Land Art Collage with Notebook Texture Hunting

Create land art collages and explore textures in self-made notebook

Land Art Collage with Notebook Texture Hunting draws inspiration from land art to explore how landscapes can be translated into collage through respectful, minimal artistic intervention. Using natural materials already subject to change and degradation, participants engage with the environment through attention, movement, and (temporary) actions.

The workshop takes reference from land artists such as Robert Smithson, Richard Long, and Andy Goldsworthy, whose practices emphasize ephemerality, material sensitivity, and subtle interaction with place. After a short theoretical introduction, we begin indoors by constructing small, simple notebooks using folded paper and basic binding techniques. These notebooks will be designed to hold imprints of textures, fragments gathered outdoors.

With notebooks in hand, we will take a walk in the Jardins do Bombarda to collect fallen materials—sticks, leaves, lichen— anything that might draw textural attention and create small, temporary land art works directly in the landscape. These interventions may take the form of mini sculptures, lines, circles, or accumulations that respond to specific sites. Alongside, we will practice texture hunting by pressing non-toxic clay against found surfaces, then inked with portable pads and stamped directly into the notebook pages.

We will translate our outdoor experiences into texture-based collages using stamped prints, paper scraps, magazines, and natural fragments. The focus is on process, fragility, and memory rather than representation.

Each participant will receive a portable ink pad and clay to continue texture hunting independently, as well as self-made notebook.

About Julia:

Julia Dżbik is an artist working with collage under @papers_scraps, focusing on minimalist, editorial-style illustrations and experimental zines. She is a recent master’s graduate in Management of Cultural Organisations, a member of the mais uno +1 collective, interested in rethinking alternative ways of working and organizing artistic practices. Her experience with Land Art developed during a course GEM: Green Education in Media in Greece, where she created an art installation as part of the program Listen to the Waters, working directly with landscape, material and site. Currently pursuing a Postgraduate Degree in Curating and Commissioning Public Art at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. At Collage Working Club facilitator of After hours and occasional Scissor sessions.

Collage Working Club (CWC) is a weekly open workspace for artists working in the medium of paper. Organised in the format of alternate ‘drop in’ sessions and workshops masterclasses, it has both a regular facilitator, whilst also involving the artist community in the sharing of knowledge and skills. Providing materials, education and connections is the primary aim of CWC, and it will do this through the interdisciplinary art of collage as both an art form and a tool for personal growth.

O Collage Working Club (CWC) é um espaço de trabalho semanal aberto a artistas que trabalham com o suporte papel. Organizado no formato de sessões alternadas e masterclasses, tem um facilitador regular, ao mesmo tempo que envolve a comunidade de artistas na partilha de conhecimentos e competências.
Fornecer materiais, educação e ligações é o principal objetivo do CWC, e fá-lo-á através da interdisciplinaridade da colagem como uma forma de arte e uma ferramenta para o crescimento pessoal.

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