London Collage Residency 2025

With Cecil Touchon & Les Jones

London Collage Residency With Cecil Touchon & Les Jones

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A WEEK LONG RESIDENCY IN JUNE 2025 : REGISTER YOUR INTEREST NOW

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Our week long project in Brooklyn this year was, in many ways, a dry run for us running more 'Open Residency Programmes' in inspirational cities across the world. And the first one will be in June 2025! We're currently working behind the scenes to find the best dates and a host venue.

However, we can give you an exclusive insight into what the week will entail:

• We'll be hiring a studio/gallery space in a cool part of London to host

• around 10 collage-based artists.

• Artists will work on a personal project using materials sourced from the city

• At the end of the week we'll be creating a pop-up exhibition

• There will be opportunities to join studio visits or gallery trips

• All artists will feature in a project article in CC. Magazine and will also be

• interviewed for an article specifically about their own work

• And finally, we'll be organising social gatherings for each evening.

It's going to be AMAZING! If you're interested in finding out more, please register your interest now by sending us an email with your details to:

hello@contemporarycollagemagazine.com

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It all started with a chat over a few beers in Liverpool, UK.

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At the end of April, 2023, Cecil Touchon and I met up in Liverpool to spend a few days together after Cecil had finished a collage residency in Scotland. We soaked up the Liverpool culture, visited a few art galleries and, in the evenings, we enjoyed a few beers together.

On the second evening we started to talk about doing a project together and, as the beers went down, the concept for our project began to emerge...

We would arrive in a big city with no materials, hire a studio and spend a week finding materials to create location specific collages. Whilst there, we would meet other collage artists to interview and socialize with.

It was the kind of conversation that could have finished there and then - a nice idea never to see the light of day. But, when we parted ways in Liverpool, we vowed to keep the conversation going - and we did. Eventually, we landed on New York as our destination city, we found a week long gap in our diaries and we started to put the feelers out. Amazingly, collage artist, John Whitlock, offered us the use of his studio in Brooklyn - we were set.

So, on the 19th of May, Cecil and I flew into the Big Apple - Cecil from Albuquerque and myself from Manchester. We’d reserved rooms at a small hotel not far from John’s studio. And the adventure began...it was a productive week!

The above info from Issue 36 of Contemporary Collage Magazine