Looking at collage as a process available to all who have the inclination to make one, I have created a composition of images that take away the playful nature of collage and replace it with the painstaking act of drawing in a medium that offers no room for mistake or manoeuvre. The images have been selected due to their relevance to the process of looking, creating, disjunction, unity and evaluation.
Loosely in the composition of Blue Nude by Matisse the images are as follows, The hand of God (Michael Angelo), Francis Picabia, Francis Bacon’s eye, A snake coil taken from the Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy book which accompanied the Marc Dion show at the Manchester Museum, a lady’s arm taken from an Egon Schiele life study, Duchamp’s Fountain (upright), 1/2 an A, Konrad Klaphek’s The Logic of Women (back end of a sewing machine), the Shin of Morte d’ Arthur by Frederick George Stephens (Towards the end of this work Stevens felt he was not good a enough painter so he quit his practise to become a critic), a foot from My Dead Dad by Ron Muek.
All images copyright Richard Shields.
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