THE WEEKENDER 44 | 2024
THE WEEKENDER 44 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say. I have sometimes heard painters say that they paint "for themselves": but I think they would soon have painted their fill if they lived on a desert island. The primary purpose of all art forms, whether it’s music, literature, or the visual arts, is to say something to the outside world; in other words, to make a personal thought, a striking idea, an inner emotion perceptible to other people’s senses in such a way that there is no uncertainty about the maker's intentions.”
― M. C. Escher
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NEWS
EXHIBITION: CURIOUS - collages by Ian Tothill: Ian’s interest in Collage making was sparked by making an image for his daughter’s zine during lockdown in 2020. He has been playing with paper every since and has had work included in collage books and several group exhibitions around the world. Curious is a collection of collages made from all kinds of discarded materials - old books, packaging, envelops, photos, magazines, flyers and more. They have been reassembled to form pictures which reflect his curiosity about colour, ideas, memory, shape, stories. Some are abstract, others are populated by characters and images given new life with imagined narratives. Ian is the founder of South Square Collage Club, a monthly gathering of people who want to have a go at collage, the most accessible medium.
BREAKING NEWS: Our 2025 Workbook is out and available for sale on our website. 52 weeks of community supported creativity!
“My themes include 80s cartoons, Atari 2600, horror movies, folklore, western and detective pulps, astronauts, gorillas, lethal rainbows, sentient prisms, skeletons leading lives independent of their owners, and undercover robots lurking just beneath the skin. My inspiration for the collage technique is inspired in part by Kid Koala’s turntable albums, and in part by William Burroughs’ cut-up technique.” - Marvelous Macabre Collages for Halloween - via Moss and Fog
In “Arrival” (2023), an assemblage of vivid, fabric-like patterns printed on Japanese paper with a Risograph machine and sewn with zig-zag stitching and dangling threads, artist Jacquelyn Strycker gleefully toys with perception. By playing up the amorphous qualities of paper and fabric and melding the outputs of a sewing machine and a piece of retro office equipment, her artwork could be seen as a quilt itself, a print of a quilt, or a collage — something not easily hemmed into a single realm of making. - The Cross-Pollination Between Prints and Textiles Yields Abundance - via Hyperallergic
Senior Tara Sawrikar has taken art all four years she has been at Wayland High School. She now takes AP Art. AP Art students create a themed portfolio and, while this project is just beginning, Sawrikar says she plans to have her work surround humans’ impact on nature and how nature has evolved with human influence. - Artist of the Month: Tara Sawrikar - via Wayland Student Press Network
And last but not least: Don’t forget to join our open call & end of year exhibition!
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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 2025 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