Based in Leeds, Leah Durant states that her pri­mary pas­sion is pho­tog­ra­phy, which is melded with print­mak­ing, col­lage, and drawing. In col­laged pieces, Leah’s pho­tog­ra­phy is often non-specific and enlarged to high­light tex­ture. Aes­thet­i­cally, I love the dif­fused nature of her mark-making and pho­tos, which speaks to the larger scope of her work. She writes: ...

Max-O-Matic, aka Máx­imo Tuja, is a col­lage artist work­ing to cre­ate slick, quasi-minimalist pieces pair­ing color with vin­tage imagery. My favorite of his port­fo­lio includes the Cream series, which, accord­ing to Max, was cre­ated “…dur­ing three fever­ish sum­mer nights. Obvi­ous links to hot, beach, sur­real crea­tures and pop lyrics…” They are lively, strange, and fresh. All ...

I fol­low OCW’s Tum­blr, and I found the work of Malin Gabriella Nordin through it. Her web­site, divided by years and sub­ject mat­ter. There is an explo­ration of shapes and col­lages yet very cohe­sive. A smat­ter­ing of her work is below. The stone or shape sim­i­lar to it is very present in Malin’s work. Some­times lit­er­ally, ...

There is a cer­tain amount of joy that I get from old but newly manip­u­lated pho­tographs, espe­cially the ones that Mario Zoots has used. Glam­our shots and school por­traits can be so silly (did any­one have a back­ground with LASERS in it?) so I enjoy the sub­ver­sive nature of what Mario is doing. It is ...

I love tex­tures, and that is a large part why I am so attracted to col­lage and hand crafted work. Paper just feels so good! The work of Eva Ver­meiren uses papers, line, brush strokes, and more to cre­ate non-representational pieces that study the mar­riage of line and paper. All images via her Flickr. Check out ...

Its nice hav­ing friends look out for you. In this case, Steven Rid­dle passed along to me the work of Jockum Nord­ström. Jockum’s work has a del­i­cate hand, with flat­tened space and scenes of time pass­ing, but in an abstracted and non-linear fash­ion. Col­lage is promi­nent in his work, but it is inte­grated almost seam­lessly ...

Dawn Gard­ner, a recent graphic design grad­u­ate, uses dig­i­tal col­lage and a clean use of typog­ra­phy to com­pose images that have sev­eral dichotomies to them. Com­po­si­tions are both struc­tural yet play­ful. They are abstract in their arrange­ment, but com­prised of pho­tographs. There is both focus and diffusion. There is a cer­tain amount of ease with ...

I first saw this by Aarón Julian, and was a bit terrified: With no skin and an eye intact, my mind fills in the blanks to make sense of that image. Other col­lages by Aarón use some ele­ment of the human that’s been sub­tracted and/or mis­placed. It really shows that small things, such as sim­ply ...

Vir­gina Whipple’s col­lages are 100% ana­log. They use pho­tographs, col­ored paper, and strate­gi­cally placed cuts. Virig­inia has dif­fer­ent ways in which she uti­lizes the pho­to­graph in her work. Some­times, ele­ments of a pic­ture are extracted for their color and tex­ture. Other times, the pho­to­graph itself is kept nearly intact, but frac­tured by small­est cuts and ...

So I’ve been talk­ing about this for a lit­tle while, and now it’s for reals. The Col­lage Scrap Exchange on Brown Paper Bag is now hap­pen­ing! Sign up here if you are a col­lage artist and inter­ested in trad­ing your scraps with other artists! Dead­line to do this is next Fri­day, Octo­ber 21! ...