Upcoming Festival: "NEW REALITY: Contemporary Collage in Ireland"- Friday the 9th of September – Saturday the 1st of October 2022 -at Market House Craftworks, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, Ireland.

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING FESTIVAL: NEW REALITY: CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE IN IRELAND”🔸🔹🔸

Opening Reception: Friday 9th of September 6pm - 8pm

New Reality Festival: Friday 9th of September - Sunday 11th of September 2022

Exhibition Running from: Friday the 9th of September – Saturday the 1st of October 2022

I am absolutley thrilled to be invited to take part in the upcoming - 'New Reality’ Contemporary Collage in Ireland festival and exhibition. Organised by the wonderful Silvio Serverino, Una Gildea, Jane Jermyn and the Market House Craftworks.

The ‘New Reality’ exhibition opens with a Festival on the weekend of the 9th-11th Sept. The festival will feature a series of workshops a the Parochial Hall, Cappoquin, P51 VY40. Each hosted by mega talented master collage artists, Marta Janik, Una Gildea, Tom Doig, Alan Murphy and Tatyana Feeny.

I am also inviting you to join me in a “Monster” workshop hosted by truly on Saturday the 10th of September at 14.30 -16.30. Workshops come at a small cost and booking is recommended either through Eventbrite or by phone 087-2187962.

Other events will include live music by 'Mamacha & the Forest of Sound', fabulous screenings of Moving Collage, a talk by the man himself Sean Hillen (Sean Hillen Artist), subject of the award winning documentary "Tomorrow is Saturday".

The exhibition itself will be open to the public from 9th Sept - 1st October at Market House Craftworks The Square, Green Street, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, P51 KD37.

For more on this rich and amazing event visit: https://www.instagram.com/new_reality_festival/

"Empty Nests" (2022) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly From the Amazing Migracje/Migration Project.

"Empty Nests" (2022) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly

"Travel to the island of Achill which hangs in the dark waters of the Atlantic, off the stark and wind beaten coasts of northwest Mayo. Bring yourself along to the foot of Slievemore mountain, you will find a deserted village there.

This abandoned settlement stands as a remnant, a scar, and a memorial site; one of many strewn across this county and country. Each site is a stark reminder of times in Ireland, that due to famine, as well as social and political pressures, survival was intensely difficult for most and truly impossible for some.

Elsewhere in Mayo, evidence of potato ridges rise high up on hillsides in areas which are now devoid of settlement. These areas were once so populous, that settlers resorted to cultivating their crops at awkward altitudes for lack of space.

When you stand in these once lively landscapes now, they feel haunted somehow. Indeed, our ancestors often held “Living Wakes” with their loved ones, before going to the docks; as they knew that they would never return.

In mid-June of this year the central statistics office announced that there are now five million people living in the Republic of Ireland. Yet records show that since the 18th century between nine and ten million people born in Ireland have emigrated away. Many of my own generation chose to move abroad as the impacts of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 sent shockwaves throughout Irish society.

We are a nation of emigrants, and we have left in many waves.

In the contemporary discourse on migration, immigration and displacement there tends to be a heavy focus on countries of arrival. This shifts our perspectives away from the realities of what might be left behind. Yes, those who arrive in a new country are often taking flight from dire situations such as war, famine and oppression. Yet, just like our ancestors who fled, they are also leaving behind loved ones, family, friends, communities, favourite meals, old stories, familiar words, much loved songs, childhood bedrooms, streets, homes, and empty nests."

For more of Marta Janik's amazing work blast off to: www.planetmarta.com

For more about the Birr Vintage and Arts Festival visit: https://www.birrvintageweek.com

For more from the amazing venue in Warsaw check out: Pałacyk Konopackiego

📢✒️ANNOUNCEMENT POETRY X COLLAGE JOURNAL LAUNCH ✒️📢

I am delighted to be invited (did that rhyme?) to present work and poetry that resulted from my recent time spent on the Kolaj Institutes Poetry & Collage Residency. I will be presenting alongside the other artists who took part to celebrate the launch of the new Poetry X Collage Journal publication.

This will be a great event, see details below:

KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE

PoetryxCollage Journal Launch

Thursday, August 11th, 6PM EDT / 11PM GMT

"In January 2022, we issued a call to artists for a Poetry & Collage Residency and received so many excellent responses that we organized a series of three residencies. The artists heard from guest speakers Kevin Sampsell, Renée Reizman, Rod T. Boyer, and the Poetry Foundation's Fred Sasaki and were challenged to create page spreads to be included in a forthcoming book of collage and poetry.

