THE WEEKENDER 14 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho
The latest collage news and inspiration!
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REMINDER: EARTH DAY OPEN CALL 2024 - Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a collage or mixed media piece dealing with, in the broadest sense possible, environmental issues, climate change, endangered species and pollution. All information here
Holly Graham creates three-dimensional collages based on a relationship with music, memories and color. Color is the central focus of Graham’s work in materials rich with texture. Thick acrylic paint, gouache, watercolor paper, canvas, foam core, and balsa wood are placed into compositions, giving her work a tactile quality that draws the viewer in and creates contrast and depth. - RECONSTRUCTED | HOLLY GRAHAM AND SCOTTY PEEK at Art & Light Gallery
Catalina Andonie revives Marmolerías Brescia’s 1980s sculptures with covertly deceptive temporalities for Tótems I-II-II-IV. Set in motion on wheels and with a rotating device, their trapezoidal forms are shaped from various stones with diverse colors, grains, and origins, integrating molding and exploring multiple configurations. Collage-like along the surfaces, the compositions are assembled to fit together in a puzzle-like board, fabricated to experiment with the different shapes stone slabs could offer while leaving their original metal profiles and bases untouched. - catalina andonie's mobile totem sculptures collage various grains and hues of stone - via design boom
The source of the puzzle collages is an animating force of each work. Puzzles, which are often associated with childhood games and require us to put things together, become in Jess’s hands a way to tap into the solitary and unpredictable space of the imagination. - A San Francisco Art Pioneer’s Collaged Dream Worlds - via Hyperallgeric
Nishino is a renowned photographer who captures cities around the world with abstract and highly detailed collages. His previous works have included capturing Tokyo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, plus many other major regions. Nishino explores the city with a camera taking photographs from each part before stepping back and combining them as part of a map, placing each image in the approximate location where he shot it. - A 20,000-photo giant diorama of Dundee goes on display at V&A - via Digital Camera World
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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
Do you know if the first artwork--by ingeschrs--used semi-transparent tape for that effect? (I like tape in artwork for some reason).