Street Art, Eigse Carlow Arts Festival and other stories

It's been a very arty time recently, I've been involved in a Street Art Project, had a piece accepted for the RHA Annual, and also for an exhibition 'Being Here' in the Dungarvan Arts Centre, as well as support from the Carlow Arts Office to learn some new skills at the Blackstack Print Studio in Kilkenny.

The Street Art Project for Carlow, led by the Pure Thinking art group, has been a great chance to work in a different way, experimenting with scale and materials and making artworks with others.  Very exciting to see the work getting put together now - the street art is part of the Eigse Carlow Arts Festival 2014, and hopefully some of it will stay up for longer than the duration of the festival.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Cristina Caratti, Mary Cullen Kelly, 2014

RHA Annual and Being Here Waterford:  The mixed media works going into the two juried exhibitions were made within the past year, it really is a great boost to have this work chosen for showing over the summer.  Being Here Waterford is going to run in the Dungarvan Arts Centre, a lovely arts centre in a very picturesque town, and this show is important to me as artists had to have a link with Waterford, where my Granny was from.
I'm really grateful to have had the time to make new work, and as much as the exhibiting, for me the experience of making artwork is as always the most important.  In my world, this is where I seem to find the strongest link to spirit and God I think!  Each to his own.

Carlow Arts Office Grant:  I'm very much looking forward to linking in with Sylvia in the Blackstack Studio, where I'm going to make some new plates to print from, using a photo etching technique.  This specialist support is made possible by the Carlow Arts Office, I'm very grateful and really looking forward to getting stuck in!  This is a short video of my print exhibition Dreamlands