✂️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.
✂️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.
⚡️✂️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 Exhibition - WONDERS - The MART Gallery, 190A Rathmines Road Lower, Rathmines, Dublin 6, Ireland ✂️
Wonders
I am really thrilled to be taking part in this fantastic exhibition alongside so many excellent artists in the New Year. Its an additional honour to have one of my works chosen as poster image for the show. Read more about the exhibition below.
MART Members Visual Arts Exhibition
Runs: January 10-24th 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday January 10th at 1pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 1–6 PM
Location: The MART Gallery, 190A Rathmines Road Lower, Rathmines, Dublin 6
Artists: Adrian Fitz-Simon, Alejandro Corva, Andor Koncsik, Anthony D Kelly, Arthur Rosa, Bairbre Murray, Billy Dante, Catherine Cole, Debbie Guinnane, Deirdre Ambrose, Duc Pham, Eileen Mills, Ger Hughes, Han Murphy, Inés Pesado Catrufo, Jenny Cosgrave, Jessica Checkley, Jordan Holms, Joy Hawkridge, Keith Lindsay, Kiz Rutherford, Leonie Connellan, Linda Condon, Marina Karysheva, Martha Watson, Niki Collier, Paul James Kearney, Peann Luaidhe, Siobhan Heraty, Tatiana Smith-St Kitts, The Ljilja, Val Synnott.
Curated by: Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan
About the Exhibition
“Wonders” brings together the diverse voices of MART Members in a vibrant group exhibition that celebrates curiosity and wonder. Featuring work across painting, sculpture, and new media, the show highlights the breadth of practice within MART’s studio community. Inviting audiences to pause, look closer, and rediscover a sense of wonder in the everyday. Showcasing emerging and established artists side by side, Wonders reflects the energy, experimentation, and collaborative ethos at the heart of MART Gallery & Studios.
Image ‘Wonders 2’(2025) -Analogue Collage - courtesy of Anthony D Kelly.
To read more about the wonderful studios, members and exhibitions at MART click HERE.
🔸🔹🔸Upcoming Exhibition: "Mayo Artists Show 2025" - The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland, F23 AN24 - Friday the 5th of December 2025 at 6pm 🔸🔹🔸
🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: MAYO ARTISTS SHOW 2025🔸🔹🔸
Opening Reception: This Friday the 5th of December at 6pm
Exhibition Running from: Tuesday the 2nd of December 2025 – Friday the 16th of January 2026
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. The upcoming “MAYO ARTISTS SHOW 2025” exhibition is open to the public from today and the official opening event takes place this Friday the 5th of December at 6pm. This is a dual venue event with a strong showing of work also officially opening at the Ballina Arts Centre this Saturday the 6th of December at 6pm.
This years exhibition was curated by the wonderful Aoife Banks and promises to be a visual feast showcasing work from artists based throughout the County.
I am really looking forward to seeing these shows!
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 click HERE.
For more from the wonderful Ballina Arts Centre click HERE.
✂️Upcoming Event - Designing Your Future: Creative Careers information Day at Áras Inis Glauire, Church St, Belmullet, Co. Mayo, Ireland, F26 W5HO.✂️
✂️⚡️Upcoming Event - Designing Your Future: Creative Careers information Day⚡️✂️
Thursday, November 27th from 11am - 2pm.
At:
Áras Inis Glauire,
Church St,
Belmullet,
Co. Mayo,
Ireland,
F26 W5HO.
I am really looking forward to speaking at the upcoming Designing Your Future: Creative Careers event, hosted at Áras Inis Glauire, Belmullet next Thursday.
For more about the event from its organizers see below:
”On Thursday 27th November, Áras Inis Gluaire will play host to Designing your Future, a careers information day focused on creative and cultural careers. Whether you're a student exploring your options, a professional considering a change, or an individual curious about creative careers, this information day offers you an opportunity to sit down with creative professionals working across the sector.
Designing your Future brings together a range of creative and cultural professionals from design, media, music, art, literature, theatre, entertainment, fashion, and more. Attendees will have an opportunity to chat with creatives, learn about their career journeys, ask questions about success in the sector, and explore career paths. If you are interested in pursuing a career anywhere in the creative sector, this event is for you.”
Book your ticket by Clicking Here.
Designing your Future is funded by Sláintecare Healthy Communities and delivered by Mayo County Council Arts Service in partnership with Áras Inis Gluaire.
For more from Áras Inis Glauire Click Here.
✂️Upcoming Exhibition - The Lexicon of Wonder - Opening Friday July 11th - Saturday August 9th 2025 at Áras Inis Glauire, Church St, Belmullet, Co. Mayo, Ireland, F26 W5HO.✂️
✂️⚡️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.”
For more from Áras Inis Glauire Click Here.
✂️⚡️Upcoming Roundtable Discussion - Writer's Corner at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025⚡️✂️
⚡️Upcoming Roundtable Discussion- Writer’s Corner at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025⚡️
Friday, 3.15- 4.45pm (CDT), June 27th, 2025,
At: New Orleans Healing Center Suite 250,
2372 St Claude Ave,
New Orleans, LA 70117,
United States.
