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Nel Burke is a collage artist and gatherer and re-purposer of old photos and printed material.;

‘I use what is already in the world – what has already been manufactured, and rescue and re-use a tiny fraction of what would be destroyed. I realised recently, that (almost) everything I use, is a photograph, taken by someone, mediated through a camera lens, whether an image of people in the street, or a photo of a fifteenth century painting. Then, highly processed: exposed on film, treated with chemicals, printed on paper, itself processed from trees, saturated with ink, and mass printed for (usually) a very short life span (one day? several years?). I have the illustrated London News from 1865, and yesterdays METRO.  1973 National Geographic, old books with beautiful illustrations of obsolete technologies.  Fragments … which can speak to each other, create new meanings, new dialogues…new visual feasts for the eye’.

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