Bricolage

Bricolage is an underused word relating to the act of composing diverse materials, ideas or structures. It is used mainly with regards to art or literature.

Each of the artists in this exhibition creates works which fall into this description. Further, each of the artists utilizes bricolage to help them enunciate responses to the myriad identity issues present within our current society whether as a result of branding, politics, gender differences or societal norms. Each artist believes it necessary to "copy and paste”, borrowing via the use of photography, newspaper transfers or direct image copying to illustrate the confusion of identity within which we now live.