CUT & CONTINUE
‘Cut and Continue’ brings together the work of four artists whose practices expand the ever-evolving language of collage. Each artist has developed a distinct visual voice, yet all share a sustained commitment to experimentation and material exploration.
‘Cut and Continue’ celebrates collage as a living, adaptable medium — one that absorbs the past, reshapes the present, and gestures toward endless possibilities of creation.
The exhibition’s title reflects both process and potential. The word ‘cut’ evokes the essential gesture of collage — the act of selecting, slicing, and reconfiguring fragments. ‘Continue’ gestures toward the limitless possibilities that follow each cut: the ongoing recombination and renewal that define the medium. Collage is at once method and result — the assembling and layering of papers, photographs, fabrics, found objects, and drawn or painted marks on a chosen surface. It can incorporate painting, drawing, or three-dimensional elements, and thrives on openness and reinvention.
‘Cut and Continue’ showcases this spirit of expansion — from traditional paper collage and cut-and-paste photomontage to analogue processes, layered papier collé, gouache-painted compositions, and abstract works built from hand-painted papers. Across these varied approaches, the four artists share a restless inquiry into form, material, and meaning. Each embraces collage as a medium of accumulation — of fragments, textures, and surfaces — constructing images through layering, repetition, and variation.
Together, their works highlight the breadth of collage as both technique and philosophy. Moving fluidly through the language of cutting, collecting, and combining, the artists reveal collage as a dynamic field of creative possibility — one that resists fixed definitions and continues to evolve.
-- Basia Kearey
SANDRA HIGGINS ART
41 Milsom Street
First floor, Shires Yard
Bath BA1 1BZ
November 4th - November 30th
Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 5pm
Sunday 11 - 4pm
Closed Monday
Featured Artists
Fabio Almeida
Drawing from architecture, design, and art history, Fabio Almeida creates large-scale collages using painted and found papers, markers, bleach, and Letraset. His playful compositions resemble fractured landscapes or imagined structures, suggesting spaces where narratives unfold. A sense of nostalgia permeates his work — his colour palette, geometric forms, and chosen materials recall a bygone era of modern optimism, tempered by the grit of contemporary life. In this tension between ordered abstraction and the material traces of wear, Almeida captures both the elegance and fragility of modern existence.
Richard Crooks
Through collage, Richard Crooks constructs mixed-media responses to his observations of built environments. Travelling through places such as Japan, Nepal, and Bangladesh, he photographs his surroundings while cycling or walking, later categorising and editing these images to create analogue collages. His works explore the dialogue between homogeneity and hybridity in architectural and street forms. Crooks weaves, layers, and pastes photographs onto found objects and handmade paper, integrating paper pulp, debris, and local materials into the very fabric of his compositions. The resulting works are both image and object — grounded in place yet transformed through material experimentation.
David Ferry
David Ferry’s collages assemble interconnected images into cohesive sequences or series — montages that weave together narratives and imagined terrains. His recent works centre on the motif of the desert, a landscape he has never physically visited yet envisions as a realm of myth, metaphor, and mystery. Constructed from found materials gathered in charity shops, spray paints, and chance fragments, Ferry’s “desert” is an invented space — a mirage made from memory and imagination. For Ferry, collage and montage are processes without rules, guided only by curiosity and the impulse to make something that feels like remembrance itself.
Marq Kearey
Marq Kearey specialises in gouache collage, a practice through which he explores the tension between abstraction and landscape. Beginning with gouache paintings on paper — often inspired by posters — Kearey cuts and reassembles these surfaces into layered compositions on board, canvas, or paper. His works evoke emotional depth and psychological resonance, suggesting shifting terrains where memory and perception intertwine. Through his distinctive language of colour, form, and texture, Kearey creates contemplative spaces that hover between the real and the imagined.