Vintage Paper Collages

Amelia Coward's original paper collages bring vintage illustrations and printed imagery into contemporary geometric compositions. Working with carefully selected pages from old books, encyclopaedias and atlases, Amelia explores colour, pattern and the details found within historic printed materials.

Each fragment is bonded to birch wood, precisely cut and individually arranged into a three-dimensional artwork. The collection includes vintage botanical illustrations, butterflies, birds, landscapes and other imagery gathered over many years.