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Maps in Mind : Heart in Venice. curator at scuolagraficavenezia Venice, Italy

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#acquaaltaavenezia #magic #navigation #lagoonlife #canalview by @deirdre2196

The theme chosen for the 2026 edition of AMACI is “Geographies of Contemporaneity.”
The Italian Cultural Institute in Dublin is taking part by bringing into dialogue the artistic practices of Rebecca Moccia in Dublin and Déirdre Kelly in Venice.
Rebecca Moccia, an Italian artist based in Milan, presented Nostalgism in Dublin this year at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, integrating into the gallery’s architecture forms and colours drawn from a geological map of the crater of Mount Vesuvius and the 1944 lava flow. Her fluid forms occupy a state of “hauntology,” suspended somewhere between collapse and reconstruction, reflecting the reality of an undefined and involuntary emotional, social, and cultural upheaval.
Of Irish origin, Déirdre Kelly has been the resident artist at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice since 2002. Her practice explores the language and aesthetics of cartography, using maps both as physical objects and as metaphors for memory, place, journeys, and human relationships.
Since becoming a member of the Ballinglen Visual Arts Foundation in 2012, Kelly has developed a close connection with the Atlantic coast of North Mayo. Its distinctive landscape and geography, together with the writings of Manchán Magan, continue to inspire her work.
Geographies in Relation aims to reflect on the present as a space shaped by continuous transformation, in which territories, communities, and identities are defined through relationships, conflicts, exchanges, and ongoing processes of redefinition.

https://iicdublino.esteri.it/it/gli_eventi/calendario/giornata-del-contemporaneo-2026-geografie-in-relazione/

🙏 many thanks to Michela Linda Magri director @iicdublino Cristina Ciampiglione & Gareth.
@crippaspoon

#AMACI
@amaci
@moccia_finora
@templebargalleryandstudios @veniceprintmaking 🇮🇹 🇮🇪

@iicdublino
https://youtu.be/3INVoL-rPec?si=3iD3rGrnqHDnC2bX
at 4.53 by @deirdre2196

cut map in hand
a handful of insulae
flowing and overflowing
land in hand gives a sense of the physical map.

Venice is not an island but a series of insulae.

the heart of the matter ❤️

#Held
#inthepalmofthehand
#mapstohand
#handsignals
#waterconnects

studio view photo📷 Jari koskinen 🙏@koskinen_jari @veniceprintmaking by @deirdre2196

Maps are made to travel….
in this case from home to the studio!

‘Walk the World - Travelling without ever leaving home’
is a map work, made some time ago in 2009, collage and mixed media on found scholastic map.

on view for a limited time @veniceprintmaking

https://www.deirdrekellyartist.com/atlas/ by @deirdre2196

Thank you to curators: John McDowall and
Chris Taylor for bringing
“Enfolded Journeys” to @veniceprintmaking
and the opportunity to show
‘Walk the World: Travelling without leaving home’ 2009 Collage and mixed media on paper 210cm x 165cm
featuring also‘Tracing Ruskin’s Footsteps’
https://www.deirdrekellyartist.com/tracing-ruskins-steps-landward-view-from-venice/

great to reconnect with @mariawhite
and other artists with whom I worked years ago at Hardware Gallery London 1986-2003. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Enfolded Journeys” continues to September 20, 2026
Open from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM.
Closed Monday, September 14th.

Come and uncover the intimate stories of life within each artist’s book….
featuring artists:
Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya / Joan Ainley e David Ainley / Haleema Aziz / Sena Basoz, Ulgen Semerci e Serra Tansel / Peter Carrington / Danuta Dabrowska / Frances Day / Katrin Freitag / Judy Goldhill / Deirdre Kelly / Graham Martin / Sandra Masterson / Andrew Morrison e Maria Stadnicka / Kausar Nigita / Alastair Noble / Caroline Penn / Sumi Perera / Emilija Pliaukštaité / Mireille Ribière / Isobel Richards / Paula Roush / Batool Showghi / Vicky Vergou / Wei Wang / Corinne Welch / Maria White / Katrina Whitehead / Roy Willingham. photo credits: Persia Taylor by @deirdre2196

#red by @deirdre2196

#light #gibigana #reflectionsonwater #alldayeveryday #mirrormap by @deirdre2196

‘Small world’

reading isolines with palm lines.
It’s human nature to reduce everything to our scale and control. Our first map is the hand, key to direction and navigation. Holding land in hand gives a sense of the physical map.

#Held
#continentaldrift
#mapstohand
#handsignals
#absencesandpresences by @deirdre2196

Holding Hexagons. Going neither here nor there. map as media - map as material. serendipity and accidental crossovers that we are both aware and unaware of ….
#mapinhand
#topographicalsurvey #analoguecollage #nebraska by @deirdre2196

Compass point Venice.. when worlds collide - maps crossover,

trace monotype drawing on Fabriano Tiepolo and gold thread.
After visiting artists from Indonesia… the experience of having visitors is not new at the studio @veniceprintmaking, but the seven artists who came to make work for the Indonesian Pavilion @indonesiapavilionvb2026 created a special atmosphere which carries over. Their works are still on display until November. @labiennale
🙏 @teretheresiatere @asuwage @mariamsofrina
@syahrizal.pahlevi @rehartanto @rusyan_yasin
#nurdianichsan @aminudinthsiregar
filter Jakarta! by @deirdre2196

by @deirdre2196

‘Bouquet’ is included in 12° Concorso nazionale di merletto ad ago e fuselli a cura di / 12th National Needle and Bobbin Lace Competition curated by CHIARA SQUARCINA con/ with LAURA ANDOLFATO
LUIGI ZANINI such a privilege to be in the company of the merlettaie.. Venetian lacemakers at/presso il Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo - Centro Studi di Storia del Tessuto, del Costume e del Profumo #favouriteplace
🙏

‘Bouquet’ cut paper Ordnance Survey maps 40cm x 35cm
detail wedding veil (worn by Angela Maria Crespi 1934) in the collection at lace museum Burano #museodimerletto.
“There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals “ John Ruskin
Venice’s architecture is a reflection of natural forms. #ruskintoday @veniceprintmaking @visitmuve @fondazioneandrianamarcello by @deirdre2196