Cut Town - Collage Show

Cut Town is an exhibition of paper collage artworks by  Kieran Madden (@kieranmaddenwork) and Stephen Tierney (@steve.tierney.collage). The pair first met when they exhibited together as part of a group show in New York in 2017. These two Australian artists now find themselves back in their home town of Sydney after living in the US and Mexico respectively. Back home after having Cut Town years before. The exhibition will open the evening of Thursday 29th March and continue over Easter weekend until Sunday 1st April.
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Cut Town
@swamp__gallery 
102 Victoria Rd, 
Marrickville, Sydney
Opens Thursday 29th March 6-9pm
Continues until Sunday 1st April

DOWNTIME w/ Nic Supa

"I love rummaging through old magazines and even recycling bins… "

Check out our NEW #scsdowntimewith US artist @nic_supa 👌🏻🇺🇸

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2018/03/13/nic-supa

Sydney Design Festival x SCS Workshop

Thanks to everyone who came to the contemporary Collage Workshop today at @sydneydesignfestival 🙏🏻 we had a sold out event and there was plenty of beautiful collages made! ✂️ 💯 see you at the next one!! 👋🏼

DOWNTIME w/ Beth Holladay

"I love the moment when I happen upon an interesting combination that has meaning to me." 👌🏻Check out our NEW #scsdowntime with US artist @beth_holladay_art 🇺🇸

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2018/01/28/beth-holladay

DOWNTIME w/ Simone Karl

"I love mysterious and complex stories and some years ago I fell in love with the books of Haruki Murakami" We have a new DOWNTIME with 🇩🇪 artist @simonekarma Check out her amazing work and collage tips 👏🏼✂️😎

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2017/11/06/simone-karl

DOWNTIME w/ John Gall

"...for me it is about thinking very deeply about what you are doing while leaving open the possibility to capitalize on mistakes and serendipitous juxtapositions"

👌🏻we have a short n sweet #scsdowntime with an amazing designer/collage artist John Gall aka @llagj 🇺🇸

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2017/09/18/john-gall

'Infinite Variation' SCS Group Show @ Stacks Gallery, Sydney

 'Infinite Variation' is a group collage show consisting of 11 SCS members. The show opens tomorrow (Wednesday the 30th) at 6pm and runs until the 17th September. We have Marrickville legends Poor Tom's Gin on board - so it should be a delicious opening reception!

'Infinite Variation'

"Our existence is saturated in images and through these images the world at once takes shape and loses its substance. Through our consumption and accumulation of these images, we attempt to define our reality. As we get further sucked into this visual vortex, we grasp for those image fragments that stand out, for their familiarity or even their horror. Here the line between humourand tragedy; reality and dream slips and slides, here lies collage. Through its recontextualisation of images, collage has the capacity to tap into the collective memory; the subconscious, it can celebrate randomness and the beauty of happy accidents or impose order on chaos. Within the practice of collage there is infinite variation. Sydney Collage Society presents a group show, featuring 11 artists working in and exploring the possibilities of contemporary collage. Each artist has developed a unique approach to their art making, whether it be in form, concept and or process which move beyond cut and paste collage."

Featuring:

Alexandra English | Chelsea Tuesday | Danilo Brandao | Gabriel Mello | Kate Yurk | Kubi Vasak | LA Early | Lizzy Peniazeva | Millie Bartlett | Nikolaus Dolman | Stephen Tierney

Opening Reception: Wednesday 30th August 6-8pm

FACEBOOK RSVP

31 August - 17 September
Open Thursday - Saturday 11-6 Sunday 11-4

191 Victoria Street Potts Point, New South Wales 2011 Australia

DOWNTIME w/ Francisca Pageo

Hola Amigos! We have a brand new #scsdowntime with Spanish artist @franciscapageo ❤️🇪🇸 

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2017/8/21/francisca-pageo

DOWNTIME w/ Brian Vu

"Collage has a big influence on my photography, I love that I can take a lot of separate elements and inspirations and create my own."

Check out our new #scsdowntime with New York artist Brain Vu 🗽 

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2017/7/24/brian-vu
 

DOWNTIME w/ Killman Jah Low

If you can read Japanese then get you'll enjoy our new #scsdowntime with @killiman_jah_low_works The rest of us get a 'questionable google translate'... either way his work speaks for itself! 💙👌🏻🇯🇵

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2017/6/07/killman-jah-low

'FEEL GOOD, REPEAT' by Nikolaus Dolman

SCS member Nikolaus Dolman has a new show opening tomorrow called 'FEEL GOOD, REPEAT' at Firstdraft Gallery in Sydney.