In addition to the aforementioned symposium, I am delighted to be hosting this roundtable discussion with the great Kirk Read and Erica Trabold.
This informal workshop is a space for those with a writing practice to connect with one another.
Author and collagist Kirk Read (Portland, Oregon, USA) will kick off the space with an exercise centered on visual and word practices. He wrote, “We will explore how these language and visual practices inform each other, how they compete and argue and agree in our minds and hands. Using generative writing experiments, we will create titles, move past stuck places and animate our personal writing. We will use fast collage paste-up to breathe life into our writing practice and quickly tap into the weird parts of our creative landscape.”
In the past year, Erica Trabold (Lynchburg, Virginia, USA) has been using prompts to take her practice to unexpected places. “One collage prompt even resulted in an entire series I wouldn’t have other wise made,” she wrote. “As a writing professor, I assign and use prompts constantly—but I had never explored them in the visual art space.” Trabold will share what she’s learned.
Anthony D Kelly (Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland) often uses the cross activation of collage practices and literary mediums to spur on new moments of inspiration and to deepen the experience of both for an audience. He believes in both words and images as seeds which can give rise to each other and that by “changing channels” between these modes of expression we can nurture unexpected and exciting new works. Kelly will invite participants to consider this concept and lead a short playful visualization exercise along these lines to free up the imaginative process.
For more about the Roundtable Discussions at Kolaj Fest 2025 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.
Image: “A Dream of the Awakening Spring” (2020) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly
✂️Upcoming Symposium - Curiosity, Wonder, Joy, & Portals at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025✂️
⚡️Upcoming Symposium- Curiosity, Wonder, Joy, & Portals at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025⚡️
Saturday, 2-3pm (CDT), June 28th, 2025,
At: Cafe Istanbul, 2372 St Claude Ave,
Room 252, New Orleans, LA 70117,
United States.
I am really honored to be presenting research and work on my upcoming Lexicon of Wonder project at Kolaj Fest 2025 as part of a symposium on Curiosity, Joy, Wonder and Portals alongside the amazing Breasia Hayes, Savannah Greene & C.Joi Sanchez.
I have been formulating the Lexicon of Wonder project over the last number of years and it is soon to be completed and released in the form of exhibitions and a publication. The first iteration of the Lexicon of Wonder exhibition will take place at Áras Inis Gluaire later this Summer with details coming soon.
Check out a note below from the organizers about the Symposium and my part in it:
”With its roots and history in the Surreal, collage is a well-built path to exercise curiosity. What happens if I put these two things together? Collage’s ability to bridge time and geography makes it a vehicle to explore new realms. During the Symposium at Kolaj Fest New Orleans, we will hear from Anthony D Kelly, Breasia Hayes, Savannah Green, and C. Joi Sanchez, each who are engaged in projects that explore wonder and joy and how life experiences take one down creative paths.
Anthony D Kelly is an artist, writer, and integrative psychotherapist from Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. “At the beating heart of my art practice are both wonder and play. Collage is a way for me to connect with myself, my community and the world around me,” wrote the artist. “I often hold a concept, word or idea in mind until an image coalesces and presents itself internally. I then sit and begin to sift through materials both digital and analogue for something that resonates.” Kelly will present his project, “Lexicon of Wonder”. He wrote, “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.” Kelly will speak about project origins, his ongoing research into the emotional states of wonder and awe, the role poetry plays in the project, and his plans for an exhibition and publication.”
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.
Image: “Communications Bananatron” (detail) by Anthony D Kelly
21″x9″; Digital Collage; 2024.
✂️Upcoming Exhibition - Fractured - Opening Thursday May 22nd - Saturday, June 7th 2025. At Gallery X, 11 Hume Street, Dublin, Ireland, D02T889.✂️
⚡️Upcoming Exhibition - Fractured at Gallery X⚡️
Opening 6-9pm Thursday May 22nd - Saturday, June 7th 2025.
At Gallery X, 11 Hume Street, Dublin, Ireland, D02T889.
All welcome .
I am delighted to be exhibiting in this upcoming exhibition at Gallery X and curated by fellow Collagistas Silvio Severino and Una Gildea.
Check out what they have to say below.
” Welcome to FRACTURED. Discover dynamic perspectives in this vibrant group exhibition, showcasing new works by leading artists. Through layered textures, deconstructed imagery and bold juxtapositions, each work offers a unique voice, uncovering the beauty of resilience and transformation, celebrating the art of piecing life together one step at a time.
The exhibition features amazing new work by 7 of the leading collage artists working in Ireland today:
Annabella Cuomo; Anthony D Kelly; Colin Eaton; Dolorosa de la Cruz ;
Silvio Severino; Una Gildea; Brian Palm
Una and Silvio are long time friends and collaborators. They have previously curated events such as the Dublin iteration of the international Collagistas festival entitled 'Big Village Small World' (2018) at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios ; and a successful contemporary collage group exhibition entitled 'New Reality: Contemporary Collage in Ireland' (2022-2023) which toured Ireland, including stints in Waterford, Cork and at Gallery X in Dublin.”
To learn more about Gallery X CLICK HERE.