suit. I am really excited to see this new publication from the Kolaj Institute and find my piratical miscreant amongst its pages.
Read more about Emily’s ongoing Gain of Function/ New Mutation project below.
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”Gain of Function: New Mutations/Old Traditions/Collective Effervescence is a project led by Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA-based artist Emily Denlinger that speaks to the role of art, ritual, and resilience. Building on her own work, Denlinger engaged with thirty-nine artists at the 2025 edition of Kolaj Fest New Orleans to make locative collage photographs in an artist-created landscape inspired by global masking traditions. The resulting artworks are presented in this zine published by Kolaj Institute. "The project functions as 21st century folklore with each character potentially representing a magical creature or masked performer in some yet-to-be-imagined ritual," wrote Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour. "Like the odd, creature-like figures of early 20th century Surrealists, they, too, are a response to deeply troubled times and offer us the opportunity to find a collective effervescence to see us through them."
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To read more about the fantastic and ongoing Gain of Function / New Mutations project click HERE.

To purchase the Zine and check out more publications from the Kolaj Institute & Kasini House click HERE.

For more magical mutations from Emily Denlinger click HERE.