Meet The Artist
Ashley is an emerging, self-taught collage artist, zine maker, and nonprofit professional based in Savannah, Georgia. Despite being a longtime lover of collage, Ashley did not begin her foray into the art world until the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. She decided to name herself Chaotic Collage because she began her journey during one of the most chaotic times in world history. Ashley quickly learned that the act of creating was a therapeutic exercise and wanted to delve deeper. What began as an occasional way to release her anxieties has now blossomed into a serious practice. Ashley started to hone her craft in 2022 by teaching herself collage fundamentals and experimenting with different mediums, such as encaustic wax and epoxy resin. Since beginning her journey, her work has appeared in exhibitions at the Jepson Center for the Arts, in Gallery 10 at Savannah’s City Market, and featured in Braided and Artonish magazine.
Meet The Art
I believe that scissors, glue, and images sourced from a vast array of books and magazines make magic. I am an analog collage artist, which means I do everything by hand with simple tools and resources limited to the books and magazines I find in vintage bookstores, antique stores, and online.
I approach each piece intuitively, letting the pictures and papers be my guide. The themes I often explore are beauty, death, loneliness, laughter, and the complexity of humanity and nature. Everything I create begins from a place of curiosity. What happens when I start to place different images on the page? What stories can I tell by changing the configuration, turning something upside down or sideways? My collages are puzzles I solve by twisting the elements again and again like a Rubik’s Cube.
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