Artists - 2018 Dublin, Ireland
Silvio Severino
---Brazil--- www.ingluewetrust.com I am a contemporary photographer, collage, and gif artist. I work in both analog and digital formats, which puts me in a unique creative position, whereby I can cross and recross the traditional and the contemporary. I am searching for new values, new visual languages that will allow me to incorporate photography, collage, and animation in new formats. With my work, photography often becomes collage, with collage often becoming animated gif. It is an exciting new frontier in contemporary art for which I am at the forefront. I understand the technology of gifs, glitches, and loops, the bedrock of contemporary gif animation and video art. I find myself in an enviable position whereby I can use these technologies to expand my work. I am 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. I was born and raised in Brazil, but have spent the last fifteen years in Europe, I now live in Cork , Ireland |
Una Gildea
---Ireland--- www.unagildea.com My collage work juxtaposes recognizable found images and transformed cutouts into pictorial narratives that invite the viewer to apply their own stories. Narratives at once oddly recognizable, yet uncomfortably odd; narratives often downright obscene, whilst pushing the chuckle-button; narratives that always aim to open the chute direct to the subconscious, that provoke an intuitive, not literal, sense, of what’s going on. I use the traditional cut and paste technique. In my animation work I use traditional stop motion, working with cut-outs. This is a natural extension of my passion for collage, a moving collage, as it were! I studied Painting, Drawing and Printmaking at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and animation at the University of the West of England; I also spent an amazing six months at the School of Visual Arts in New York. My work has been widely exhibited and my animation films have been shown at festivals around the world. My work is in the collections of Dublin City University and the Irish Contemporary Art Society. I now live and work in Dublin. |
Lane
---Greece--- www.lanecollage.gr My collage work is a synthesis of colorful and different magazine clippings. At first glance, those pieces might look irrelevant to each other, but when they come together, all those different shapes and patterns compose the final images. This is the most challenging part for me while making collage. Paper works like the most lively brush strokes. Portraits have always been my favorite subject but right now I am making collage based on street view photos. |
Evelyn Bennett - Chris Rutter
---U.K--- rutterandbennett.com 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. |
Dorothee Mesander
---Netherlands--- www.collagesbydorotheemesander.com Dorothee is a Greece based Dutch collage artist (and some mixed media/assemblage work). Analogue collage is the medium through which she can most passionately visualize her imaginary world and has become over the years a daily necessity. She considers her collages narrative ones, reflections of thoughts on paper, a still movie frame you could say of a story which continues. It is not seldom that this process results in a series. She does not (like to) work in one particular style, using both vintage and new (although less often) paper, but also allowing her mood at the time, an instant inspiration or a sudden strong need to express something to be decisive influences. The strength she sees in a piece of paper is more important that it’s source or age. 2017 saw her first solo exhibition and since 2011 she has participated in numerous group exhibitions both abroad and in Greece. Her last year’s submission to the Milan Collagistas Festival was picked by an Italian visual designer to cover a publication about language with contributions of female inmates of the San Vittore Prison where the collage now hangs in their library. |
Mark Murph
---U.K.--- www.markmurph.co.uk Mark is a Birmingham born Artist, Designer, Musician and Educator based in Birmingham, UK. Working predominantly, though not exclusively, in the arts & education, Mark creates graphic design for print and screen, in a practice that spans typography, branding, illustration, photography, book, exhibition and web design. Since 2002 Mark has worked independently running his design studio (surely.uk.com). Over the last 6 or so years, alongside his design practice, Mark has been developing his own collage artworks. As a reaction to many years of ‘screen time’ with these works Mark has started to work predominantly but not exclusively in an analogue way, enjoying the challenge of making work with these constraints. Seeking out weird and wonderful print from the last 60 years he creates hand cut paper collages that play with form, scale, juxtaposition and graphic composition. Mark embraces chance and intuition when making these works, the elements that present themselves, how they combine, what goes, what remains. He works from a shared studio space in Stirchley in the south west of Birmingham. New entry for Collagistas! |
Giorgos Chronis
---Greece--- zone363.tumblr.com I am a graphic designer, based in Rethymno Crete. I started as a graffiti artist and I am currently dedicating myself to the practice of collage. I like mixing many types of materials and various techniques like collage, graffiti, photography and graphic design. Inspired by the everyday life in all of its manifest: love, pain, relationships, death, violence, modern and earlier lifestyle, nature and music. The ordinary and the illogical are reflected in my artwork creating most of times a surreal atmosphere. I have participated in many personal and team exhibitions & festival art project in Greece and abroad. |
