Artists - 2019 Brussels, Belgium
David Crunelle (Belgium)
davidcrunelle.com "Hyperactivity" must be the best term to qualify both David Crunelle and his work. While trying to put as much information as possible, it requires the viewers a lot of time to fully absorb all the details, symbols and messages hidden in his giant compositions. Born and raised in Brussels, Belgium, David's work has been displayed in numerous countries, exhibitions and art galleries since he started making collages in 2014. David frequently shares his creative process in detail on his various social accounts. |
Lane (Greece)
lanecollage.gr I am a visual artist based in Greece, specialized in analogue collage. I have participated in solo and group exhibitions & festival art projects in Greece and abroad. I work with magazine clippings, photos, books, postcards, maps and everything that is related to paper. Portraits have always been her favorite subject. The most challenging part for her while making collage, is to be able to look at images from a point of view, other than the usual one. All I want to say in my collage stories is that, reality can be different things glued together upside down |
Mariano Alonso (Argentina)
marianoalonsocollage.com I live in Buenos Aires, I am a musician and collage & assemblage artist. I work with paper, photos, magazines, books, postcards,all kind of found objects, wires, scrap,sheets, ink, acrilics, etc. I have made a lot of exhibitions in Buenos Aires universities, festivals, art galleries, tv , etc , and some others in Europe. My work has been published in several magazines and web sites from Spain, Colombia, Czech Republic,Argentina, Brazil, Italy,etc. I am mostly inspired by the re significance that happens with the found object, what images suggest to me, the differentes elements and materials that create togehter a new and different functionality, what i think collage technique brings to myself in a very direct way. The disposable. What is not used anymore but it can be used because it finds another utility; the construction of a new world with a different logic that I don’t know how to explain but somehow understand. |
Ron Weijers (Netherlands)
weijers.net Ron Weijers, is one of a generation of artists, tackling a large variety of subjects and addressing the significant shifts in paradigms of existence that the collide of culture, nature and technology brings forward. Centered around three modes of alteration: Mutation, Transformation and Metamorphosis. His work researches into questions like how movements towards hybridization can free us from the tyranny of anthropocentricism and assist in the development of a brighter future. Weijers explores the ideas of transformation and contradiction. The process of making the work is fundamental to developing a visual language through which he can communicate the feeling of experience to the viewer. His works define and redefine the meanings of process and transformation. Bringing elements of chaos and dissonance into a state of harmony, each work matures into a fully realized presence. |
Kai Holland (Germany)
kaiholland.de Kai Holland is the photo editor in charge of a well-known international photo agency and sits directly at the source of inspiration for his artistic work - because he weaves what he sees every day into fantastic hidden object images of crude creatures, monstrous machine parts and filigree flying objects. The clusters of his detailed and mannered finds are graphic chambers of curiosities of an obsessed collagist whose subtle and humorous gaze reveals the dilemma of the cycle of creation and destruction. He works and lives (or lives and works) in Berlin. |
Denis Kollasch (Berlin)
fotografienet.de Denis studied museum studies and works in weimar for many large and small museums, castles and historic residential buildings. Since 2008 he makes collages. Perhaps influenced by the art works in the museum collections, he regularly changes his technique, style and themes. In this process, he finds amazing things for himself, which he did not know and did not seek. Landscapes, spaces and architecture always play a constant role in his oeuvre and his love for paper, which he tears, cuts and folds. |
Claudio Beorchia (Italy)
claudiobeorchia.it Claudio studied Design and Visual Arts at Iuav University in Venice and at the Fine Arts Academy "Brera" in Milan. He obtained a Ph.D. in Design Sciences - Department of Design and Planning of Complex Environments, at Doctorate School of Iuav University in Venice. His works have been exhibited in numerous occasions in Italy and abroad (Argentina, Armenia, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Morocco, Palestine, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Uruguay). He has been artist in residence in Italy, Albania, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, Netherlands and United States. Claudio creates and gives shape to meanings. It does so through processes of intuition and insight, using slippages and variations of the point of view on devices, clichés, elements of urban space and landscape. There are no limits in the choice of languages and materials, guided by the search for expressive synthesis and formal effectiveness |
Una Gildea (Ireland)
unagildea.com I am an artist working in collage and stop motion animation. I love the challenge and the excitement of creating something new from that which already has its meaning, its context. Oftentimes the connections made, the associations formed, the thought processes involved are all intuitive, happening in the subconscious. Then an idea is formed, words revealing the subconscious and the challenge shifts to working within the limitations of creating something new from that which already exists. You have an idea but the visualization of that idea depends very much on what materials you ‘find’. Paradoxically, this apparent limitation liberates, leading you to unexpected places. Hence the magic of collage! My work has been widely exhibited and my animation films have been selected and screened at international film festivals. My work is in the collections of Dublin City University and the Irish Contemporary Art Society. I am a member of Illustrators Ireland. |
Giorgos Chronis (Greece)
zone363.tumblr.com Giorgos Chronis lives and works in Rethymno, Crete. Graphic design puts the bread on the table, but his main interest is collage art & photography. His entry point was graffiti. His art was interdisciplinary from the very beginning as he always loved to mix different materials, colours, items and techniques into his art. Different facets of life are his inspiration. Love, pain, relationships, encounters, death and violence are recurring themes in his work. Nature, urban life, eroticism and nostalgia are also common themes he contemplates. A sense of familiarity mixed with absurdity often guide him in the production of surreal atmospheres. He has been part of various projects and exhibitions in Greece and abroad. |
Maruša Štibelj (Slovenia)
