Intervening Landscapes: Photographic Collage with Jo Scicluna

Join artist Jo Scicluna for a creative workshop exploring landscape through the lens of photographic collage, set in conversation with the current James Tylor exhibition at MPRG.

This session invites participants to liberate the potential of collage by layering, cutting and recontextualising images to challenge how we see, interpret and explore landscape across scale.

Through guided exercises and intuitive making, the workshop will consider themes such as intervention, visual tension, and the cultural role of landscape imagery depicting colonised lands. Participants will be encouraged to think about how collage can disrupt, question or expand the way place is represented and understood and reflect upon their specific cultural vantage point(s).

We will use photographs of the surrounding MPRG environment—sky, water, and earth—alongside your own found landscape imagery, experimenting with scale and context to create new visual narratives.

All materials will be provided but bring along your phone for taking/printing of photos on the day. If you have a printed landscape image that you would love to work with, bring this along as well. (More information regarding suitable imagery to come) MPRG welcomes all levels of experience!

Dr Jo Scicluna is a first-generation Australian and multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne) whose work spans photography, sculpture, and installation and is grounded in consultation with Traditional custodians. Her practice explores how landscape and place are constructed through visual and material language. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work often engages with ideas of absence, memory and perception. Scicluna and Tylor have maintained a long-standing conversation where they explore their shared approach of surface intervention and their varying cultural narratives and experiences of the landscape, creating an ongoing dialogue between their distinct yet connected visual approaches.

Image: Jo Scicluna's studio