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WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."
― Jim Jarmusch
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“Montage” shows how these artists, best known as painters, also applied the movement’s radical, experimental spirit to smaller-scale collage works. This survey of mixed-media works includes examples made using all manner of found materials like wood, tissue paper, and sand, in many cases embellished with paint, ink, and charcoal. In this way, the works also evince the enduring influence of European Modernism on the midcentury New York art scene. - Four Overlooked Women Abstract Expressionists Are Spotlighted in London - via artnet
Zines are short-run, self-published magazines that can be about anything — from comics to poetry, collages, fan art and photo essays. The word is an abbreviation of fanzine, a term that originated in the 1940s to describe amateur science-fiction fan magazines. In the lead-up to the grand market day on Saturday, the festival included a series of workshops hosted by a zine creator, to inspire new and experienced fellow creators. - Hamilton Zinefest 2024: Quirky art festival celebrates a decade of creativity - via Waikato Herald
"As a collage and visual artist, I create both physical and digital collage alongside video collage pieces and try to translate the analogue into the digital while also exploring how the two worlds can interact. My series focuses on ideas of touch and intimacy – I try to capture connections that we as humans develop so easily with one another. This particular series on desire is focused on capturing the beauty and joy of touch and the feelings that come about from these relationships. - Dazed Club Spotlight: May 2024 - via Dazed
“Recently, he showed me a series of 8.5-by-11-inch pages he’d been working on since 2020, his pandemic series — abstract magazine scraps collaged, around 50 pages in all — no people, no text. Brilliantly dense stuff which rivals earlier spray-stencil abstract work,” said his friend and client, Robert Collison. - Scott Williams, ‘greatest of all stencil artists,’ dies at 67 - via Mission Local
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A selection of challenge submissions from last week is up on our website and can be seen here, the image prompt for next week is available to download here
Our 2024 Workbook is out and available for sale on our website. Our weekly creative challenge remains free and open to everyone and everything, digital or analog artists, French or not. The workbook is an optional add-on for those who prefer to work with paper and don’t want to print our images themselves. Like every year, the book is designed so that you can either take it apart or create your collages in the book itself. Week numbers and image sources are on the back of each image, so even if your books falls apart at one point, you will always know what’s what!
And last but not least, have a look at and/or submit to our ‘other’ Instagram account Paris Collage Collective Unlimited where we showcase collages that have absolutely nothing to do with our weekly creative challenge.
If you have any news about exhibitions, publications or events you want so share with the community, please send an email with all relevant information and at least one link to a website or venue to: hello@pariscollagecollective.com