marusastibelj.com Maruša was born in a small city called Kranj. She earned her BA in Art education and after few years of trying to find her artistic genre she discovered collage. In her art work she always tries to extend the boundaries of the collage media, and all the colours she uses are made of the material itself. She tries to combine collage with different types of art like: music, ceramics, video … She exhibited her collage work on solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad. She is an Art director of KAOS (festival of contemporary collage in Slovenia) which was founded after she returned from Collagistas festival in Milano and was inspired by the collage community she met there. She lives and works in Kranj, Slovenia. |
Eugenia Conde (Argentina)
eugeniacondef.com I am an argentinian born graphic designer, illustrator and collagist artist living and working in Madrid. Collage for me is the means to discover the story behind, a way to reveal what lies within; to explore and go deeper. It is an invitation to look differently, with curiosity, attention and an open mind.It is an apportunity to twist reality allowing a new one to emerge wherepast and present get mixed in an unique piece, trascending time, place and meaning. That is why it is rebelious, even subversive. In my work the use of textures, found objects, paper layers, old photographs, bits and scraps enables me to portray a certain quality of human nature asthe ongoing process that we are.The vulnerability of it as well as its strength. I like to think I engage in adialogue with the small, the silenced, the forgotten, the broken, the old… which I find beautiful and powerful.I am drawn to the poetry of it. Out of the ordinary, I think collage can create the extra ordinary. |
Sophie Vanhomwegen (Belgium)
sophievanhomwegen.be Sophie's work consists mainly of collages on paper and digital works (prints, video, sound). She uses collage techniques to generate an alienating and highly surrealistic universe that reflects on the overflow of manipulated images surrounding us. The constant exposure to a huge amount of - in her eyes - disturbing imagery in advertisement (magazines, posters, television) triggers and pushes her to work with these images. Advertisement creates perceived needs and abuses our subconscious. The artist reflects on these matters by changing roles. She becomes the one who manipulates the images instead of being manipulated. In the process of deconstruction and reconstruction her intention is to give a different reading on the messages carried by the images she uses. The artist criticizes the absurdness of repetitive messages spread through advertisement by revealing the act of manipulation instead of trying to hide it. |
Berry Meyer (Namibia)
berrymeyer.com I am a Namibian collage artistresiding in the Netherlands, who completed a Masters of Philosophy in Illustration at Stellenbosch University in 2010. I find that the process of collage naturally presents opportunities to merge imagined histories with themes of time, race, sexuality and popular culture. With this medium I am able to create parodies of visual representations on issues such as patriarchy, nationalism and religion by dissecting stamps, encyclopaedias, popular culture magazines, medical textbooks and other media. I do this by examining and deconstructing their representation of women, men, children, flora, fauna, landscapes, religious iconography, history and art. By representing who powerful entities such the state ignores, one reveals the constitutive other produced by the imagined purity of such imagery and as such illustrate the possibilities for being otherwise available to us today. My work thus points towards reimagining the present through the excesses of its representations. |
Nina Fraser (UK)
ninafraser.co.uk Nina gained a BA Textile Art at Winchester College of Art, Hampshire, UK in 2006. Multidisciplinary, Nina's work draws influence from drawing, painting, collage and sculpture, often combining several processes in one work. Her work is polarized by that of self-reflection and exterior exploration, exploring the notions of appropriation, longevity, desire and attachment. She emigrated to Portugal in 2014, becoming a resident artist at MArt Artist Studios in Lisbon from 2015 – 2017, participating in collective exhibitions throughout Portugal. Since 2015 she has participated in international solo exhibitions (UK, Portugal and Poland) and collective exhibitions (UK, Portugal, Italy, Berlin, Slovenia, New York, Dublin, and Savannah). She has works held in private collections in UK, Portugal, the United States, Germany, Australia, and Poland. Her collages have been featured in magazines in USA, Italy, UK, Spain and Portugal, and book publication in Spain and USA. |
Silvio Severino (Brazil)
silvioseverino.com Silvio is a contemporary photographer, collage, and gif artist. He works in both analog and digital formats, which puts him in a unique creative position, whereby he can cross and recross the traditional and the contemporary. Silvio is searching for new values, new visual languages that will allow him to incorporate photography, collage, and animation in new formats. With Silvio and his work, photography often becomes collage, with collage often becoming animated gif. It is an exciting new frontier in contemporary art for which this artist is at the forefront. This is an artist that understands the technology of gifs, glitches, and loops, the bedrock of contemporary gif animation and video art. He finds himself in an enviable position whereby he can use these technologies to expand his work.Silvio is interested in exploring a range of contemporary issues through both collage and gif animation. From nature and the urban, to consumerism and the idealisation of beauty and sexuality, from art versus capitalism, to the banality of publicity and celebrity. Silvio was born and raised in Brazil, but has spent the last eighteen years in Europe, he now lives in Cork , Ireland. |
María Elisa Quiaro Maggiorani (Venezuela)
quiaro.eu Maria is a Germany based Venezuelan artist. She is also Designer, Journalist and Educator. Her work has been exhibit in different countries, and published in magazines and books around the world. She is very aware that life is a collage, beginning with her family roots, the countries where she had lived in and the languages she speaks. With Collage she has found a very personal and expressive language, full of humour, surprise and poetry. The combination of the images always results in a completely new twist. As she always says, in her collage pieces diversity is her strength. For María Elisa, collage is magnetic field upon which all the objects of the world fall. Is the art of mixing, an art of simple nature and complex essence, full of contradictions and completeness. According to María Elisa, collage is an amalgam in which all parts overlap, as they connect with each other are like a finished garment that shows all its seams. It can be so many other things: the bright colours of the tropic; a skyscraper near a gothic church; a windy day with changing clouds; a room full of people; a kaleidoscope of autumn colours; a minimal whisper or a loud call. Collage is a resonance box where a piece of paper tells about itself and lets her write a new story. |
Schrieck (Belgium)
