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⚡️✂️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)
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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.

🔸🔹🔸POETRY & COLLAGE RESIDENCY - MARCH 2022🔸🔹🔸

I am absolutely delighted to have been accepted to take part in the Kolaj Intitute's Poetry & Collage Online Residency hosted by the illustrious Kolaj Magazine over the course of March.

If you follow my work you will know that I really enjoy to pair visual work with both poetry and short stories. I am really excited to take part in this programme over the course of March, to meet the other international artists, writers and poets, listen to their perspectives and see their work; and of course to learn new things about the vibrant intersection between the written word and visual art.

The organisers have this to say:
"It says something that in the Poetry Foundation’s Glossary of Poetic Terms, “collage” is one of the few visual art terms they define. Perhaps this is because so many poets have also been collage artists.

This project-driven residency is open to artists and poets. Participants will work together to investigate the intersection of collage and poetry by exploring concepts of found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world. Together we will create working definitions and document techniques."

To find out more about the Kolaj Institute and this residency programme click here: