🔸🔹🔸 COLLAGE & ILLUSTRATION: FRANKENSTEIN RESIDENCY - AUGUST - OCTOBER 2023🔸🔹🔸
I am absolutely delighted to have been accepted to take part in the Kolaj Intitute's Collage & Illustration Residency which is focused on Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and hosted by the illustrious Kolaj Institute over the course of August - October 2023.
If you follow my work you may have had the dire misfortune of witnessing the frightening annual Rare Monster Sighting reports posted every October, and will know that I am very interested in the intersection between visual art, poetry and literature, and how these different creative practices can act as engines to spur each other on. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been a joy to research and is so much more than a gothic horror novel. The novel itself is a poigniant reflection on the danger of humanities efforts to subjugate nature through science and technology; but also on loss, abandonment, alienation, loneliness and at times the restorative power of relationship. Its a novel of great depth and as we have started to share our ideas on the residency new perspectives and nuances arise.
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The organisers have this to say:
"During the Collage & Illustration Residency – Frankenstein, artists will work to visually interpret Mary Shelley’s 1818 proto-science fiction novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. As part of Kolaj Institute’s ongoing Collage & Illustration project, this virtual residency aims to explore the themes of creation, identity, and the boundaries of human imagination through the captivating mediums of collage and illustration. Kolaj Institute will publish Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus using the illustrations made during the residency as a way of bringing this important, historical book and the themes it raises to 21st century readers. A selection of artwork will be exhibited at Kolaj Institute in New Orleans. "
To find out more about the Kolaj Institute and their residency programmes visit: https://kolajmagazine.com/content/institute/collage-illustration-frankenstein/
Residency: Poetry & Collage hosted by the Kolaj Institute - March 2022
🔸🔹🔸POETRY & COLLAGE RESIDENCY - MARCH 2022🔸🔹🔸
I am absolutely delighted to have been accepted to take part in the Kolaj Intitute's Poetry & Collage Online Residency hosted by the illustrious Kolaj Magazine over the course of March.
If you follow my work you will know that I really enjoy to pair visual work with both poetry and short stories. I am really excited to take part in this programme over the course of March, to meet the other international artists, writers and poets, listen to their perspectives and see their work; and of course to learn new things about the vibrant intersection between the written word and visual art.
The organisers have this to say:
"It says something that in the Poetry Foundation’s Glossary of Poetic Terms, “collage” is one of the few visual art terms they define. Perhaps this is because so many poets have also been collage artists.
This project-driven residency is open to artists and poets. Participants will work together to investigate the intersection of collage and poetry by exploring concepts of found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world. Together we will create working definitions and document techniques."
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