✂️BIG PAPER PASTE PARTY!! At The Linenhall, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland. Saturday, May 9th, 2026, 6pm -8pm.✂️

✂️WORLD COLLAGE DAY - BIG PAPER PASTE PARTY✂️

At: The Linenhall,
Linenhall Street,
Castlebar,
Co.Mayo
Ireland,
F23 AN24

On: Saturday May 9th 2026,
6pm - 8pm.

The Connacht Collage Collective is turning two! We’re marking the occasion with a Big Paper Paste Party in honour of World Collage Day. This extra special session is open to everyone — no matter your experience or skill level. Whether you’re a total beginner or a seasoned pro, come along and enjoy the simple pleasure of making.

For this birthday edition, DJ SIM Card will share some mood music while we create together. Her is a little more from me about the event:

“It's really a wonderful thing to be here getting ready to celebrate the Connacht Collage Collective's second birthday and on World Collage Day 2026 no less.

Our rich community of artists has gone from strength to strength, with members traveling from all corners of Mayo and beyond to attend each month and a growing list of over ninety members. These last two years it has been really lovely meeting every month with both regulars and newcomers and to have the privilege of watching everyone's practices, experiments and relationships flourish. I believe as creatives and as human beings we are each made stronger, deeper and wiser by sharing in genuine community.

Our regular Connacht Collage Collective meetings have certainly been a font of inspiration and support for my own creative practice. So whether you are artistically established or creatively curious, please feel welcome to join us for our big celebration at the Linenhall Arts Centre. Here is to our future projects and meetings together!".

World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration held on the second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine , the day is a call for artists and venues around the world to celebrate collage.

As Kolaj editor Ric Kasini Kadour says, “We created World Collage Day because we wanted to honour this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like.”

This is an adult workshop (18+), and everyone is welcome.
Help us celebrate the joy of collage and community. Let’s make together!
Advance booking advised - CLICK HERE.

Form more about World Collage Day from the Kolaj Institute CLICK HERE.

To follow along with Connacht Collage Collective CLICK HERE.

Image: "Music: The Universal Language" (2019) - Anthony D Kelly.

🔸🔹🔸Upcoming Exhibition: "Mayo Artists Show 2025" - The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland, F23 AN24 - Friday the 5th of December 2025 at 6pm 🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: MAYO ARTISTS SHOW 2025🔸🔹🔸

Opening Reception: This Friday the 5th of December at 6pm

Exhibition Running from: Tuesday the 2nd of December 2025 – Friday the 16th of January 2026

Venue:
THE LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE
Linenhall Street,
Castlebar,
Co Mayo,
F23 AN24
www.thelinenhall.com

I am always delighted to have my work selected for exhibition at The Linenhall Arts Centre. The upcoming “MAYO ARTISTS SHOW 2025” exhibition is open to the public from today and the official opening event takes place this Friday the 5th of December at 6pm. This is a dual venue event with a strong showing of work also officially opening at the Ballina Arts Centre this Saturday the 6th of December at 6pm.

This years exhibition was curated by the wonderful Aoife Banks and promises to be a visual feast showcasing work from artists based throughout the County.
I am really looking forward to seeing these shows!

About the gallery:
”Arts for All at the Linenhall - we believe that everyone in the community should have the opportunity to access excellent arts experiences.Located in the heart of Castlebar, Mayo’s county town, the Linenhall Arts Centre presents a series of live events and arts experiences throughout the year for audiences of all ages. On a most basic level we believe that art has the potential to improve the lives of those who engage with it. Our eclectic and high-quality programme includes music, theatre, visual arts, literature, cultural cinema, creative learning and RoolaBoola, one of the leading children’s arts festivals in Ireland. ”

For more from the fantastic team at the Linenhall Arts Centre click HERE.

For more from the wonderful Ballina Arts Centre click HERE.

⚡️✂️RECORDING- Words in Motion: Collage Poetry and Publication: (Panel Discussion& Showcase) on Saturday the 7th of September 2024. ⚡️✂️

⚡️✂️Intentional Selection – A Celebration of Collage✂️⚡️
Words in Motion: Collage Poetry and Publication: Panel Discussion & Showcase.

