I love collage because I like art that's created through having restrictions or limitations, because it's through these boundaries that sometimes new and interesting things are produced rather than having total freedom at your fingertips. Collage I feel involves some form of limitation because you can only kind of work with what's available, but something great always happens because of pushin the boundaries of your art form. I wanted to showcase a different 'dimension' of collage, and it's in 3D.
Adam Neate is a British artist who began his career as a graphic designer (in the advertizing field) and then began to experiment with cardboard, according to a website "because it was cheap and plentiful."
He gained notoriety as a street artist who would create little pieces of art/sculpture and leave them around the streets of London for anyone to play with or take home. This appeals to me because I heard once that the purest form of art is art that's free, because once money gets involved it influences the art and renders it slightly untrue. It's an interesting notion.
Anyway, here is a website that contains a lot of interesting images of Adam Neate's 3D collage-work.
The images are very colourful, and kind of creepy, medical, light-bright explosion, and cardboard piano-fingered goodness. It takes collage to another level, creating a 3D environment. It's otherworldly.
Hope you enjoy!
-Lauren
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