In the residency, we challenged artists to move beyond taxonomical debates. Ric Kasini Kadour said, "What is a poem? We do not need to have a singular answer to that question. Individually we must each answer that question for ourselves. In practice, every poem we make will be an example of what a poem is. In considering other people's work, we should ask ourselves, How is this a poem?" During the residencies, artists interrogated each other's artwork, collaborated, and shared ideas. And at the end of it, they sent us more page spreads than could fit into a single book. Impressed and moved by the volume and quality of cultural output and a deep belief that this practice--however you want to describe it--at the intersection of collage and poetry deserves a platform, we decided to create a new journal dedicated to it. Christopher Kurts named it PoetryXCollage and said, “How do you pronounce it? You can say the letter ‘X’ or it can stand for the words ‘and,’ ‘in collaboration with,’ or ‘featuring.’ The X is an intersection, a crossroads, or an equation. X marks the spot.”

Join Kolaj Institute and several of the contributing artists— Anthony D Kelly (Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland), Carla E Reyes (Astoria, NY, USA), Cathy Greenhalgh (London, England, United Kingdom), Cheryl Chudyk (Kirkland, WA, USA), Janice McDonald (Denver, CO, USA), Jennifer Roche (Chicago, IL, USA), Samantha Brown (Blackrock, Co. Louth, Ireland), Thomas Mayer (Berlin, Germany)—in a discussion surrounding the residency, their artwork, and the intersection of collage and poetry. Artists will share images of their work and read their poetry. The event is free & open to everyone. Registration is required.

To register for this amazing event click here:

For more from the wonderful Kolaj Institute visit: http://www.kolajinstitute.org/

For more of the work of Anthony D Kelly follow the words: www.freeformtrouble.com

Upcoming Exhibition: "SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION" Friday 5th August – Sunday 28th August 2022 -at Custom House Studios + Gallery, The Quay, Westport, Co.Mayo, Ireland

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: CUSTOM HOUSE SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION🔸🔹🔸

Less than a week to go!

Opening Reception: Friday 5th August 6pm - 8pm

Running from: Friday 5th August – Sunday 28th August 2022

Venue: Custom House Studios + Gallery, The Quay, Westport, Co.Mayo, Ireland F28 CD39

I am thrilled to take part in the upcoming Custom House Studio and Gallery “Summer Group Exhibition” which is opening at the end of this week!

I can’t wait to see all of the fantastic work that has been assembled for this show from such a wide array of talented artists. Opening this Friday the 5th of August from 6-8pm. If you are in the area do drop in for an evening of incredible art!

For more from the wonderful Custom House visit: www.customhousestudios.ie

Image Credit: The Hooker ‘Victory’ (centre). Capsized June 14th 1894, 32 migrant workers drowned. Source Archives, Wynne family collection.

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - MIGRACJE/ MIGRATION COLLAGE WORKSHOPS - Monday 1st August @ 2pm-4pm & Wed 3rd August, @ 2pm- 4pm - The Arts Hub, The Courthouse Yard, Townsend Street, Birr, Co.Offaly.

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

MIGRACJE/ MIGRATION COLLAGE WORKSHOPS

I can't wait to return to the town of Birr, County Offaly to take part in the upcoming MIGRACJE/ MIGRATION Exhibition. Not to mention feast on the delicous breakfast pancakes served at the towns wonderful Tin Jug Studio; and but of course to enjoy all of the celebrations taking place for this years fabulous Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival.

This year I am delighted to be delivering two seperate collage workshops alongside the amazing Marta Janik.

WORKSHOP TIMES:

Monday 1st August 2pm-4pm & Wed 3rd, 2pm- 4pm

LOCATION:

The Arts Hub, The Courthouse Yard, Townsend Street, Birr, Co.Offaly.

PRICE:

€10 (Per workshop)

REGISTER:

To register for this event, or any of the other fantastic workshops visit: https://www.birrvintageweek.com/visual-arts-workshops

We warmly invite you to join us in exploring your own responses to timely topic of Migration through the wonderful medium of collage.

We encourage you to bring along any photographs, images, magazines that you would like to work with or include in your collage. We will have additional material but it is always good to use things that are personal to you.

For more of the wonderful work of Marta Janik - Collage blast off to: www.planetmarta.com

(Workshop Image Credit: Anthony D Kelly Visual Art - Freeform Trouble & Marta Janik - Collage collaboration.)

