THE WEEKENDER 23 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“That's how it begins, making a film, writing a book, painting a picture, composing a tune, generally creating something.
You have a wish.
You wish that something might exist, and then you work on it until it does.”
― Wim Wenders
The latest collage news and inspiration!
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NEWS
FIRST LIGHT FESTIVAL - June 22-23 - First Light returns for their 4th year with a celebration of midsummer on the UK’s most easterly beach. Showcasing performances from around the world and from their locality, First Light Festival’s outdoor weekend programme is free, unticketed and for all. EASTERLY ARTISTS is a collective of artists working within a 20 mile radius of Ness Point, Britain's most easterly point. As part of the festival members of the collective will be exhibiting original 2D and 3D artwork, alongside limited edition prints and a range of cards under the title of "Art At The Edge". Several members will be running workshops over the course of the festival including free collage workshops. More information about FIRST LIGHT FESTIVAL here and here, and about EASTERLY ARTISTS here - a list of all artists, collage and all else, can be found here
EXHIBITION: Collage exhibition by German artist Mekbo in Hamburg. All information below!
Adapting the concept of collage to painting, Milhazes has conceived her signature technique by translating collage to painting to create multi-layered works. She developed her ‘monotransfer’ technique in 1989, as seen in many photographs at Tate St. Ives. Milhazes’s monotransfer process involves designing motifs and painting them onto plastic sheeting before transposing them onto canvas. Preferring to work with a bright, exuberant palette, often including fluorescent and metallic pigments, the monotransfer process enables Milhaze to retain the intensity of colours without losing the painterly, handmade quality. - Beatriz Milhazes: ‘Maresias’ Tate St Ives – Lee Sharrock - via Artlyst
San Antonio visual artist Marcy McChesney most recent exhibition, "Between Two Dimensions," revolves around stories told in collage and evoked by the most challenging and traumatic time in recent history: the COVID years. - Art exhibition by San Antonio's Marcy McChesney examines residents' time during COVID - via San Antonio CURRENT
For Tintary, who had studied and practiced photography for about 20 years, more happened in 2020 than just the pandemic. A longtime hair stylist, she received a lung cancer diagnosis, which meant there would be no more photo-filled trips. Her creative impulse and energy had to be realized at home. So, after an encounter with Portland author and collage artist Kevin Sampsell and connecting with the area’s tight-knit collage community, she went to work with scissors on her piles of vintage magazines and hasn’t looked back. - Cherie Savoie Tintary’s collages at Chehalem Cultural Center turn old magazines into nostalgic whimsy - via Oregon Artswatch
Collage was an important part of the practice of Argentine-British artist Eileen Agar. She filled her studio with what she called “fantastic bric-a-brac”—including textiles, fossils, bones, shells, leaves, and many other things she collected—and used this material to create chance combinations of curious objects. - 15 Important Women Surrealists - via ARTnews
Chilean visual artist Amanda Sotelo Silva mines the history of a country that still bleeds from the burdensome scars left by colonial, state, and military violence. In her political collages, the artist reassembles found photographs, historical texts, and poetry into melancholiously mutilated compositions. The works reveal an artist’s surgical attempts to make sense of her country’s shattered and convoluted historical consciousness. The sentiment resonates with many younger generations who have grown up in the aftermath of gross human rights violations and continue to fight for justice and historical accountability after the country’s transition to democracy. - MOURNFUL CUTS: THE POLITICAL COLLAGES OF AMANDA SOTELO SILVA - via Lens Scratch
A significant cluster of Barbara Kruger’s work concerns the issues of overconsumption as a lifestyle and the ways capitalism forces populations to participate in it. Kruger’s collages highlight how consumerist mania flirts with actual madness, reproducing the never-ending cycle of desires and impulsive purchases. The cycle has to move fast so the victim would not have a spare second to stop and think about their impulses, needs, and fatigue from sensory overstimulation. - Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works - via The Collector
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 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