THE WEEKENDER 32 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.”
― Leonard Bernstein
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‘My newer works, especially my collage pieces, hold together contrasting qualities, such as the hardness of wood and the softness of the body,’ says Piotrowska, whose previous projects include ‘Sub Rosa’, a collaborative exhibition with designers Formafantasma inspired by power dynamics and interrogation-room architecture. - Intimacy, violence and the uncanny: Joanna Piotrowska in Philadelphia - via Wallpaper
Lorna Simpson is a multimedia artist who highlights African American perspectives—which were previously marginalised by society—through photographs, collages and videos. Her work challenges conventional ideas of gender, cultural and racial identities and brings the African American historical narrative to the forefront. She combines text with images sourced from old magazines, such as Ebony and Jet, that were published for African American readers. Often, she adds images of natural phenomena to the mix, resulting in surreal or slightly absurdist collages. - August artists: Andy Warhol, Yinka Shonibare and others whose works redefined the world of arts - via Tatler Asia
Junk journaling is all about using found materials and recycling them to create artistic collages that function the same way as a regular written journal entry would. Putting photos and thank you notes from a party in a journal documents the experience in the same way that writing it down does. Many people also write in their junk journals alongside collaging all of their collected materials. A junk journal is a great way to incorporate art into your daily life, with the flexibility to create different collages while also making a home for sentimental objects. - What Is 'Junk Journaling' and Should You Be Doing It? - via L’Officiel
For its fall show Main Street Gallery in Cambridge is excited to present “Cooking Up Some Art”, a collaborative show of 11 guest artists who are friends and have been members of a 30 plus year old cooking group. The artists work in a variety of media that include painting, book art, photography, digital art, printmaking, collage, sculpture and fiber art and while their subjects vary widely, at least one creates delicious oil paintings of food. The guests will show alongside the gallery’s eight member artists. - Cooking Up Some Art Cambridge - via WMDT
“As a Hong Konger, my identity has been shaped by Chinese familial traditions and morals,” says Fion Hung Ching-Yan (b. 1993), a visual artist who works between staged photography and collage. “These standards are influenced by Confucianism, which emphasises collectivism over individualism. - Against the Grain - via Aesthetica
Known as one of the busiest people in fashion, when Australia-born, London-based Shipton isn’t dashing about Paris with her Y2K-era digital camera, snapping fashion week’s best-dressed attendees, she’s styling shoots for the likes of Interview and Re-Edition, or creating scrappy collages for brands including Miu Miu. How she has time to breathe, never mind collate a magazine like Pull Letter is beyond us, but somehow she makes it work. - This mag turns the OG 90s supers into ceramic fashion figures - via Dazed
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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