Feel Good, Repeat: an exploration into the Western lifestyle economy and culture.

Consumer stereotyping is based on the idea that people connect ownership with particular products and belonging to a certain social group. Products hold symbolic meaning; brands play a role in determining self-identity.

We process information at a rapid rate, constantly storing and categorising – we engage in collective consumption in order to gain social acceptance. The impression we want to reflect upon others is influenced by the collected ideals squeezed from constant engagement and the proliferation of platforms. The imagery is infinite. The demand is high.
Feel Good Repeat is a deconstruction of compositions from commercial materials that subvert the obsessions and repetition of advertising. This ongoing investigation explores and questions the Western lifestyle economy and culture by drawing on the conventions of contemporary mass media.

The shop front window display is idealistic, influencing and determining a stereotype by its seductive nature. Feel Good, Repeat destabilises these structural patterns, imitative desires and fictional realities and draws attention to our current systems of social identity.

By adopting metaphors of mainstream representation the work analyses the aspirations of contemporary living within its multiplicity of excessive information. Using familiar surfaces and the manipulation of imagery to explore such obsessive and repetitive qualities involved with our image in the public realm.

See you at the show! More details here

'A Night of Cut and Paste' - Collage Workshop in Sydney

The team at SCS are stoked to team up with Work Shop this June when we run 'A Night of Cut and Paste'! The three-hour evening workshop will provide you with the practical skills and techniques used to make analog collages. We provide al lthe material and Young Henrys is providing the drinkd. It's all happening on Friday the 9th of June. Get your tickets today as this ones gonna sell out! Get your tickets here:

http://www.work-shop.com.au/event/collage-night-cut-paste/

DOWNTIME w/ Ryan the Truck

NEW Downtime with Oakland-based collage artist @ryanthetruck about breaking blades, the influences of @jayriggioart and @michael_tunk on his work and Elmer's reposition-able glue sticks!  ✌🏻🐐

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2017/5/07/ryan-the-truck

DOWNTIME w/ Stephen Tierney

NEW SCS member Stephen Tierney has been creating collage art since his design school days back in 90's! As a way to celebrate 20 years of collaging, we have a special #scsdowntime with Stephen. ✂️🇦🇺💥

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2017/3/30/stephen-tierney

DOWNTIME w/ Charlie Elms

"I like the dreamy, surreal stuff, a combination of images that skews reality." 

NEW Downtime with UK artist Charlie Elms 👌🏻🇬🇧

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2017/3/13/charlie-elms

DOWNTIME w/ Garrett Blad

"Unlike many things in modern society, there are no second chances collaging with glue. It takes preparation, concentration, and plenty of patience to get everything glued down just right."

NEW #scsdowntime with US artist Garrett Blad 🇺🇸👌🏻

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2017/2/24/garrett-blad

'Cut It Out! 2' group show @ Goodspace Gallery, Sydney

This Wednesday we're putting on a show! CUT IT OUT! 2 is a group exhibition featuring 9 Sydney based collage artists. The collection of work will explore the different techniques and styles used by each artist.

Featuring:

Alexandra English
Danilo Brandão
Gabriel Lamartine
Kate Yurk
Kubi Vasak
LA Early
Lizzy Peniazeva
Millie Bartlett
Nikolaus Dolman

***One night only***
Opening drinks from 6PM - Goodspace, LVL 1, 115 Regent St, Chippendale
Wednesday 8th Feb, 2017.

We hope to see you on the night!
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NEW DOWNTIME w/ Sophie Moates

"Have fun with it, be proud to be weird and have lots of spare scalpel blades!"

Three good tips from UK artist Sophie Moates 👌🏻🇬🇧

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2017/1/23/sophie-moates

FINAL DOWNTIME for 2016! w/ Danielle Cole

"Glue sticks are for grade school kids. If you want to sell your art, develop strategies for gluing it with a serious adhesive so the work won’t pop off once it’s been sold."

Canadian collage artist Danielle Cole aka @girlsanddinosaurs tells it how it is in our last #scsdowntime for 2016! 🙀💯💥🤘🏻🔥 

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2016/12/19/danielle-cole

NEW DOWNTIME w/ Hagar Vardimon

"love everything about collage. I love the creative process of telling a visual story. Every image that I pick has a story I want to tell."

SCS DOWNTIME w/ Dutch artist Hagar Vardimon! 🇳🇱🤘🏻

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/hagar-vardimon