collage 24x31cm
36x41cm (archival wood frame size)
collage signed and dated pencil lower RHS
set of 23 collages (sold individually)
Exhibition History
Station Gallery Melbourne Solo exhibition
25th Sept - 30th October 2021
Landscapes and Factories is an analogue collage series utilising black and white 1950’s print material sourced from Newnes Pictorial Knowledge, an encyclopedia set. In previous collage projects I was primarily focused on the conflation of specific subject matter such as soft porn and art or war and fashion but in this series the initial interest was in the formal qualities of the offset print. The images in the encyclopedias contained grainy and high contrast black and white photographic reproductions. The images document relics from ancient history, land and people, transport, weather phenomena, manufacturing and industry, mining and geology and hobbies and pastimes.
The low production values of the photography allowed individual images to migrate, mesh and transform into much larger images in scale. The collage process was surprising as nondescript but agile images partnered with others to slowly build new representations.
Often up to a dozen or so images or sections thereof were utilised to create individual collages, usually over the course of a single day. New and alternative images emerged sometimes with surreal overtones: forests grew, distant landscapes conjoined, factory floors opened exposing other landscapes, church halls were mined and planet earth morphed.
– Stuart Ringholt, 2021
Available works
Page 316, Page 407, Page 436, Page 458, Page 459, Page 470, Page 514, Page 515, Page 520, Page 521, Page 584, Page 586, Page 604, Page 607, Page 628
Page 213 (sold), Page 342 (sold), Page 473 (sold), Page 480 (sold)
For a comprehensive list of all works from this collage series please email for a pdf.
Landscapes and Factories 2020
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