✂️⚡️Upcoming Exhibition - Big Orange Monster: An Emergency Collage Exhibition⚡️✂️
Opening: Wednesday September 10th
Opening Reception: Second Saturday, September 13th 2025, 6-8PM (CDT)
Running until: Saturday, October 25th, 2025.
At:
The Kolaj Institute Gallery,
2372 Saint Claude Avenue, Suite 260,
New Orleans,
LA 70117,
USA.
If you follow my work then you know that I have a special interest in monsters, what they represent, how they can make us laugh, how they cause us fear, and what they can teach us about ourselves. So I am delighted to have dispatched some dastardly creatures to take part in this monstrous exhibition at the Kolaj Institute over the next two months.
Here is a little from the organizers:
“The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.” –Ken Livingstone
You mix fear (yellow) and anger (red) and you get a Big Orange Monster. What’s the emergency? There are a lot of Big Orange Monsters on the loose. Monsters only have power if you are afraid of them. So let’s create a space where we can slay our fear of Big Orange Monsters. Art helps us exorcise our demons. Monsters can be glorious and wonderful or horrible and evil. Let’s not cast aside the good Big Orange Monsters because some other Big Orange Monsters are well…unpleasant.
Curated by: Ric Kasini Kadour
Other Events During the Exhibition:
Collage the Tarot Workshops: September 10th & October 8th 2025 7-9 PM (CDT)
Collage Artist Meet-Up: Tuesday, September 30th , 6-8PM (CDT)
Second Saturday: 11 October 2025, 6-8PM (CDT)
For more about this exhibition, events and the work of the Kolaj Institute CLICK HERE.
If you dare to enter the hallowed Rare Monster Archives CLICK HERE .
The Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives - The Fearful Facts of Year Five
😈👹👺🤖!!!!!MONSTER SEASON COMMENCES!!!!!!👾👽👻🎃
Hail Horror!!!
The much dreaded month of October has arrived again like shrieking nails on the chalkboard of my very soul!!! Dark formations of forboding cumulomalicious clouds gather on the near horizon promising a relentless maelstrom of monstrosity.
What weirdness shall we witness? What lurching creatures of the decrepid swamps of the human psyche are threatening to spill forth now? Do we really want to know?
We have a sickeningly rich assortment amongst the reports that are flung across my desk. These materials within have been carefully obtained by our world class agents through sneakery, snakery, covert maneuvering, safe-cracking, breaking and entering, trickery, misdirection, cajolery, roguery, conspiracy and outright armed robbery. Through these skills and others our daring team have gained exclusive access to ancient ruins, undersea laboratories, classified astronomical charts, underground military bases, forbidden libraries, lunar outposts and all manner of confidential records.
As always kudos to our inrepid research team, I dread to peer inside these dossiers of disaster for fear of what I may behold!
The stupendous scope of our scintillating specimens is summed up by this quote from the eminent Swiss-American Biologist and Geologist Louis Agassiz:
“The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for nature to realize.”
So brave with us if you will in the coming days and weeks as we reveal the results of this year’s intrepid investigations.
Or if you are feeling particularly courageous you can explore the riveting results from the previous four years over at the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives.
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - MONSTER WORKSHOP- Saturday 10th of September at 14.30 -16.30- The Parochial Hall, Cappoquin,Co.Waterford, Ireland, P51 VY40 - At New Reality: Contemporary Collage in Ireland.
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
MONSTER COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Cappoquin! Get your monster hunting hats on!!!
You are invited to join me in this swashbuckling, hair raising opportunity to explore with humour, the topics of fear, monsters and the healing power of storytelling, through the rich medium of collage.
I will be demonstrating the three basic types of monsters “The Ghostees”, “Giants/Miniatures” and “Chimeras”. I will then invite you the dazzlingly courageous participants to generate “Monster Reports” of your own. Join me if you dare!!!
To visit the Rare Monster Archives simply click here.