Sara Caballero Zavala
---Portugal--- www.instagram.com/sarapastes She is a visual artist based in Portugal. She is specialized in analogue collage, a field in which she has been working since 2013. Her interest is especially focused at developing bonds between anthopology, literature, environment and social movements from a poetic point of view. Throughout her career as an artist, she has made a personal exploration of human behaviors, redefining what appears as reality by deconstructing the meaning of image. She studied Fine Arts at Miguel Hernández University in the Mediterranean coast of Spain. After a few years exploring different art techniques, she realized collage is the one in which she feels more comfortable. Currently she lives in Lisboa. |
Anna Sandalaki
---Greece--- annasandalaki.wordpress.com Studied Social Policy & Social Anthropology in Athens, but ventured into collage art. 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 stencil techniques for the envisaged composition. Main influences and sources of inspiration are people, indie rock, ambient music, swing, photography, nature, doubt, anxiety and dark chocolate. |
Mariano Alonso
---Argentina--- www.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. |
Denis Kollasch
---Germany--- www.fotografienet.de He is particularly concerned with depth of field and perspectives in the development of his collage and folded paperwork. Denis Kollasch has been an active participant in the collagistas festival since the beginning. He wants to tell stories. The use of old illustrations from magazines and homemade photographs helps him to express himself. He also likes paper as a material. "It is silent, does not smell and it can be edited in a variety of ways, including tearing, cutting, and folding. It is just wonderful. It is like a universe, as I give myself lots of time for experimentation and can try many new things", he says. Like in his collages of architecture or in his folded paperworks, he loves to play with the understanding of shape and composition. In 2013 he had his first solo exhibition with MEGAURBANPOLIS in which he describes his utopian landscapes, which mostly consist of buildings in which we live and work. Further translation of architecture into geometric figures and forms culminates in his series figura architectura. Another focus of his artistic work is his experiments with folded paper, which he has composed so far in surfaces (polygons) or in photographs or illustrations (faltage). Denis calls himself Kollasch since 2017, lives and works in berlin and weimar. |
Pasquale de Sensi
---Italy--- pasqualedesensi.tumblr.com The artworks of Pasquale de Sensi (Lamezia Terme, CZ, Italy- 1983) combine an imaginative, surreal style with a balanced sense of composition. The symbols he uses, estabilish a misteryous structure of corrispondences, based on affinity or contrast. In his collages can be traced elements taken from religious art, the italian Renaissance portraiture, as well as explicit references to Dadaism and classic punk collage. He studied graphic design and painting, with a particular interest in art history and phenomenology, in various Italian cities like Rome, Reggio Calabria, Urbino and Perugia. His chosen technique is collage. A marginal technique, considered to be minor, collage works as an immediate medium able to give access to a more fluid and not prectictable approach to the construction of the image. His collages look like a rebus whose solution belongs to a forgotten language. Here we can find the conjunction of opposing forces, the chance and the organization of it, the instinct and the control, but always under the light of a playful operation, tinged with irony. Collage is the medium he prefers the most for its qualities of immediacy, which allows a direct passage from the ideation to the production of the image and can nearly provide a relation of identity between the two moments. |
Raffaello Pacini
---Italy--- disastrartcollages.wordpress.com In 2011, inspired by the collage of Richard Hamilton, he began to tear and engrave the paper, giving life to the DisastrART Collages project. He becomes, in his own words, a "Hunter of Forgotten Stories": Stories that mostly hide both in fashion magazines and also in books of flea markets. The images, the fragmentations in cuttings, that become like many gears of a single great mechanism: life, with its innumerable reflexes and hidden details. "Collage is both therapy and breaking art, it is having the courage to glue one's feelings on a piece of cardboard, assembling them freely, and I think this is the best way to communicate what I can not express with the words" |
Tatyana Feeney
---Ireland--- tatyanafeeney.com I am originally from North Carolina, but now live and work in Ireland. My background is in Art History and Illustration with a focus on children’s books. Collage was naturally the way I worked when I started in illustration, I liked the control of placement and shape that collage provides. Colours and textures have always been important to the way I think about my images. In my current work, I use collage more to create variations in texture and while a lot of my current work is done through printmaking (monoprint), I now like to combine this with different textured papers to build up layers of colour or explore what can be seen and what is hidden within an image. |
PAUL MacCORMAIC
