analogue collage
The start of a new year brings new creative opportunities. I’ve been getting back into some collage, experimenting with the Gelli Plate to make my own collage material. Exploring colour, texture and mark making has been so fulfilling and given me a deeper connection to my work. I’m intimately involved in the creative process and fostering a sense of personal connection and authenticity in my work. I’m excited about this new direction.
Here are a couple of my favourites so far….
Due to current circumstances with self-isolation, I thought I’d take the opportunity to get back into some collage. Recently, my focus has been on photographic work but I’ve been feeling the itch to get back to some abstract studies. Here’s the latest one from my glue book.
Well a new year has begun and I’m back into it with some new collage studies. I’m aiming to create a lot more of these in the coming months. It’s great to experiment with smaller works to explore new ideas. I like to work intuitively with these and not overthink it or become to fixated on a particular outcome.
Stay tuned!
This piece explores abstraction through firstly selecting some of my original photos. I don't set out with a plan of the how the work will look, it's more of an intuitive process of selecting images that speak to me at the time. I then proceed to add and subtract elements of the images by tearing of cutting as needed. In this piece I wanted to introduce some interesting layering by including transparency. Once the composition is complete, I glue it to the substrate and scan to enhance digitally. Some addition textures and minor colour adjustments were made, as seen in the final piece below.
'East' - Digital collage. Started analogue and finished digitally.