Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Matt Borruso @mattborruso For most works on view, compositional energy was generated by Borruso’s destabilization of boundaries demarcating animate/inanimate, nature/culture, and interior/exterior by way of such uncanny tropes as image-doubling and disconcerting shifts in scale and orientation. In other collages, grotesque monsters simultaneously elicit disgust and compassion—a dualism that also pervades the artist’s ultrafine Ingres-esque pencil drawings of fantastically disfigured humans, themselves composites based on found imagery. These images transgress subsectors of visual culture as well, highlighting […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Matt Borruso appeared first on The Weird Show.

Jack Felice explores the connections between visuals and poetry. His collages begin with found images, then he silences the source, exposing the tension between presence and erasure. Each one of his four limited-edition prints and two original artworks exhibited in Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers, is an entry to the visual poetics of Jack’s overlapping narrative. Visit them in TWSG. Collage deserves to be collected! TWS- Hi Jack, how has 2025 been for you? What have been your highlights so […] The post Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers: Jack Felice and the ever-changing forms appeared first on The Weird Show.

A selection from our personal archives: Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch | 2024By Erik Kessels, Thomas Sauvin and Karel De MulderPublished by RVB Books 496 pages22 x 30 cmEnglish Distilled from over 15.000 family albums, INCOMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TOUCH archives the human desire to put a hand on things. Whether it’s cars, boats, animals, trees, fridges, bridges, bushes, fellow humans or even their graves–everything that can be touched will be touched. Containing 1.919 photos, this collection is far from ever being […] The post Weird Bookshelf: Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch appeared first on The Weird Show.

Alma Haser uses paper as an element that creates shadows and echoes on her own skin and body; she shows that collage is about attitude. Working with her own photographs, she expands the dimensions of traditional photography into bewildering paper sculptures full of intrigue. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and now we are privileged and proud to display a fresh body of her work in four limited edition prints that she made specially for our show Phantom Tigers & […] The post Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers: Alma Haser and the oneiric hands appeared first on The Weird Show.

Friday Inspiration ✨Artist: Sophie Calle @adansophiecalle Alternately described as a conceptual artist, photographer, video artist and even detective, Sophie Calle has been the subject of numerous exhibitions around the world since the late 70s. In her rituals, she blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art and life, while leaving room for chance. (from editor) The post Weekly Inspiration: Sophie Calle appeared first on The Weird Show.

Name: Tom Hodgkinson Born / Based in: Born in the east of England, a small town called Eye (Suffolk), grew up on the coast surrounded by nature, beaches, forests, marsh and heathland. Moved to Bristol in 2001 to find creative work and have been here ever since. Energy from the Sun Making art since: I have a framed note that I wrote at primary school, around age 5/6(so in the 80s), saying I wanted to be an artist when I […] The post Sifting and processing through the rubble. An intro to Tom Hodgkinson appeared first on The Weird Show.

A selection from our personal bookshelf: K.T. Kobel – Burner | 2022Published by 1991 Books 40 pages21 x 29,7 cmEnglishFirst edition of 50 copies Burner is a zine featuring an extensive collage of scraps and sketches by British artist K.T. Kobel. In just a few pages, vibrant details and unique creative fragments come to life. First edition limited to 50 copies. (from editor) The post Weird Bookshelf: K.T. Kobel – Burner appeared first on The Weird Show.

Paul Henderson is an artist and arts worker with a tertiary interest in graphic design and self-publishing. Primarily working in collage, he has participated in residencies and exhibited his award-winning work across Canada and around the world. He is one of the seven artists featured in The Weird Show Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers. In this interview, he will discuss his works on display. TWS – Hi Paul, how has 2025 been for you? What have been […] The post Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers: Paul Henderson appeared first on The Weird Show.