---Ireland--- www.paulmaccormaic.com I was born in Dublin in 1961 and grew up in Finglas. I graduated from Dún Laoghaire IADT in 2006. I now live in Kilbarrack and have my studio in my back garden. Living in suburbs, as most people do, has given me an ‘in-betweeny’ view of life, neither rural nor city. From a visual arts point of view the suburbs are often overlooked and so have featured a lot in my work. As well as direct observation, much of my source material is filtered from mass media, especially glossy magazines and TV. I make works of art in many media, sculpture, photography and drawing but it is collage and painting that makes up the bulk of my output. My entry to Collagistas 2018 is part of a series concerned with food security, food trends, traceability and artisan food producers. Dublin, featured in the background is very much a big village and the availability of food from all over the globe makes it a small world. |
Christine Voelk
---Germany--- As a consultant specialised in brand building and brand communication I love to develop the image of products, companies or employers. But even so there are still many other moods and feelings within me that I need to set free and I do so by creating art. These moods which come into my mind sometimes, are multi-faceted, often contradictory and very difficult to describe in words – so I express these moods in collages. When creating my collages, I use only printed images from magazines and books that already have a certain mood. But by combining them with others I give them a new meaning. So my collages are like multi-layered mosaics which visualise the different facets of my own feelings. And to make my collages more vibrant they always reach out into the 3rd dimension. Fortunately, I have the privilege to do art only for myself with no need to please anyone. And by switching freely between my job and my art I can improve my inner balance. |
Carmen AlvarBeltrán
---Spain--- cargocollective.com/carmenalvar/Collages I have a degree in Fine Arts, one Master in Artistic Production and one in Secondary Art education, and a PhD research about giving a second life to found objects such as the collage technique does. Because of the theoretical interest in collage I express my worries about history, art, climate change and human behavior with paper. My work has been shown in different Spanish cities such as Madrid, Valencia, Alicante, Barcelona, Badajoz and Córdoba. I belong to the collage collective La Recortada who focuses their work on feminism, gender and forgotten women, also in Collagistas Festival in Milan (2017). My last investigations that will be exhibited in SalaParés (one of the most important galleries in Barcelona) are about Russian constructivism and the Soviet Union, Closed city is part of it, as closed cities and closed towns were secret research installations in the CCCP. |
Demos Tsormpatzoglou
---Greece--- papermosaic.gr Born in 1976. I live and work in Athens-Greece as an art conservator specifically on paper, parchment and old manuscripts. I tent to recycle and transform everything in art. Old furniture, clothes and other objects can all be usefull and with the appropriate treatment give birth to a piece of art. Because of work; paper and I "know each other" well and it has become my ascendent material on my collages. “Self-taught”, started creating collages for myself in 2007 until my first solo exhibition in 2010 in Thessaloniki with the title “Torn Edges”. Since then I participated in group exhibitions and had other solo ones in Athens and Thessaloniki. My last solo exhibition in Athens named “Apodyopsis” (the act of mentally undressing someone) deals with the contraction of the human body based on details of it as well as on faces and gaze. |
Nina Fraser
---U.K.--- www.ninafraser.co.uk Gained a first class degree hons BA Textile Art at Winchester College of Art, Hampshire, UK in 2006. It was from this material investigation that she eventually found herself working with paper. She emigrated to Portugal in 2014, becoming a resident artist at MArt Artist Studios in Lisbon from 2015 - 2017. She has exhibited in collective and solo exhibitions in UK, Portugal, Berlin, Australia, Poland, Slovenia and USA. Her collage work has been selected for publication in USA, ltaly, UK, Spain and Portugal, and was one of the selected entries for the Evolver prize in 2017 (UK). My work arises from an attempt to understand the contradictions in our exterior world and our relationship with landscape, through the physical act of rearrangement and material investigation. Drawing inspiration from my surroundings I dissect disparate parts of the landscape and re-imagine them into new and dislocated scenes. Environmental concern and a continuing inequality in the distribution of resources informs my choice of inexpensive and throwaway materials such as paper, magazines, household DIY materials and plastic bags. I seek their paradoxical value, pliability and immediacy, and their insistent grounding in a time-place, through association of text, image or material properties. I liken the process of collage to that of my own life creation. I feel that by selecting and refining imagery for my work I am also processing my own life choices, allowing new journeys to begin from unexpected connections. |
Kai Holland
---Germany--- www.kaiholland.de First there was an inherited camera. Soon after making my first experiences with the hard reality of photojournalism during my studies (Photo and Film Design), i turned the focus on the already existing images to work with this amazing ressource. So i started collecting and selecting lots of material. This leads inevitably to my profession in a renowned international picture agency (akg-images). Working with more than 10 Million images day by day. I am sure you know what that means! I had no other choice... My main topics are still the ubiquitous human ability to create and destroy, and the other way round. For me, collage is the perfect technique to reflect these human characteristics. Egija Zirapa
