Name: James Bourbon Born / Based in: Based in Brisbane, Australia Making art since: I believe my first exhibition was...
Cless has been collecting since he was a kid. Stamps first, then graffiti books, trading cards, fruit stickers, spray cans,...
Maarten Demmink has been painting disasters for over twenty years. Known as Demiak, the Dutch artist moves between painting, photography,...
Eduardo Recife has been making collage work since the late 1990s, long before most of us knew collage could be...
I am lucky to live with a painting by Mary that I look at every day. At first glance, it...
Through a meticulous and almost ritualistic process, Gabriel de la Mora takes the debris of fragile materials left by the...
Virginia Colwell’s work examines the space between official and unofficial histories and the poetic ambiguities of truth and fiction in...
This text is part of an ongoing TWS series in which artists, curators and writers reflect on what collecting means...
Phil Scott told his careers advisor he wanted to play when he grew up. After four years at LEGO Design...
California-based collage artist Adam Brierley writes about the feedback loop between collecting and creating: how the materials he sources shape...













