Awe — News — The Art of Anthony D Kelly

⚡️✂️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
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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.

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✂️⚡️Upcoming Solo Exhibition - The Lexicon of Wonder⚡️✂️
Opening: This Friday July 11th at 6pm GMT
Running until: Saturday, August 9th 2025.
At:
Áras Inis Glauire,
Church St,
Belmullet,
Co. Mayo,
Ireland,
F26 W5HO.

I am really thrilled to launch this exhibition of my new body of work entitled The Lexicon of Wonder.
Inspired by the emotions of Wonder & Awe which are central pillars to my experience of the world.

Here is a little bit about the work:
”Wonder and Awe are complex emotions arising in response to experiences of profound beauty, connection, natural phenomena, or through bearing witness to the incredible capacities, courage or talents of other human beings. They can also arise at times of great personal crisis or fear such as witnessing the raw power of nature at a time of natural disaster.

Encountering reality through the states of Wonder and Awe can make an individual feel simultaneously small, and deeply connected to the world around them. They are emotions that inspire us to both transcend our own self interests and to delve deeply into our desire for greater understanding. They are in short the emotions of human discovery, and as such the unifying engines of the human curiosity behind philosophy, science and the arts.

For this exhibition I draw on the contemporary research of Psychologist Dacher Keltner and Philosopher Helen De Cruz into the importance of Wonder as a state of being. This new body of work is inspired by wonder, materials sourced from old children's scientific encyclopedias and contemporary collage techniques. Opening this Friday, I invite you to Áras Inis Glauire where you can experience these artworks that instill a viewer with sense of Wonder at the boundless curiosity of scientific investigation and humanities deep connection with the natural world.”

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