Fiona Cullinan

Visual art

Artist statement

I’m Fiona Cullinan, an artist and editor based in Birmingham, UK. My visual art work is primarily rooted in magazine media and appears under the name ‘Editoriat’. I use analogue collage and mono printing to remix, remake and subvert images to explore women’s representation in media and to create ‘counter images’ that break down or poke fun at their powerful words and images. As a former magazine sub-editor I’m strongly drawn to the editing process of this, and to both the influence and instructions of magazines and related media.

>> This work can be found at: Editoriat.uk

I’ve been collaging since 2017, joining Birmingham Collage Collective in 2018. I discovered a passion for analogue collage through artist Hazel Pitt‘s Exploring Photomontage course at the Mac and have since had work shown at The Courtyard Gallery, Artefact Gallery, the New Walsall Art Gallery, The Framers, Attic Brew Co and Thinktank. I’ve also had collages published in a number of art zines and in Streetcake magazine’s experimental writing prize anthology.

Alongside this, I also have an art-walking practice and am a co-founder of Walkspace.uk, a walking arts collective in the West Midlands. Since 2019, I have been performing/documenting walks through various political lenses such as safety, surveillance, gentrification and gender+age. During the 2020 lockdown I helped develop the Extreme Noticing methodology for exploring and redefining suburban environments.

Shows and publications

  • ‘Road Words‘ poem – a poster, Turkish map fold and short film featuring an experimental text made from road markings – Walking Shorts film night, Leominster, 11 May 2024
  • ‘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

Workshops

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