THE WEEKENDER 48 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.”
― Tim Burton
The latest collage news and inspiration!
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NEWS
COLLAGE NOTES: We had over 350 people sign up to our little end of year exhibition, and are processing incoming postcards as fast as we can. We will inform everyone via email but this may take a few days. The Open Call is now closed. The official deadline for arrival in Paris is tomorrow which is why it is no longer possible to sign up online. Whatever hasn’t been shipped by now won’t make it here on time. That said, anything that will arrive early next week will still be part of the show, so don’t worry about your mail arriving a little late. The schedule for workshops and events will be published on Instagram and via our newsletter in the weeks to come. So keep your eyes open. And a little reminder: if you want to support the collective and its events, you can sign up for our Artist Directory, take out a paid subscription for this newsletter, or make a little donation. Many thanks to everyone who participated and for your kind words of encouragement. They are very much appreciated.
Hauser & Wirth has announced its representation of Brooklyn-based artist María Berrío, known for her large-scale collage paintings. - Colombian collage artist María Berrío will be represented by Hauser & Wirth. - via artsy
Anyway, another thing I picked up from your catalogs was the idea that collage was invented out of disgust at the newspapers, who lied the people into World War I. I never thought that collage had a distinctly political or topical motivation. I thought that was amazing. I wonder if we’ll see a renaissance of collage now during the second Trump administration. - Dorothea Rockburne and Walter
Robinson on Sex, Fame, and Mathematics - via Interview
A photography print of a man inside a minaret. A ceramic chalice. A tissue paper collage illustration from a children’s book. A short film about a trip to Europe with friends. Each of these pieces of art was created by Asian American artists from North Texas and featured in the Dallas Asian American Art Collective’s first art show last weekend. -‘We are here in Texas’: Dallas Asian American Art Collective puts on its first show - via The Dallas Morning News
Drawing on childhood memories, dreams, mythological themes and issues at the forefront of contemporary culture, Berrío’s intricate large-scale collages push the limits of conventional portraiture and landscape painting. Her imaginative, dreamlike works are often populated by women set in ethereal spaces that seem to exist outside of conventional time and space. Inspired in part by South American folklore, her art places humans and nature in a harmonious coexistence, suggestive of a delicate ecology in which the personal and collective seek balance. - Hauser & Wirth Announces Representation of María Berrío in Collaboration with Victoria Miro - via Art Plugged
The Julie Andrews song “My Favorite Things” comes to mind when viewing the work of Tirzah Garwood. Cats, dogs, bakeries, children, flowers, and insects are all prominent motifs, whether depicted in drawing, engraving, collage, or paint. It is a comfortable world, but one that still includes social commentary and a sense of fun. For just over two decades, Garwood made the ordinary significant in her work: no subject too trivial to be shown in her dreamlike, though realist, pieces. - British Artist Tirzah Garwood Finally Gets Her Due at Dulwich Picture Gallery - via artsy
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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 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