Collage: Let's Take Up More Space

Collage - Let's Take Up More Space

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Lynne McFarlane

Love Yourself First

A mixed-media collage in the centre of which is a close up portrait painting of a young woman eating cherries. She is surrounded by a circle of feathers with added brush pen colours. The background is mustard colour with an effect of purple transparent chiffon type fabric. There is some text which reads, 'love yourself first'

Caroline Miles

Let's Take Up More Space

Central to this collage is an etched black and white portrait of a 19th century woman wearing a short bead necklace. There is a small gap around her face creating a suggestion of detachment. All of the other print is has colour. Her hair is multi coloured floral images, lilacs, rust, pale blue and the artist has created a hat with text which reads 'rebel authoritative woman'. The background is a patchwork of subtle vintage floral prints including two tall daisies, a range of leaves, daffodils, bluebells and ferns. The artist has created a the shoulder and arm of a dress with a large pastel floral print which includes a pale blue hand catching a large drop of blue water. Text is arranged in select areas of the collage and reads, 'Let's take up more space', 'embrace beautiful chaos', and 'trust your crazy ideas'.

Samantha Blackburn

Listen To The Quietest Voices

A multi image collage at the centre of which is an idyllic scene of storks on a lake next to Greek or roman ruins. There is sand and silhouettes of palm trees in the distance. Text reads ‘keep some room in your heart fir the unimaginable’ and destroy the patriarchy no the planet’. From the border flies in a black and white etching of a flying angel with wings and flowing robes. Starting at the top left corner there is a pale blue these with roses and butterflies, and text reads ‘Great things take time’. We move into a pale pink section with butterflies, a vintage image of a fairy child running with a broom, some berries on a thin branch. Text reads ‘travel the world over to find the beautiful’, ‘take risks’, ‘live, create, tell the story’, and ‘go where your heart takes you’. Pinks move into pale and then strong orange in the top right corner– there is a sunset, a tram and then a powerful poppy with other large petal flowers. Text reads ‘be open to whatever comes next’. Towards the bottom right corner is a large deciduous tree next to a cut out of a palm, adorned with a small blue porcupine. Placed next to this is a yellow theme of large flowers, and into green. Text reads ‘access all areas’, ‘end ableism’, ‘listen to the quietest voices’ – a green wall, shamrock plant, ferns and leaves which stretch up to a delicate white flower and text which reads , ‘focus on your dream with passion’, connecting us back to the pale blue of sky and butterflies.

Samantha Blackburn

You Are Capable of Becoming More Than You Realise

A multi-layered collage with a central image of a topless late 19th century or early 20th century showgirl wearing a jewelled bodice around her stomach. A dandelion clock has been positioned in line with the centre of her legs. Her arms are stretched out to the sides. Surrounding her are several portraits of women from different eras, presented decoratively in circles, many with lace effects around them. These include two 1920s style drawings of white flapper girls with headbands towards the front of their hair and large stylised feathers. Top left is a young Black woman with an ornate headband and central jewel hanging down toward her forehead. She is wearing an ornate sleeveless top. Top right is a drawing of a young white woman eating cherries. Further down the collage we see a Roman bust of a woman, a portrait of a white Edwardian woman. There is an image of a Victorian romantic woman with dark curled hair surrounded by chiffon. The background is black and white and there is lots of text, either handwritten that we can't quite make out, snippets of newspaper print, words from books and in the centre, clear to read is the line 'you are capable of becoming more than you realise'.

Honor Flaherty

Trailblazer

Steph Fuller

Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity Darling

Two collaged women with three moons overhead. The woman on the left is a large image and has been created from several sources. Both women are from 19th century etchings. The one on the left has no arms like a Greek or Roman statue. She has lots of flowers decorating her shoulder straps, arms and hair. The bodice of her dress says 'rebel authoritative woman'. Her skirt is constructed from a series of circular pieces - planets, astronomy images, maps and in the centre is a romantic image of a woman wrapped in a loose scarf with a head of dark curly hair. The word feminist is applied. Next to her is a line of text which says, 'replace fear of the unknown with curiosity darling'. The woman on the right is a smaller image and she is reading a book. She has long dark hair and her lower half has been constructed from pants with the word 'venus' on them and legs created from vintage newspaper adverts. Around her legs are four modern cats in various poses, arched back, standing on two legs, getting ready to pounce.

Caroline Cardus

I am Enough

A cream coloured background with a repeated hand drawn motif of delicate swirls in pink and white, silver and blue stars, tiny red hearts and hand written and text saying ‘Lalala’. In the bottom left corner are two cut out daisies with hand drawn smiling faces and in the top left corner are three butterflies. In between are three lines of typed text – ‘throw kindness around like confetti’, ‘have a little sparkle wherever you go’, and ‘live, create, tell the story’, each of which have a handwritten ‘No!’ next to them. At the top of the image in the centre is a sentence take from a book with a dramatic jagged, spiky border. The phrase says, ‘ What am I doing to reinforce the very behaviour I want to stop.’ Down the right hand side of the image is a swirling black tornado, hand drawn with yellow and red lightening strikes coming out of it. At the bottom in the centre of the tornado is a woman in 1970s a line midi skirt and polo neck with a large belt all in navy. She is smiling. Above her in the tornado it says, ‘I am enough’. Next to her is a line taken from a book – ‘The Assertion Laboratory – “No, I have already done more than my share”. Again with the jagged spiky hand drawn border. A sweries of black arrows draw the eye to this statement more. Two other statements read – ‘do your best’ and ‘have an open heart’ which both have a handwritten ‘No!’ next to them.

Caroline Cardus

Cosmic Little Cog

ID a woman whose body is made up of collaged items stands on a rock on the shores of a lake, with a towering mountain in the distance. Above her head are two disks- on the left is a moon partially obscured by disembodied trees, to the right is the planet earth. On either side of her head are two wings. In her left hand she holds a star, in the right, a rose. Her body is a label with a hand written message ‘thank you for being part of IN/visible with love Little Cog x’. The woman’s legs are bare and she stands on the rock in flat shoes. The image is digital altered to have sepia tones, which have a bluer tint at the top right, with cooler tones towards the bottom of the image.

Pauline Heath

F*ck This For A Game of Soldiers

Vici Wreford-Sinnott

Don't Tell Me To Smile

The base image is a black and white etching of a street scene. Two 19th century on tricycles cycling towards us. A colourful bird swoops in with a message in text saying 'don't tell me to smile' and another with the message, 'rise of the woman'. At the top of the collage is a line of text which reads 'women belong in places where decisions are being made'. At the bottom of the image is a line of text which says, 'we are fearless, independent and original'. There is a jumbo jet in the top left hand corner of sky.

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