---Latvia--- www.egijazirapa.com Egija Zirapa is analog & digital collage artist based in Latvia, Valmiera. Having studied in London, where in 2010 she graduated from University of The Arts London. It is captivating, seeing how the paper cuttings, free colour dashes and fragments of photos become arranged, orchestrated by Egija’s hands, merging different worlds and starting to tell new and sensual stories. |
Tanja Ulbrich
---Canada--- www.tanjaulbrich.com Battered painted board, and abstract beiges, sepias and blacks create the backdrop for the stories that unfold in Tanja's collage. She takes her inspiration from Dada artists such as Kurt Schwitters or the photomontages of Greta Stern. “My work has everything to do with inner fantasy ,“ she has said. “I let my intuition guide me to select my materials.” with its emphasis on abstract and the raw materials’ lines and seams, her work has a distressed look that conjurs up inner struggles. She has shown her work across Europe (Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands). |
Sandra Gea
---France--- www.sandragea.com I was born in 1978, in Dijon, France, to Spanish parents. I studied translation. I lived eight year in Athens and since keep a strong bond with the Greek culture. My collages are the diary of my dance with life, at the edge between nature and culture. instinctive, organic and profoundly resilient. Languages, myths, symbols, personal experiences and reflections are woven to achieve a polysemantic interpretation of the work. In collage and in Life : tear, cut, reshape, resize, create a world in the dimension of your soul! |
Avi Yair
---Israel--- aviyair.tumblr.com For the past thirty years, I have been an active artist living and working in Tel-Aviv. I have exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. For over ten years, collage and assemblage have been a major part of my work, which encompasses engravings and sculpture as well. I have 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 me much artistic freedom in all mediums. Through the process of cutting, tearing, gluing, and reassembling, I assign these materials a new role, steering them away from their original purpose. Working in this way allows me to conduct intimate dialogues with the past and create new narratives, which continue to fascinate me. This is the fourth time I am participating in the CollagistasFestival and it has become an important part of my year and my artistic world – meeting the faces behind the works posted on line, exchanging thoughts, ideas and techniques and creating new friendships. All this has opened up new worlds for me. |
Martina Charaf
---Argentina--- I work on education with children and teen ager, through creativity, relaxation and meditation using the power of collage with them during the workshops. I created and lead Tijereteando, a project thought to offer collage workshops to families. Tijereteando want to be a space and time where families learn, discover and share together around their collage creations. A time without cells, tablets, computer. Since i was a teen ager i used to play and dream while doing collage, but it was 6 years ago, while living in Sao Paulo, Brazil, when I restarted and began to take classes, participate in workshops, learn with other people, share and show my work. I love to find small objects everywhere: streets, trains, bus station, restaurantes, friends´houses... giving them a second life and chance in my works. Homeless things will have always an special place in my collages, leaving their anonymity and being protagonists in other world. In a huge, agitated and painful world, my work is like a quite and calm assortment, trying to talk about the value and power of small,vulnerable, fragile and noiseless things. |
Sam Birt
---U.K.--- sambirt.wordpress.com I am an artist, film maker and choreographer from London currently living in Northern Italy. Initially I trained as a professional contemporary dancer at the London Contemporary Dance School and went on to perform throughout Europe and the United States before returning to England to complete a Master of Arts Degree in Choreography and Performing Arts. I first began making small collages to send as cards to family and friends as I traveled and worked abroad. I have always played with photography and painting, but collage seemed to stick and I started to explore it further. After creating my first few big collages, I received some very positive feedback. Apart from being surprised, I was excited and motivated and decided to have my first exhibition. This was a turning point for me. My work became public and it started to sell. So far, all of my collages are made from recycled paper: magazines, old books and what ever I find that catches my eye because of the colour, texture, content or form. My technique is to either cut or tear sections of images and then piece them together to give them new life. From afar my collages appear to be abstract compositions sometimes bursting with colour and light contained within the harmony of linear form. But if you look closer you will begin to see strands of a woman’s hair suspended as though reeds undulating in a river; a dissected train creating a symmetrical pattern running across the center of what appears to be a flower; a flag becomes a dancing skirt of a woman concealed within a piece of sky. Playing with the viewers perspective overtime, you may find that each time you look something new may emerge. |
Lida Driva
