Event: Cut Out: Study Session / London, 18 August 2026

[Michael Pritchard]

Female artists have long employed collage to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting, and contradictory parts. In this study session, Fiona Rogers (V&A Parasol Curator of Women in Photography) will present a range of objects from the V&A collection which embody use of 'femmage'—a radical reclaiming of craft traditionally associated with women—as a resilient method within feminist and political art.

 

From nineteenth-century cut and paste album-makers, to Modernist, Surrealist, and Dadaist innovators; radical, second-wave feminists and pioneering contemporary artists, this material offers an expanded definition of collage to encompass photomontage, assemblage, and the photogram.

 

The event is linked to Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage' a V&A and Thames & Hudson publication which explores the previously untold relationship between photography, feminist art, and collage through the V&A’s extensive collection of photography, spanning the nineteenth century to the present day.

 

Cut Out: Study Session. A presentation of feminist photomontage from the V&A collection
18 August 2026, 1100-1600; two sessions one at 1100 and one at 1400
London: V&A South Kensington
Free
See: https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/nj5prNA4vdJ/cut-out-study-session-august-2026