schrieck.fr Schrieck created his first collages during the 90’s. and is mainly influenced by Classical Art, Contemporary graphism and mostly by the Belgian Surrealists Group heritage. Schrieck collages often express an idea or tell a story in which the titles plays an important role as well as the images. While he explore different styles and techniques, most of the time he shaped his creations as a treasure hunt where the meanings are hidden to the viewer, therefore this one have to find the links between the clues he putted in his compositions. The technical accuracy of his cuting and pasting play also an important role in the creation of his collages by allowing him to wipe off the process making and help him to create a new builded illusion. Schrieck did his first first collage exhibition in Annecy (France) in 2008. In 2015, the National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution awarded and featured one his work. He participated at the Collagistas Festival in Milano in 2017 and at KAOS Festival in Kranj (Slovenia) in 2018. |
Jill Stoll (U.S.A)
jillstoll.com Using found snapshots of women who are lost to history, Jill Stoll creates an ephemeral atmosphere where implied space and form are rendered in cut and paste collage. A tribute to what is worn and abandoned, images are fragmented with pattern and resembled. When a snapshot departs from conventional wisdom, that is when it becomes compelling. If the assumptions of the viewer are confirmed, they do not become curious; the work does not offer an alternative to what they already know. It is the strength of the female figure standing alone that is the catalyst in each constructed visual narrative. To celebrate their lasting spirit captured by one decisive moment on film in what, we can only assume, was a full life much like our own. Using a laser cutter, the photographs are (as gently as humanly possible) cut with a pattern overlay. The bits that fall away are collected and used as collage materials to be worked back into the piece in an effort to make the image whole again. |
Olivia Descampe (France)
oliviadescampe.com In a time when digital technology makes it so much easier to fuse disparate forms together and make them one, there is a natural, tactile quality to physical collage/decollage that cannot be replicated on a screen. Her innate instinct for collecting visual forms has pushed Olivia to focus ever more energy on her pieces. Olivia was born in Paris, grew up in Brussels and is now calling Berlin her home for the better part of 4 years. |
Domenico Goi (Italy)
domenicogoi.com I am a self - tought person , so all my studiess and insights have been the object of my personal passion. I have been doing collage for 15 years but i don't follow a specific artistic path because I prefer to space without constraints . I love figurative a lot even with absurd combinations. In recent time I have traied to incluede in the collage also other techniques such as acrylic color to vary the chromatic table and to follow new ways |
Sam Birt (U.K.)
sambirt.wordpress.com Sam born in London, daughter of a family of artists, trained as a professional contemporary dancer at the London Contemporary Dance School, performed internationally with choreographers from around the world, then returned to England to complete a Master of Arts in Choreography with Performing Arts at Middlesex University. She first began making small collages to send as cards to family and friends as she traveled and worked abroad. She has always played with photography and painting, but collage seemed to stick and she started to explore it further. Sam started to createbigger collages and after receiving much encouragement and positive feedback, she felt excited and motivated and decided to have her first exhibition. This was an important turning point for her as she realised that her work was appreciated in a particular way by a wide variety of people including children. Most of her inspiration is tied to each fragment of paper. She is attracted because they contain other stories, sometimes complex and intriguing. The lines, the shapes, the combination of textures, colors and shadows, offer intense and rich ideas that she uses as a basis for the realization of her "stories", new stories, journeys into the subconscious. |
Christian Gastaldi (France)
christiangastaldi.webgarden.com My collages are conceived as paintings. I take colored elements from distressed materials. Brush strokes are hand-made tearsthat structure the composition. My work concentrate on spatial rhythms through which I seek todevelop the graphic equivalent of what is the ‘style’ of a writer.I was born in the south of France, along the Mediterranean Sea. I first studied to work and live abroad. Then Art became a necessity. I work from distressed materials that have suffered the passing of time. It is the trace of ‘humanity’ I detect in them, that make me want to offer them an artistic redemption. I destroy,quasi systematically, the original images, the words, to preserve my full creativity space. I avoid confronting the viewer with the evidence of recognizable images, of written messages. The appealing obvious is often obscene. I work at all scales, from large murals (I did a 7.2 by 2.4 meters wall for an hotel in Barcelona and a room for the ‘Hotel 128’ project of Street Art City in France) to small format (after Benetton foundations’s Imago Mundi asked me to participate in the book ‘Visual Poetry in Europe’). RedFox Press has published two books about my work in the ‘C’est mon dada’ collection. I currently live in Paris (France). |
Marta Janik (Poland)
planetmarta.com tries to express herself by using papers, scissors, cutters and glue to create images which could tell something about herself. Why? Because she feels like a collage person. And yes, sometimes she feels dada. It means that she is rebelious. It means that collage is her own way of dealing with this crazy world. It means that she likes to use something that already exists. She likes to play. She likes to give meanings to things. She likes to create her own world because she would like to find the answer to the question: who the hell is she? What is important to her? Why did she grab a scissors? Is collage serious? Is collage chaos? Is she chaos? She creates chaos but she puts it in order. She tries to. She organizes these paper worlds. She interprets. She is surprised with herself. She likes papers. She likes to cut. It makes her happy. As a result she would like to present her manifesto and proclaim a new term. Maybe it is time we say: coolage instead of collage? |
Martina Charaf (Argentina)
Martina is an Argentinan, from Buenos Aires, based on Madrid, Spain. She works on education with children and teenager through creativity, meditation and mindfulness. She used to work with collage during her workshops at school. Martina leads Tijereteando: Collage workshops with families. This Project offers a space and time for families to learn, discover and create together. In 2013, while living in Brazil, she restarted to spend time with collage work. She began to attend workshops, to participate in exhibitions and in different projects where she had the chance to share her work and to met lovely people. Her collage work is made in a small size. She loves to find objects everywhere both urban and natural stuff: roots, leafs, flowers. Using different kind of materials she wants to express at the same time the toughness and fragility of life. Picking up these materials from the streets, parks she wants to give them a second life and the chance of being protagonists in her work. ¨Homeless¨ things will always have a special space in her work. |
