An Emergence To Consciousness is a Digital Collage which manifests into being by synthesizing meaning from our environments and experiences. Our intuition guides our focus, absorbing some information and highlighting some aspects of our experience and editing out other elements based on our immediate situation; but also through the most intimate elements of ourselves, our personal histories, our values, our interests, our agendas, our vices, our pleasures, our hates and our loves. A subtle and powerful process of questioning. What feels pertinent? What feels meaningful? What feels right?
In Gestalt psychology we describe this process as a figure (That is something of meaning, needing our attention) which emerges from the background of our experience, to be engaged with and then when the necessary change comes about the figure of our focus fades into the background again, altering it to in the process. There is a cycle to our experience of the world, awareness, engagement, creative enterprise, integration and finally a return to rest, making space for a new figure to emerge into awareness.
Upcoming Workshop- The Unkindest Cust: The Revolutionary Politics of Collage @ Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin - Sunday 16th September 2018 at 3pm
*UPCOMING WORKSHOP*
The Unkindest Cut - The Revolutionary Politics of Collage
Presented By: Anthony D Kelly
Date: Sunday 16th : Time: September 15.00 - 17.00
Venue: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland
As part of: Collagistas Festival #5
Collage by its very nature is a medium that is uniquely placed to reflect, distort and even clarify social and political issues by virtue of its appropriation and reorganization of mass media imagery. Throughout the process of selecting imagery, cutting, placement and following his/her own intuitive and aesthetic sense to a satisfying composition, a skilled collage artist manages to pull in many various sources of digital and printed media. When the blades come out, the artist filters this vast array of visual and textual source material through their experiences of living in this world with its triumphs and trials, producing in the end a singular reflection on the times in which we live. Join artist Anthony D Kelly for a presentation and discussion on The Politics of Collage, Satire and Global Citizenship at the end of the discussion he will hold a One Hour Collage Salon in which he will invite participants to sit, work and discuss these themes with each other while making collage.
(If you want to participate send an email to collagistas@gmail.com)
Anthony D Kelly is a Freelance Illustrator, Writer and Visual Arts Practitioner. He currently bases his practice in Castlebar, County Mayo located on Irelands West Coast.He has extensive experience as a Gallery Administrator, Curator and Project Facilitator from his time at Basement Project Space an artist led initiative which was based in Cork City, Ireland. The aim of this initiative was to generate an exhibition/project space independent of established institutions, to provide development opportunities for emerging artists and to encourage cutting edge experimental practice across a broad range of disciplines.
He has studied both Arts Administration and Arts Participation and Global Development and he is currently training in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy. Anthony is greatly interested in the Arts as an effective method for engagement with Social, Political and Global Development issues. He works mainly with Illustration, Collage and Assemblage techniques to create humorous, unnerving and deeply satirical imagery"
Upcoming Festival - Collagistas #5 @ Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland - From 13th - 16th of September 2018
I feel privileged to be able to participate in this years Collagistas #5 The International Festival of Collage. It is fantastic news to hear that the Collagistas Festival #5 will be held in Dublin this September 13th-16th 2018. So if you are in Dublin on these dates do pop along and join us for a wide array of talks, workshops and a fantastic exhibition of Collage Art. Check out the festival statement below:
Collagistas Festival is a celebration of contemporary collage. Our primary purpose is to create an opportunity where collage artists from all over the world can come together to share ideas and thoughts about their collage practise and to disseminate this information through workshops and presentations. We provide a platfom to explore and discuss how collage is made and the role of collage in contemporary visual culture. We do this through the organisation of an annual exhibition and the facilitation of workshops and presentations. Our aim is also to engage the general public and the wider art community in these discussions. Our principle objectives are to maintain an international network of collage artists and to bring collage to a wider audience.
Collagistas Festival ≠5 will be held in Dublin, from 13th - 16th of September 2018 at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
For More On The Festival: www.collagistas.com
For More On The Venue: www.templebargallery.com
Upcoming Exhibition - L'Avanguardia Della Visual Art - Fesitival Della TV e dei Nuovi Media 2018 @Spazio Arte 24 Via Corte 24 - Dogliani , Cueno (CN) 12063 Italy
Its really great to be taking part in L'Avanguardia Della Visual Art at the Spazio Arte 24 Gallery opening tomorrow night and running until the 6th of May as part of the Festival of TV and New Media 2018 in Dogliani, Italy. Check out Spazio Arte 24 here.
Running from 3rd-6th May :
Spazio Arte 24, Via Corte 24, Dogliani, Cueno(CN) 12063, Italy
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)
Upcoming Exhibition @ Il Purgatorio Residenza Creativa Somano Via Madonna 7 B - Cuneo (CN) 12060 Italy - Opening 7th April 2018
I am very happy to announce the participation of two of my Analog Collage pieces 'Devoured By The Bird of Gluttony' (2018) and 'The Desolate Isolation Of Pride' (2018) in the upcoming Il Purgatorio exhibition at the Il Purgatorio Creative Residence. Its Visceral Work in a Visceral Medium and on a Visceral Topic for 5th birthday of the Il Purgatorio Creative Residency. International collagists were invited to submit work around scenes of Purgatory. With these two pieces I envisioned the potential punishments for two of the 7 Deadly Sins: Gluttony (Being Devoured) and Pride (Isolation).
