But anywayyy, I've been obsessed with collages recently. I love the effortless look of them but I've always found it hard to make them look good. I love the layers within collages but also the way some collages can distort figures and reality. To be honest, I don't know much about artists who work with collage but I love the work by Kurt Schwitters Johanna Goodman and Charles Wilkin (not forgetting the inspirational collages I see all over Pinterest!).
I haven't done much of my own collages before but I thought I'd share some of my recent collage work from my current A2 sketchbook. The theme of my coursework this year is 'Hidden Cities' and I've been looking at all the things that make up a city but aren't the obvious tourist attractions or those things that aren't advertised in brochures such as barbed wire fenced, tower blocks, drains and scaffolding. I've also been looking at things that can be used to conceal hidden things or lead to hidden places such as ladders and windows. Another aspect of hidden cities that I've been thinking about is the way that things are always changing and being replaced in cities, with buildings replacing and hiding the remains of the old ones, hence why my last collage is comprised of layers of buildings.
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