At the Light Box in Woking, one of the few contemporary art galleries in Surrey. They had two small exhibitions about collage. The Persistence of Collage looked at how British artists had used the technique over the 20th century. Like the proverbial curate's egg, it was good and bad. Starting with Ben Nicholson and going on from there. At times, it veered between paintings that were inspired from original collages. Eduardo Paolozzi is always good value within his vivid industrial patterns.
It was a good taster for the exhibition in another part of the gallery, by Joanne Hummel Newell. Her use of collages reminded me of the early Hockney pieces with the naive use of colour and mark marking. Chance encounters that are provoking and frustrating, in some ways why art should be. This was a little gem of a show, I will be looking out for more exhibition by her in the future.
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