Evelyn Bennett and Chris Rutter (U.K)
rutterandbennett.com Evelyn and Chris have worked closely together for over 20 years. Their collaboration spans public art, sculpture, performance, textile design, collage, poetry and music. They have made a variety of work from large-scale public art, collage installations, sculptural performance pieces, books & soundscapes. Trained as a sculptor and textile designer respectively, they approach projects with an eye for material play that is open to collaboration. Their recent projects have involved extensive cross-disciplinary work. |
Smith Smith (France)
smithsmith.bigcartel.com Frédéric Drouin aka Smith Smith is a French artist. 20 years to develop his Art in different forms of musical experimentation with several groups, a production of albums for his label Twin Daisies Records and serigraphs for the brand BRAIN T-shirts, Smith Smith will have a voice to express himself at best and finally to one of his first loves : Collage. Work of Construction, Deconstruction, Abstraction, Humor and Provocation, Smith Smith evolve on several levels for each of his collages |
Aline Helmcke (Germany)
ahelmcke.com I am an artist and animator currently based in Leipzig and generally love the direct, hands-on feel of working with analoge techniques – be it drawing, collage or animation. The interaction with material is a great way of discovering, starting or following an idea. I look for bits and pieces that inspire me, be it because of their color, shape or texture. When I bring them together I try to avoid an explicit narrative content. I love unexpected, ambivalent, irritating and absurd constellations and search for forms and compositions that surprise me. |
Seiko Kato (Japan)
seikokato.com Seiko is a collage artist based in Brighton, U.K. Her work shows a fascination with the macabre and surreal, mixed with playful elements that explore life and death which also reflects her innate Japanese vision. She graduated from the University of Brighton with a BA in Illustration and subsequently has exhibited frequently on a national and international circuit. Her book 'Handmade Collage' was published in 2017 and has been translated into French and Italian. She presents courses and workshops on collage and works on private and public commissions. |
Anna Sandalaki (Greece)
annasandalaki.wordpress.com A collage is kind of a mirror (and is, maybe, a fragmented mirror). The visual reflection of our feelings, thoughts, concerns, memories and dreams. Each one of us can read different realities or stories “on” this boundless and magic looking glass. I enjoy creating visuals in black and white and visuals from a surrealist point of view, through which I can explore the potential of the inevitable and worthwhile alternation of the bright and dark side of ourselves. The materials used in my collages are mainly paper from second-hand books, vintage or recent magazines, as well as spray paint. Other media also, plus acrylic paint for the envisaged composition. Main influences and sources of inspiration are people, indie rock, ambient music, swing, photography, nature, anxiety and dark chocolate. PS. Studied Social Policy & Social Anthropology in Athens, but ventured into collage art. Right now I'm based in Chania, Greece. I’ve participated in various group exhibitions both in Greece and abroad" |
Mark Murphy (U.K)
markmurph.co.uk Mark is a graphic designer & collage artist from Birmingham UK. In recent years alongside running his micro studio surely.uk.com and perhaps as a reaction to so many years of ‘screen time’ Mark has been developing his craft as collage artist, working predominantly in an analogue way. The challenge of making work within these constraints is something Mark loves, eschewing the endlessness of digital image making for strict parameters. He seeks out weird and wonderful print from the last 60 years and creates hand cut paper collages that play with form, scale, juxtaposition and graphic composition. Sometimes abstract, sometimes figurative, often humorous. Mark revels in the chance element involved in making these works, the elements that present themselves, how they combine. He works from a shared studio space in in the south west of Birmingham and has exhibited widely during the last 4 years. |
Casandra Tola (Peru)
casandratola.com Art has always been a part of her life, and since 2009 she has been solely dedicated to her creative work. Casandra approaches collage through color, and creates original compositions from pre-existing images. Her recent work explores volume, perspective and space. |
Rachael Jablo (U.S.A)
rjablo.com Rachael is an American artist working in Berlin. Her first artistic language is analog photography, which she has been incorporating the past few years into collage works both large and small. Her work deals with memory, perception, and the biological worlds. |
Eui Papadopoulou (Greece)
Eui is an architect and collage artist from Thessaloniki,Greece. She started experimenting with collage during her university years, searching for new ways to express her ideas on paper. Her work consists mainly of digital and mixed media collages. Living and working in many different places the last years, she get inspired by the strong graphical presence of the cities she lives in. She collects grapchic material, and together with paint, typography, shapes, lines ,scanned images and sketches she creates her collages and tries to tell her stories. The last 6 years she is creating covers for a small magazine in Greece and produce work for design shops in her area. |
Thierry Faligot (France)
Thierry is an autodidact artist since 2007. He collects and assemble various papers whose subjects, colors, textures guide his future inspirations. The topics covered are mixtures touching on very varied fields. His influences adress environnements such as the middle ages, Renaissance, Art nouveau, Oriental, Contempory, Soviet, Style German,...Bahaus,Steampunk, Curiosities, Dadaïsme,Ornaments,..The superposition, the entablement of the art element correspond to his work method in order to create a 3D aspect. Imperatative: the works must seduce in the distance and fascinate in the approach, because behind the interstices hiding small stories. |
Silvia Beltrami (Italy)
silviabeltrami.com Born in Rome in 1974, holder of a diploma from the Accademia di Belle Arti di brera in Milan. The artistic vein of Silvia Beltrami materializes in a heartfelt reflection, sharing on the social, anthropological and psycological dynamic of today. Supefine and delicate technical mastery, a strong manipulative originality in the use of elements and media: collage cards from different backgrounds applied on plaster by tearing of the fresco, whith an illusory effect of apparent materiality of the painting that is truly amazing.(..)The artist is thought of as a travel companion of the restless protagonists of their own works, the bodies and souls are split into hundreds of minute fragments, uncontrolled splinters (supervised hrough by Beltrami's formality) from wandering in the research for meaning. Paolo Bolpagni - (Italian art historian, critic and curator |
Tanja Ulbrich (Canada)