RECORDING AVAILABLE CLICK HERE

What a privilege it was to speak with Ric Kasini Kadour of Kolaj Magazine and the artist Eve Kimmerling about the vibrant intersection between Collage, Poetry and Publication. A massive thank you to Redfoxpress, for your wonderful showcase of beautiful collage and poetry books.

It was great meeting you again and I was delighted to pick up a few more of your books for my collection.

A massive thanks to Linenhall Arts Centre setting everything up so beautifully!

To learn more about Ric, visit www.rickasinikadour.com ; for Kolaj Magazine, visit www.kolajmagazine.com ; and for Kolaj Institute, visit www.kolajinstitute.org .

For more from Redfoxpress, and to peruse their beautiful books visit: www.redfoxpress.com

To delve further into Eve Kimmerling's work visit:
https://collage-reverie.com/

✂️Intentional Selection – A Celebration of Collage - Moving Collage Screening: Saturday 27th July 2024, Showing at: 2pm & 3pm- ✂️

⚡️✂️Intentional Selection – A Celebration of Collage✂️⚡️
Moving Collage Screening: Saturday 27th July 2024 at 2pm & 3pm
The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Ireland, F23 AN24
ADMISSION: FREE
Roll Up! Roll Up! As part of the Intentional Selection Fesival Programme we welcome you to experience these wonders of Moving Collage during two special screenings this Saturday the 27th of July at The Linenhall Arts Centre at 2pm & 3pm.

For your visual delectation we are delighted to present an intentionally selected and carefully curated programme of international collage animation for your enjoyment:

Programme of works:

‘Black Coffee’ – Music Video - Marta Janik (POLAND) - Run Time: 2m 58s
‘Catching the Fish’ – Working Method - Schrieck (FRANCE)– Run Time: 2m 14s
“The Last Performance’ – Carlos David – Run Time: 1m 03s
‘Finn’ – Music Video for ‘The Nualas’ - Una Gildea (IRELAND) – Run Time: 3m 43s
‘Three Kings’ – Martina aka Kosmo Nauty (POLAND) – Run Time: 0m 44s
‘Work in Progress’-  David Crunelle (BELGIUM) - Run Time:  3m 39s
‘Pothole in the Sky’ – Music Video – Jason Kearney (IRELAND) – Run Time:  3m 56s
‘Working Method’ - Ria Bauwens (BELGIUM) – Run Time:  0m 53s
‘International Loop Conspiracy’ – Animated Collage - Silvio Severino (IRELAND) – Run Time: 5m 15s
“SPARKS” – Una Gildea (IRELAND) – Run Time: 3m 20s
‘Fetes’ – Seasonal – Stephen Tierney (AUSTRALIA & MEXICO) – Run Time: 3m 23s
‘Transit’ – Music Video - Aline Helmcke (GERMANY) – Run Time: 4m 26s
‘Bordo: Zvezde v Mlaju’ - Music Video - Maruša Štibelj (SLOVENIA) – Run Time: 4m 00s
‘April’s Dancing’ – Moving Collage - Una Gildea (IRELAND) – Run Time:  3m 07s
‘Bordo: Lai Lai svet’ - Music Video - Maruša Štibelj (SLOVENIA) - Run Time:  3m 56s
‘Calibro 35’ – Music Video - Aline Helmcke (GERMANY) – Run Time: 3m 05s
‘Untitled’ - Music Video – Kirill Abdrakhmanov (GERMANY) – Run Time: 3m 39s
‘Majewska Koneserzy Kolejnego’ – Music Video - Marta Janik (POLAND) – Run Time:  3m 55s
‘Once There Was a Girl’ - Moving Collage - Una Gildea (IRELAND) – Run Time:  3m 05s

Dont miss out on this amazing event.
Admission is free.

Booking is advised through here.

#IntentionalSelection24

💥✂️UPCOMING COLLAGE FESTIVAL: Intentional Selection at The Linenhall Arts Centre- Running from Saturday June 8th – September 6th 2024 ✂️💥

Opening Reception: Saturday 8th June at 5pm.

