Artist: Joey Collins
Title: Gathering of Strangers
Year: 2018
Medium: Screenprint and Graphite
Dimensions: H: 40cm W: 130cm
Accession Number: US2018-11
Acquisition info:
This work was acquired following the 2018 PRINT UnLtd exhibition, presented at Salford Museum and Art Gallery in partnership with University of Salford Art Collection and Hot Bed Press. Funded by Arts Council England. Collins was commissioned following selection from an open call for submissions.
As a starting point for his work for PRINT UnLtd, Collins collected discarded drawings from art supplies shops in Manchester. These drawings are made specifically to ‘try out’ the pens and pencils sold in the shop. In itself, he feels that each of these drawings is its own collaboration; the strips of paper are layered with combined words, squiggles, cartoons, and abstract marks. Collins rescues and recycles these found drawings which he scans, enlarges, edits, separates and exposes onto silk screens and screen-printed. He then works repeatedly into these prints using collage and drawing. Finally, he cuts them into strips, to mirror the original source material, and rearranges the strips into a new piece of work.
Joey Collins is an alumnus of the University of Salford, graduatating from BA Hons Visual Arts in 1997.