COLLAGE POETRY: WEAVING WORDS AND IMAGES

Join award-winning poet, teacher and visual artist for a dynamic workshop exploring the unique art of collage poetry, where words and images intersect to create evocative new meanings.

Inspired by the innovative works of poets and visual artists Tom Phillips, Susan Howe, Barbara Kruger and workshop facilitator Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon, this session will guide you through techniques of literary and visual experimentation that blur the boundaries between text and art.

Drawing from found text, vintage books, magazines, and other print paraphernalia, you will engage in erasure, cut-up poetry, and mixed-media assemblage to craft pieces that are both visual and literary. Through this process, uncover hidden narratives, transform everyday language, and play with the space, and the links, between words and images.

Whether you are a poet seeking new ways to engage with language, an artist eager to experiment with text, or simply someone drawn to creative expression, this workshop will offer fresh inspiration and a new perspective on the power of the interplay between words and images.

Sat 14 Jun 2025 | 11:30am - 2pm | Suitable for 18 yrs +

$55 | $50 MAC Inc. Members | Midland Junction Arts Centre

All materials provided

ARTIST BIO

Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon is a writer, songwriter and visual poet who was raised on a farm by her Croatian-immigrant parents. Her poetry and creative nonfiction has appeared in Meanjin, Cordite, Australian Book Review and APJ. She has won the Bruce Dawe and KSP Poetry Prizes; and has been shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. In 2024 she was awarded the Red Room Poetry and Mascara Emerging Critics Fellowships. Her second poetry book, If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears, was recently released by Life Before Man/Gazebo Books. In 2024 she completed a PhD on erasure poetry at Edith Cowan University.