World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018.
World Collage Day is about artists connecting across borders against a global context of entrenchment and separation. And the day is about an art medium that excels at bringing different things together to create new forms and new ways of thinking. Ric Kasini Kadour, the editor of Kolaj Magazine, writes, “We created World Collage Day because we wanted to honour this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like.
Examples of Brian Palm’s distinctive photo collage and paint technique have been a mainstay of Irish Art exhibitions for several decades. Using black and white photos which the Artist made in Dublin as a young art student, fragmentary moments in the life of a city on the verge of massive disruption and change have been depicted with affection, humour and empathy in Palm’s collage work. City dwellers continue with their lives amidst the upheaval around them; they play, they work, they continue doing mundane chores in a rapidly disappearing environment.
Brian Palm’s original photographs made in the late 1970s and early 1980s have attained an historical significance simply by the passage of time, becoming a valuable archival document. This collection of photos has provided the artist with an enormous depth of visual information to work with throughout his career. Many of the images of people and places that Palm photographed have become a form of highly personal vocabulary for him as an artist, providing him with numerous iconic images
Over the course of his distinguished career, Brian Palm has developed a distinctive and immediately recognisable style which continues to find a receptive international audience today. Palm’s unique artistic vision and technique has been developed in Dublin for over four decades; his work has regularly been exhibited in prestigious solo and group exhibitions in Ireland and abroad. Full artist statement on Brian Palm's work for International Collage Day 2025, can be viewed on KolajMagazine.com