---Greece--- www.lidadriva.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. Along with architecture I started exploring photography, graphic design and collage art as well. 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 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. Martyna Benedyka
---Poland--- martynabenedyka.com She was born in 1991 in Poland, where she currently lives. She has acquired a First Class BA (Hons) in Painting from the Gray's School of Art, Scotland. Martyna has exhibited in Poland, the UK, and the USA. She works in several different media, including painting, photography and collage. |
Evi Papadopoulou
---Greece--- I was born in Kilkis, a small town in northern Greece in 1981 and grew up in Hamburg. I have studied architecture at the University of Kent and I have worked and lived in many places since. At the moment I live and work as an architect in Thessaloniki. I work mostly with digital and mixed media collages. Since 2011 I produce collages for a small magazine in Greece .This is my first exhibition as a collage artist. |
Agst´n
---Argentina--- www.instagram.com/agstn.artist Agustin is an Argentine artist who works in Madrid. In his artworks, the characters invite us to immerse ourselves into a fantastic world. His collages are between the superficiality of aesthetic beauty and a deep drama. Use rubber tablecloths, patterned papers, drawings or paintings as background, which he then complements with spray, adding appropriate symbols and cut-out images that make up his own symbolic universe. |
Sean Hillen
---Ireland--- www.seanhillen.com Sean studied at Belfast College of Art, the London College of Printing and at the Slade School. His 1980’s photo-collage works, based on his own documentary photographs mixed with tourist, toy packaging and fantasy material were at different times highly praised and heavily censored. One featured as frontispiece in the Imperial War Museum’s recent book ‘Art from Contemporary Conflict’. The original black and white photos have since been acquired as a permanent collection by the National Library of Ireland, and published as a book: ‘Melancholy Witness’ by The History Press. The gently post-apocalyptic and visionary ‘IRELANTIS’ series begun after he moved back to Ireland were published in 1999 with an introduction by Fintan O’Toole and opening speech by Seamus Heaney; are mostly based on the already-hyperreal postcards of John Hinde and have themselves become part of the Irish cultural landscape, featuring on over 30 book covers;‘Figure 2’ in the recent ‘Photography and Ireland’; on the cover of the recent definitive ‘Irish Art since 1910’; and the subject of academic interest in cultural and sociological studies. His series in the 2000’s; “Searching for Evidence..” and in the 2010’s; “What’s Wrong? with The Consolations of Genius..” related to the phenomena of ‘cognitive dissonance’ and conflicting theories in the wake of the 9/11 events were born in his personal experience co-designing the official memorial to the controversial Omagh bomb; and the death of an acquaintance in the London 7/7 bombings; He recently began a number of new different series which will he hopes to further collage into an large-scale work loosely based on the Sistine Chapel. His work is in many private and public collections, and he has won several awards and prizes including a major Arts Council bursary in 2015. He given a number of lectures and appeared on a number of panels. A one-hour documentary on him was recently funded for Irish television scheduled for broadcast in 2019, and a book of his collages designed by Erik Kessels is in development. |
Colin Eaton
---Ireland--- www.colineaton.ie Colin is a visual artist working mainly in medium of collage. He trained as an architect and his architectural background and practice coupled with his love of form, colour and texture informs his art practice. His work is graphically inspired and narrative driven. Creating often from discarded materials he likes to investigate possibilities with paper and card where folds and cuts become incidents on a page, interweave, fragment and are peeled back and then reveal layer upon layer – a narrative. Creating something out of a single material is a welcome challenge for him – focussing on a sole material. His art practice although an extension of his architects persona is also at the same time a release from the strictures and constraints of architecture and the building process. Here he is allowed the freedom to create his own narratives entirely. To construct worlds without restrictions. Each of his paper pieces tells its own story. A narrative in folds, cuts, tears, perforations and layers. His works tend to embody subliminal, sometimes esoteric and intriguing references to the subject matter or process. His modus operandi in his art practice is to make works which connect emotionally. Creating empathy between the person and the object – Stirring people’s emotions and sensibilities. Moni Wilk
---Poland--- She is an art historian and a polish collage artist living and working in Dorset, Great Britain. Her art practice is closely related to the role of women in the contemporary world and the body as a medium. A destruction and defragmentation, as well as the importance of color, is crucial for her work. She believes that a collage is a cabinet of curiosities: ‘Kunstkammer’ where boundaries are difficult to define. |
Marta Janik
