THE WEEKENDER 10 | 2025
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“The imagination doesn’t crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever’s there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he’s been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it?”
― Julian Barnes
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NEWS
WORKSHOP: Are you ready? International Women’s Day is just around the corner. We’re hosting a get-together and workshop in collaboration with Europeana on Saturday, March 8 at Espace Canopy (the same gallery that hosted our Collage Notes exhibition) and hope to make new and reconnect with old friends. Stop by for an hour or all afternoon. Bring your own collages or create one that afternoon. The event will be from 2 to 6 pm. The actual workshop starts at 3pm but we’re not going to stop you if you want to start early.
WORKSHOP: In parallel to our own workshop here in Paris, the Turkey Collage Community is hosting an International Women’s Day workshop too. For more information, head to their Instagram account or get in touch with vijmaster who will be hosting the event.
EXHIBITION: Collage exhibition with works by Gerard Devos at Centre Anim La Jonquière - Paris, March 3-29, 2025
EXHIBITION: Deborah Roberts, a mixed media collage artist, contributes her powerful narratives to “GIANTS: Art from the Dean Collection” exhibition, a showcase of artworks curated by Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys’ extensive private collection. - Artist’s collages tell nuanced stories in ‘GIANTS’ exhibit - via Spokesman Recorder
EXHIBITION: Working between Seoul and Berlin, Yang hybridizes folk customs and craftsmanship, everyday items, and vernacular techniques in pieces that combine sculpture, installation, collage, text, video, wallpaper, and sound. “Sonic Intermediates – Triad Walker Trinity,” for example, coats steel frames in tiny bells, metal rings, plastic twine, and more, which evoke vaguely animalistic forms that move around on casters. - Folk Traditions, Quotidian Items, and Spiritual Symbolism Merge in Haegue Yang’s Sensory Sculptures - via Colossal
EXHIBITION: Featured this month at Pictor Gallery in NYC, Denise Jones Adler presents Beautiful Mess II, the second iteration of her solo series. In this latest body of collage work, Adler constructs ethereal landscapes and portraits where the ordinary dissolves into the sublime. - Denise Jones Adler: Beautiful Mess II - via artsy
Her collages start with a pencil sketch on cloth, onto which she glues fabric cutouts in painterly swaths of subtly varying shades and a mash-up of patterns that create kinetic tension. She sometimes layers tulle over a bird or animal to add depth and shadow, and often applies free-form stitches to highlight features. Vertical or horizontal stitches, running the length of a work, secure the bits and pieces to batting and a muslin backing, and might also simulate swirling water or wood grain. - Fabric Collages Allow a Former Quilter to Cut Loose - via Down East
EXHIBITION: Throughout Simpson’s expansive practice, she has often sourced imagery and drawn inspiration from vintage Ebony and Jet magazines (icons of culture in contemporary America), as well as the archives of the Associated Press and Library of Congress. Simpson incorporates her findings into screen-printed collages with washes of ink and acrylic on fiberglass, wood, or clayboard. These works dynamically collide figuration and abstraction with bodies that emerge and disappear, peering from inky surfaces or dissolving into landscapes of melting ice. - Lorna Simpson: Source Notes - via Met Museum
EXHIBITION: Collage exhibition by Marseille Collage Collective in, where else, Marseille.
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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 our second 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