WORKSHOP TIME:
Saturday the 10th of September at 14.30 -16.30
LOCATION:
The Parochial Hall, Cappoquin, Co.Waterford, Ireland, P51 VY40
PRICE:
€7.50
REGISTER:
!!!Booking essential as places are limited!!!
To register for this event call 087 2187962 or through Eventbrite by clicking here.
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I also highly recommend the “Lets Dance” workshop hosted by the amazing Una Gildea & Marta Janik. During this fun workshop you will be invited create a collage inspired by your favourite dance moves!
Sat, 10 September 2022 between 12:00 – 14:00
To register for this event call 087 2187962 or through Eventbrite by clicking here.
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For the other amazing workshops "Cut it Out" with Alan Murphy & Tatyana Feeney Come along and have some fun creating your own collage at 10am 11.30am . Call 087 2187962 or register here .
Or "Collect/Cut/Compose/Paste" with Tom Doig at 16.00 - 18.00. Tom Doig's workshop is an introduction to collecting collage materials, the use of tools, materials and practical techniques used in the collage process. Call 087 2187962 or click here.
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For more from this fantastic festival visit: https://www.instagram.com/new_reality_festival
For more from Market House Craftworks visit: https://markethousecraftworks.ie/
The Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives - The Calamitous Compendium of Year Four
😈👹👺🤖!!!!!MONSTER SEASON COMMENCES!!!!!!👾👽👻🎃
Woe betide us!
The slimy, scaly, unscrupulous claw of October has arrived once again to clasp at our wavering hearts and instill a dread so deep, so grievous, and so dark, that no light can ever hope to reach within it.
It is with the greatest of fear and trepidation that I must once more pry open the jaws of the Rare Monster Archives to reveal the ill-contents of this, The Calamitous Compendium of Year Four.
What array of monstrosities awaits us within? Who could possibly say? Who would want to? Anyone with an ounce of sense would have fled to the hills long ago. . . If you remain, I can only thank you for accompanying me on this, most perilous of journeys.
What a haul this year! We have a rich assortment amongst these findings and profiles, the materials within have been carefully obtained by our world class agents through sneakery, snakery, covert maneuvering, safe-cracking, breaking and entering, trickery, misdirection, cajolery, roguery, conspiracy and outright armed robbery. Through these skills and others our daring team have gained exclusive access to ancient ruins, undersea laboratories, classified astronomical charts, underground military bases, forbidden libraries, lunar outposts and all manner of confidential records.
The stupendous scope of our scintillating specimens is summed up by this quote from the eminent Swiss-American Biologist and Geologist Louis Agassiz:
“The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for nature to realize.”
So brave with us if you will in the coming days and weeks as we reveal the results of this year’s intrepid investigations.
Or if you are feeling particularly courageous you can explore the riveting results from the previous three years over at the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives.
The Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives - The Terrible Telegraphs From Year Three
😈👹👺🤖MONSTER SEASON👾👽👻🎃
The frightful month of October has slithered around again, bringing with it the latest in monster research from the world class agents of the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives Team. Join us for the rest of this month as we peel back the pernickety pages of these dastardly dossiers of devilish denizens. Who knows what kind of hellish and haunting creatures we may encounter? Can we possibly imagine? Do we dare?
All I know is that there is a rich assortment amongst these findings and profiles, the materials for which have been gleaned by our agents through subterfuge, thievery, ransacking, piracy, diplomacy, trickery, burglary and outright tom-foolery. Through these skills and others our daring team have gained exclusive access to hidden government vaults, sunken shipwrecks, secret military bases, forgotten libraries and confidential records.
The stupendous scope of our scintillating specimens is summed up by this quote from the eminent Swiss-American Biologist and Geologist Louis Agassiz:
“The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception to extraordinary for nature to realize.”
So brave with us if you will in the coming days and weeks as we reveal the results of this year’s intrepid investigations.
And if you are feeling particularly courageous you can explore the riveting results from the previous two years over at the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives.
