Collage - Ian Wieczorek - contemporary visual artist

The term ‘collage’ was first coined with reference to works by Dada and Surrealist artists, and subsequently  found a resurgence in Pop Art through the likes of Rauschenberg and Hamilton. Today, the analogue  methods of physical cutting and arranging have been largely superseded by digital means, via image  editing software packages.

The hand-cut works presented here return to their analogue collage roots,  offering a visual meditation on context, juxtaposition and visual formalism. The works are created with arrangements of diverse and disparate hand-cut visual elements sourced  from magazines, books and ephemeral printed matter, based primarily in contemporary idiom and  imagery. They reflect both aesthetic and subconscious decisions, with no overriding agenda or  premeditated intentionality. The results, celebrating the dynamism, spontaneity and energy of the artform, are  open-ended and non-directed, subverting expectations and allowing viewers to weave their own  narratives.