DIY Collage Art at Home

Looking for fun things to do at home to unlock your creativity? Join Aaron McGarry's two-day collage club and learn how to make a collage that you can be proud of!

Designed for absolute beginners, everyone from teens to seniors can have a go at this online class. All the materials you'll need are likely already lying around your house

Over two days, you'll learn more about the history of collage artists and practice making your own collages, step-by-step, using some of their techniques. Over the rest of the hour and a half workshop, Aaron will be there to help guide you, answer any questions and give practical tips and tricks in making collage art.

Day one:
Dada! Photomontage! The birth of the weird and nonsensical! We will look at Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann and others using the now easily obtainable photo media print. You will be using found photographic material from home to create a collage with some incorporated text.

Day two:
Surrealism takes it one step further into a strange Dreamworld. With a focus on Max Ernst and Man Ray, we contemplate the bizarre and imaginary world where you can create anything... because in surrealism nothing is off limits!

After each class, Aaron encourages you to email your work for display at the beginning of the next class on the Zoom share screen (only if you choose to). Sharing your work with others offers more encouragement during the class and sometimes inspiration too!

There are only two rules of collage club:
1. We only talk about what we like in someone's work, as most are making collage art for the first time. This is a creative safe space!
2. Nothing is ever wrong with making art... and you only get better by giving it a go!

• You’ll be sourcing your own materials from around the house; glue stick or glue paste (even wood glue will work if that's all you got - or clear sticky tape!) and a pair of scissors or scalpel.
• Cereal boxes, old magazines even the local newspaper. Maybe consider if there is an image-based book you no longer want, you can recycle it through your creativity!
• Pencil/pens/markers/paint/blue tack/etc. are all handy to have around if you feel the need to use them.

This class series runs over 2 consecutive days.