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Cut It
Collage to Meme
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021

Photo-offset lithograph, collage and screenprint on paper depicting an abstracted artwork of a woman's face and microphone.

Richard Hamilton, England 1922-2011 / Fashion-plate 1969-70 / Photo-offset lithograph, collage, screenprint and pochoir, retouched with cosmetics on wove paper / 75 x 60.3cm (comp.) / Purchased 1985 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © © R Hamilton. All Rights Reserved/DACS/Copyright Agency

‘Cut It’ contemplates our voracious consumption of images, to show how artists have redeployed the meaning of images through the enduring techniques of collage, montage and sampling. Using the lenses of news reporting and entertainment media, the artworks are cropped and altered pictures from newspapers, popular movies, the internet and art history, bringing together disparate images to express new ideas.