Happy 5th Birthday Il Purgatorio
Opening: 4pm 7th April 2018
The Gallery:
Il Purgatorio Residenza Creativa
Somano Via Madonna 7 B
Cuneo (CN) 12060
Italy
For more from the gallery visit: www.ilpurgatorio.com /
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ilpurgatoriohomegallery
Upcoming Exhibition - Our Earth @ The Kunsthuis Gallery, Crayke, North Yorkshire, UK - Running 24th March – 23rd December 2018
I am very happy to announce my participation in the upcoming Our Earth exhibition at the Kunsthuis Gallery in North Yorkshire. I am particularly happy as this exhibition is keeping with the ethos of the work in raising awareness and promoting contemplation around fracking, carbon emissions global warming and other human impacts on the wider environment.
As part of this exhibition the gallery will donate 5% sales commission to their chosen charity Friends of the Earth, an environmental organisation campaigning for a safer climate.
For the exhibition statement and more from the Kunsthuis Gallery checkout: http://kunsthuisgallery.com/our-earth-2018/
Opening Reception:
Saturday 24th March 2018 3-6pm
Exhibition Dates:
Saturday 24th March – 23rd December 2018
The Gallery:
Kunsthuis Gallery
Mill Green Farm
Crayke, UK, YO61 4TT
Upcoming Exhibition - SNAP TO GRID @ Lacda, 104 East Fourth Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA
I am delighted to announce my participation in an Upcoming Exhibition:
SNAP TO GRID @ Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, 104 East Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013, USA
From: December 14, 2017-January 6, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday December 16, 6-9pm
Art Walk Preview Thursday December 1
Gallery Statement:
Every year for 50 years the L.A. Municipal Gallery has held its "Open Call" exhibit where any artist can show up with their art and an entry fee (to benefit gallery programs) and the piece is shown. The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art decided to launch an international experiment of the same nature where the artists upload images that are printed and hung by the gallery. The hundreds of works are displayed in a grid like installation (reminiscent of postcard art shows of the 1980's) where every work submitted is exhibited.
The usual (less than democratic) selection process where only the precious few are chosen is turned on its head in a curatorial anarchy where everyone gets to participate and the viewer is literally left to be the judge. The show represents a snapshot of a current moment in art history when digital imaging has reached the hands of the many, an age where "smart culture" belongs to an all pervasive social media. From Thailand to Texas, amateur to academic, beautiful to banal and beyond the monumental quantity and variety of "Snap to Grid" becomes an aesthetic experience where each individual piece adds to an agglomerative effect that has a life of its own.
Upcoming Exhibition - NO FIXED ABODE @The Copper House Gallery. Synge Street, Dublin
I am delighted to announce my participation in an exhibition at the The Copper House Gallery. 'NO FIXED ABODE' is a Homelessness Fundraiser taking place during November and December 2017. This is an exhibition of submitted works by various artists to raise much needed funds to help tackle the homelessness crisis in Ireland. Supporting the work of the homeless & housing charity, THE PETER MCVERRY TRUST.
Be part of the conversation #nofixedabode #thecopperhse
Opening times:
Launch 6pm Wednesday 1st November 2017
Exhibition runs until Friday 22nd December 2017
Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm
The Copper House,
Saint Kevins Cottages,
Synge Street,
Dublin 8,
D08 EE73
Featured artists:
Stephen Shaw, Patrick Daly, Tag beckett, John O'Neill, Eoghan O'Driscoll, Brian Gallagher, Rosemarie Langtry, Gregory Dunn, Fergal O'Sullivan, Kelly Ratchford, Mags Harnett, Emma Stroude, Fergus Quearney, Ruth Carden, Gary Kelly, Linda Conroy, Lisa Ryan, Anthony D Kelly, Marian Buckley, Keith Keegan, Claire Zylstra Harding, Michelle Territt, Sarah Eva Manson, Megan Robinson, Trevor Noble, Geraldine Ryan, Rachel Clarke, Violet Shirran, Irene Mc Cabe, Calvin Freeman, Mary Ronayne, Kate Walsh, Caroline Canning, Gabriel Karasek, Dawn Sheehan, Aisling Browne, Jacob Stack, Dáire Mc Evoy, Maggy Morrissey, Sinead McCarthy, Melissa Doran, Roisín McGuigan, Eoin Kinsella, Mary Coen, Sean Walsh, Áine O'Hara, Barry Delaney, Eoin Flynn, Aidan Butler, Sharon Hogan, Laura Grimes, Grainne Tynan, Paul Maguire, Aine Finnegan & Kate McElligott, Triona Walsh, Alaina Flynn, Mairead Harkin, Dorje DeBurgh, Michael Collins, Mark Flynn, Eoin Byrne, Brid Ni Rinn, Cathal Manning, Jacinta Eydan, Jean lowndes, Ursula Kirwan, Jane Ryan, Mary Fallon, Roseanne Mooney, Diane O'Donohoe, Molly Brown, Rachelle O'Regan, Karen O'Farell, Brian O'Neill, Madeleine Collins, Sannie Cuddihy, Aoife Herrity, Amanda Cullen, Bernhard Gaul, Catherine Ryan, Maurice Gunning, Michelle Dalton, Angel Luis Gonzalez, Irene Plazewska, Ada McCune O'Loughlin, Ann O'Clery, Kathrine Geoghegan, Mary Tritschler, Abigail O'Brien, Francis O'Toole, Mary Kelly and Niamh O'Connor.