---Poland--- planetmarta.com A few months ago, almost everybody saw one photo: a seehorse down deep in the ocean holding a cotton bud. At first I thought: what a surrealistic photomontage! It wasn't. The photo was real and heartbraking. We live in crazy times. Almost everything seems possible. People are pushing boarders further and further. If reality is already a collage, we may ask why do we need this kind of art now? And not only why do we need it, but why do we use it and make it more and more often? I see collage everywhere. I live in Berlin. Lately Deutsche Opera Berlin advertised „Le Prophete” with a serie of collages. The most popular Radio Eins put posters with colourful collages on almost every metro station. The botanical garden invites patrons for beautiful concerts with... collages. And I live in this city as a collage artist. It means that I try to express myself by using papers, scissors, cutters and glue to create images which could tell something about myself. Why? Because I feel like a collage person. And yes, sometimes I feel dada. It means that I am rebelious. It means that collage is my own way of dealing with this crazy world. It means that I like to use something that already exists. I like to play. I like to give meanings to things. I like to create my own world because I would like to find the answer to the question: who the hell am I? What is important to me? Why did I grab a scissors? Is collage serious? Is collage chaos? Am I chaos? I create chaos but I put it in order. I try to. I organize this world. I interpret. And I am surprised with myself. As a result I would like to present my manifesto and proclaim a new term. Maybe it is time we say: coolage instead of collage. Marta Janik is polish. She studied literature and computer graphics. She works as a journalist, a teacher and as a guide in a museum. She took part in exhibitions in USA, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. Her works have been published e.g. in Maintenant Magazine, Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (Three Rooms Press, New York) and "Kwartalnik Przekrój" (Warsaw). |
Rozenn Le Gall
---France--- www.rozennlegallcollages.com I'm a collage artist based in Lyon, France. I realize minimalist ambiguous collages in which the viewer is free to interprete the image as he feels. For many years, I have been making handmade collages. I studied History of Art and it appeared to me that collage was a convenient way to express different artistic movements.I see the artistic process of collage as both a physical and intellectual experiment. To make a collage means to be in contact with different kinds of paper: the glossy texture of luxurious magazines, the stiffness of cardboard, the softness of old pages, the peculiar smell of old paper. You can choose to carefully cut and trim an element or on the contrary, to furiously tear out a whole page. The art of assemblage! The technique of collage allows for a lot creative freedom. To dig into the diversity of the images that surround us to rebuild a new world, divert images from their original context to recreate a new reality freed from all conventions. So the viewer knows that the image is truncated and artificial, but when he interprets it, he gives it a new reality. His own reality. I really like this quote from Charlie Chaplin : «It is not reality that matters in a film, but what the imagination can make of it». It totally fits with thr aim of my work. Female characters, omnipresent in the world of the images, have held a large place in my universe but I now tend to explore other topics. Phil Carney
---U.K.--- I'm 31 years old and from the U.K. I have been making collages for about 5 years. I’m greatly influenced by cinema and approach my work in the same vain as film editing, shifting between images to create narrative, to show the relationship between people and space, the loss, the desire and the pain and joy of memory. |
Adrienne Geoghegan
---Ireland--- www.adriennegeoghegan.com Adrienne is best known for her idiosyncratic collages, assemblages, shadow boxes and children’s picture books, as well as her famous VISUAL ART BOOT CAMPS. As a child she lived in a fantasy world inventing characters and writing stories. She had a ‘non idyllic’ childhood and this was her escapism. Adrienne was shortlisted for the McMillan Prize for illustration at the RCA exhibition and the Bisto Award in Ireland. Adrienne went on to publish children’s books, editorial illustration and some advertising as well as paintings. Adrienne Geoghegan is a graduate of Kingston University in London, UK, where she was awarded a first class BA (hons) degree. She continued her career for some time in London, illustrating for many prestigious publishers, including The Guardian and the Economist. She was hired to lecture in DIT School of Art Design and Printing, where she taught part time for over ten years. Adrienne has given talks to various academic institutions nationwide where she speaks on a variety of subjects, including children’s books, illustration, collage and painting. She has also been invited to speak at the National Gallery of Ireland Summer Lecture Series. In 2015, Adrienne was invited to London to train as a GAEP on the prestigious Golden Artist Educator Programme, with Golden Artist Paints USA. Adrienne also teaches children’s book writing at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin. She is a member of the Illustrators Guild of Ireland, Children's Books Ireland and IVARO. In 2018 Adrienne set up Creative Escapes Italy and took her first group to Tuscany in June. |
David Crunelle
