Learn hands-on techniques to create collages and explore how these methods can also apply to your creative writing practice.
In a poetic context, collage offers the opportunity to juxtapose found objects in unique and creative compositions, employing a sense of chance, play and innovation. As a politically charged technique, collage allows the artist to repurpose, upcycle and reclaim the media surrounding us, and invigorate the creative potential of everyday objects. For those who feel daunted staring at a blank page, collage can reframe the page altogether and demystify the idea of creating a poem.
This interactive workshop, facilitated by poet and visual collagist Alex Creece, will introduce participants to the history of collage poetry, and provide hands-on opportunities to create collage poems of your own, using materials such as magazines, advertisements, pamphlets, and more.
- Workshop: Saturday 12 July, 10:30am—1pm
- Where: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
- With: Alex Creece
About the Tutor
Alex Creece is writer, editor, poet, collage artist, and average kook living on Wadawurrung land. Alex works in editorial roles for Archer Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review and Sunder Journal, and her writing has been widely published. She has been awarded fellowships with Writers Victoria, Arts Access Australia, The Wheeler Centre and Midsumma Pathways. Her work has been shortlisted for the Kat Muscat Fellowship, the Next Chapter Scheme, the Geelong Writers Prize, the Born Writers Award, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, and the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award. Alex is the author of Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth, which was a highly commended runner-up in the Five Islands Poetry Prize.