THE ART OF SCRAPBOOKINGBy Jessica Green.

INTRODUCTION:My presentation is based on the art practice of scrapbooking and some of the artist in the practice that I feel are relatable –

Scrapbooking is a method for preserving personal history in the form of a scrapbook. Typical memorabilia include photographs, printed media, and artwork. Scrapbook albums are often decorated and frequently contain extensive journaling.

William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin, Untitled from “Scrapbook 3”

Featured in the paperwork: A brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks – Fox Reading Room @ the ICA (institute

of contemporary Arts)

Exabition 1st April – 11th May.

Pasted imagery – magazine or existing in the book.

Edited text from another magazine used to convey a

message

Text cut from another media that has been stuck in to the book – stands out as well as being informative.

Karin Schneider & Louise Ward – Scraphagia – 2013

Featured in the paperwork: A brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks – Fox

Reading Room @ the ICA (institute of contemporary Arts)

26 Apr 2014- 12:30 pm @ Cinema 2

Notation over a news paper cutout, a note that relates to the image – dates, why is it important?

Written annotation next to text – picking out key information? Informing

the text?

News paper cut outs – collaged over each other.

Pages from Isa Genzken, “I Love New York”, Crazy City – 1995 – 96. Paper, gelatine

silver and chromogenic colour prints, and tape, in three

books, each book 39 x 32 x 7 cm.

“She is sick, broke and alone. She has no studio, yet she

immerses herself in the city and its buildings, taking

pictures, collaging the images together in books.” - JENNIFER

KABAT

Drawing imagery over-lapping printed text

Media collected from places – leaflets etc.

Newspaper Clipping

Leaflets/Business cards.

Photograph half exposed in collage effect with other items crowding it

making it become embedded.

“Her work is hard. It’s not pretty, not even easy to

describe or place, and not necessarily easy to “get.” - I want you to. She’s subject of

a major retrospective at MoMA, and I want you to fall in

love with her work which is ballsy and out-there and often a tumble of forms, sometimes

including rubbish, building debris and thrift- shop outfits.

-JENNIFER KABAT ON ISA GENZKEN Jwriter who lives between

London and ennifer Kabat (@jenkabat) is a the sticks, officially Upstate NY. She

writes about art, design – and sometimes life in the middle of nowhere. She’s written for

her small-circ local paper, New York Magazine, The

FT and The Guardian, contributes to Frieze and was

once an editor at the legendary style

magazine The Face in London

RELATION TO MY PRACTICE:All of these artists I have featured all use sophisticated scrapbooking to document their finds and works, this related back to my work because I am creating an altered book/diary that will feature photographs/polaroids, sketches, altered printed media, newspaper cuttings etc...

Also Isa Genzken’s work that I have featured was created at a line when she was completely alone and in a new city, with no money “She is sick, broke and alone. She has no studio, yet she immerses herself in the city and its buildings, taking pictures, collaging the images together in books.” as Jennifer Kabat puts it but yet she stayed fully engrossed in her work which relates to my work as my diary entry’s will be wrote after I’ve conditioned myself to feel alone and desperate, so that I can write in a first hand manner as if I was experiencing the post apocalypse personally.