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Collage Book College


Course Details


Course/Module Code

Z51000196

Fees

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Applications

University

Campus

Frenchay

Content

Over two days, you will try many different collage techniques relating to words, images, magazines, pictures, books, cutting, pasting, stitching, splicing and creating.

The course will be structured but it will also be exciting and spontaneous, responding to the desires of the participants.

Day 1

AM

  • Introduction
  • What do we want to get out of the course?
  • What Is collage?
  • Different types of collage and artists' books
  • Cutting out and sticking exercises: Names and rollages
  • Collage 1: Image
  • Collage 2: Text

PM

  • Collage 3: Mapping
  • Collage 4: Book ideas
  • Review/Plenary

Day 2

AM

  • Introduction
  • Collage: Book types
  • Collage: Book cover
  • Collage: Personal project

PM

  • Collage: Personal
  • Project review/Plenary finish

Course Director

Jeremy Dixon

Introduction

The word collage derives from the French 'to glue' and has an ancient history dating back to the invention of paper in China in about 200 BC. Look around and you will see collage everywhere and so perhaps it is a way of responding to, and trying to make sense of, a very fractured and disconnected world. In book arts, we can use collage to unite disparate elements to create something new and whole in it's own terms, in either very controlled or in free-flowing organic ways.

This practical course will give you the time and space needed to make collages and collaged books that they may not have otherwise produced. Some projects may involve group collaborations. Some projects can be one-off pieces, others could be small editions.

View the Collage Book College flyer (PDF) for more information.

Who is it for?

This course is ideally suited to Book Arts practitioners, students, professional artists, amateur artists, and book-makers, seeking to learn completely new skills, or to brush up/develop existing ones and to then proceed to working on their own projects once the course has finished.

Study facilities

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Telephone

+44 (0)117 32 86955

You can also follow us on X (formerly Twitter) @CFPRresearch or Instagram @CFPR_research.

Title

Delivered by the Centre for Print Research


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