The Art Of Collage
I’ve always been interested in using my photographs for collage. Infinite possibilities are opened up when images are brought together. Making collage reminds me of the hands on experience of working in a darkroom but it also enables me to reignite and combine the memories I have of different moments in time. I see collage as a reconstruction of memory, and a moment in time that can often be used to comment on the contemporary world.
The conductor Richard Hickox (conducting Bach’s Mass in B minor). With an anti-racist demonstrator. Detail of a collage made in 1998. Both images were taken in Spitalfields.
Collage with a lift in Denning Point, Commercial St & an image of …. taken in the Golden Heart pub, London 2010.
Collage of a photograph of a man sleeping with his suitcase next to him. Whitechapel Market. East London, 1982.
Collage made using a published photograph taken on commercial Street in 1990.
Collage using a postcard of Tony Blair (which was a collage) & a poster photographed in Brick Lane. 2016.
Collage using an image of brick work (Spitalfields) & 2 photographs taken on Smithdown Road, Liverpool in 1981.
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