Vandal presents "Translations" by Sydney Collage Society

The SCS has been working hard the last couple of months on a new group show. We would love to invite you to the official opening next week.

We are presenting a series of large scale collage works that are the result of a process of collaboration between five artists. Inspired by the recent developments of SCS member, Steve Tierney, these collaborative artworks are an expression of the process of collage, a bi-product of collect, cut, create.
Each artist's work, each voice is sliced and woven into a new unity and this new form is a container of conversation.

Featuring:
Stephen Tierney
Liz Peniazeva
Kubi Vasak
Myrrhine Fabricius
Millie Bartlett

Opening Night: 28 March, 6pm - 10pm
Join us on Art at Night: Chippendale & Redfern Precinct Gallery Tour.

Exhibition continues:
29 March - 3 May
Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm

Curated by Sydney Collage Society

Sponsored by Young Henrys

A Night & Afternoon of Cut and Paste w/ The Sydney Collage Society

We are back at Workshop in Redfern this March/April for 2 cut and paste events. One will be an evening session on Friday the 1st of March and the second one will be an afternoon session on Saturday the 13th of April from 2-5pm. There is plenty of materials and plenty to learn about the art of collage. The workshops will be run by SCS members Liz Peniazeva, Steve Tierney and Kubi Vasak.

Collage - A Night & Afternoon of Cut and Paste is an introduction into making analog collages, run by us the Sydney Collage Society. The three-hour evening workshop will provide you with the practical skills and techniques used to make analog collages.

Students will learn about specific types of collage, using colour, texture, form and image placement. We’ll give you tips to look out for when sourcing materials and gluing work will also be discussed. By the end of the class, students will have completed various collages in different styles. 🌶🤘🏻🔥

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See you at the workshop! xx

A Night of Cut and Paste w/ The Sydney Collage Society

We are going to be running our last workshop for 2018 on Friday the 30th of November at Workshop HQ in Redfern, Sydney. Last weeks workshop sold out (crazy good!). So be quick and book a spot today! 🌶🤘🏻🔥

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Details:

Welcome to A Night of Cut and Paste - an introduction into making analog collages, run by the Sydney Collage Society. The three hour evening workshop will provide you with the practical skills and techniques used to make analog collages. Students will learn about specific types of collage, using colour, texture, form and image placement. We’ll give you tips to look out for when sourcing materials and glueing work will also be discussed. By the end of the class, students will have completed various collages in different styles. You’ll have 3 hours to run wild, be wickedly creative, and make as many badass collages as your heart desires. Some beverages will be supplied to get them creative juices flowing.

See you at the workshop! xx

Reflected. New collages by Steve Tierney @ China Heights Gallery, Sydney

Reflected straddles the intersection of gender. It examines the grey matter that sits in between masculinity and femininity and coerces an observer to consider their place via the use of line and vast negative space. The fact that the portraits are of the artist is not necessarily a point of fixation. 

Tierney’s physical form acts as a vessel to carry ideas that shatter socially defined and often rigid confines of gender presentation. Through the use of line alone, Tierney is able to convey genderlessness.

Drawing upon the poses adopted by haute couture models in fashion magazines and on runways, the artist is able to evoke a vulnerability that permeates the layered imagery in a way that the subject alone cannot.

When deconstructing his work, an observer is presented with a stacked image which reinforces the three dimensional makeup of collage art and the multifaceted nature of gender. There is a deliberate uncertainty - the collection is playful.

Risqué.

The overarching themes of identity and personal exploration are peppered with the idea of pure, aesthetic beauty. The images are raw. They have been manipulated not via computer programs but rather the physical act of slicing an image and recomposing it. The meaning of the original photograph shifts to convey something entirely different simply by having body parts that don’t traditionally adhere together, fuse.

Kait Fenwick

Opening reception Friday 27th July, 6-8pm
Continues until 5th August
16-28 Foster St, Surry Hills, Sydney NSW
China Heights Gallery

https://chinaheights.com/

'Inner' SCS Group Show @ Ellery Gallery, Sydney

 'Inner' is a group collage show consisting of 9 SCS members. The show opens on Thursday the 14th of June at 6pm and runs until the 5th July. 

About the show:

'Inner'

"An internal monologue that sounds off the walls, repeating, echoing, altering. The voices conjure notions that sit in and beneath the depths, be they guiding, destructive or placid. The surface is both a window and mirror to the places we go to elude and be. By the page torn; the photograph cut and in the assemblage of fragments these artists generate works that speak to the interior."

Featuring:

Danilo Brandão | Millie Bartlett | Kitty Callaghan | LA Early | Gabriel Mello
Liz Peniazeva | Stephen Tierney | Lyndon Pike | Kubi Vasak  

Opening Reception: Thursday 14th June 6-8pm
Kindly Sponsored by Young Henry's

14 June -  July 5th
View by Appointment or during gallery hours

213 Glenmore Rd, Paddington, Sydney

DOWNTIME w/ Julien Langendorff

"...it's important not to take your material for granted, and approach it with humility like it's something as neutral as a colour coming out of a tube of paint."

Words of wisdom from French artist @julien_langendorff 👏🏼🇫🇷 New #scsdowntime live now 🐝link:

http://sydneycollagesociety.com/downtime/2018/04/24/julien-langendorff

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

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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