tanjaulbrich.com Tanja Ulbrich was born in Calgary, Canada although she has lived in Spain for the last 19 years. Throughout her life, Tanja has always been fascinated by the connections between different mediums. Naturally, she was drawn to mixed media and collage, as well as other creative mediums such poetry and conceptual art. Her recent work reflects on the connections between thoughts, actions and our place in society. Tanja has trained as a mediator, specializing in community and intercultural mediation. Her connection to a culturally diverse society inspires her artwork. She also has training as a gestalt art therapist and has used her passion for art to help children and young adults express themselves in a new way. Tanja has participated in numerous collective shows in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the UK. She is also a published poet. |
Phil Carney (U.K)
I am 32 years old and live in the U.K, I've been making collages for about 5 or 6 years. I use found images from magazines and old papers. I am greatly influenced by cinema and try to create a narrative within my work, the main subject that runs though a lot of my work is the idea of memory. |
Carsten Schneider (Germany)
carstenschneider-kunst.de "Radiobroadcast and newspapers are the media for his collages. As Carsten says, "both have one thing in common: they were very important once - and the next day they are nothing. I try to produce beauty from this nothingness" |
Demos Tsormpatzoglou (Greece)
papermosaic.gr Demos Tsormpatzoglou was born in Thessaloniki (North Greece) in 1976. He studied Artwork and Antiquities Restoration and works in Athens as a conservator of old manuscripts (paper and parchment) at the National Archive Center of Monuments. Before that he worked in the old libraries at the monasteries of Mount Athos on the restoration of medieval codices and manuscripts. Having the knowledge of paper as a material he started creating hand cut collages with paper in 2007 and had his first solo exhibition at Thessaloniki in 2010. Other solo exhibitions followed since then, and many participations on group exhibitions in Athens, Thessaloniki, Mykonos, The Netherlands ( Eindhoven), Italy (Milano) and Ireland (Dublin) . His unique handmade papermosaics are worked mainly on canvas, piece by piece, usually on large dimension surfaces mostly with a human-centered agenda (human bodies, portraits etc) using paper in every form he can find (newspapers, free press, old books or wallpapers). Demos is a part of Collagistas since 2015 |
Holger Becker (Germany)
holgerbecker.com I am a visual artist who studied Fine Arts in Hamburg. I now live in Nuremberg. I got deeper into making analogue collages after I stopped painting. One day in 2014 while I was hunting for material, I found a three-metre long row of old picture books in the street. The books were mostly black-and-white landscapes of Germany in the 1950s and 60s, the Wirtschaftswunder era. I started my landscape series from that source material. When collaging, I work slowly, but on several pieces at the same time so things keep growing. To build a landscape collage, I create many layers with many pieces. The figures that appear in my collages allow me to create a narrative. I see the whole process around making collage as a journey: a room, a table, the paper, the cutter, the glue…collecting, finding patterns…grouping…archiving material…finding old books and magazines…finding fragments…cutting, tearing, coincidence, gluing, the hand of chance, memory, layering, selecting, remembering, combining, deciding…searching…surprising myself…gluing. I look at collage as its own medium with an unbelievably large variety of possibilities and techniques. |
Rhed Fawell (U.K.)
rhed.co.uk My work draws deeply on my own experiences and society in general, both past and present. It seeks to explore the sense of unknowing in a constantly shifting world. Multilayered images arise which dwell on fragility, nature and the machine, and the instabilities exposed when old certainties are questioned. I am interested in exploring the hidden and murky sides of life, yet attempting to maintain a poetic quality. Every element that is placed has a symbolic purpose in relation to the whole. The use of stitching and thread has, over the past few years, started to play a more dominant role in my collage process and final outcomes. When in the past I may have used blocks of coloured paper, these have been replaced with thread and stitched elements. For me, it creates a quality of depth which is symbolically charged not only in the end result but in the act of making. At times my work may appear dark, but I always strive to include a sense of hope. |
Simone Karl (Germany)
simoneka.com Simone is a contemporary artist based in Hamburg (DE). She mainly works with collages, installations, objects and sculptures where she explores the relationship between humans, bodies, objects and metropolises. Her collages explore the landscapes and depths of the human body and mind, while she always tries to get as close as possible to the difficult and unpleasant moments of life.With their layers, the collages become objects of voyeurism, allowing the viewer to look through a keyhole into the innermost of the surgically cut-open body. Simone studied in Hamburg und Nuremberg, was artist in residence at KünstlerhäuserWorpswede (DE), Civitellad´Agliano (IT) and Kranj (SVN). She had the annual scholarship for artists from Claussen-Simon-Stiftung, received the collage award of the Willi-MünzenbergForum Berlin, the :outputaward, the 3x3 International Illustrators Award and was nominated for the art award of Fürstenwalde (DE). |
Steve Tierney (Australia)
stevetierneycollage.com Steve is an Australian artist and designer who spends his time living between Sydney and Oaxaca, Mexico. Known for his striking, minimalist collages assembled using images cut from vintage magazines of the 40's and 50's. Tierney recently began collaborating with a photographer named Tanja Bruckner breaking with traditional collage techniques by creating his own source material using portraits of his body. He continues to explore themes of vulnerability, identity, and human behaviour through large scale installations that aim to defy notions of classic collage even further. As well as challenge preconceived ideas of beauty and form. Tierney has attended two Collagistas Festivals in the past in Eindhoven and Milano, Italy. |
Demetrio Di Grado (Italy)
mansourcing.wixsite.com/demetriodigrado Demetrio is an analog Collage Artist and Street artist, from Caltagirone, Sicilia, Italy. The scenes he represents in his works recall the years of war and those of rebirth as well. The main figure is always in the center, faces full of suffering and with an extreme desire to live and redeem themselves. Men, women, children, each of them brings a message, which flows over time until we reach our present contradictory. H usually uses a sentence on the eyes to close the sense, to launch a provocation, to propose a reflection. Eyes that speak ia his signature. Vintagepop is how he defines his work. "The assembly of eras, in a historical period in which digital is always faster and frenzy devours, analogue becomes for me a need to stop, in my spare time." |
Anthony D Kelly (Ireland)
