OM.2011.194 - Anakawa - France - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.194 - Anakawa - France - postcard - 6x4 inches

OM.2011.192 & 193 - TICTAC - Germany - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.192 - TICTAC - Germany -  'My Little Primer' Children's Fluxus Primer -  Box Assemblage with foam letters that spell FLUXUS.

OM.2011.193 - TICTAC - Germany - 'Nektasr

http://tac-tictac.blogspot.com

http://tictac-tictac.blogspot.com

OM.2011.182 through OM.2011.191- Marianne Midelburg - Australia - Collage Centennial

Above OM.2011.182-187 - Marianne Midelburg - Australia - 6 black and white 'vest' collages - 18 x 15.5 cm

Above OM.2011.188-189 - 2 color 'Vest' collages - 23.5 x 17.5 cm

OM.2011.190 -  'Strange Children' collage - 23.5 x 18.5 cm

OM.2011.191 collage  titled 'Separate Vacations' - 26.5 x 19.7 cm

OM.2011.182-191 - Marianne Midelburg is a textile artist living in Victoria, Australia

web: http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/midelburg/web

ARTIST STATEMENT

I've been making collages for a number of years. I started off very small, just making a few cards for friends. Then, several years ago I met a fellow artist, who introduced me to international mail art projects and my interest and experimentations with collage greatly increased. I thoroughly enjoy the art of gleaning, i.e. finding the materials with which I create my paper collages and my textile art works. The methodical and repetitive nature of creating themed collages gives me great pleasure. I often use humor and word play in my works. I regularly visit many of the charity shops and garage sales, as well as markets and the recycle tip-shops in Bendigo, where I find a wide variety of free or extremely cheap materials, which have collage potential. We live in such a throw-away society, which is great for the creative gleaner. (Aug. 2011)

OM.2011.181 - Janice Anderson - USA - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.181 -  USA

Title of Collage:    Shadows of the Southwest

Artist: Janice Anderson

Size: 15 1/2  x 13 1/2  inches framed

Materials: Book Covers, Game Pieces

Year: 2011

OM.2011.180 - Joel Lambeth - Australia - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.180 - Joel Lambeth - Austalia - “The Everlasting Gobstopper” - collage on panel - 12x12 inches

http://www.joellambeth.com/

Artist Statement:

I see making collage works, or more specifically photomontage pieces, as a tool for making some kind of sense of the world around me.
Regardless of the subject or situation that presents itself, whether it be political, social or personal in nature, it has become impossible to have all of the relevant information in order to see the issue from all perspectives. Perhaps it has always been impossible to achieve this. However, in the modern time, with all of the multiplicity of sources of information that are available, the ability to access all of the facts has become contradictorily increasingly difficult.
Collage allows me space to take fragments, each loaded with meanings and associations, and arrange them into a form that presents (to me, at least) some kind of logical order or rationalisation, and permits reflection on subjects from a multitude of often disparate standpoints.
This can be a meditative process. In a way, the elements that are being used in the collage take on the form of a mandala, and my ambition in making these works are to attain a balance of form and (perceived) meaning.

OM.2011.179 - Paul Russo - USA - Gift to Cecil Touchon

OM.2011.179 - Paul Russo - USA - 'Neoteric' - collage on panel - 24x24 inches

OM.2011.178 - Carol Perroni - USA - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.178 - Carol Perroni - 'Baroque Flowers' - mixed media on paper - 4x6 inches - USA

OM.2011.177 - Matt Taggart - USA - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.177 - Matt Taggart - collage on paper - 10x7 inches USA

ARTIST STATEMENT
Being a musician/noise artist also, collage embodies the same ideas and directions I take sound. Exploring combinations of materials and images to create new ideas. Collage to me is improvisation, immediatism and pure.

OM.2011.176 - Cory Peeke - USA - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.176 - Cory Peeke - 2008 - 'Peeping Tom' - Mixed Media on paper - 8x8 inches - USA

ARTIST STATEMENT

Good collage has always been about recycling and reinterpretation, using bits of detritus and ephemera that, like the power of certain scents, have the ability to elicit potent associations. When awakened these associations provide a connection through which to explore both our personal and cultural history as well as our place in each.

Cory W. Peeke

2011

OM.2011.168 to175 - John Hart - Australia - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.168-175 - John Hart - 8 collages - Australia

OM.2011.167 - Bruno Neiva - Spain - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.167 - Bruno Neiva - 'ei8E' - mixed media collage - 8 x 5 inches - Spain

OM.2011.166 - Ken Stalebread Coleman - France - Collage Centennial

OM.2011.166 - Ken Stalebread Coleman - France

Description

Untitled work ^#97 

Actual size = 8 X 6.25 inches 

Dated Dec. 2011 

Various papers with watercolor, ink and colored pencil on Bristol board 

Initials KMC in circle on back

Statement 

I don’t have  much of an artist’s statement. Mostly I construct, or try to construct pictures. I react to, and interact with, various materials, colors, images, textures, marks. Everything I see, smell, taste and touch informs everything that comes after. Inspiration is trumped by work over time and lots of trial-and-error. I try to make the pictures interesting or entertaining (“entertaining” is that artistic blasphemy?) for myself and maybe for a few others.  Occasionally I succeed, often I fail. I keep at it.

OM.2011.165 - Helene Bernard - Canada - Collage Exchange

OM.2011.165 - Helene Bernard - 'Quietude' - collage on paper - 11x14 inches - Canada

OM.2011.164 - Huguette Fournier - Canada - collage exchange

OM.2011.164 - Huguette Fournier - mixed media on paper - 14x11 inches - Canada

OM.2011.163 - Nicole Locas - Canada - Collage Exchange

OM.2011.163 - Nicole Locas - Canada - collage on paper - 11x14 inches

OM.2011.162 - Doucet Carmen - Canada - Collage Exchange

OM.2011.162 - Doucet Carmen - Canada - 'Au Feu' - collage on paper - 11x14 inches

OM.2011.161 - Jeanne d'Arc Trudel - Canada - Collage Exchange

OM.2011.161 - Jeanne d'Arc Trudel - Canada - Collage on paper - 13.75 x 10.5 inches - Collage Exchange

OM.2011.160 - Diane Cote - Canada - collage exchange

OM.2011.160 - Diane Cote - Canada - collage on paper - 9x10.75 inches - collage exchange

OM.2011.159 - Odette Pinard - Canada - collage exchange

OM.2011.159 - Odette Pinard - Canada - collage on paper - 13.75 x 11.75 inches - collage exchange

OM.2011.158 - Marie Stockhill - USA - collage exchange

OM.2011.158 - Marie Stockhill - USA - collage on paper - 6 x 4.5 inches - collage exchange