Top Ark Adventures

I seem to have accumulated many versions of the Noah's Ark image in various guises - some way back in the 80's painted in watercolour and gouache and more recently collage versions with cars, buses and many other unlikely craft being substituted for the typical vehicle of choice. Maybe a book will emerge from it - who knows! Mary Greg has some nice toy arks with damaged animals in the Manchester Art Gallery archive that she donated to. I did a couple of ark collages inspired by the broken animals- some with bandaged heads and legs, splints and plasters etc. The Hospital Ark and the Route Master Ark are showing in the Mouseion exhibition in Leicester at the moment.

Best Of The Chishmush Catloggers

Now available in glorious glossy type covered 121 page paperback from Black Scat Books and Amazon. Originally sent out as A4 photocopied sheets folded into 16 pages in limited edition of 100 to friends and family at Yuletide during the 80's and 90's.

K.K. No. 1

Happy Birthday to us! The Kollage Kit collaborative collage blog I started after the demise of Scrapiteria is one year old this week! This week's theme chosen by Ron Bookless is Number One and to celebrate we are pulling out all the stops and pushing back all the goes! Let's hope for another wonderful creative year of collage!

Mouseion Exhibition

A quick plug for the Mouseion Exhibition that's up and running in University of Leicester at the moment until next March I think. Some photos of it's installation on Flickr HERE that the curator Alex Woodall took recently.

Republica De Coll

Collage for latest theme at The Kollage Kit = http://kollagekit.blogspot.com/

She's A Rainbow

She comes in collage everywhere; She cuts her hair She's like a rainbow Come in collage in the air Oh, everywhere She comes in collage

We All Live In Yellow Semolina!

That's what a friend's friend's little boy used to call that song which I always thought quite amusing and stuck in my head for some reason. This though is a Beatles song illustrated via the latest theme at The Kollage Kit. Those yellow subs are hard to find but I managed to cobble one together from an old science mag and some off cuts. It's kind of a Noah's Ark theme too which I have done quite a few of over the years. See Flickr for some of the rest.