Photo Credit: Audrey Alberthal

Zaelí Kane is a multimedia poet, medicinal hypnotist & lifelong student of culture, consciousness, and Nature’s sense of humor.

Zaelí studied Art + Sociology at Goldsmiths University London and, after completing her MA in English, enjoyed a year-long private mentorship in Provence with the late peintre militaire, Louis Frégier.

She has also enjoyed mentorship from Joanne Faryon of Columbia University’s School of Journalism, Kathy Scott of Dublin’s The Trailblazery, Seán Mac an tSíthigh of RTÉ/TG4, and James Lockridge of Big Heavy World.

Now living in the capital of Texas, Zaelí is one of Austin’s 2023 selections for the Emerging Art Leadership program, which is fostering her relational aesthetics installation and open-letter blog, Hybrasil House, as well as her bilingual one-woman show, Away With the Fa*ries, both of which feature her long-time muse: Ireland & its diaspora.

Read more about those & other projects on the features page.

Zaelí’s imaginative, ecocentric, interactive works — comprising traditional canvas fair, up-cycled litter, audio collage, and live performance art — is influenced by a diverse history of day jobs, certifications in Clinical Hypnosis and Permaculture Design, a successful sprint in stand-up comedy, and of course, all the stuff too intimate &/or mortifying to put on a website.