Runs: June 8th – September 6th 2024

The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Ireland, F23 AN24

I am absolutely thrilled to announce the upcoming “Intentional Selection” Collage festival launching at the Linenhall Arts Centre next Saturday the 8th of June and running right until the end of Summer.

This festival will feature an exhibition of over 30 of the best collage artists practicing in Ireland today. A series of workshops catering to a wide variety of audiences, a screening of collage animation, a panel discussion and regular monthly meetings of the Connacht Collage Collective hosted at the Linenhall.

We invite you throughout this Summer to engage with the medium of collage and to join us as a welcome participant in all that this vibrant and exciting medium has to offer.
Full Programme Coming Soon.

From Anthony D Kelly:
“Collage has a rich history spanning from the advent of paper making in China in approximately 100AD; through being considered as a form relief sculpture during the renaissance period due to its layering and depth; being utilized as a foundational Cubist, Surrealist and Dadaist technique during the early twentieth century, featuring in the later Pop Art and Fluxus movements; to becoming the vibrant, versatile and engaging contemporary art practice that it is today.

To honour the versatility of this medium the Intentional Selection Festival has no unifying theme, but instead offers the audience an introduction to the range and possibility of collage as it is being practiced in Ireland today.“

Featured Artists:
Adrian & Shane, Adrienne Geoghegan, Alan Murphy, Aleksandra Schulte, Anthony D Kelly,
Aoife Carroll, Betty Gannon, Carol White, Cas Mc Carthy, Celina Buckley
Cheryl Murphy Kelly, Clare Walsh, Ciara O Connor, Colin Eaton, David Ryan, Derval Dunford
Eleanor Jones, Eve Kimmerling, Frantic Sally, Gavin Mc Crea, GUBU Man
Izabela Szczutkowska, Kate Hodmon, Mags Duffy, Micheal Mc Laughlin, Michelle Granville, Padraig Spillane, Paul Mac Cormaic, Red Fox Press, Ruby Staunton, Sarah Deane, Silvio Severino,
Sorcha Mc Namara, Tatyana Feeney, Tom Doig, Una Gildea, Valerie Asiimwe Amani.

Working hard behind the scenes have been the curatorial panel of:
Anthony D Kelly, Silvio Severino, Una Gildea.
Special thanks to the Linenhall Art Centre, Deirdre Melvin & Mayo Arts Office.

For more from the Linenhall Arts Centre Click Here.

🔸🔹🔸Award Received: The Mayo Artists Bursary 2024 - From The Mayo Arts Service🔸🔹🔸

I am absolutely thrilled to be awarded a Mayo Artists Bursary for 2024. 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 over the last nember of years through various awards and their purchase of some of my work which now reside in the Mayo County Council Permanent Collection.

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

Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat Mayo Arts Service!!!

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: "FORHALLA" -THE LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE, CASTLEBAR, CO.MAYO, IRELAND- Friday the 7th of July at 6pm 🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: FORHALLA🔸🔹🔸

Opening Reception: Friday the 7th of July at 6pm

Exhibition Running from: Friday the 7th of July – Saturday the 2nd of September 2023

Venue:
THE LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE
Linenhall Street,
Castlebar,
Co Mayo,
F23 AN24
www.thelinenhall.com

I am always delighted to have my work selected for exhibition at The Linenhall Arts Centre. Their upcoming “FORHALLA” exhibition opens this Friday the 7th of July at 6pm, and promises to be a visual treat showcasing work from artists based throughout Connaught

From the gallery:
”Forhalla was created as a platform to showcase the works of Connaught based artists at all career stages, whether working in painting, print or photography. Running until September 2023, this group show, designed as a celebration of Ireland’s artists coming together again after the pandemic, invites a sense of revival. Forhalla will be featuring work from over sixty different artists based throughout the region.”

For more from the fantastic team at The Linenhall Arts Centre and the Forhalla exhibition click HERE.

🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: TALKING COLLAGE ONLINE TALK & WORKSHOP - Kindly hosted by The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland.🔸

🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: TALKING COLLAGE ONLINE TALK & WORKSHOP🔸

Join us for an engaging, online discussion on all things collage. We will hear from Artists Valerie Asiimwe Amani and Anthony D. Kelly on what attracts them to the medium. The artists also invite you to have collage materials to hand if you would like to create something small during the event. This promises to be a playful and enriching experience in the presence of two incredibly talented artists! 

