“Living life as an artist is a practice.
You are either engaging in the practice
or you’re not.
It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it.
It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.”
You are either living as a monk or you’re not.
We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output.
The real work of the artist
is a way of being in the world.”
― Rick Rubin
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NEWS
In-person open studio collage experience with Julia Volonts from Art Therapy Lab who you might know from her bi-monthly CUT IT OUT collage as therapy workshops here on PCC. She’s in Europe for the summer and will be in Berlin in August. All info below…
The Wordy Collages of Toon Joosen - via Kottke
Interview with regular contributor to the collective Iris Weaver on Six Impossible Things with Madcollage
I first discovered the power and beauty of altering books through erasure and collage when my friend, the poet and essayist Mary Ruefle, showed me one of her own works in this vein. I was transfixed. Mary’s aesthetic is distinctly her own. She does her erasure by whiting out rather than using colored inks - The Old Becomes the New: Lawrence Sutin on the Art of Transforming Books - via Literary Hub
I really enjoy finding potential images that might not be digitised anywhere. That moment of almost obliteration, when you source an image in a charity shop, dump, or recycling centre—somehow, I've got hold of it and have permission to find these lost women - Alexis Soul-Gray in the Studio - via Ocula
Cutouts of these plants and fungi sprout from behind the windows at Room Project, creeping toward altars of bullets, dried flowers, and other discarded objects in a collaboration between Cassells and Shanna Merola. Titled Swan Song, the installation combines collage and sculpture as it examines the havoc wreaked by colonialism and the climate crisis - These two Detroit artists are manifesting liberation from the climate crisis through collages - via Detroit Metro Times
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
FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY - OLD & NEW
NANCY EGOL NIKKAL
My studio practice is contemporary geometric painting with acrylic, and analogue collage made with papers, acrylic, drawing and found elements. My works is described as lyrical abstraction and explores formal relationships with layered colors and B&W painted papers. I play with circles, stripes, loops and eggy shapes.
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JEN BREWER
I am a Mixed Media Artist and Teacher from the Northwest - obsessed with all things digital. The foundations of my own work are rooted in colour, pattern, and geometry. My work has been inspired by many artists and performers, but the best ones combine my love of Collage, Graffiti and Digital movement, such as Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo, BLU, Bill Viola and ANU theatre company.
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FRANCES LOU
I am a writer and a nomad collage artist.
I steal posters from the walls of French cities, I cut out notes taken in transit places where I waited a long time for something to happen. Long waiting and expectations are the fundamental moments of my creation.
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EMILY MARBACH
As a mixed-media artist, Emily Marbach's work emerges from layers of collage, paint, illustration and natural elements to create beautiful, chromatic, human landscapes from both the exterior and interior of experience. Her pallet reflects the subdued British light. She focuses on colour line and form to achieve a clear mood in her depictions of the countryside.
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