---Belgium--- davidcrunelle.com David Crunelle is a multidisciplinary artist from Brussels, Belgium, mainly developing his work in visual art, photography and graphic design. He has been teaching visual communication and photography in higher education for nearly 10 years. He works as art director in a communication agency and he is also a stock photographer for Getty. Winner of numerous graphic design competitions between 2009 and 2013, he is the author of many artworks for which he was nominated by the Music Industry Awards. Besides Belgium, his work has been displayed recently in Italy, Spain and in the USA several times in 2017. David was born , lives and works in Brussels Eugenia Conde
--Argentina--- www.eugeniacondef.com Collage for me is not just a way to express myself. It is the need to discover the story behind. Behind the faces in old photos, discarded pieces of vintage paper or old and rusty objects... It is an invitation to look differently, to pause, to listen... to engage in an intimate conversation with the peculiar, the singular, the forgotten, the tiny and the left aside, that when yuxtaposed in one piece, has the incredible hability to confront you with who you are. |
Anastasia Glas
---Greece--- www.behance.net/anastasia-g I am a self-taught collage artist based in Greece. My relationship with art is crucial and creativity is a part of my everyday life. My specialization is digital collage, however, I love experimenting with different materials such as fabric, threads, leather etc. Ι started collage making 2 years ago and since then I am trying to include it in my work and studies. In this way, as a maker in a leather workshop, I create collages using leather surfaces and recently I incorporated collage as an alternative research tool based in arts in the context of my Master thesis. Personally, I consider collage art as a unique way to express your inner self which offers you the possibility to give life to your imagination. |
Pascal Verzijl
--- 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 5 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. |
Anna Gerolymatou
---Greece--- www.annagerolymatou.com Born in Athens, now based in Brussels. She has followed art courses in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and various other art workshops in Athens. She also holds a BA in Business Administration. She is participating in major art fairs and galleries in Europe and her work is held by both private and corporate collections. She also participates in various art projects that explore the intersection of artistic creativity and creativity in non-arts sectors. She prefers to record positive emotions and by finding beauty in textures she is proposing an escape from the rigid world of business and numbers to the world of inspiration and hopes. Her artworks are aiming at giving a link to sensuous dreamy scenes and offering the viewer an image of relaxation. An ardent art lover Anna Gerolymatou is a mixed media artist employing an experimental approach. Her creations are most of the times complex and retain a consistent emotional narrative component that is unique, sophisticated and often mysterious. She associates art with her dreams and it is the blending that illuminates optimism. |
Tinca Veerman
---Netherlands--- www.tincaveerman.com I love thewords of Aristotle: 'the soul never thinks without an image'. First we see, then we think. Whenyou look at an image, all these visualexperiences over time make up your story. In my collages I'm always curious to explore the relationship between shapes and interpretation. The brain seem to have the a need to make a connection between the different shapes a person perceives. In the stone age it was most important to recognize the shapes of a predator if you wanted to stay alive. Identifying patterns that could result in some kind of danger. The same we still do in everyday life. But we also recognize emotions we don’t want tobe part of, just by looking at a situation in yourdaily scenery. This fascinates me. While I'm working on a new piece, using themes like uneasyness, violence, emptyness, vulnerability and chaos, I try to find the exact point where recognition and abstraction meet. Cutting out shapes, usinglines, color gradation and all kind of different shades of grey to find a balance between the recognizability and the abstraction. |
Anthony Kelly
---Ireland--- www.freeformtrouble.com 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" |
TeatroBalocco
---Italy--- www.behance.net/TeatroBalocco TeatroBalocco was born in Turin from an idea of Maura Esposito and Silvia Testa in 2008, along Po river banks. Both degreed at Academy of Fine Arts, specialized in Graphic, Scenography and in New Media, we start up our art project between Turin, Milan and Sardinia, our home island. Our difficulty of being targeted made our research focused on different medias such as images, collages, videos and writing. TeatroBalocco Publishing was born from the common passion for books in each component of them, and the need to join our imaginaries, giving them a home on paper where images and words can meet and contaminate each others.The research of images for collages, the poetry and the language, the paper choice and the intention to realize all the book production process, from the writing, to the illustrations till the binding, responds to the desire to create and object, a book, accurate in each aspects, not only to read, but to observe, to thumb, to touch as an art object. |
Tom Doig