I’ve always been drawn to moments of collective emergence—those instances when small groups, often unaware of their own significance, open new pathways. The Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. The Situationists in Paris in the late 50’s. CBGB in 1976. These weren’t just physical spaces; they were sites of resistance, incubation chambers for new ways of thinking. I often wonder: did they know? Did Tzara or Debord sense they were reshaping their fields? Probably not. They were simply working, talking, hustling, arguing—responding […] The post The New Wave of Collage. (A micro manifesto.) appeared first on The Weird Show.

Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Wanda Hela Katz @paperpalacequeen I am a Mixed Media Book Artist creating unique and exquisite one of a kind miniature hand crafted books and folios using centuries old antique ephemera fragments sourced from around the globe, mixed media, rust and copper elements, vintage dyed textiles and an array of vintage papers and original photographs. I am lucky enough to call the UNESCO World Heritage Georgian City of Bath, UK home, where I work from my studio. My […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Wanda Hela Katz appeared first on The Weird Show.

Fifteen years ago, The Weird Show began with a question in mind: what happens when the world starts to look like a collage?Back then, we didn’t imagine this curiosity would grow into a global project to drawn to the idea that collage is more than an art form. It’s a way of seeing, of reassembling fragments into meaning.Now with the launch of the Weird Show Gallery we’ entering a new phase. A gallery that behaves differently This isn’t another online […] The post The Weird Show Gallery: collage deserves to be collected appeared first on The Weird Show.

On growth, community, and keeping the weird alive Collage has always been about transformation — about taking what exists and rearranging it into something that didn’t. Over the years, The Weird Show has grown through a very particular kind of energy — one driven by generosity and curiosity, and grounded in a genuine sense of care. Founded in 2010 by Rubén B and Máximo Tuja (aka Max-o-matic), the project has built a global community by creating spaces where artists feel […] The post Inside the New Chapter of The Weird Show appeared first on The Weird Show.

A selection from our personal bookshelf: K.T. Kobel – Burner | 2022Published by 1991 Books 40 pages21 x 29,7 cmEnglishFirst edition of 50 copies Burner is a zine featuring an extensive collage of scraps and sketches by British artist K.T. Kobel. In just a few pages, vibrant details and unique creative fragments come to life. First edition limited to 50 copies. (from editor) The post Weird Bookshelf: K.T. Kobel – Burner appeared first on The Weird Show.

Name: Forestter Cobalt Born / Based in: Born/grew up in Colorado, currently living in Chicago, Illinois. Making art since: Since I was a child. As a teenager, I started making collages primarily using photocopiers. I was inspired by how prevalent this type of art was in the punk and indie music world, from album covers to show flyers to zines. What’s one thing you’d like people to know about you that doesn’t show up in your work? I collect new […] The post Childhood mysteries. An intro to Forestter Cobalt appeared first on The Weird Show.

Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Doris Salcedo Doris Salcedo (born 1958) is a Colombian-born visual artist and sculptor. Her work is influenced by her experiences of life in Colombia and is generally composed of commonplace items such as wooden furniture, clothing, concrete, grass, and rose petals.Salcedo’s work gives form to pain, trauma, and loss, while creating space for individual and collective mourning. These themes stem from her own personal history. Members of her own family were among the many people who have […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Doris Salcedo appeared first on The Weird Show.

A selection from our personal bookshelf: Mayday: The Art of Shepard Fairey | 2011Published by Gingko Press 168 pages24 x 31 cmEnglishFirst edition MAYDAY — The Art of Shepard Fairey is published as a celebration of an evocative collection of paintings from one of the most important artists of our time. Portraits of advocates of the working class and oppressed define the collection. Fairey stakes the claim that artists, musicians and writers such as Joe Strummer, Jean Michel Basquiat and […] The post Weird Bookshelf: Mayday: The Art of Shepard Fairey appeared first on The Weird Show.

Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Fefe Talavera @fefetalavera Fefe Talavera’s monster paintings are metaphors for strong and subconscious human emotions like anger, fear, dreams or desire. The colourful fantastic beasts which she connects with the “dark side” of her inner self stand for the artist’s cultural roots as well as the primary and powerful energy of her work in the streets all over the world. Born in 1979, Fefe was brought up as a native half Mexican, half Brazilian in São Paulo […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Fefe Talavera appeared first on The Weird Show.

