THE WEEKENDER 21 | 2025
Collage News & Inspiration
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― John Updike
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NEWS
The human body looms large in presentations by emerging artists at this year’s Art Basel: Is the body primarily a physical organism or a repository for personal and historical memory? Can a body be a site of oppression and resistance? What does it mean to be embodied in an increasingly digitized world? Here are eight artists who, through mediums as diverse as painting, textiles, collage, illustration, and installation, pose critical questions and offer poignant insights along the way. - 8 emerging artists to seek out at Art Basel’s 2025 Swiss edition 8 emerging artists to seek out at Art Basel’s 2025 Swiss edition - via Art Basel
Whether crafting bold editorial collages, expressive lettering or hand-drawn brand campaigns, the Romanian-born, Brooklyn-based designer and illustrator builds visual worlds with heart. "I think there's a certain power in being vulnerable, raw, authentic," he says. "And people can feel that – they can resonate and react to these visual messages."- Collage, courage and craft: Ionut Radulescu on identity, imperfection and the power of visual storytelling - via Creative Boom
Cape Town-based mixed media artist Yonela Doda transforms personal pain into powerful visual narratives, using collage and thread to explore themes of identity, vulnerability, and healing. - Threading through trauma: Yonela Doda’s journey of healing through mixed media art - via The Citizen
Syme’s Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence, published by Clarkson Potter, came out in January 2025. Its colorful blue cover is complete with an illustration of an inkwell, Syme’s autograph, and an appropriately lengthy list of what can be discovered inside. Bursting with color and collage, the pages serve up a buffet of letter writing history, styles, how to’s, writing prompts, occasions, and even some pull-out stationery at the back. - Syme’s Letter Writer - via Cool Hunting
Simpson’s knack for risk-taking is on full view at The Met show. Within the artist’s screen-printed collages—made with washes of ink and acrylic on fiberglass, wood, or Claybord—figuration and abstraction commingle with striking ease. Figures and faces vanish as quickly as they appear; just when you start to make out the edges of a figure, her crown transforms into an untamable flame. Or, she dissipates into a blue expanse of melting ice, like in Simpson’s Head on Ice series (2016–17). This collection emerged from drawings and collages produced beginning in 2010, for which she reconstructs archival imagery into contemplative portraits. In these works, the artist fuses images from Ebony and Jet with arctic forms found in archival image collections. - At The Met, Lorna Simpson’s Paintings Take Center Stage - via W magazine
From Intricate Cutouts To Colorful Collages: Bored Panda’s 50 Favorite Paper Artworks, Created By Talented Artists - via Bored Panda
The Willits Center for the Arts is set to open Paint & Paper, a new exhibit featuring the work of oil painter Eva Strauss-Rosen and collage artist Sandy Oppenheimer. The show launches Saturday, June 7, and brings together two distinct approaches to visual art in one thoughtful, engaging display. - This June, art gets personal at Willits Center - via Mendo Fever
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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
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