“When you first get started, there's usually a big gap between what you are and what you want to be. If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started being creative, well I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.”
― Austin Kleon
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WORKSHOP: Don’t forget! The last of this year’s bi-monthly online collage-as-therapy workshops will take place this Sunday, November 19th at 5pm. The theme is MAKING & BREAKING PATTERNS. The workshop is as always free to attend. To sign up, please contact Julia from Art Therapy Lab. All information below.
READ: The artist's glass installation and collages on view at Adams and Ollman explore the ties that bind, both humans to one another and to the environment. Feddersen's heightened visibility in the art world fits with a larger trend of renaissance for Indigenous art - Joe Feddersen’s ‘Extended Family’ - via Oregon Artswatch
READ: It taps into the idea of “Expanded Photography”, which can be traced back to the turn of the 20th century, when Cubist artists like Picasso and Braque first began experimenting with collage – adding newsprint and wallpaper to canvas. Simultaneously, in post-WWI Germany, Hannah Höch (1889-1978) was making political collages and pioneering the form of photomontage, appropriating and recombining images and text from mass media - ING Discerning Eye - 2023: Visual Surprises - via Aesthetica
READ: The front room features a full flock of her beeswaxed bird and critter-themed prints and the back room is peppered with her original beeswax collages. Collage themes include birds, angels, cats, romance and relationships. All 44 pieces are being sold “off the wall,” so are available to take home at any point during the run of the show - Back to where it started - via Times Standard
READ: The two sisters playing became the foundation for the mural design, which was initially supposed to be just one panel. But the project space was expanded, so Miller ended up bringing some of the commonalities from the Southwark after-school class’s collages to her summer class at the Bok Building. The students there wrote little books with their own versions of the story, and Miller adapted everything into a one-page collaborative story and mural design - A South Philly library gets a vibrant new mural designed by neighborhood kids - via Billypen
READ: Collage artist Constantin Prozorov has joined forces with the design team at MINI in a collaboration that seeks to create a new digital-based visual language inspired by fashion and art for the automotive brand - Constantin Prozorov brings his collage art to a collaboration with MINI - via Icon
READ: London-based artist, writer and publicist Funmi Lijadu tackles issues of identity in her tactile, surreal collages. We caught up with her to learn more about her work and discover how she's worked with the likes of the Barbican and Tate Modern - Collages by Funmi Lijadu express her belief that art and life should be intertwined - via Creative Boom
PCC: 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!
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
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