TWS News — Cut, move, repeat

Let's bring a bit of motion into our (sometimes too) static world!

1. What happens when collage starts to move?

In this issue, we explore artists who bring cut-and-paste aesthetics into motion — from hand-cut animations and digital ghosts to surreal pixel universes. These creators expand collage beyond the static, tapping into rhythm, glitch, memory, and time itself.

Grab your screens and your senses — things are moving.

2. Interview: Alice Isaac
Animating Collage with Alice Isaac

London-based artist Alice Isaac merges the materiality of collage with the fluidity of motion. In our latest interview, she shares her process, the role of intuition in her practice, and how she sees collage as a tool to reclaim agency and reshape narratives.

“By opening (my work) up to 3D space presents that additional dimension that makes your brain kind of question what you are looking at”. 

3. From the archive:
Gio Mariani: artist, ghost, queer & pixel genius

Gio Mariani creates glitchy, dreamlike fragments that feel like transmissions from parallel realities. In our 2022 conversation, they talked about visibility, queer identity, and their fascination with the aesthetics of compression, nostalgia, and otherness.

“I see collage as a ritual of distortion — one that allows me to stay ghostly and visible at once”.

4. Book spotlight: Geneviève Gauckler — Around the World (2007)

Created for an exhibition at Someday Gallery in Melbourne, this small publication brings together two distinct bodies of work by French artist and art director Geneviève Gauckler: densely layered digital collages using photographic footage, and minimal vector-based compositions.

Behind the playful forms lie darker reflections on globalization, disease, and mortality — while lighter pieces, like her iconic characters wearing different hats, celebrate human diversity and the possibility of coexistence through difference. A compact, thoughtful gem that bridges pop aesthetics with poetic commentary.

Thanks for watching

More animated weirdness soon. — The Weird Show