A small selection

Selected Projects

Some projects live here; substantial ones may lead to an independent website with its own shape.

A blue-toned painting with two dark figures below a large round form and pale floating forms around them

Branching stories delivered by email

ELSE

ELSE transforms Jimmy Connelly’s paintings into branching stories delivered by email. Each decision changes your route through the painted world.VIEW PROJECT →

A portrait study drawn in dark and pale marks on coral paper

Art walks and guided sketching · London

London Family Friendly Sketching Group

Drawing, walking and discovering art together across London.VIEW PROJECT →

A charcoal drawing of a postman carrying a large sack, with layered fragments of drawing visible behind him

Postal drawing subscription · In development

Art That Moves

An original drawing through your letterbox every month.VIEW PROJECT →

Kenny Schachter crouching beside two chickens in a coop during Chicken Stingel

Artist-led exhibition project

Connelly Project Space

An artist-led space for developing and presenting exhibitions.VIEW PROJECT →

An open green suitcase containing a computer tower and colourful network cables

Participatory art network · From 2010

Suitcase Media CIC

A participant-led creative network developed with people living in hostels across London.VIEW PROJECT →

A blue-and-brown drawing of people around a collapsing house of cards, with the words wake up behind them

November 2008–January 2009

Better Than Christmas

A project made from people’s wishes: 110 answers gathered in Whitstable, interpreted by artists as 58 works.VIEW PROJECT →

A phone held in front of a painted figure during the Super Paintings augmented-reality project

2014–2015 · exact dates under review

Super Paintings

Frame-by-frame oil paintings on canvas, revealed as animation through augmented reality.VIEW PROJECT →

A reproduced grid of Rembrandt portraits among cars, a bus, caravans, a swimming pool and other everyday scenes

Paintings and fiction

Rembrandt in the 21st Century

Rembrandt’s familiar face appears among cars, caravans and everyday surroundings.VIEW PROJECT →

The cardboard photobooth used to draw portraits in exchange for stories

2003 · Royal College of Art

Passport Drawings

I made a cardboard photobooth and drew portraits in exchange for stories.VIEW PROJECT →