Featured in Publication - MAINTENANT 16: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art

I am thrilled to have my artwork “Baaad News!” published in MAINTENANT 16 alongside so many other excellent artists. Maintenant is an annual journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art published by Three Rooms Press, New York. Every year the editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges select a relevant theme and open the journal to submissions in response. This years theme was appropriately selected as '“Net Zero”.

Read more about this years journal from the editors below:

“These days you hear a lot about NET ZERO, in reference to steps being taken to combat climate change. NET ZERO refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere. At this time, NET ZERO is an ambition lacking absolute definition as corporate energy titans pledge distant adherence without clear or immediate commitments to act. In fact, these so-called “innovative” scions of wealth seem to not even be able to remove the layer of hot air greenhouse gases spewing from the mouths of the pundits and politicos pushing the affirmation of their endlessly pernicious promises. Enter NYET ZERO. With NYET ZERO, MAINTENANT 16 makes an artistic power grab using DADA—in the form of original art, poetry, and writing aimed at exposing the hypocrisy of the engine-idle rich on recycled paper. We can change the now with art and thought. Otherwise, the future has NOTENTIAL.

For the first time since debuting in 2008,  MAINTENANT 16 includes work from all seven continents on the planet, with more than 240 creators from 34 countries. The MAINTENANT series gathers the work of internationally-renowned contemporary Dada artists and writers. The new issue features cover art by legendary painter Chuck Connelley, recognized as a key figure among the New York-based Neo-expressionist painters – alongside artists such Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat – and collected by major institutions across the United States. Connelly has been portrayed in film by Martin Scorcese (Nick Nolte’s character in New York Stories (1989) was based on Connelly) and he was the subject of an HBO documentary in 2008. A prodigious painter with a passion for his art, he has amassed a vast collection of canvases, many of which have yet to be exhibited.

The annual MAINTENANT series, established in 2008, gathers work of contemporary Dada artists and writers from around the world. Past issues include work by artists Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, Joel Hubaut, Giovanni Fontana, Nicole Eisenmann, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Kazunori Murakami; writers include Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Andrei Codrescu, and more, with a strong contingent of artist-writers from the world of punk rock, including Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Alice Bag and more.”

To order a copy of this years journal and to learn more about Three Rooms Press click here.

Upcoming Exhibition: "MIGRACJE/MIGRATION" From July 29 - August 7, 2022 - at the 54th Vintage Week and the Arts Festival, Birr, Ireland, AND Praga Cultural Center in Praga-Północ, Warsaw, Poland

Image Credit: Marta Janik - Collage

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: MIGRACJE/MIGRATION🔸🔹🔸

Less than two weeks to go!!!!

Running from: July 29 - August 7, 2022

Venues: 54th Vintage Week and the Arts Festival (Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival) in Birr, Ireland AND Praga Cultural Center in Praga-Północ in Warsaw.

I am so excited to take part in this fantastic exhibition on the timely topic of Migration. This exhibition is curated by the one and only Marta Janik.

The works will be presented during the 54th Vintage Week and the Arts Festival (Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival) in Birr, Ireland, on July 29 - August 7, 2022, and simultaneously at the Praga Cultural Center in Praga-Północ in Warsaw. Both exhibitions will be outdoor in the open air.

Made possible by: Caroline Conway and the Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival.

Supported by: Arts Council Ireland, CreativeIrl, Offaly County Council and the Irish Embassy in Poland (Zielono mi. Ambasada Irlandii w Polsce)

TO CHECK OUT THE PARTICIPATING ARTISTS AND TO READ MARTA'S WONDERFUL STATEMENT JUST LOOK BELOW.

Curator: Marta Janik

Artists:

Lou Beach (USA) | Jerome Bertrand (Kanada/Canada) | Yuliia Fareniuk (Ukraina/Ukraine)

Maria Filek (Polska/Poland)| Una Gildea (Irlandia/Ireland) | Domenico Goi (Włochy/Italy)

Anthony D. Kelly (Irlandia/Ireland) | Denis Kollasch (Niemcy/Germany) | Sherry Parker (USA)

Silvio Severino (Brazylia/Brazil) | Maryna Siliakova (Ukraina/Ukraine) | Steve Tierney (Australia) | Tanja Ulbrich (Hiszpania/Spain)

"Since February 24, the eyes of the whole world have been turned towards Ukraine, which was brutally attacked by Russia on that date. The UN Refugee Agency reported in early May that more than 6 million Ukrainian citizens have already fled their homeland to other countries, attempting to escape from the war.