freeformtrouble.com Anthony is a Freelance Illustrator, Writer and Visual Arts Practitioner. He currently bases his practice in Castlebar, County Mayo located on Irelands West Coast. He has extensive experience as a Gallery Administrator, Curator and Project Facilitator from his time at Basement Project Space an artist led initiative which was based in Cork City, Ireland. The aim of this initiative was to generate an exhibition/project space independent of established institutions, to provide development opportunities for emerging artists and to encourage cutting edge experimental practice across a broad range of disciplines. He has studied both Arts Administration and Arts Participation and Global Development and he is currently training in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy. Anthony is greatly interested in the Arts as an effective method for engagement with Social, Political and Global Development issues. He works mainly with Illustration, Collage and Assemblage techniques to create humorous, unnerving and deeply satirical imagery. |
Miriam Martínez Abellán (Spain)
miriammartinezabellan.com Miriam is an artist and secondary school teacher living in Murcia. She has a degree in Art History from the University of Murcia and a Diploma in Piano from the Conservatory of Music of the same city. She has participated in various cultural activities related to the creative process: workshops, conferences, design of book covers, illustrations for books and posters, in addition to curatorial work. An extensive exhibition career accompanies her. Her work has been exhibited in various exhibition spaces, both public and private, in cities such as Berlin, Brussels, Madrid, Barcelona or Alicante, as well as in various cities in the Region of Murcia. Her speciality is analogue collage (handmade). She collects images from vintage magazines, or from contemporary media but with this aesthetic, books, old photographs, recycled objects and various materials. Her concepts are dominated by an intense reflection on the female figure in all its facets, which is intermingled with vindicative, ironic and social messages, where the elements of nature and the search for beauty acquire a special protagonism. |
Kasia Kręcicka (Poland)
instagram.com/kmkrecicka Collage and mixed-media painting have been her main focus for many years now. She works mainly digitally because it fits well with her personal dynamics of the process. Apart from digital artworks, you can find mixed-media collages on canvas in her portfolio as well. She likes to decompose, strip and rip whatever material she works with from its original context in order to recompose it with a different narrative, giving the viewer a new story to read. The main concept behind her process is that she never starts a new collage with a plan it's rather the intention and motive that she follows. Her work has been shown in printed magazines and exhibitions (both solo and collective). She is in constant motion and in the middle of the learning process and as she says she is hardly ever satisfied with her work for more than a few hours. |
Jorge Chamorro (Spain)
jorgechamorro.es Jorge is a graphic designer, teacher and artist. Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1995, he worked for ten years as a graphic designer in several studios and agencies. In 2005 he starts to work independently, developing, up to now, communication projects for different clients and personal projects. He produced his first collage collection in 2006, and it has since become an irreplaceable artform. His collage work is always analog, without digital manipulation, using only photographs from books and magazines, scissors and glue. Since 2010 he teaches graphic design, typography, visual identity and collage. His work has been exhibited and published several times nationally and internationally. Since 2013 he lives and works in Berlin and Madrid |
Mauricio Garrido (Chile)
mauriciogarrido.art Mauricio is recognized for his monumental and exuberant collage in which he develops a surrealistic aesthetic, at the same time, complex and mysterious. His work, uses allegory as a narrative method, traverses the history of art and its contemporaneity, evoking new methods of meaning and representation of art. He works the collage technique through a completely manual and artisanal production, achieving a unique and unmistakable visual language. His work is made from the collection of original papers found in different parts of the world, where he travels looking for them: Rome, Venice, San Jose de Costa Rica, Madrid, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Beijing, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Cairo, among others. In this way, his art is configured in a poetic travel log.His artistic production has been exhibited in Europe, Asia and Latin America and integrates important collections of these three continents. In Chile public like CCU in Art, Cultural Corporation Municipality of Santiago; and private, in Chile, as for example Sauma-Carvajal, Weiner, Engel, Senerman and others. And internationally in the Elton John collection to name just a few. |
Silvia Mustillo (Argentina)
instagram.com/collages_sm Silvia lives in Buenos Aires, and is a collage & assemblage artist. She works with magazines, papers, photos. Silvia loves to work with human figure in order to express what she can't say in words, leaving labels in order to create new feelings and emotions, without any judgements. Her first and foremost experimentation is about the body, forming bodies with different objects or relations of bodies intertwined with different objects. She works with good quality magazines, colorful paper, as well as old magazines with sepia and dark colors, newspapers, old books, various posters, pamphlet texts and advertisements. Photos, glazes of different figures. Since she was a child she liked to investigate with different materials and explore how some things through different processes can be transformed into others; a kind of ALCHEMY. Her life is a constant search for the transformations that one being can make on another or on things. She studied tango and milongas, theatre and drama as well as clown theatre, choir and private singing lessons. At the present, she is taking an astrology course. |
Virginia Lorenzetti (Italy)
Virginia is a Graphic art student based in Rome Art Academy, currently studying Buchkunst in Halle Saale, Germany. Her work is based on the interaction between natural colours, paper and images: the essential elements float in wide compositions, linked physically and conceptually by subtle threads. No overlaps, no thick layers: the basic concept is evanescence, both in the use of materials and in the meaning of the work. The images materialise and move on the surface to the point of becoming imperceptible, and then finally disappearing. |
Stéphanie Herremans (Belgium)
Surrounded by books and images about dadaism and surrealism, Stéphanie Herremans grew up in an artists’ family. She learned much from her father, a student of painter Paul Delvaux. Collage helps her understand who she is, inside and out. She likes to linger on an image, the touch of paper, and let chance work its magic.Geometry, lines, images added to other images, to create one. Old books is where she finds happiness, in sepia, black and white. She was born in Brussels in 1982, but have been living on the outskirts for a few years now. |
Olga Lupi (France)
