✂️CURRENT EXHIBITION: CONFRONTAGE AT COLLAGE-O-RAMA ✂️
⏰Opening Reception:
Friday the 8th of May at 6-9pm (PDT).
Running: May 8th - June 6th 2026.
🧭Venue:
Slip Gallery,
Belltown Art Walk,
2301 1st Ave,
Seattle,
WA 98121,
United States.
The Confrontage exhibition is the result of a recent mission posed by the Special Agent Collage Collective, of which I am a proud card carrying member. Here is a little flavour of the brief below:
"To confront is to face, and that is what you are doing with this mission. It may be connecting a line between two completely different source images. It may be a deliberate contrast between light and dark, busy and quiet. It may be capturing the energy of complementary colors—bluest blue sitting with the most orange of oranges, a verdant green alongside velvety red—or the abruptness of two images so dissimilar, so dissonant, that this is the only way they coexist. Whether a 2-element splice collage or a work of maximalism, you are encouraged to consider how every piece contributes to the confrontage at play."
The piece itself is entitled "The Hollow Man" and it is a part of my Inner Space Series . This collage speaks to the experience of Anhedonia, or absence of pleasure, or a feeling of being lost or listless while in the teeth of profound depression.
Collage-O-Rama is the brain child of the amazing Andrea Lewicki . Its become a real fixture on the international collage calendar, featuring a month long celebration of collage as a medium, through exhibitions, workshops and informal collage gatherings.
A massive thanks to Andrea for all your hard work pulling this together and other members of the crack collage team who helped out.
For information on joining the Special Agent Collage Collective and to view open missions CLICK HERE.
For more from the Inner Space series CLICK HERE.
✂️Upcoming Exhibition - Complex Pictures at Collage-O Rama - Opening this Friday May 9th - Saturday, June 7th 2025. At the Slip Gallery, 2301 1st Ave, Seattle, Washington, USA.✂️
⚡️Upcoming Exhibition - Complex Pictures at Collage-O Rama⚡️
Opening this Friday May 9th - Saturday, June 7th 2025.
At the Slip Gallery, 2301 1st Ave, Seattle, Washington, USA.
I am delighted to be exhibiting in this upcoming exhibition at Collage-O-Rama curated by Liz Ruest, Andrea Lewicki and hosted by the Special Agent Collage Collective. hosted by the Special Agent Collage Collective.
Check out what they have to say below.
COMPLEX PICTURES is an exhibition that brings digital work into the same space with displays of physical collage pieces and is an attempt to bring more recognition to artists who are invested in this area as a primary mode of practice.
At its most fundamental level, collage is a language of visual math, of addition to and subtraction from source material. In the book What Kind of Collage is That?, Katie Blake frames digital collage as “created partially or entirely with electronic means, such as software like Photoshop.” It’s not digital art in general, and it’s not simply a scan of a paper-and-glue collage. Artists were invited to expound on their collage methodologies, and the portable, location-independent aspect of working digitally was a consistent theme.
The 72 images accepted through the international open call represent styles of work ranging from narrative to surreal to abstract. Anthony D Kelly’s skill in integrating complex and visually rich material into strong compositions stands out, as does Diana Jahns’s use of layering with intelligent and poetic restraint. Jenny Lloyd gives us a maximalist approach with every element an asset to the overall whole. Nafisa Jabbarova draws upon a surrealist dream world with active, game-like scenes. Roberto Jackson Harrington introduces us to digital assemblage, presenting imaginative configurations of 3D objects and tableaus. Clive Knights’s work with physical transparency rather than software-facilitated layering expands the concept of digital collage. Eva Maria Reinhardt demonstrates the power of well-placed details such as a single, delicate line.
The exhibition will be shown on a dedicated screen at Collage-O-Rama (Slip Gallery, Seattle) as well as on the Special Agent Collage Collective website beginning on May 9.
Check out more about Complex Pictures & Collage-O-Rama CLICK HERE
Visit the Special Agent Collage Collective by CLICKING HERE