This month at {Suite}, the gallery will host a group show of artists working with collage.
The exhibition will include a mix of artists from the {Suite} stable including Megan Archer, Wayne Youle, and Rob Cherry as well as guest artists Katherine Claypole and Cliff McPherson.
Collage, a medium which comprises of a variety of images taken from different printed sources, has its modern origins in the 20th century. Artists including Picasso and Braque glued chopped up newspaper and other images of unrelated subject matter onto their canvases and charcoal drawings to produce both a serious and tongue-in-cheek sensibility to their artwork.
In this exhibition at {Suite} the artists use collage to the same effect. Megan Archer’s works are carefully edited and designed. These artworks combine images from National Geographic and other vintage publications combined with humorous titles to create an artwork which is incongruous
and surreal.
Guest artist Katherine Claypole combines her collage with hand stitching, using retro images of people juxtaposed with sci-fi, almost futuristic looking stitched forms. Cliff MacPherson upscales the traditional collage scale and has created a work over 1 metre in size that combines images from medical journals and publications with handmade paper.
Collage has always found a home in the work of Wayne Youle and this exhibition will show works not seen before in Auckland created during an Artspace residency in Sydney using a variety of found images.
The exhibition will open on Thursday 13 May with drinks at the gallery between 5.30pm-7pm. All are welcome.
The exhibition is available to view online at www.suite.co.nz and all works by {Suite} artists can be found through the Available Works page on our website. Please use the password Suiteonline for access.
{Suite}, 189 Ponsonby Road, T: 09 218 4399, www.suite.co.nz