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Pum Dunbar’s living lessons

Read the ‘legends’ that give insight into Pum Dunbar’s creative process while producing her recent series of collages.

  • In pictures

Dark Matter responds to ‘Epidemic threats and racist legacies’

Animated-collage artist Dark Matter brings his unique combination of live footage and archive imagery to respond to a text suggesting that the field of epidemiology emerged in the 19th century imbued with the doctrine of Western imperialism.

  • Photo story

A portrait of me with my mother

A series of portraits with stand-in mothers helped Camilla Greenwell to process her grief, and then to question whether our photograph albums are ever really honest.

  • Article

How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fiction

Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.

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Images

  • Collage of mixed fruits and vegetables, MRI
  • Collage of mixed fruits and vegetables, MRI
  • Collage of mixed fruits and vegetables, MRI
  • The Cross surrounded by flowers and a bird. Collage of silk and watercolour.
  • Flowers. Painting and collage by a Turkish painter.
  • Étienne Jules Marey. Collotype [?] collage by Poyet and menu, 1901.
  • Li T'ieh Kuai walking with the aid of a crutch. Collage of padded silk fabrics with watercolour on paper, 18--?.
  • A female Chinese musician with a flute. Collage of glued and stitched colored paper and stuffed silk by a Chinese craftsman/woman.
  • Episodes in the Bible and examples of devotional practice. Collage of colour lithographs and process prints after Harold Copping and others.
  • A moustachioed man with top hat and cane. Pen and ink and collage.
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Collective Collage Workshops

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