Melbourne Collage Meets will exhibit soon

Melbourne Collage Meets have a new topic for collage this month. Patterns is it.

Here is a little piece that I have played with while having a think about something more serious (that may never come).

We are currently planning to exhibit at the Salon exhibition at the Alphington Community Centre. It was a fabulous event that we participated in last year. We showed framed artwork, work mounted on matboard and cards. Many of our group have exhibited before but it was so wonderful to see others that showed for the very first time. I will let you know when this happens so that you can come along and see what we are making and hopefully you will fall in love with something and buy it. altered found image

Two group exhibitions coming up

As part of the Alphington Open Studio group we are having a preview exhibition of the entire studio group in one gallery. Yarra Sculpture Gallery. See invite attached.

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Our collage group Melbourne Collage Meets are also participating in a group show at

TBH BALLARAT – Exhibition is titled Ctrl V – Opening 9th March https://tbhstudio-au.square.site/whats-on

A group of us will go in by train, have some lunch, go to the exhibition opening and then take a look around beautiful Ballarat before returning by train. Should be great fun.

Exhibition, Gallery, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Alphington Open Studios.

It’s Autumn and it’s April 2026

Our collage group has had the theme abstract Autumn for the last two weeks. Several members of our group will be exhibiting in Ballarat alongside other Ballarat based collage artists at TBH Studio. Find more information about the exhibition at https://tbhstudio-au.square.site/whats-on

Abstract Autumn tree — Collage abstract tree

Ctrl + V:
A Collage Exhibition

In a world saturated with images, we borrow, steal, splice, and remix to make sense of the noise. Ctrl + V brings together a group of artists who revel in the cut-and-paste ethos, where scissors are scalpels, glue is intention, and nothing is ever just one thing.

Whether you work with vintage magazines, found photos, Photoshop, or glue stick chaos, we want to see how you slice up the world and reassemble it. This show is about creative disruption, unexpected juxtapositions, and the beauty of fragments.

Opening in May!

It’s Autumn and I am still drawing

I started a little late with my Summer workshops however they are going so well. I have a Saturday afternoon group and a Wed night group that will meet for five weeks. We did some exercises to relax the hand, some tricks to draw a symmetrical shape (don’t have to of course), used tone to help an object become 3D and have used some smudge stick work for shading – but not too much as it is so easy to just move graphite across the paper and then everything starts to look rather medium when that happens.

Also making some new cards see the formal upholstered chair on a vintage french lexicon page. I have quite a quirky variety of cards here but I can make a commissioned card to order (just give me some guidelines).

Email me or find me on instagram if you would like to chat about anything you see here.

Drawing Class, Observational Drawing — Observational Drawing set up

Art Classes

Almost Christmas

Still Life

Painting with pink flowers

Collage with Spotty Vase

Collage Tree House

Although the styles are different I have been told that they are easily

distinguished as my work. I’m not sure how.

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Art Classes in making still-life images, techniques, paint etc, abstract art and mixed media collage art.

One on one or come along with a friend for a fortnightly class in my Alphington studio.

Any questions – email me.

Art for All is a Fairfield Primary School Art Exhibition

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I will be showing collage and assemblage at the Gallery shop. Here are a couple of the pieces that will be on display. The woman sitting on the pineapple holding the yellow flower has a little stitching on it and the shakespearean woman is raised in 3D on a book cover called Shakespeare (it was old and damaged I don’t cut up just anything). All three unique pieces will be in the gallery shop with another 14 pieces all of different sizes and subject matter. Oops I almost forgot the hydrangeas are a painting on Arches watercolour paper.

Hope you will stop by and have a look at the shop as well as the larger exhibition.

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Community arts

Painting, Assemblage, Collage, Stitching — Sample of work being shown at Fairfield PS Gallery Shop

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Collage and Mixed Media Artwork

Here are three collage works made to a theme suggested by our group Melbourne Collage Meets. The first prompt and image was wreath or circle, the second was dog and the third was Flinders Street Station (a famous Melbourne landmark). The next two images are acrylic paintings on watercolour paper of hydrangeas with a little pencil work on them.

Our Melbourne Collage Meets group have now been meeting for a few years at a Fairfield Cafe and our newest group in Fitzroy North have been meeting for around 6 months. The latest news is that a new group will be formed very soon, possibly in Ivanhoe or somewhere surrounding this area. If you are interested please know these meetings are free, they are not workshops yet we do influence one another. The only cost would be to buy a coffee and cake or similar to support the cafe we meet at. More information can be supplied if you contact me.

Collage News – Melbourne Collage Meets

Our two groups are working beautifully making collage from books and magazines. Our North Fitzroy group has grown and our Fairfield group is full. As we meet in a coffee shop I don’t think we can push the kindness of the cafe owners with too many more papers flying around. I would always be happy to help you to establish a group in your own area (if its not too far from me). I don’t have to attend but would like to discuss how we work out what happens, themes, meeting place and times, experience of participants. Please let me know in an email if you would like to discuss further. We do not pay anything except of course buying a coffee and something to eat from the cafe (that is essential). The cat below is really tiny approx 10cm x 4cm on watercolour paper. The giraffe family and the girl with pigtails are approx 9cm x 12cm on wood backing. These two are assemblages of found images, collage, pen, toys etc. They needed polka dots.

I’m still teaching casual classes in painting, collage and assemblage – let me know if you are interested.

If you have made any collage please send me a picture, especially if you have made to one of our themes. Latest themes were tomato and a previous one that was difficult and easy was self portrait. Good luck if you have a go. This post is mainly about #melbournecollagemeets. See more on instagram, if not following please do. 🙂 My insta is #annewarrenart.

Next Collage Meeting for Melbourne Collage Meets

Next meeting for North Fitzroy Collage group is Tomato (Tue the 19th). Fairfield group had a ball with this subject. Yes a red round squashy ball.

Next meeting on Thursday for Fairfield group has the prompt ‘birds’ (Thurs the 21st).

The bird below is an old one that I animated and moved the legs for it to walk. Simple but fun. The tomato below I gifted to Cal (the young bearded man that we met a couple of months ago). He often comes to the cafe to study and or to make his small abstract artworks. He gave me a new work so I now have two of his which I love.

Any variation of the prompt is ok and if by chance the prompt is not working for you, that is also ok for you to make something entirely different.

For all the newbies please reach out to Marija or myself if you need any help.

Marija, not sure if you have noticed but there are lots of cafe customers at the North Fitzroy meet that show interest. You might need to decide whether you take their details (email) for a place in the future or for a fundraising event in the future if they like the work. They are so friendly there.

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Keep looking and liking and posting to #melbournecollagemeets on instagram. If you are not in our group but you like making collage, feel free to make a work and tag it for @melbournecollagemeets and Jenny will post it on our site.

bird, collage, small scale, found image,

Collage Workshop 17th February 24

I have an art workshop coming up on Saturday 17th of February 10.00am to 12.30pm. Everything will be supplied for you to make a freestanding character or wall art character or if you would prefer, to make a block assemblage instead. It is a very small class so can only take one or two people for this one. We will discuss selection of images from books, what works and what does not. We will talk about the application of glue and how to hang your work and even more importantly how to edit your work. I will supply you with books for images, paper, card, different types of glue and how to select and use the most appropriate one. We will discuss balance. So all in all you will be getting a workshop in making collage that will be extended in a slightly more sculptural way. Contact me on the contact page via email annewarrenart@gmail.com.

Cat girl

Ctrl + V: A Collage Exhibition

@artforall_fps

Community arts

Ctrl + V:
A Collage Exhibition