Collaging

Collaging is something I have always enjoyed as a pastime. I have always been attracted to the idea of creating surrealist and alternative worlds in art, and how one has the ability to distort perception or everyday placement of things through art as a medium. 

After being inducted into Photoshop at the beginning of the year, I began to experiment with digital collage. I found that approaching Photoshop as a digital collage really helped me improve my skills with it, and I feel far more confident with the program now compared 
to when I started the course. The images below are my first digital collage experiments. 

I then created a series of hand made collages based on music culture in Leeds over the years (varying in genre and time period), using found imagery from magazines from shops around Leeds, as well as from photographers who had based their subjects in legendary past Leeds venues. I liked that this time around, I could digitally edit them on Photoshop after, something I haven't previously done with my collages. The end result was really successful for me, being able to combine my analogue techniques with more digital ones to enable a stronger overall piece, which is something that definitely influenced my proceeding work.