Practising the art of handmade collage since 2017 and member of the Birmingham Collage Collective since 2018 – bio here. I discovered a passion for analogue collage through artist Hazel Pitt's Exploring Photomontage course at the mac, followed by monthly sessions at Stirchley Collage Club. As a former magazine subeditor, I feel drawn to the editing process of collage.
Works in progress and finished pieces are posted to @editoriat on Instagram.
Workshops
- Barber Bestiary of Fantastic Beasts – family workshop, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, 10 June 2023
- Simone de Scissoir Collage Club – feminist collage workshop, The Old Post Office, 13 May 2023
- Fantastic Cities – family workshop, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, 14 January 2023
Shows and publications
- 'How to Walk Like a Woman' analogue collage – Walkspace 2023 exhibition, Artefact Gallery, June-July 2023
- 'we know who u r and where u live'collage poem – Streetcake experimental writing prize anthology 2022, published January 2023
- 'Female Calculations' limited edition risograph print – West Midlands Open, New Art Gallery Walsall, 20 May-25 Sept 2022
- 'Zine #1' – 'Catch Me if you Can' analogue collage; one of 17 artists featured in Birmingham Collage Collective zine to accompany exhibition at BCU, March 2022
- 'Female Calculations' digital photo grid collage – Parallel Walking, Artefact Gallery, Feb 2022
- 'Pantone for the Common Woman' (second prize) and 'Thirty-six Views of Smallbrook Queensway' – Artefact Winter Open, Dec 2021-Jan 2022
- Life on Lockdown – five collages included in Birmingham Museums Trust archive display at Thinktank; two collages included in Life on Lockdown video – exhibition/video, June 2021
- Februllage – a collage a day challenge in response to prompts by Edinburgh Collage Collective and Scandinavian Collage Museum, February 2021
- 'Toxic Hands' (front cover), 'Distancing' and 'Dead Not Buried' – zine of Covid-19 collages by Ken Banks, August 2020
- Community Routes collage booklet (PDF) – walk and collage kit project by Claire Cotterill for Roundhouse Birmingham and the Canal and River Trust, November 2020
- Provide zine launch: Birmingham Collage Collective edition and group exhibition – Attic Brewery, November 2019
- When In Birmingham and Eyelines & Skylines – CLIPS: Birmingham Collage Collective first group show, April 2019
- Magazine messages (set of three) – Illustrated Brum x PMT @ Impact Hub Brum, March 2019
- When In Birmingham and Hairy Stamens – Group winter show @ Artefact, Stirchley, Nov-Dec 2018
- Curious Creature/ Riso Rabbit – Risobook 1 @ Artefact, Stirchley, Sept-Oct 2018
Artist bio
Fiona Cullinan is an emerging artist working mostly in analogue handmade collage. She is a founding member of the Birmingham Collage Collective with work shown in group exhibitions and publications. Her background in magazine journalism and copy editing drew her to collage where she explores themes of memory, diaries, privacy, feminism and ageing in her work.
Alongside collage, Fiona has an art-walking practice and is a co-founder of Walkspace.uk, an art-walking collective in the West Midlands. Since 2019, she has been performing/documenting walks through various political lenses such as safety, surveillance, gentrification and gender+age. During the 2020 lockdown she helped develop the Extreme Noticing methodology for exploring and redefining suburban environments.
She is based in Stirchley, south Birmingham.