Rhed Fawell

Rhed Fawell is an artist that uses collage, drawing and printmaking to explore the deconstruction of images and a process of re-assemblage to create a poetical narrative.



The pictures create their own stories as they take on a life of their own, forming narratives that are completed in the viewer’s imagination. What the viewer reads into each image is as important as what was in her own head as she constructs them. What is innocent in the eyes of one viewer can appear provocative to another.

Rhed Fawell is the founder of Edinburgh Collage Collective.
She will present at Vinylism: an international selection of collages from ECC 2018 Open Submission Project. The theme of this year’s project was the vinyl record. Once ubiquitous, now niche, the vinyl record inspired over 200 submissions to the project from artists around the world. ECC has selected over 100 of the best of these for the exhibition.

Sources: rhed.co.uk \ rhedfawell.tumblr.com \ edinburghcollagecollective.com

Dimmi Quando

Vinyl record mask by L017.

Source: L017.org

Tamir Sher

Masters on 45s by Tamir Sher.

In his series Masters on 45s, Sher placed reproduced images of classic paintings on a turntable and photographed them at different speeds, creating a contemporary spin on the classics. The new version retains the same colors of the original piece and a vague resemblance of the image, but the blur of the spin makes them look hypnotic and surreal.

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Paul Octavious

Photographer & designer Paul Octavious create these photographic projects with vinyl records.
Below: the Black Stuff

Siemon Allen

Siemon Allen is a South African artist who currently lives and works in the United States.

Allen’s most recent collection project, Records, is rooted in an extensive archive of South African audio consisting of over 2500 items including 650 rare shellac discs. The project has generated a series of varied works sourced from this ongoing audio collection including a number of site responsive installation works, a series of large-scale digital prints, and a searchable web-based database that can be viewed at flatinternational.org

'Practically, these prints are detailed scanned enlargements of individual records. I chose items that were particularly damaged, scratched or stressed; perhaps the opposite of what a record collector might prefer to collect. The damage on the record was a further marking by unknown authors who had unwittingly contributed their history to the object. The image in the print captures not only the historical audio visually in the form of the lines or grooves, but also the scratches, damage, and repair work done by subsequent owners, which is clearly visible.
For me, the damage shown in the prints sets up a visual irony. On one hand, in art historical terms, it represents a kind of decay or even degradation. On the other hand, the damage is, in most cases, the direct result of use and reuse. It could be viewed as the by-product of the most amazing fun. This irony is heightened when one considers the context of the object’s use—the apartheid era.'

below other installations by Allen

Source: siemonallen.org \ flatinternational.org

Chris Supranowitz

Images of vinyl record grooves taken with an electron microscope by Chris Supranowitz.

Chris Supranowitz is a researcher at The Insitute of Optics at the University of Rochester. Along with a number of other spectacular studies (such as quantum optics, trapping of atoms, dark states and entanglement), Chris has decided to look at the relatively boring grooves of a vinyl record using the institute’s electron microscope.

Here is a shot of a number of record grooves (the dark bits are the top of the grooves, i.e. the uncut vinyl):

Here’s the grooves closer up – the little bumps are dust on the record:

And here’s a single groove even closer still, magnified 1000 times:

More at: The Insitute of Optics

Guillermina Zabala

Outside (with) the Box by Guillermina Zabala.

Vinyl players meet photography with Guillermina.
Born in Argentina, Guillermina Zabala is a San Antonio media artist, filmmaker and photographer.

More at:
Guillermina Zabala
mysanantonio.com