Sara Fanelli

Sara Fanelli, Pinocchio, 2003

Sara Fanelli, A Dogs Life,1998

In her work she experiments with text and new techniques, such as collage, she creates her own personal stlye. She usually works on coloured backgrounds, but in much more subtle colours, such as ochre, misty blue or orangey red, often using pieces of paper torn from exercise books, graph paper and wallpaper, frequently stained or marked in some way. On these backgrounds she sticks fragments cut from photographs – eyes are a common motif, as are pictures of herself as a child – pieces of fabric, details seemingly randomly cut from prints of old masters, music and snippets of newsprint, often mixing print in several languages including English, Italian, French and even Chinese.

She plays with different typefaces, superimposing pieces of print on top of her illustrations, or using them as part of a drawing – the body of a butterfly, for example. The use of historical typeface, such as pieces giving price tags in old pounds, shillings and pennies, give an old-fashioned look to the work and hint of influences from Duchamp and other Dadaists. She often draws or prints in black ink on top of these collages, using doodle-like scribbles, which pull the focus of the work back from the adult world to the realms of childhood.

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These are two of my own collages I have made Toto and the cowardly lion I have used grey grass for toto and used a colletion of different furs for the lion using human eyes that have  been used in Sara Fanelli's work.