olgalupi.org Since 2010, Olga Lupi has been working in the collage medium, using images from vintage magazines, catalogues, and tattered books and encyclopedias. From bucolic to somewhat grotesque or edgy, her quirky deconstructions form remarkable scenes of people, hybrids, and magical happenings that are occasionally disturbing yet often lyrical. Olga’s collages of vintage materials in time-worn colors never fail to stimulate the viewer’s imagination – each totally unique – creating anachronistically unexpected moments of charm, wit, and occasional dark humor. |
Anastasia Glas (Greece)
behance.net/anastasia-gl Anastasia is a self-taught collage artist based in Greece. She is specialized in digital collage, nevertheless, there are times she prefers the analog way by combining paper with other materials such as threads, fabric and leather. She usually uses a plain background as a base in which vintage and geometrical shapes are mixed. The way she works has a structure and a story behind. Even though each collage of her collection has a personal meaning for her, the purpose is to create visual - imaginary stories that anyone perceives in a uniquely personal way. |
Colin Eaton (Ireland)
Colin lives and creates in Dublin, where he trained as an architect. He is a visual artist working mainly in papercut collage. His work has been published in several magazines and web sites from Ireland, France and USA and he has had several exhibitions. Ethical creation and sustainability are at the core of his practice as he often works with discarded materials investigating new possibilities and meanings. Mostly he has a clear vision in his head of what he wants to create, but sometimes he is pulled into an idea and his process allows for the medium to guide, dictated to by the materials available, the offcuts and ‘waste’. His love of texture and the analogue techniques provide a sense of physicality and materiality imparting tactile and emotional qualities. His art practice although an extension of his architects persona is also a release. Here he is allowed the freedom to create his own narratives constructing worlds without restrictions. Each of his paper pieces tells its own story. A narrative in folds, cuts, tears, perforations and layers. |
Lida Driva (Greece)
lidadriva.tumblr.com I am an architect|artist based in London. Throughout my studies, I have been engaged with the understanding of emergent territorial formations, the exploration of uncanny spaces and I have always been interested in the multidisciplinary approach of architecture and its multiple reflection on art. After working a lot on architectural collages I started experimenting more with digital collage as a way of creating more conceptual and atmospheric narratives that refer to a parallel elusive universe. My stories are usually inspired by the urban character of contemporary cities ,by nature as an opposition to this generalised urbanism, by the difficulty of human relationships, strong unconscious desires, imaginary places, cartographic representations and often have psychogeographical, surrealistic and symbolic references. My collage images are characterised by a dreamy, poetic essence that is often combined with a slight melancholic, nostalgic feeling. |
Jerome Bertrand (Canada)
Taught in the arts of collage by his mentor William Sanchez in 1999, Jerome has been assembling images ever since. Collecting magazines from different sources and stacking them in his studio until he filters and transforms them for his passion of juxtaposition. Experiences with different media had a major impact on his work in ways that he wouldn’t have imagined when his career began. For instance, with painting he has learned to play with color combinations, harmony and contrast. With the practice of sculpture, he has mastered depth, perspective and volume. As he explored photography, he has developed an eye for light and composition. Video art has taught him to tell a story in different ways. All of these refinements have given him different ways of expressing an idea and instinctively create a world of his own. To try and generate a sequence within the viewer’s mind with the help of these borrowed illustrations is like sending a message in a manner that can be understood universally. The emotions felt by the viewer can be experienced by people who speak different languages. Collage art can be cleansing for both artist and spectator. It can make you laugh or relieve stress regarding a specific topic. It can be scary or unsettling but it can also be holy in the sense that it unites individuals with visual references that comes together in a message of freedom. Now that Jerome Bertrand works as a professional photographer, he can imagine one day seeing a piece of one of his pictures used in a collage and thus participating in a sort of global thread, invisible yet perceivable with art. |
Christine Voelk (Germany)
I love creating something new and giving it special meaning. As a brand strategist I can develop or relaunch brands for companies, products and employers by creating brand worlds. It´s a nice job to combine values, feelings, images, colours, shapes and words to make the brands come alive. However, creating collages I have no restrictions and can describe my own feelings in a visual way – like an illustrated diary – often inspired by fascinating people or nature, overwhelming music, art in diverse facets or very simple things. I like to use only printed images, that already has their certain mood to cut them and give them new life and new meaning. And to make them more vibrant, they always reach out in the 3rd dimension. 
Jens Wortmann (Germany)
instagram.com/jens_wortmann Since over 15 years Analog Collages represent the main focus of his artistic work. Faces and a mixture of different body parts are a recurring motif in his Collages. His artworks has been part of various exhibitions and art projects worldwide. Jens also cites music as an important source of inspiration particularly Electronic music and old Punkrock Records. His all-time favorite movie is „The Party“ (1968) by Blake Edwards. |
Dorothee Mesander (Netherlands)
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Dorothee is a Greece based Dutch collage artist (some mixed media/assemblage work). She studied International Public Law in the Netherlands and the UK and subsequently had a career in hotel administration in Greece. Making analogue collages has been a part of her life for the last 8 years and is the medium through which she can most passionately visualize her imaginary world. She considers her collages narrative ones, reflections of thoughts on paper, a still movie frame you could say of a story which continues after the collage. She does not work in one particular style, although the choice of mostly vintage paper - repurposing and saving old photos, magazines (mostly from the 1950’s) and books and their images from oblivion - creates a distinct, figurative imagery. Since 2011 she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, both in Greece and abroad and 2017 saw her first solo exhibition. Her submission to the Milan Collagistas Festival was picked by an Italian visual designer to feature on the cover of a publication about language with contributions of female inmates of the San Vittore Prison where the collage now hangs in their library. She gives collage workshops, participates in international art group projects and has established the Thessaloniki Collage Club.