---Ireland--- www.tomdoig.ie Tom is a collage artist and muralist based in Cork City. Born in Aberdeen, he grew up in London and have been based in Ireland since 1994. He graduated with an Honours Degree from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2009 and with a Masters in 2018. His love for collage has taken a number of forms, from smaller intimate compositions to enlarged paste-up public art commissions in Cork City Centre. Through an intuitive process of compositional assembly, he seeks to generate imaginative disruptions to the standard interpretations of visual source material. He works towards creating speculative fictions which generate a discourse around our shared consumption of images, and the participatory cognitive understanding that these create. His intention is to lend these imaginary propositions a sense of validity by maintaining their logical believability as pictorial spaces, building environments which allude to both the mythic and the mundane. |
Holger Becker
---Germany--- www.holgerbecker.com Collage is to me more (but not less) than just a product at the end of a process, the picture. It is a research. It makes pictures using pictures. The whole process around making Collage is a journey: a room, a table, the paper, the cutter, the glue…collecting, finding patterns…groups…archives of material…finding old books and magazines…finding fragments…cutting, tearing, coincidence, gluing, the hand of chance, memory, layering, selecting, remembering, combining, decision…searching…surprising myself…gluing. In my work with Collage I try to come to a poetic solution. I am a visual artist who studied fine arts in Hamburg. At the moment, I live in Nuremberg, Germany. Coming from painting, I finally fell in love with analogue Collage! There are series: portraits, landscapes, the “Air Plane Head” and the „free tv“ series, or the “Pictures for Places” series in which I develop very large Collage wallpapers on walls in situ. |
Alison Kurke
---U.S.A--- www.instagram.com/kurberry I love paper, collage, bookmaking and printmaking. Also collage collaborations, red wine, perfume, swimming pools, polysyllabic words, atheists, chocolate, and swearing. I hate artists' statements, posers, guns, right-wingers, liver, bad public transportation, and small-minded idiots. The background of this image is composed of superimposed architectural drawings of vacation villages in Europe of the 1960s and 70s. |
Pascaline Marange
---France--- www.collage-du-dimanche.com A freelance graphic designer, installed since 2015 in Paris. Magazines, newspapers, photography, all images are recovered, torn, cut by her. A careful deconstruction for surrealist reconstructions or anthropomorphic portraits. Her collages tell stories: funny, incongruous, absurd, poetic starring Man in its diversity and complexity. Collage for her is a walk in the middle of images that lead to a new reality. |
Maria Benaki
---Greece--- mariabenaki.wordpress.com I am an actress and I live in Athens. I am self-taught. Since I discover collage it became a great passion for me. Collage is the proof that magic still exists. I work with old photos, books, magazines and other small objects. Giving them a new life it’s a fascinating prosess for me,like exploring a strange land. I also make dioramas and booksculpturing. Next Fall I will participate in two exhibitions In Athens. My collage work deals with childhood memories. It speaks for the beauty and the violence of a world forever lost. |
Alan Murphy
---Ireland--- www.avantcardpublications.com Irish writer and illustrator of four collections of poetry for young readers. He lives in Lismore, County Waterford where he writes, makes art, and occasionally reviews YA and children’s books. He has had numerous exhibitions and his books have garnered attention, acclaim and award nomination. He has also recently published adult poetry with Degenerate Literature, art and poetry with all the sins, and photography with Riggwelter Press. |
Virginia Lorenzetti
---Italy--- www.instagram.com/vare.china Virginia Lorenzetti is currently enrolled at the School of Art Graphics of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.In the past two years she has been able to study and practice the manufacture and processing of paper using the Western and Eastern methods (Hanji), while experimenting with calcography, woodcut, serigraphy, the photographic technique of cyanotype and collage. Her works are very heterogeneous because she likes to experiment with new techniques andmaterials; they generally do not have a trait d'union that clearly connects them. She started to use the collage technique because she wanted to try a new way to represent things that live in her mind, without using pens or brushes. She felt that the images she created were working well, so she kept on trying to create a thread between the harmony of natural colours and pigments and the bizarre and unusual forms she could find on newspapers and magazines.The link has to be subtle, not obvious and clear. |
Casandra Tola
---Peru--- www.casandratola.com Art was ever-present in my life since childhood: My artistic calling stems from those early days in which I painted, cut, glued and hammered wood for fun, unknowingly shaping my life’s profession. I studied Electronic Art in Barcelona; however, upon graduating, I was reassured in the idea that my work had to be primarily manual and not digital. When I returned to Lima in 2009) I dedicated myself full-time to art and started to put on my first shows centered around drawing pieces. Seven years ago my interest in drawing was replaced with an impulse to tear paper. My gravitation towards collage art was due to a search for color and composition. Since then, I have experimented with various ways of using the scraps to paint, create silhouettes - which I then complement with drawing or a different technique - or intervene three-dimensional surfaces to create murals; always with the aim of creating my own creatures and my own world. A couple of years ago my creation process started to center around the pursuit of volume, space and perspective within the technique of collage. |