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Collage artist working exclusively with material rescued from op shops and hard rubbish.

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Hard Rubbish Collage · August 2026 · just now

On using strangers' photographs

A subscriber asked whether it is right to work with found family photos. It is a fair question and I have thought about it a lot.

My rule: nothing identifiable goes out if there is any route back to a living person — no full names, no addresses, no recent material. Albums that arrive with names in them get the names cut out first, and those cuttings are destroyed rather than used.

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