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Dorothee is a Greece based Dutch collage artist (some mixed media/assemblage work). She studied International Public Law in the Netherlands and the UK and subsequently had a career in hotel administration in Greece. Making analogue collages has been a part of her life for the last 8 years and is the medium through which she can most passionately visualize her imaginary world. She considers her collages narrative ones, reflections of thoughts on paper, a still movie frame you could say of a story which continues after the collage. She does not work in one particular style, although the choice of mostly vintage paper - repurposing and saving old photos, magazines (mostly from the 1950’s) and books and their images from oblivion - creates a distinct, figurative imagery. Since 2011 she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, both in Greece and abroad and 2017 saw her first solo exhibition. Her submission to the Milan Collagistas Festival was picked by an Italian visual designer to feature on the cover of a publication about language with contributions of female inmates of the San Vittore Prison where the collage now hangs in their library. She gives collage workshops, participates in international art group projects and has established the Thessaloniki Collage Club.
João Amado (Portugal)
João is a visual artist from São Miguel – Azores who, through analogical methods, seeks to defragment and agglomerate visual elements that have a positive connection to each other. Currently, he is living in Algarve – Portugal and the change of place has brought a change in the style of images he seeks and in the process of working them. He has a special attraction for illustrations because he believes that their color and non-realism help him to compose images with greater life and fantasy. His work, marked by delicacy in the cut and smoothness in composing, usually comes from a narrative thought directed to Man as Being and his position in the world as existence. At this point in time, his collages have been aiming to expose a harmonious relationship between man and the natural world in order to counteract the trend of modern times: intense crisis of values and total disconnection of man from his most primitive origin. |
Avi Yair (Israel)
aviyair.tumblr.com For the past thirty years, Avi Yair has been an active artist living and working in Tel-Aviv. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. For over ten years, collage and assemblage have been a major part of his work, which encompasses engravings and sculpture as well. He has always been attracted to working with readymade, primarily printed matter dealing with history and geography such as maps, old atlases and magazines, as well as easily accessible materials. This has given him much artistic freedom in all mediums. This is the fifth time Avi is participating in the Collagistas Festival. "It has become an important part of my year and my artistic world – meeting the faces behind the works posted online, exchanging thoughts, ideas and techniques and creating new friendships. I am looking forward to September in Brussels!" |
Agst'n
agstnartist.com On his collage works, Agst'n uses as background stamp materials, like papers or plastic tablecloths. On them he sprays painting to have full plans or degraded areas. After that he stick different symbols in paper that completes the sense of each composition. Agst´n likes to rebuild and deconstruct stories, he reinvented them, getting new scenes, closer to publicity, where he combines common images with popular sybolisms. This mix between color stamps, plans, vibrations, direccions, tensions and weights regulates the balance of each work. His collages are a medium between two opposite sides of contemporaneity: the supperficially aesthetic and the deeply dramatism |
Mariana Evmolpidou (Greece)
mevmo.com Collage, drawing and appropriation of found images are the techniques that Mariana uses in her artworks. She collects anything that comes to her attention and intrigues her imagination. She re-establishes the identity of already-made objects through their re-use, re-arrangement and fragmentation. Through her work, she attempts to examine the dematerialization of the human existence with images of repetitive uneven human figures. Her mixed media creations embody the human imperfection. She’s emphasizing on the necessity of the magazines’ beauty deconstruction and misconception by disfiguring her human characters. |
Marie & Adelyne (Belgium)
marieadelyne.pb.online I studied fashion design, illustration and jewelery, but my big crush goes to collage art, wich is like meditation for me, a great journey into my mind and beyond. I love to work with vintage paper, especially 70's books, for their smooth texture and sweet black and white tones. I'm fascinated by nature, hidden worlds, perpetual renewal, animality and feminity. What I enjoy with analog collages, is the endless process of hunting and collecting books and papers, the freedom to not plan what will be create, and let the cutouts magically mix together to give a rebirth to existing materials. |
Baskiet (Netherlands)
baskiet.tumblr.com I have always been a fanatic collector of images filling scrapbooks. First used them for paintings but then these images started making a life of their own. I started making colages about 6 years ago. My main focus is making collage portraits, digital and paper. Both analogue and digital the images come from the same source; paper from the outside world! I am strongly attracted by making portraits, I can see a face in everything. Usually I start by taking a non human background such as a landscape or an object, turning them around and then adding eyes and mouths. |
Alan Murphy (Ireland)
avantcardpublications.com/ I started out as a painter, eventually began incorporating collage elements into my paintings, and now work entirely in collage, using found images and materials. I’ve illustrated my four poetry books for young readers with collage and they’ve received attention and award nomination. My approach to art tends to fit in with the modern (and non-western) notion of embracing the flatness of the picture plane, and I’ve probably been as influenced by painters as collage artists over the years. What with the profusion of images in our world today, we are bombarded with stimulus. Maybe collage is a way of making sense of this mediascape, and bringing order out of chaos. My latest book is “All Gums Blazing”. |
Claudia Retamal Schmidt (Chile)
claudiaretamal-pinturas.blogspot.com Claudia is an outstanding Valdivian artist, whose career includes the exploration of different techniques, such as painting, drawing, engraving, animation, collage and mural painting. This multifaceted artist has recreated the dreamlike and captivating world of the Tarot through emblematic projects: "Tarot, a language for all" (CONARTE 2009) and the animated short film "The encounter with the magician" (CONARTE 2011, winner of the first place at the Valdivia Audiovisual Design Festival, 2014) Both works have been exhibited in different places, including the “Museo del Naipe” in la Habana , and in France, (Saint-Brieuc Bretagne) in this moment, where she exposes the last works and have an artistic residence. |
