WORKSHOP: Torn Pages with Nuno Alecrim

'Torn Pages' invites participants to explore collage as a process of transformation and reconstruction

The Torn Pages workshop invites participants to explore collage as a process of transformation and reconstruction. Guided by artist Nuno Alecrim, the session focuses on working with paper fragments, magazines, photographs, drawings, and found printed materials, as raw elements for creating new visual compositions.

Rooted in the concept behind Alecrim’s ongoing project Torn Pages, the workshop is based on the idea that sometimes, to move forward and create something new, it is necessary to tear things apart first. Participants are encouraged to experiment intuitively with tearing, layering, and reorganising fragments, allowing unexpected relationships between textures, images, and colours to emerge.

The methodology is simple and open. Rather than focusing on technical perfection, the workshop prioritises process, exploration, and collaboration. Participants are invited to bring their own materials. Magazines, photographs, drawings, or other paper based elements, which become the starting point for the creative process.

During the session, Alecrim works directly with each participant in a short collaborative exchange, integrating his own visual language and materials with those brought by the participants. Together they develop a small collage piece, exploring composition, rhythm, and balance through an intuitive process of tearing, layering, and rearranging fragments.

Each participant leaves the workshop with a unique artwork created in collaboration with the artist. The aim is not only to produce a final piece, but also to experience the act of making as a shared, spontaneous, and reflective process.

Torn Pages offers an accessible entry point into collage and mixed-media practices, inviting participants of all backgrounds to engage with paper as both material and metaphor, a surface that can be fragmented, rebuilt, and reimagined.

Nuno Alecrim (b. 1983 Lisbon, Portugal) is a visual artist living and working in Lisbon. Rooted in graphic design, his practice moves between studio work, large-scale murals, and installations. His work explores the boundaries of pictographic language through experimental, often monochromatic compositions that combine symbols, textures, patterns, and fragments of memory. Existing in a constant state of duality between order and chaos, geometry and intuitive expression, his practice is guided by compositional balance and a continuous search for materials and non conventional forms.

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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