Katie McCann

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About the Artist

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Katie McCann is an English collage artist currently living and working in Berkeley, California. Her work has been exhibited across the USA and in Europe in solo and group shows. In 2017, she won the Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner Award, at the Marvelous! international juried show of collage, assemblage and construction, in Sebastopol, "for her marvelously delicate, quirky and creatively surgical collage Leptomedusae"

 

 

Artist’s Statement

 

With just a pair of scissors, I create intricate, hand-cut collages that reflect my Victorian obsession with faeries, flora, and fauna. From my large collection of books, prints, and pages—antique, forgotten, and foxed with age—I cut out images, categorize them, and eventually piece them together into the complex jigsaw puzzles that are the seeds of my art. 

 

The female face is central to my work and acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. In my paper parlor, the wallpaper is a living forest, the china cabinet is full of starfish, and butterflies live in the teapot. My collages are places where beauty is strange, creatures are curious, and a sense of wonder prevails.