📢✒️ Intentional Selection Coverage in Kolaj Magazine #40✒️📢

📢✂️Intentional Selection Coverage in Kolaj Magazine #40✂️📢

It really is something to see coverage of this years Intentional Selection festival at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co.Mayo printed within the hallowed pages Kolaj Magazine #40. I wanted to say a big thanks to Ric Kasini Kadour for “Ceiliúradh Pobail” his article providing coverage and support and insight into this summers festival.

Intentional Selection was really great to put together with Silvio Severino, Una Gildea and Deirdre Melvin. Personally, I discovered many new artists, as well as new works by some old favorites. As Ric states in his article “ Of all the art mediums, collage is about bringing people together, breaking down hierarchies, and celebrating creativity”.

Kolaj Magazine Issue #40 also features:
✂️”What Does Freedom Look Like?” a fantastic interview by Jennifer Roach with Annete Sagal, Katya Syta and Olha Syta of the Kyiv Collage Collective on their powerful continuing cultural work and the growth of the CUTOUT FESTIVAL in spite of the war.
✂️“I Contain Multitudes” fantastic coverage of a traveling group exhibition which considers blackness in American collage by Kelly M. Johnson.
✂️”Attention & Connection” a vitalizing and interesting article on the work of the Dutch collagist Anneke Stil by Helen Hartmann.
✂️A whole host of other writings and images from international collage artists doing incredible things.

For more from Kolaj Magazine #40 and the work of the Kolaj Institute CLICK HERE.
For more of the great work of the Kyiv Collage Collective CLICK HERE.
To find out more about whats happening in the Linenhall Arts Center CLICK HERE.

Cover Image: “Sunday June 8, ‘30. A Wonderful Day” by Joe Rudko.

Magazine Feature - KOLAJ #32 - As part of Rod T. Boyer's excellent article 'Mind The Gap - Collision and Context in Haiku and Collage'

Magazine Feature - I am delighted that my piece 'A Dream for Transformation and New Growth' has been printed in this season's Issue 32 of Kolaj Magazine. This work was included as part of Rod T. Boyer's excellent article 'Mind The Gap - Collision and Context in Haiku and Collage' pg. 14 -19.

I really enjoyed reading about his proposition that disjunction as opposed to juxtaposition is the real driving force for making meaning throughout both the mediums of haiku and collage.

He eloquently posits that by leaving a disjunctive gap for our readers/viewers to intuit their own connections between elements of a composition, we allow them a fruitful space in which they become active members in creating new meaning from our work.

Intriguing stuff indeed, I certainly ended up saying "Hmmmmmmmmmm . . . Very interesting! " out loud to myself a number of times while reading this article.

To check out Rod T.Boyer's haiku & visual art visit: www.ourthomasart.com

To visit the illustrious Kolaj magazine go to: http://kolajmagazine.com/content/

News - Now Featuring in Kolaj Magazine's Artist Directory

I am thrilled to have my work recently added to Kolaj Magazine’s Artist Directory. It is a great privilege to be added to this directory alongside so many other fantastic collage artists. Kolaj Magazine does much fine work towards the progression and furtherance of the Collage as a vital, involving and highly relevent movement in contemporary art. This is acheived both by the immense quality of the publication itself, as well as through their exciting initiatives such as Kolaj Fest and The Kolaj Institute.

A Statement About My Work:

Over the last number of years my work has spoken on a vast array of different topics, all of which have been drawn together by my own meandering passions and ideas; and somehow centrally bound by a deep interest in fostering human growth. I believe the arts have an essential role in the maturation and the restorative humanization of our society; by providing us with a means to share lived experiences, reflect on the harsh realities of today, and to imagine infinite possible futures through the vehicle of creativity.

Collage has always felt like the most apt means for reflecting on our fractured society. By providing an opportunity to hijack the narratives and imagery of advertising, newspapers and other sources of mass printed and digital media, collage delivers to us a possibility. The possibility to repurpose and restructure mass media messaging; creating unified reflections that emerge from our own experiences, unconscious processes, hopes, struggles and dreams.

Whether I am working with digital or analog collage, or whether the topic at hand is political, personal, comical or purely experimental; I am following a deep intuitive response to my own processes of selection, placement and commitment to a final composition. I believe that any time one of us engages in this kind of process the result is a unique piece of work, drawn from our creative alchemical selves and delivered through the medium of collage.

