THE WEEKENDER 06 | 2024

Collage News & Inspiration

collage by Hélène Gallant

WORDS TO LIVE BY

“The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked…that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.”

― Neil Gaiman

The latest collage news and inspiration!

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NEWS

• Henderson has a graphic designer’s sense of form and composition that he combines with wickedly playful and slyly mischievous imagery. His collages wander through a particular version of history and culture that quickly finds a dark undercurrent. - Andrea Mortson & Paul Henderson at The Blue Building, Halifax - via Akimbo

• Artist and poet Eliza Kentridge works with collage, using paper and textiles, drawing, embroidery, and stitching to create delicate artworks that look to the every day, to the domestic life, to motherhood. - Artist And Poet Eliza Kentridge’s Work Is Playful And Rich With Storytelling - via Forbes

• Perhaps the best known artist in the Crocker exhibition is Romare Bearden. Originally studying painting under the German artist George Grosz, Bearden switched to collage in 1964. By cutting up photographs, colored paper and found images, he reinvigorated the collage medium with his arrangements of everyday life in Harlem and the rural South. - How Black artists ‘shaped the future’ of America’s art history - via The Observer

• JETLAG - exhibition of collage by Mark Watkins - all info below

• CALL FOR ART -  It’s with much excitement that Wilder Collage announces the call for Wilder Roam 002! Collage artists, mixed media artists, photographers, writers, poets, painters & more are invited to submit their work to be featured.
  
  The theme “To the Sea” explores a variety of feelings and ideas relating to the water. It can be interpreted in many ways. An experience, dream, longing, story and more. What does the sea mean to you?
  
  - Submission Deadline: March 10th, 2024
  - Submission Fee: $20 (USD or equivalent) for up to 3 images / poems
  - Eligible Artists: Artists 18+ working in a variety of mediums including collage, mixed media, photography, painting, poetry, prose, drawing etc.

  Wilder Roam 001 shipped to over 6 countries and went straight to the #1 spot as a New Release in Mixed Media! For more information and to submit your work visit www.wildercollage.com/submit

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PCC

• 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.

  

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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