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Tony Collinge
My work has always been abstract. I like the ambiguity of interpretation this allows, and the emphasis on structure.
Collage suits me because it is the ultimate ‘finding’ process during which the most drastic and outrageous ideas can be courted, and I can give much more consideration to decisions without destroying what I already have.
My process is not systematic, there is no formula. Though certain ingredients always need to be present it is impossible to define why I decide a work is completed.
Ezra Pound wrote with reference to poetry: ‘an image is a presentation of an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.’ This seems to me to work equally well for a visual image.
My work has always been abstract. I like the ambiguity of interpretation this allows, and the emphasis on structure.
Collage suits me because it is the ultimate ‘finding’ process during which the most drastic and outrageous ideas can be courted, and I can give much more consideration to decisions without destroying what I already have.
My process is not systematic, there is no formula. Though certain ingredients always need to be present it is impossible to define why I decide a work is completed.
Ezra Pound wrote with reference to poetry: ‘an image is a presentation of an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.’ This seems to me to work equally well for a visual image.
 Darkness Visible, collage, sandpaper& pigments on wooden support, h58cm x w78cm |
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 Untitled, collage - sandpaper and pigment on board, h67cm x w100cm |
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