✂️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 - Empty Columns are a Place to Dream at Kolaj Live: Knoxville, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA - 1st - 7th of November 2021
"Empty Columns are a Place to Dream" as part of Kolaj LIVE Knoxville.
Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee,
U.S.A
November 1-7, 2021
I am absolutely thrilled to hear that the "Empty Columns are a Place to Dream" project, which took place as part of the amazing Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival has won the County Award at the Heritage Week Heritage Council's awards yesterday.
Co-ordinated by Caroline Conway, and curated by Ric Kasini Kadour, It was a real pleasure to take part in this project and a big congratulations to everyone involved.
I'm also blown away by the incredible news that the exhibition will travel to the Knoxville Museum of Art where it will be part of Kolaj LIVE Knoxville, from November 1-7, 2021.
This project featured local and international collage artists and their interpretations of the empty column in Emmet Square which was formerly the site of a statue to the Duke of Cumberland. Infamous for his brutal oppression of a Scottish uprising. The statue itself has long since been felled, leaving an empty void.
The artists in engaging with this curious absence sparked a timely and creative debate about the role of monuments, the values we uphold, the things we choose to forget, and how this is decided.
To find out more about the tremendous Kolaj Live festival in Knoxville visit:
https://www.kolajinstitute.org/kolaj-live-knoxville.html
To visit the "Empty Columns Project Archives" and view the work you can go to: https://emptycolumns.weebly.com/