Word Fungus
My collages, made with small scraps of torn paper, are worked quickly and intuitively. This creative practice has broadened to cover (literally) old 'morning pages' - the discipline of 3 pages uncensored, longhand writing to kick-start the day – repurposed in this way, two forms of expression are juxtaposed as a kind of creative palimpsest, where some of the original text shows through.
Chasing its tail
Three digital paintings.
Palaces
It was while isolating with covid last September that I decided to rescue my old manual typewriter from a box in the attic.
The giant killer wants no hands
I just love to cut up old books I find in the trash and turn them into something new and absurd. No deeper meaning, just fun and entertainment.
Pupa
Three visual poems
The Gloss Machine and the Velvet Death
The theme of this collection is “creative destruction.” I’ve taken my own work, which are mainly (industrial and street) photographically based, and defiled and deformed the original prints with an assortment of random and common household items and products, as varied as drywall screws to floor and glass cleaner to birth new art from already existing art.
Hopefully
Three watercolour paintings
The Burning That Begins in the Eyes
Everywhere we look there are faces staring back at us. Out of the corner of the eye, we spy a wink from a passing shadow or a smile in a gleam of water. We project our selves outward into the field we experience. These four collages record what I have discovered in flowers, hair, and other objects.
All the Octopi
These visual poems, which sit on a line between facts and aesthetics, celebrate octopuses. The text, consisting of a list of the common names of all octopi, is repeated and fractured and then images and colours are layered on. The process is more intuitive than deliberate, with accidents and random configurations contributing to the creative process.
Breathing Hard and Voluptuously Sleazy
These mixed-media visual poems combine acrylic paint, cut-up text and digital processes.
Femininity, Animism, and Politics: how Pop Surrealists are Re-inventing Surrealism
From female avatars to mountains with eyes, Dorothy Circus Gallery's Alexandra Mazzanti talks about trends both old and new in pop surrealism
Points West
Five handmade collages
Forgetting Tomorrow
Five digital paintings.
Outraged by Pleasure
A selection of images from the collage artist Kathy Bruce
The Book of Silence
Five object poems.
Joe Sorren’s Between the Wrinkles
In the early 2000s, Joe Sorren emerged as an important figure in the eclectic and transversal artistic movement of Pop Surrealism, also known as Lowbrow art. These narrative paintings traverse the rooms of memory, unveiling in each work a hint of a story the artist holds closely within himself.
Out walking the fly, met girl with a flower
A selection of images from the Scottish Surrealist and collage artist John Dummet
Office Lens
These are abstract images partially inspired by visual distortions I sometimes experience while having a migraine. Except a bit more fleshed out. The other inspiration sources are deep ocean creatures and their otherworldly complexions.
Spring 2024 Book Launch!
We’re proud to present the next round of Mercurius books!
Mercurius’s Future World(s) is an anthology of essays that look beyond nihilistic neoliberalism.
Mercurius No. 2: Local Nature Devas is a selection of texts and images from the Poetry of Life, Society, Transitions, and Images sections of the website.
No unifying structure
As with the execution of an etching (drawing with a fine needle into a blackened wax ground), or with a poem (spontaneous first word/s, no need to understand), I begin my drawings on an impulse, not knowing or wanting to know the outcome, working spontaneously, attentive to detail - a process I have learnt to trust.
The never-ending quest…
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