The Scissorhands is an artist focusing on contemporary collage.
Her collage works are carefully constructed arrangements, often consisting of only two picture elements. The works create surreal, ethereal, sometimes eerie dreamscapes with unexpected assemblages of objects and body parts.
With a background in fashion and fashion illustration, she has a soft spot for faces and the beauty and fragility of the human body.
Sources of inspiration range from old black and white photographs to contemporary fashion magazines to paintings of Flemish still lifes and David Lynch movies.
The Scissorhands works both analog and digital, her freelance work is almost exclusively analog. The works are often very minimalist and clear, yet they do not strive for perfection.
Often you can find traces of cuts, cracks, irregularities that show the working process as well as the often old material used. At the same time, it is precisely these things that bring the works to life.
In addition to free artistic works, she also accepts commissions.
She designs collages for daily newspapers as well as for advertisements, fashion magazines, record covers, and has made collaborations with fashion labels.
Clients
16Arlington, Tinder, Cosmopolitan USA, Elle USA, SZ Magazin, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Freundin Magazin, Donna Magazin, Myself Germany, Palina Rojinski/ Droemer Knaur Verlag, Kearney, Zimmer and Rohde, Séduction Magazine, Gala, Neue Züricher Zeitung
Publications
Harpers Bazaar Art China, Pan and The Dream, Stella Magazine, Plasticcomb Magazine, Contemporary Collage Magazine, Elle USA, Mia le Journal
Exhibitions:
15.09. - 13.10.2023, Cutout Collage Festival, Kyiv
23.08. - 30.09.2023 Cut The Crab, Helsinki Urban Art, Helsinki, Finland
28.04.2023 - 01.05.2023 Cool Kids Bold Cuts, The Curve Berlin
05.03.2023 - 07.05.2023 “Kaleidoskop”, Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden
09.12.2022 - 11.12.2022 “Behind the Scenes” at The Curve, Private Art Space, Berlin
25.03.2021 - 17.04.2021 “Collage Biennal” at Denise Bibro Fine Art, Chelsea, Manhattan, NYC
18.01.2020 -01.02.2020 “ASSEMBLY” , hosted by Beyond Photography and The Paris Collage Collective at Lost and Found Gallery, Rotterdam
07.12.2019 - 15.12.2019 “Jahresgaben” at Kunstverein, Munich
13.07.2019 - 20.07.2019 “Flower of the Day” at Evergrey, Fukuoka, Japan
14.02.2019 - 02.03.2019 “#CollageNow” at Denise Bibro Fine Art, Chelsea, Manhattan, NYC
07.12.2018 - 16.12.2018 “Jahresgaben” at Kunstverein, Munich
07.07.2018 - 26.07.2018 “The Art of Minimalism” at TAG STA Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
Interview:
http://www.toombes.com/2021/03/17/interview-the-scissorhands/
The Scissorhands lives and works in Munich, Germany.