THE WEEKENDER 18 | 2025
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Artists must also reckon with the uncanny feeling that by the time we’ve finished a new work, we’ve often ended up creating something different from what we set out to do. This feeling of surprise, of the unexpected, can delight or disappoint us. … The creative process is an inexplicable, inspired, crystallizing place where the artist becomes an audience to the work, almost doesn’t know where it came from.”
― Jerry Saltz
The latest collage news and inspiration!
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NEWS
EXHIBITION: Fractures et Fragments with work from Laurence Briat
COLLAGE RESIDENCY: Berlinage #2 - For the second time the Berlinage Residency brings together Collage Artists from different countries for ten days to explore Berlin, make art and exhibit together. This time, the focus will be on the tension between imaginary cities, utopias and their relationship to the reality of everyday urban life. All info here
Fabian Artunduaga’s collages are seamless worlds for you to inhabit, if just for a single dramatic moment. Working under the name HouseCatStudio, the Sydney-based artist layers photography, collage, and surrealism into intricate dreamscapes you can practically step inside. His work is lush, strange, and sensual. - Aussie Indie Artists: Fabian Artunduaga’s Sense of Humour & Sensual Surrealism - via The Au Review
Not wanting to be tied a single technique, they blended live-action and AI, as well as 2D, 3D, collage, and motion design. - Psyop, Temple Caché Create ‘Last Dance With Mary Jane’ Music Video - via AWN
In the early years of her hospital stay, Kusama began experimenting with a new medium of collage. These became an Alice in Wonderland, an inside look into how her mind operated and her longing to be free of schizophrenia. - Why Yayoi Kusama checked herself into a psychiatric hospital and never left - via Far Out
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 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