SPECIAL PROJECT
THE LONDON COLLAGE PROJECT
LONDON • MAY 2025
In May 2025, I was selected to participate in The London Collage Project, an international collage residency hosted by Les Jones, publisher of Contemporary Collage Magazine, and mentored by renowned collage artist Cecil Touchon.
For one week, 18 collage artists from around the world came together in London to make work, exchange ideas, and push our practices in new directions. For me, the city itself became part of the process.
I made all of the work during the residency using papers I purchased, found, or collected throughout London. Wallpaper samples, books, maps, stationery, magazines, and other fragments became the raw material for a small body of work rooted in the city.
THE WORK
DELANEY AND MORRIS began with flower imagery created by Mary Delany, the groundbreaking 18th-century British collage artist, paired with imagery from William Morris, one of London's most influential wallpaper designers. The result became an almost underwater landscape, with clouds moving through it like fish.
COPPER BOX grew from my fascination with London's rooftops. An inverted image of illuminated windows became the starting point, alongside imagery of the Copper Box Arena, a reminder of the city's constant collision between old and new.
BUCKINGHAM ATLAS combines multiple views of Buckingham Palace from an enormous atlas of London with decorative papers, wallpaper samples, and stationery discovered during the residency.
THE PEOPLE
One of the most valuable parts of the residency was being surrounded by artists whose approaches to collage were completely different from my own. The week became as much about conversation, critique, experimentation, and friendship as it was about making work.
The residency culminated in an exhibition in Hackney Wick, bringing together the work created during the week.
THE LONDON COLLAGE PROJECT 2025 RESIDENCY ARTISTS
Brian Biggs
Michele Bon Durant
Deborah Danelley
Teri Dryden
Les Jones
Joel Lambeth
Regina Levin
Emily Marbach
Graham Moore
Rick Midler
Graham Moore
Julia Nelson Gal
Clare Schmehl
Sasha Shalmina
Silvio Severino
Steve Snider
Cecil Touchon
Marlene Weisman
I get a window seat for this reason
With Peter of the Archive Books Shop in London
The William Morris Book
The Gang
Rick In Action
Work...
work...
work.
Another window seat
Critiques
The Collagists
That's Steve Snider
Cecil Touchon, for fuck's sake.
Teri Dryden
Regina
Sasha Shalmina
Teri
Poser
Taking it seriously
A small one I made using 3d Magic eye pages
Up where the smoke is all billered and curled 'Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep world When the's 'ardly no day Nor 'ardly no night There's things 'alf in shadow And 'alf way in light On the roof tops of London Cool, what a sight
Les Jones
Marlene Weisman
My Family what lives in London
At the exhibit
Silvio Severino
