Karoline Healy: collage

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Maurizio Anzeri

Round Midnight

2009

Embroidery on print

Penny

2009

Embroidery on found photograph

This artist does amazing intricate work with stitch, I have seen his work last year in the Jerwood Space for the Drawing Competition and recently in the Saatchi Gallery part 2 of the Newspeak exhibition.

Again like John Stezaker he uses found photographs then adds elements to make the most beautiful images. Maurizo Azuri looks like he could be a milliner or designer as it looks like he is designing extraordinary hats and these works are the very beginning stages of his work, his initial ideas.

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Susan Hiller @ The Tate Britain

My favourite piece(s) of the exhibition, and which have some relation to what I'm looking at at the moment, is "From the Freud Museum".

She has created a beautiful array of boxes containing materials, personal relics, artefacts and combined them with narratives such as text, imagery, pages from books or instructions. They are linked by maybe by one word, sentence or shape in the image or narrative. Nice poetic references between the texts and the artefacts, which remind me of 3D Collages, I think each box stands alone as a inspiring piece of work, but altogether I think they slightly loose there significance....

Photocopied photograph of a Belfast street Scene and earth collected by the artist in
each of the six counties of Northern Ireland.

Photocopy of an engraving showing Lanzarote's volcanic eruption and samples of ores
and crystals from the interior which were collected by the artist.

Quote from Oscar Wilde combined with a series of dried Hibiscus flowers.

Page of text from Little House on the Prairie and an antique bottle containing a dried violet.

I particularly like this piece of work because of the idea of combining imagery and physical recordings to illustrate an event, I admire how she isn't bothered about the work making sense to the audience, opening it up to interpretation.

Other pieces of the exhibition I enjoyed was 'Witness'. An amazing installation including a room with 400 dangling speakers all playing different conversations, news reports and radio programmes of alien/ UFO sightings.

My own collages

From looking collages in books and the exhibition I decided to experiment with my own pieces.
The photographs came from a stall in Depford market, where there were boxes and boxes full of old family photo albums, postcards, documents, letters ect..... I have also used some from my own family collection.

I think the leather works well and complements these photographs because of the natural earthy browns and tan colours,leather is tough old skin contrasting with the fragility of the images.

In this photograph I really like the form of the girls' gathered swimsuit and
wanted to highlight it by replicating the shape with a nice pale soft leather.

I poured hot wax onto the leather to resist the
dye, then repeated to create different tones
recembling the shapes in the cave on
in the photo.

The same technique used again to highlight the
beautiful discolouration on the original photo.

I like the contrast of leather textures of the smooth taught ball the boy
is holding to the fibrous textured sample of leather.

I spoke to my tutor about the ideas of using collages as a means of designing and exploring the places that would be interesting to design on. I like the way it makes sense and links up random materials or images into a meaningful way creating connections that would never have been thought about. This is particularly appropriate to my project as I am trying to combine and associate the solid shapes and forms of furniture/interiors to the fluid contours of the body.

For this project I want my collages to be a big part of the designing/ development process as it will allow me to explore interesting ideas, different forms and shapes. Inspired highly by what I saw by John Stezaker.