The history of the world is the history of migration; and this is a phenomenon which increasingly affects each of us, in almost every corner of the Earth. People migrate for many reasons, some in search of peace and security, and others to earn more money and live better lives.

Often individuals and families are forced to move due to political and economic pressures and instability, and unfortunately as we see more often these days, a deteriorating climate.

Others simply go on the road because they are seeking out themselves and their place on this earth.

Nor is migration a uniquely human phenomenon, as it can be found throughout nature in the plant and animal kingdoms. Some birds can travel up to ten thousand kilometers at once, and a single dandelion seed will be carried on the wind for several kilometers! All in service of survival, exploration, and a better life.

The topic of migration is as broad as it is interesting, and it touches every living being; this surely encourages a timely investigation and reflection.

Collage is a process of fragmentation and recombination, pieces are seperated from their original images, finding their way from different places to make up something new and beautiful. In this way Collage is both an apt technique and an accurate metaphor for the experience of migration.

When we think in this way we realize that through migratory processes our countries and communities themselves are constantly evolving Collages of experience.

If we dare to look deeply enough we realise that we are each a Collage of experience. For those of us who live with migrants, and those of us who have migrated – either geographically or within our imaginations. We rise to new problems, and new challenges. We learn, we grow, we ask questions. „What does it mean to be at home?”, „What does it mean to be a stranger?”, „What does the word "homeland" mean?”.

Random elements appear in our lives from which we build meanings. Like in a collage. And from here it is only a step to the migration that each of us takes after all. Migrating inside ourselves. This is a one-of-a-kind, most personal journey.

As part of this project we invited an artist from Ukraine (Yuliia Fareniuk, a member of Kyiv Collage Collective), a war refugee, to come to Birr for the duration of the festival, and who will conduct workshops with the towns residents, joining with the people of the town and sharing the experience of creating a collage mural with them somewhere in the town environment."

For more of Marta Janik's amazing work blast off to: www.planetmarta.com

For the line up at this years Birr Vintage and Arts Festival visit: https://www.birrvintageweek.com/programme

For more from the amazing venue in Warsaw check out: Pałacyk Konopackiego

Upcoming Exhibition - "COURAGE & HOPE" From June 18 – September 25, 2022- at Königs-Galerie Kassel, Ob. Königsstraße 39, 34117 Kassel, Germany

☀️🌎🌍🌏 "COURAGE & HOPE"🌏🌍🌎☀️

From June 18 – September 25, 2022

At Königs-Galerie Kassel, Ob. Königsstraße 39, 34117 Kassel, Germany

I am delighted to have been invited to take part in the upcoming exhibition "COURAGE & HOPE" which features amazing work by other international artists as well as students from HBK Braunschweig, Moving School and Universität Kassel, and is taking place in Kassel during Documenta #15.

Each participant was invited to create two pieces of art in response to the words “Courage” and “Hope”, and to also write a short text to accompany these pieces describing where they find courage and hope in their own lives.

These images and texts are meant as seeds and offerings to others in our communities and cultures, to spark conversations about how we find the vitally important qualities of meaning, courage and hope within ourselves and the wider world.

This event is being hosted by the fantastic Moving School details below:

Moving School e.V. is an experimental educational program and artistic research that is the foundation for lifelong learning and creative processes. It is a complement to traditional academic education. Traditional education has a linear design: participating, learning, studying, checking knowledge, going to the next level.

Moving School is more like a learning algorithm and artistic research. Experience, intuition, critical thinking and design logic shape the skills that are necessary to navigate through the challenges and uncertainties of the future. This is rarely found in traditional learning.
Moving School unfolds potentials for positive changes in personal life, in work and in society. Moving School is a worldwide network of students, trainers, professionals, entrepreneurs and artists from different fields and educational centres. It is led by an international board of directors.

For more about Moving School click here.

Poster Image Credit: Elham Hemmat

Award Received: The Mayo Artists Bursary 2022 - The Mayo Arts Service

I am absolutely thrilled with the news that I have received a Mayo Artists Bursary Award 2022. This award is dispensed by the Mayo Arts Service and aims to support individual Artists working in the county throughout all stages in their career.

I am truly proud to have my art practice recognised by the Mayo Arts Service and I am very grateful for the support of this wonderful organisation.

To learn more about the services, events and supports provided by the Mayo Arts Service click here.

Residency: Poetry & Collage hosted by the Kolaj Institute - March 2022

🔸🔹🔸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: