Visual Art — News — The Art of Anthony D Kelly

⚡️✂️Upcoming Collage & Visionary Words Workshop at Interface Inagh✂️⚡️
⏰When: Friday, Sept 18th, 4-7pm.
📍Where: INTERFACE,
The Hatchery, Cloonnacartan,
Recess, Co. Galway,
Ireland, H91 VW58 .

Tickets: FREE (Kindly Supported by Culture Night)
BOOK HERE

For Culture Night this year Interface will host a collage workshop, where participants work with curated materials and receive guidance to create their own original collages.

The artist Anthony D Kelly frequently intermingles collage and literary techniques as a way to cross-pollinate inspiration and foster greater creative momentum and flow. The "changing of creative channels" in this way can help plant the seeds for further projects and inspire unexpected directions for creative inquiry.

This 3 hour workshop will begin with the intuitive selection of a prompt word, followed by a short guided visualization that will aid participants in connecting with the rich field of associations, images and potential that can spring from a single word.

From this reflective starting point, Anthony will invite participants to write a short reflective passage to solidify their experiences. He will then 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 will finish this workshop with new collage techniques, have engaged in a rich sharing of ideas and meaning, and will have direct experience of a technique which can help foster new ideas and create forward momentum even in times of stuckness."

Participants are welcome to bring a notebook, 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.

Culture Night is brought to you by the Arts Council in partnership with Galway County Council.
For more from the fabulous team at Interface Inagh CLICK HERE.

Westival Gallery, Castlebar Street, Westport, Co.Mayo,

Wed Oct 23rd - Mon Oct 28th, 10 am - 6pm daily.

Launch Weds Oct 23rd 7 pm

Free

I am thrilled to announce that this October I will take part in Brittle/Fragile an Exhibition taking place as part of Westports Upcoming Westival.

Here is a statement from the Festival:

Through an open call, artists were invited to submit work on Westival 2019’s theme, ‘Brittle / Fragile’. The result is an exciting and varied group show showcasing selected work from Irish and international artists, featuring sculpture, painting, drawing and photography.

The theme proved a generous, many-headed muse, with artists responding in a huge variety of ways and presenting a multiplicity of creative interpretations – personal fragility, vulnerability as strength, frailty engendering feelings of protectiveness, the brittle geopolitical landscape, the fragility and ever-increasing vulnerability of our planet….

Thought-provoking and impressive in equal measure, this exhibition is a must-see.

For more about Westival and a full program of events visit: www.westival.ie