THE WEEKENDER 12 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.”
― Madeleine L'Engle
The latest collage news and inspiration!
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NEWS
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2024: we are very happy to announce the finalists - for lack of a better word - of our IWD 2024 open call. We received over 450 collages from 200 email participants from more than 40 countries, all the way from Australia to Argentina. The choice of finalists was as always extremely difficult. We would have loved to include you all. In the end, we chose 75 artists for our webpage and print publication, presented in the hopefully correct alphabetical order. Many thanks to everyone who participated, for your beautiful collages, your kind messages and notes, your support and patience. Special thanks to everyone who named their files correctly. And apologies in advance to the one person whose name we got wrong, because there always seems to be one, no matter how hard we try.
You can see all finalists here, and you can get a copy of the book(let) here.
Guilherme Albuquerque, Kim Allison, Judy Amsalem, Patricia Andrade, Christina Angelopoulou, Allison Anne, Mary Bamborough, Alexandra Barrantes, Daria Beer, BenTereZ, Christiane Bischoff, Susan Bradley, Katie Bruun, Magdalene Busse, Marta Caccamo, Middle Carr, Zulal Cizmeci, Paola Dcroz, Renée De Smet, Lisa Drake, Danielle Dun, Evangelina Elizondo, Claudia Ferrari, Sara Silvia Ferrucci, Lesley Finn, Marsha Franco, Torea Frey, Jennifer Gatz, Fiona Grant, Kim Hamburg, Terry Hoffman, Laura Iseley, Stella Kalaw, Sarah Kamp, Nataliya Karavaeva, Elisabeth Kiehl, Katrin Klink, Jordan Kump, Natalia Łęcka, León Lichtenborg, Emily Marbach, Cælina March, Melanie McKenzie, Dorothée Mesander, Isabelle Milkoff, Rosella Montalva, Federica Nenci, João Pedro Nunes, Sonia Otero, Carmen Palomero, Claudia Peppel, Brigitte Peters, Maëlle Pouppez, Cherie Rahkola, Jennifer Redon, Barbara J Reid, Margarete Rodrigues, Ángela Rodríguez Garzón, Francis Rohr, Laure Rolin, Laurie Rosenberg, Natalia Rudychev, Niñapajaro, Jennifer Sampson, Carolina Santoli, Sandrine Serrano, Kate Street, Cherie Tintary, Ian Tothill, Marjolein Vink, Mimi Wasilewska, Iris Weaver, Nicolas Wittebroot, Kay Wolverton Ito, Claudia Zenobi
REMINDER - CUT IT OUT: our next bi-monthly art as therapy workshop in collaboration with Julia Volonts from Art Therapy Lab will take place online this Sunday, March 24th. This month’s theme is INNER/OUTER SELF EXPLORATION. It’s as always free to attend. Please get in touch with Julia directly via hello@arttherapy-lab.com
Unlike prior technologies, AI does not place humans in the driver’s seat of the creative process. It removes them entirely. The artist does not use their hands or eyes to sculpt a scene before them, but merely a sentence, phrase, or a series of disparate words. By demoting the artist from imaginative creator to prompt engineer, AI transforms the artist from the originator of the image to a cog in the machine of prior images. The artist does not imagine the world, it is imagined for them by the algorithm. - Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - via New Intrigue
“I have learnt so much from these records,” he says. “It is fascinating how some of these people spoke, and it is amazing to hear the talent of some of the speakers. It is also the content and the context. The best ones for me are the records that are about a single event, and they are quite rare as they are usually moderated or represented as a collage. When it is documenting one event, it is very powerful. We call them time documents in Germany.” - The Artist Who Collected the History of the 20th Century in Vinyl - via Montecristo
Edwards alleges Roberts "used a barrage of social media posts and private messages to spread her false conspiracy theory." - Artist Lynthia Edwards Fires Back at Deborah Roberts in Ongoing Copyright Dispute - via artnet
Wagstaff’s most recent body of work, titled American Landscapes, composites the imagery of Bierstadt and other Romantic painters. In the origin of this project, Wagstaff began by sifting through old books and photographs of the landscape and piecing them into theatrical, colorful collages – these lived as the compositions of his earlier paintings. - Jerrin Wagstaff: American Landscapes - via Juxtapoz
Blakey is often playful with her imagery. A labrador retriever is made up of Bombay Sapphire gin labels and the work called Gin Lab. Another collage of a fox-red labrador is called Best Bud and of course made of Budweiser beer labels. When it comes to her equestrian collages, Blakey’s punning expresses something rather more complex. - Sporting Artist: Georgea Blakey - via The Field
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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