Date: Wednesday 17/05/2023
Time: 19.00GMT
Venue: (ONLINE EVENT) Kindly hosted by The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland, F23 AN24.
Adm: €3
For booking click here or call: (+353) 094 9023733

More on the Artists:
”Valerie Asiimwe Amani is a Tanzanian interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her practice interrogates the ways in which body erotics, language, place and perceived reality are used to situate (or isolate) the self within community. She has exhibited internationally including group shows in Lagos, Paris, Cape Town and Leipzig with recent shows being a solo performance at South London Gallery in collaboration with the Roberts Institute of Art as well as a solo exhibition at Alliance Française, Dar es Salaam. Amani holds a MFA from The Ruskin School of Art and is the recipient of the 2021 Ashmolean Museum Vivien Leigh Prize for a work on paper. She is a winner for the 2022 Ingram Art Prize and received commendation for the 2022 Dentons Award. She was The Linenhall Arts Centre International Artist-in-Residence 2022. She has been featured in Art Monthly, Hyperallergic and BBC amongst others. Amani has given various talks on Art and Activism including SOAS, University of London with The Royal African society. She is also an art writer focusing on emerging African artists, on Emergent Art Space.”

”Anthony D. Kelly is based in Castlebar, County Mayo. He is an illustrator, writer, visual artist and integrative psychotherapist. He works mainly with Illustration, Collage and Assemblage techniques to create hopeful, humorous, and sometimes unnerving and deeply satirical imagery.

He is an active and experienced member of the Irish Collage Community and was recently nomitated as the World Collage Day poster artist 2023. He has exhibited across Ireland, Europe and in the U.S.A. and has delivered workshops and lectures at Collagistas Festivals 5 & 6 in Dublin and Brussels. His work has featured in many publications including Art Reveal, Creativ Paper, Murze Magazine, Kolaj Magazine and the recently released ‘Empty Columns are a Place to Dream' book from the Kolaj Institute and Kasini House.”

For more of the amazing work of Valerie Asiimwe Amani visit: https://www.valerieamani.com
For more from the Linenhall Art Center simply visit: http://www.thelinenhall.com/

Upcoming Exhibition - "BOUNDLESS STATES" Custom House Gallery, The Quay, Westport, Co.Mayo

🔸🔹🔶 UPCOMING SHOW 🔶🔹🔸
"BOUNDLESS STATES"
Custom House Gallery,
The Quay,
Westport,
Co.Mayo

Featuring Artists: Anthony D Kelly, Hina Khan & Olga Guse
Opening Reception: Thursday 17th of February 2022 6-8pm
Guest Speaker: Orlagh Heverin, Assistant Arts Officer, Mayo County Council
Running every day until Sunday 13th of March 2022

For more on the show from Visual Artists Ireland visit:

To know more about the Custom House Gallery and Studios visit: www.customhousestudios.ie

Upcoming Exhibition - Mayo Artists Exhibition @ The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland

The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar,Co. Mayo

Friday 6th December 2019 - Saturday 11th January 2020

I am very happy to announce my participation in the upcoming Mayo Artists Show 2019 which will be taking place at two locations, The Linenhall Arts Centre (Castlebar) and The Ballina Arts Centre (Ballina).

The official opening of the Mayo Artists Show takes place on Friday 6 December (6.00pm at the Linenhall Arts Centre, and 8.00pm at Ballina Arts Centre) There will be a free return bus departing the Linenhall Arts Centre for Ballina Arts Centre at 7.15pm on Friday 6 December. Seats are limited and pre-booking is essential.

Here is a statement from the Gallery:

The show presents a cornucopia of work in all manner of media and offers a fascinating snapshot of the breadth of visual arts practice in the county. And with something for all tastes (and prices), this might just be the ideal opportunity to find that elusive and unique Christmas gift.

For more from The Linenhall Arts Centre visit: www.thelinenhall.com

And The Ballina Arts Centre: www.ballinaartscentre.com