Check out my featured listing by clicking here

More About the Artist Directory

Kolaj Magazine‘s Artist Directory is a tool for organizing and cataloguing artists who work in the medium of collage. Its audience includes the general public as well as independent curators, art venues, and writers.

The editorial staff of Kolaj Magazine uses the Artist Directory to select artists to feature in the publication and to select artists for various curatorial projects.

The Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection uses the Artist Directory to learn about artists for their collection. Members of the Artist Directory are permitted and encouraged to refer to their Listing when responding to Calls to Artists as a way of facilitating their response.

The Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory is the primary online gateway of the Kolaj Institute Artist Archive and is used to organize online information about artist members.

The Artist Directory exists as a public resource for those interested in collage as a medium and is designed to put interested parties in direct contact with artists.

Magazine Feature - Murze Magazine Issue Eleven - 'Consciousness, Mindfulness and Clarity'

I am thrilled to once again have work featured in the amazing Murze Magazine. This time work from my ‘Inner Space’ series will feature in Issue Eleven of Murze. I have to say I am loving the illustrations by the cover artist Erin Cutler.

Murze Magazine Issue 11 - 'Consciousness, Mindfulness and Clarity'

An exploration into our understanding and perception of our minds, and mental health. We look at the dark, the light and the journey artists have gone through in exploring our minds and the emotions that consume us.

A little bit about the magazine:
Murze magazine holds regular artist calls providing opportunities for both current and emerging artists to share their work through our platform. We feature artwork from artists of all demographics and nationalities, our calls are international and inclusive.
We hold a variety of open calls for photography and artists such as Political Art, Fluke and Minimalist. As well as projects and digital residencies to get more immersed in such as our Art for Advent project, Word and Ten days of Art.

5% of the sale goes towards Arts And Minds, a charity using the arts to help those with mental health issues.

Each sale of Issue Eleven will also pay for the planting of one Tree 🌳

For more about Murze Magazine visit: www.murze.org

Magazine Feature -Murze Magazine Issue Ten - 'Double Vision'

I am absolutely delighted to have contributed work to the upcoming issue of the beautiful looking Murze Magazine:

Murze Magazine Issue 10 - 'Double Vision'
Is centred around the dual themes of Wildlife and Political Art. I am honored to have several works from my 'Reflections On An Age Of Anxiety' series featured in this issue, to be released on February 5th.

A little bit about the magazine:
Murze magazine holds regular artist calls providing opportunities for both current and emerging artists to share their work through our platform. We feature artwork from artists of all demographics and nationalities, our calls are international and inclusive.
We hold a variety of open calls for photography and artists such as Political Art, Fluke and Minimalist. As well as projects and digital residencies to get more immersed in such as our Art for Advent project, Word and Ten days of Art.

For more about Murze Magazine visit: www.murze.org

Announcement - Elements of the Inner Space series featuring in Gestalten Publishers Creative Pool

A great big thanks to Gestalten Publishers for featuring some work from my Inner Space series as part of their Creative Pool. Gestalten have produced some of my favourite books on Illustration and Collage so its an honour.

A little more about the publishers: The Gestalten narrative exists beyond the textual realm; regardless of the medium at hand, Gestalten wishes to inform and inspire our community. We welcome you to enter Gestalten's world of creative culture whether between our pages, indulging in images and films online, or at one of our international events. We look forward to the result: mutual inspiration.

Now thats certainly a mission statement that I can get behind!

Check out the creative pool feature here:

https://news.gestalten.com/community/blackboard/inner-space

Gestalten Home: https://gestalten.com/

Interview & Magazine Feature @ Art Reveal Magazine Issue #38

I am absolutely thrilled to have an interview featured in the new issue of Art Reveal Magazine. Art Reveal Magazine is dedicated to promoting and publishing independent artists from all countries and all genres of visual art. Check out the interview here: https://issuu.com/artrevealmagazine/docs/38/30

Issue #38 features some high quality contemporary art hailing from across the globe with an illustrious line up including:

Damaris Athene (UK), Francesca Badea (Romania), KA Bird (UK), James Blamires (UK), Anthony D Kelly (Ireland), Julie De Abreu (Portugal), David Dunne (Ireland), Jessica Goodwin (UK), Jessica Grady (UK), David F. Heatwole (USA), Catherine Hellsten & Jon Rees (USA), Simona Ledl (Austria), Jawbone Jawbone (UK), Tahira Noreen (Pakistan), James Paddock (UK), Szilvia Ponyiczki (UK), Emma Walker (UK) & Francesca Busca (UK)