#textile collage

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Presentation for single critique today. It’s nice to see these big formats hanging next to each other for once

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"broke, broke, broke" 2024 and "Rest Easy" 2024 Installation view for single critique

It was difficult taking this picture, since Rest Easy is significantly darker. I wanted to place them next to each other to show how the pieces converse with each other.

If my appropriations series was displayed in a spectrum, these two would be on opposing sides to each other.

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"broke, broke, broke" 2024 212cm x 190cm, textile collage (recycled paintings, canvas), metal grommets, S-hooks

This is a work in my series of appropriations, that uses only canvas as textile material. The two pieces of canvas at the top used to be one whole painting. Both the front and backside had been painted on, so after washing and scrubbing it, i cut it in half, turned one side around, rotated and reattached them. the other pieces at the bottom are canvas scraps of a friend of mine, also a painter, which I connected in a patchwork-like manner. In the middle is another recycled painting, from which almost all paint has been washed of. The last piece is a scrap of blank canvas, which i found in my stash. all along the edge of the work I inserted metal grommets, which can be used for hanging the work in a variety of different ways/orientations/figures.

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"I could not do this without you" 2024, 222cm x 292cm, textile collage (curtain, recycled painting, dyed tablecloth, brocade), woven ribbon, metal grommets

I created this work in the early summer of 2024, for the exhibition "DEAL" which happened at Maxikunst by Künstlergruppe Der Kreis and Krakauer Haus Nuremberg. The exhibition took place in the rooms of an empty bank building and was a collaboration between students and artist from Nuremberg and the class of Michał Zawada of the academy of fine arts in Krakow. In the exhibition the piece was still unfinished and was missing the ribbon and the tears cut from recycled paintings. In the photos the piece is installed in the curtain rail of the pavilion of Klasse Ziese at the academy of fine arts in Nuremberg. The building was designed by Sepp Ruf and features these very big windows looking out into the forest. On this day, the sun was shining very prettily through the windows and subsequently also the work. The sun highlighted the different weights of the fabrics that I combined, and created another layer of organic structure, which became part of the work.

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"Lost Then Found" 2022 145cm x 292cm, textile collage (recycled paintings, crushed velvet, mollitan), bleach, acrylic paint, metal grommets

This work is part of my "appropriations" series, where I combine different textiles that I collect with paintings by other other artist, that I recycle. Most of these paintings I find in the trash. I started washing, scrubbing and dying these canvases, in order to appropriate them and make them my own. In this work I was interested in the literal double-sidedness of the collage, as the front and the backside can be read as an image on their own. So i hung this work up in the room in such a way, that the visitors had to walk around it to discover the back-side. By placing it more or less opposite of the entrance to the room, and relatively close to the back wall, visitors tended to discover this view last in the room.

It was displayed during the Jahresausstellung 2022, the yearly exhibition at the academy of fine arts nuremberg, as part of the display by the class of Prof. Kerstin Brätsch.

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"untitled" 2021, 195cm x 150cm, Textile collage (recycled painting, scarf, lace doily, ribbon), spray paint, metal grommets

In 2021 I began, inspired by my partners artistic practice, to collect unused, forgotten or discarded canvases around campus, in order to recycle the paintings. I began developing a technique to wash and scrub the canvas, which would remove some of the original painting, but would leave the rest still recognizable. I began collecting other fabrics, that found themselves in my possession by various means. I was gifted some, some I found on the street or in the trash. I began combining these different fabrics along aesthetic decisions. The thought behind it was, that art can never happen inside a vacuum, as an artist is always inspired by something, for example the achievements of others. This is the first of a series of works I call "appropriations"

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Anya Paintsil. Weepsville, North Wales, 2023.

textiles, threads 

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Anthony Stevens. Ancestor, 2019.

mixed media, mixed threads, recycled fabrics