COLLAGE ON VIEW
At The Whitaker Museum & Artwork Gallery in Rossendale, Lancashire, England by way of 18 August 2024. “The Lie of the Land” is an exhibition of works by Carolyn Curtis Magri and Déirdre Kelly, wandering pathways, tracing trajectories level to level, exploring isotherms, unfolding narratives with world threads. Evolving from a shared curiosity in mapping and researching place and creativity by way of textile-inflected lenses, each artists make explicit reference to lace making and a sample of interconnectedness which pertains to each native networking and world diaspora. It’s a journey with out borders; though there’s a distinction between gazes, the artists have overlapping viewpoints stretching throughout the Mediterranean, Malta and Venice and now, right here in Lancashire, the place each artists have been impressed by The Whitaker Assortment and Archives. Learn Extra
*****************************
Kolaj Journal, a full shade, print journal, exists to point out how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new pondering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s pondering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.