Torn & Reborn: A Collage Exhibition
Welcome to ‘Torn & Reborn’ a captivating group exhibition showcasing the innovative works of Kenneth West, Hannah Bennett and Titus Davies. This exhibition celebrates the diverse approaches to collage and photo manipulation, mediums that transform the ordinary into the extraordinary through the imaginative reassembly of images and materials.
Kenneth West
Kenneth West is a multi-disciplined artist from Canada, living in London UK. Practicing art from an early age, Kenneth focuses on creating drawings, paintings, collage, and digital art pieces, with an insatiable appetite for visual art, photography, design, and creative ideas. A deep passion for creating is his fuel for consistent learning and exploring with the purpose of giving back and helping others to tell their stories. Forever a student of the craft, Kenneth loves teaching and encouraging others to let their walls down when it comes to creating. Kenneth believes that Black Lives Matter and is madly in love with his beautiful wife.
Hannah Bennett
Hannah is an artist living and working in London. Working in further education alongside developing her art practice allows for continued growth from sharing inspiration and techniques with budding artists. Hannah has used social media from the time of the pandemic to connect with a vibrant and inspiring community of collage makers. Working in found and constructed paper and textiles, Hannah is able to draw upon pre-existing ideas to talk about beauty, presence, and the language of commodity. Working at carefully constructing pictorial space to explore spatial relationships of body. The act of cutting out helps strip away traditional representations and allows for creating her own mythologies.
Titus Davies
Titus makes art using site specific installations, photography and collage. She is interested in using ruptures and matter out of place to disrupt the boundaries between the built environment, the domestic, and the natural world. Her site specific works explore and animate the politics/histories of the chosen place. Titus completed a Fine Art MA at Wimbledon School of Art in 2010, basing her final show around the politics and poetry of wild fruit. Alongside her artwork, she designs and makes bespoke furniture.
She trained as a carpenter in the early 1980s, when access into the trade was opening up for women, and worked in a building cooperative for 3 years while also starting to train as a cabinetmaker. She set up her furniture business in 1991 and has made a living as a cabinetmaker ever since. Spaces of construction and domesticity often appear as central motifs in her artwork.