David Wallace - Harmony
David Wallace - Fruit
Martin O'Neil - Collage Sketches
Martin O'Neil - True Crime
Martin O'Neil - War is peace
Through out the Summer I have continued to investigate ways of working in collage. I continue to be inspired by a growing range of practitioners including:
The collage work Richard Meier, the architect who builds collage from ephemera found on his business travels.
The graphic paintings and collages of David Wallace - http://www.salaczar.com/- who is based in Pittsburgh USA. His collages from the found ephemera of a bygone age have a wonderful sense of balance and he brings this feel to his painting which relates predominantly to graphic art of the 50's and 60's.
A more recent find is the work of Martin O'Neil - http://www.cutitout.co.uk/, based in Brighton/Hastings. His work is of a similar ilk to that of Wallace in that he sources historic emhemera. The differences are that O'Neil supplements his collages with screenprinting and graphic mark making broadening his style beyond that of Wallace. Additionally, O'Neil's work is regularly in print as illustrations for newspaper magazine articles such as The Guardian and as book jacket designs, for example 'The Magus' by John Fowles; his client list is quite broad and multi national. Accordingly there is a feeling that O'Neil's imagery is resourced to illustrate text whereas Wallace's work is personal development and more related to the arts in general.
For me, when I consider the working practices of Wallace and O'Neil, both have generated a major body of works. It is now becoming clear that I will need to brush up on my searches to source visual ephemera if I am to be able to build on my development of collage as a means of developing graphic art. This is particularly so if one wishes to work in a similar vein to that of O'Neil, ie to illustrate texts.
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