Monday 14 April 2014

TOFCA appearance online

Hello everyone,
Thanks for your interest in TOFCA - The Organisation For Collage Art in UK. We are a new organisation and at the moment trying several blogging platforms to chose which one will be the best to host us. Here I am playing around the http://tofca.blog.com/
Any suggestions are welcome. We soon will be looking to employ art students to run the blog!
This is us in Instagram so follow

Saturday 12 April 2014

The possibilities of paper


Collage is only one of the trends within a massively trending PAPER. Everywhere where it’s “cool” to be will be something made of paper. Paper art installations and manipulated books are the favourites in the UK now.Su BlackwellSu Blackwell
Artists, craftsmen and designers experiment with paper features for the last few years. Chinese artist Li Hongbo has amazed the world with his stretching paper sculptures at the same time there are 3D printers available already.
The paper popularity raised with the popularity of sustainable lifestyle and recycling (eco-friendly materials, recycled art) worldwide. Paper is affordable material especially when it is recycled. An artist from any country can use paper (recycle magazines, labels, cardboard) to make their art due to it’s availability. Therefore again paper proves itself as THE medium for the revolution subject. Simon Kirk

Friday 11 April 2014

Sensuous collages from porn magazines

 
 
 
Jonathan Yeo is a British artist known for his portraits of famous people. For his collages he decided to use pornographic magazines. There's a lot written about the portraits and their political context, especially due to their good sales . We, however, found cubism theme more significant. To understand the artist's work and see how cut porn images form delicate nude shapes visit his beautiful website.

Tuesday 8 April 2014

We searched for collages at the AAF

There are several organizations, societies, blogs and galleries specializing in collage in the United States. We found no such organisation in the UK and therefore decided to establish our Organisation for Collage Art (meanwhile the only one in England).  But collage is trending! Tate shows Richard Hamilton’s collages at the moment. At our art fairs public expresses alive interest in collage works. So we went to the PV of Affordable Art Fair (London) a few weeks ago searching for collages. Unfortunately, just like with the Works on Paper art fair in February, we found only a couple of stands showing couple of collage artists.  Ironically they were mainly from the States. Modernbook Gallery  all the way from San Francisco, California brought artist Raven Erebus. Raven uses old books’ images, neatly cutting out engravings, creating vintage look. I love the fact that I start this blog with this type of collage because I do see it as the most “traditional” technique.  Although it’s not our business how Raven prices his works we wanted to cry when saw such low prices on original works. Dirt-cheap Art Fair? And of course butterflies and birds in manipulated images and installations are very trending for the last couple of years. Don’t ask me why but AAF indicates best what galleries think sells best.

Collage anyone?

Hi,

This is how we start – letting you know there is at last a center for collage art in the UK.
We are looking for artists, lecturers, writers to contribute their knowledge and articles related to collage and mixed media art.