By Clive Knights Part one reframed collage as an ancient human impulse — a way of gathering fragments, remembering, and nudging meaning into being. In part two, Clive Knights moves from history to practice. He treats collage as a making-through: a conversation between hands, paper and a lived world, an improvisation that unfolds rather than a plan to be executed. Here collage is shown as material and synesthetic — theatrical, poetic, musical — a process that relies on surprise, gesture […] The post Fragmentary gestures towards the invisible (Part 2) appeared first on The Weird Show.

A selection from our personal bookshelf: Invader – Low Fidelity | 2009Published by Lazarides Gallery 64 pages21 x 21 cmEnglishEdition of 1000 copies Catalogue of Invader’s exhibition at the Lazarides Gallery in London in 2009, featuring a series of Rubik’s Cube works dedicated to LP covers, as well as a new series in black and white ceramic that can be decoded using a smartphone app. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Low Fidelity at the Lazarides Gallery, London. This […] The post Weird Bookshelf: Invader – Low Fidelity appeared first on The Weird Show.

Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Mike Ballard @mikeballards The entropic state of the city is found in the margins, in the unmaintained and uninhabited places, Ballards eye is drawn to the detritus, the residue and the accidental layering of signs and symbols of paints, varnish and stickers, be they instruction or advert. His paintings are laced with the formal translation of these processes using – photography, photocopy, adhesion, saturation, abrasion and addition. In the development of this work he is not simply […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Mike Ballard appeared first on The Weird Show.

A selection from our personal bookshelf: Damien Hirst – Pictures from The Saatchi Gallery | 2001Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions 104 pages22,2 x 28,6 cmEnglish Reputed to have initiated the young British art movement, Hirst is considered the pre-eminent artist of his generation. This project brings together for the first time all his works in the collection of Charles Saatchi, his most prolific and proactive patron. (from editor) The post Weird Bookshelf: Damien Hirst – Pictures from The Saatchi Gallery appeared first on The Weird Show.

Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Juan Romero @j_romero The post Weekly Inspiration: Juan Romero appeared first on The Weird Show.

by Clive Knights. Architect and collage maker Clive Knights doesn’t see collage as just cutting and pasting. For him, it’s how we make sense of the world—piecing together fragments, finding connections, building meaning from what’s broken or incomplete. In “Fragmentary Gestures Towards the Invisible,” Knights draws on phenomenology (particularly Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur) to argue that collage has been unfairly dismissed as craft or “minor art.” Its accessibility—the fact that anyone can do it—is precisely its strength. Knights traces collage […] The post Fragmentary gestures towards the invisible (Part 1) appeared first on The Weird Show.

Monday Inspiration ✨Artist: Khwampa @khwampa Khwampa was founded in 2018 when the founder started experimenting and exploring the facets of visual interpretation and language to produce art that is unique and minimal in aesthetic at the same time. The works began with simple black and white line drawings and now have compounded to works that are no less complex than a sudoku. Khwampa was born out of founder’s creative vision, expression and passion in the field of engineering drawing. And […] The post Weekly Inspiration: Khwampa appeared first on The Weird Show.

A selection from our personal bookshelf: ZEPHYR “Graffiti Black Book / Scrapbook: 1978 & Beyond” | 2025Published by Beyond The Streets 240 pages26,7 x 35,6 cmSecond EditionEnglish New York City, 1970s: The city pulsed with a raw, electric energy that was mirrored in the vibrant graffiti that graced its subway trains and urban landscapes. Amidst this explosion of color and creativity, one name emerged with an undeniable impact: ZEPHYR. Born Andrew Witten, ZEPHYR became a legendary figure of this gritty, […] The post Weird Bookshelf: ZEPHYR “Graffiti Black Book / Scrapbook: 1978 & Beyond” appeared first on The Weird Show.