Collage on board, 19.4 cm x 27.1 cm
Shane Wheatcroft's work explores drama through the physiognomy of found portraits. His single eye leitmotif becomes a complex symbol tying subject and scene, metaphorically representing a surveillance culture where in which lives are constantly monitored. By removing parts of the subject's face, Wheatcroft constructs windows, revealing what's hidden. The result is a world filled with concealed truths, inviting reflection on observation and the observed.
Collage on board, 21.9 cm x 22 cm
“Collage has been a great medium for me as an artist. I particularly appreciate the limited palette you have to work with, and the constant hunt for better and more interesting images to work with. Collage, to me, is like a cross between treasure hunting and alchemy.”
Collage, giclee print, paint, foamboard and perspex in box frame
16 cm x 20 cm
“I make collages and assemblages from my collection of vintage magazines, books and movie posters. Any idea I have usually starts with a single image I'm particularly struck by. I'll then add bits and take bits away until something starts to click and a story emerges, I'll then hunt around for other images to re-enforce the story. I try to create dramatic scenes in my work, which are often influenced by songs I'm listening to or books I'm reading at the time as well as real life.”
Collage on board, 20 cm x 25.6 cm
Collage on board, 16.7 cm x 24 cm
"I collect printed materials from the 1930’s to the 1970’s, Books, comics, shopping catalogues, movie annuals and anything else which I think I could use. I’ve collected a lot of very boring magazines such as Practical Housebulding and Caravan Monthly, as I’m always searching for images which have no value on their own, but can become a part of a more interesting scene."
"To be honest, a lot of my work comes from happy accidents, and then I attach a theme or story as I build the piece. Finding interesting source material helps a lot. I’m always collecting random magazines and books, which trigger new ideas."
Collage on board, 15 cm x 15.3 cm
“Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still series of the 1970’s has always been a huge influence on my work. Also, John Stezaker’s collages. I’m a huge fan of the UK and US Pop artists too, especially Peter Blake and Andy Warhol. Derek Jarman’s later paintings and assemblages have always been a big inspiration too.”
Collage on board, 13.8 cm x 19.9 cm
Shane Wheatcroft was born in 1974 in Colchester, England. He is currently based in Kent, United Kingdom.
For Your Viewing Pleasure
Catherine Telford Keogh (born 1986, Toronto, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores systems of containment, circulation and consumption that structure the bonds between language, biomatter, commodity objects, and waste. She received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art and an MAR in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Yale University. She has held recent solo exhibitions at Helena Anrather, New York; Roberta Palen, Toronto; University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, and also exhibited at the Bronx Museum, New York, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal and Interstate, New York.
Lotte Andersen (b.1989) is an artist born in London, working between Mexico City and Lima. Centering around installation, her work forms an investigation into group dynamics, movement, its properties and the manipulative nature of nostalgia. Puzzles serve as devices to reflect on feelings of fragmentation as well as the power inherent in many pieces composing a nuanced whole. Her collages continue upon these themes layering found posters, photography, archival family photos and news clippings. A puzzle has the potential to serve as a weapon or a de-escalation tactic, a competition or a meditative moment to collaborate. The viewer is often placed within the work, activating it whilst dealing with the implications of their own presence.
Alix Vernet (b. 1997), received a B.A. from UCLA in 2019. Vernet is a New York City-based artist who uses the city as her canvas. “For me, research happens through process,” Alix remarked in an interview for Document. Her explorative process often includes molding reliefs on buildings throughout the city, and using an eccentric combination of materials such as latex, clay and cheesecloth to create works that are shadows of the corners of the city they come from.
Africanus Okokon works with moving image, performance, painting, assemblage, collage, sound, and installation to explore dialectics of forgetting and remembrance in relation to shared, cultural, and personal mediated histories. He received a BFA in Film/Animation/Video from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2013 and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University in 2020. He is an Assistant Professor in Film/Animation/Video at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and is based in New Haven, Connecticut.
Iván Argote is an artist and film director. Through his sculptures, installations, films and interventions, he questions our intimate relationship with others, institutions, power and belief systems. He develops strategies based on tenderness, affect and humour through which he suggests critical approaches to dominant historical narratives and attempts to decentralise them. In his interventions on monuments, large-scale installations and performances, Iván Argote proposes new symbolic uses of public space.
Out and About
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
READ
Bharat Sikka — The Sapper
‘The Sapper’ is as multi-layered as the relationship that it narrates between a father and an adult son. Through photography, Sikka creates the possibilities for observation, recollection, close comparison, and collaboration, and gives this long-term project a title that both describes and belies its substance.
WATCH
"I've Known Rivers" with Hank Willis Thomas for Pace Gallery
Hank Willis Thomas discusses his new retroreflective artworks, on view in his solo exhibition at Pace Los Angeles through August 26. These vibrant, shapeshifting collages speak to the artist's longstanding interest in perceptual and perspectival nuance.
LISTEN
Micah Frank - Cambria
Micah Frank is an electronic sound artist that uses algorithmic, generative and stochastic methods to build sound sculptures. Much of his work incorporates field recordings, hand-built software and real-time synthesis techniques.
Cover art by John Whitlock.
